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Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Palm Bunt (PALM)

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 3:25 pm

Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) rose ahead of earnings on short covering with shares posting an unofficial close of $5.65 for a 5.2% gain.  The troubled smartphone maker reported earnings at ...
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What’s Left of Delta Petroleum After the Sale? (DPTR)

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 2:48 pm

Delta Petroleum Corporation (NASDAD: DPTR) is one of the top market gainers today on news that the independent oil and gas exploration and development company entered into a non-binding letter ...
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BioHealth Business Daily (APPA, ARIA, MDVN, OSIP, SOMX, TEVA)

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 1:50 pm

These are some of the top movers in the world of BioHealth investing.  It is usual that drug companies and biotech stocks have major volatility around news and these are ...
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Filtering Rumors of the Fed Rate Hike

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 12:05 pm

The stock market has become the marketplace of rumors.  Now it seems the same is true for the bond market as well.  Rumors have been floating around that the Fed ...
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S&P Next International Bond Downgrade (BWX)

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 11:45 am

If you think that the credit issue and risk in sovereign debt is going away any time soon, you better think again.  A small under-covered downgrade today is something which ...
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Defending R-I-M Blackberry versus iPhones (RIMM, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 11:15 am

Research in Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) has been the envy of many cellphone makers for the last two years.  Now you have Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) with the iPhone and ...
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Democrats Get Weapon Of Mass Destruction For Healthcare Vote

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 9:42 am

After months of bickering, it looked like the Congressional vote on the Obama-esque healthcare reform package was too close to call. Democrats have been questioning members of their own party to ...
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Toyota (TM) Brands Dominate JP Power Dependability Survey, Discontinued GM Cars Do Well

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 8:33 am

Toyota (TM) dominated the 2010 JD Power Vehicle Dependability Survey. Granted, the poll looks back over a period of a year. Power describes the methodology as "original vehicle owners were asked to report the ...
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Trina Solar Joins Secondary Offering Waves (TSL)

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 8:19 am

Trina Solar Limited (NYSE: TSL) is joining on the open floodgates of secondary offerings this week.  Yesterday we had filings for or pricing in almost 20 deals, and that number ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/18/2010)

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 7:42 am

Updated throughout the day. GMAC has attracted potential buyers including Wibur Ross, BlackRock (BLK), and Blackstone Group (BX) (Reuters) The Blackstone Group, the Apollo Group and Colony Capital may buy WestLB’s real estate finance ...
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Barnes & Noble (BKS): New CEO, Same Company

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 7:28 am

Barnes & Noble (BKS) made an odd decision today. It named a new CEO who will probably have no power to run the company. William Lynch comes from HSN where he ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMD, CAR, BRCM, BKC, CHK, GLW, GED, HBC, INTC, MU, NDAQ, NKE, NVDA, SNV)

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 7:28 am

These are this morning's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) Started as Underperform at Macquarie; Removed from Conviction Sell ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Daily Stock Watch

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 7:06 am

Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networds in the world. All major media companies have a presence on ...
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McDonald’s Pushes The $1 Soda

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 5:19 am

One dollar for any soda, any size. That is part of the McDonald's (MCD) plan to get customers to flock to its stores this summer. Coca-Cola (KO) and McDonald's management ...
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Kraft (KFT) Readies “Sodium Light” Foods A Little Late

Posted: March 18, 2010 at 5:18 am

It is not lost on food producer Kraft (KFT) that sodium is a major cause of high blood pressure which contributes to the early death of some people. The press ...
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