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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Rumor Watch: AIG Asia Unit Sale In Trouble

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 5:23 am

According to rumors published by The New York Post, the sale of AIG's (AIG) Asia unit to Prudential UK is in trouble because investors in the UK firm object to ...
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Biotechs Crushed Now, Crushed Later By Legal Ruling.

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 5:08 am

It is hard to imagine a greater blow to the biotech industry. Federal District Judge Robert W. Sweet ruled that sections of patents held by Myriad Genetics which cover two ...
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Obama To Let Offshore Oil Wells Multiply Like Locusts

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 4:22 am

The Green movement will despise President Obama's decision to open portions of the Gulf and offshore regions from Delaware to the Carolinas to drilling. The oil industry will love it. ...
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The 24/7 Wall St. Twenty Best Financial Blogs

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 4:03 am

It has been more than a year since we published our feature, “The Twenty-Five Best Financial Blogs.” A great deal has changed since then.  Some of the blogs on the list are ...
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Media Digest 3/21/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 3:04 am

Reuters:   Peabody Energy made a bid for Australia's Macarthur Coal. Reuters:   Some Yahoo! (YHOO )email accounts were hacked in China and Taiwan. Reuters:   Japan export orders hit a six-year high. ...
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Ireland And Banks: The Road Less Traveled

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 7:43 pm

Ireland decided to create the national "bad bank" after the credit crisis, a move the US government considered but rejected. The fate of that decision has come to haunt the ...
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Google And China: The Fog Of War

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 7:22 pm

Google (GOOG) and perhaps China cannot figure out whether the search company’s results which are displayed on the mainland are being blocked by the government or due to defects with ...
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McDonald’s Has Yum! Envy in China (MCD, YUM)

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 4:00 pm

McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) may be the world's largest fast food chain. In fact, we have even noted how it is effectively worth more than all public US restaurant companies ...
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Big Stocks, Big ‘Fair Value’ Upside (LOW, SONC, DFS, UNH, KLAC, AMAT, GE, DVN, APOL, NRG)

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 1:07 pm

Many analysts have been updating their price targets on various key stocks, and it is always interesting to see what the truly independent research analysts have for price targets on ...
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BioHealth Business Daily (AEN, ENCO, GNVC, GENZ, MYGN, NVAX, NYMX, OPXA, OSIP, SQNM)

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 11:36 am

We are seeing many moves today in the world of biotech and medical products, but oddly many moves are not on any big news.  Today’s edition of the BioHealth Business ...
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Value Shock: Apple Larger Than Wal-Mart; Microsoft Next Target (AAPL, WMT, XOM, MSFT, GE)

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 9:36 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is all over the news.  It has the much anticipated iPad launch and now it has a new iPhone coming that will run on the CDMA ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMD, APOL, BELM, BWY, ENB, GNRC, IM, LGF, TNDM, TECD)

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 7:38 am

These are the top ten analyst upgrades and downgrades seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning: Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) Maintained Buy and $14 target at Broadpoint ...
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Dell Tries To Buy Its Way Out Of Bad Sales

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 4:55 am

Dell has been losing ground in the PC market to arch-rival HP (HPQ). Asian manufacturers, especially Lenovo and Acer, are also picking up market share from the Texas-based company and ...
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Once Again, Boeing Proves What Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 4:43 am

It is amazing that Boeing CEO W. James McNerney Jr. can keep his job. After years of problems of the assembly, testing, and commercial launch of the company’s flagship 787 ...
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The Yuan Debate Inside China Intensifies

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 4:16 am

The debate about the floating exchange rate of the yuan is becoming as intense inside China as it is in the US. Two  economists brought on to advise the central bank ...
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