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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/16/2010)

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 7:52 am

Updated throughout today. Employees may sue AIG (AIG) after getting less in bonus that their employment agreements called for (NYT). Michael Jackson's estate signed a $200 million deal with Sony ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ALU, BSX, EAT, CLX, GT, KMB, SBUX, TEVA, UNH, WU)

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 7:26 am

These are this Tuesday's top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls during the pre-market hours.  It is more skewed to downgrades, something we have ...
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Walmart, The Banking Giant, Extends It Reach

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 4:57 am

Restrictive state banking laws are not preventing Walmart (WMT) from extending its reach as a financial services presence which dwarfs many banks. The world's largest retailer will extend its "Money Centers"  ...
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Walmart, The World’s Grocer, Lowers Prices

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 4:56 am

Walmart (WMT) intends to use what it charges for groceries as a weapon against its competition. By lowering prices, it may have the dual effect of drawing new shoppers and ...
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Bank Reform May Be Short The Votes It Needs

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 4:41 am

The healthcare reform package, the centerpiece of the Obama presidency, never made it though Congress, at least not in the form the President would have liked. It will still struggle ...
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Tort Reform For The Bank Business

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 4:19 am

The legal actions against Lehman total, by some estimates, 62,000 plaintiffs which have a total of $785 million in claims against the failed bank. The restructuring of the firm had already cost $642 million as ...
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Media Digest 3/16/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 2:46 am

Reuters:   The Fed is likely to keep interest rates low for some time. Reuters:   China said the yuan in not behind the US trade gap. Reuters:   A record number of ...
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Credit Card Delinquency Rates Are Improving?

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 10:57 pm

One analyst who looked at the credit card delinquency rates for February noted that the figures appeared to be improving, but that they might be seasonal. It is another way of saying that ...
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Congressional Faction Prepared To Risk Economic Ties With China

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 10:41 pm

President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner have taken an extremely modest approach to what may experts believe is manipulative behavior by the Chinese vis-a-vis the value of the yuan. The ...
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IPO FILING: MagnaChip (MX)

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 2:33 pm

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation is coming public.  The maker of did not give formal terms of the offering but noted that it plans to sell up to $250 million in common ...
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More Apparel Deals Coming? (PVH, WRC, VFC, RL, ARO, ANF, OXM, LULU, UA, COLM)

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 1:16 pm

Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. (NYSE: PVH) has traders and investors speculating about or pondering which other apparel companies may become acquisition targets or which could end up in 'mergers of equals' ...
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No Signs Of Intelligent Life At Boston Scientific

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 10:31 am

Virtually nothing has gone right at Boston Scientific (BSX) since it bought rival Guidant in a bidding war with Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) in 2006. With a year of the transaction closing Guidant had ...
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More Dividend Hikes, More on the Way (PEP, KO, DPS, QCOM, AMAT, SBUX, CSCO, AAPL, GPS, KMB)

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 10:20 am

PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is the latest of the big companies to hike their dividend payouts this morning.  We have not kept an exact tally, but this is getting close ...
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The Worst Apple App Of The Day: Starbucks

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 10:02 am

The Apple (AAPL) App Store has about 150,000 applications which have been downloaded more than 3 billion times. Most of the apps are free, but some cost $50 or more. ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ARMH, DWA, FNSR, GPRE, HAS, ICE, JDSU, LM, RSH, WMT)

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 7:33 am

These are this Monday's top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls during the pre-market hours: ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH) Cut to Hold at UBS. ...
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