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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Greece Pays High Credit Card APR On Sovereign Debt

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 3:39 am

Greece did not have to pay the 21.5% annual interest rate that most Walmart (WMT) credit cards holders do. But, it was close. The southern European nation, which some economists ...
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As The iPad Leaves The Building, A New iPhone Takes The Stage

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 5:20 pm

Apple (AAPL) has finally perfected its ability to be on the front page of the news every day. Not long after it announced better-than-expected earnings for its last quarter, Steve ...
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The Ghost Of Lehman Bros.

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 3:08 pm

The SEC Corporate Financial Division sent letters to the CFOs of twenty financial firms today reqiesting extremely detailed information about their use of Repo 105 instruments. Bankruptcy examiner Anton Valukas recently wrote as ...
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A Hard Day For Las Vegas Sands

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 1:49 pm

A bad day for Las Vegas Sands From Reuters. Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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New Upside Energy Targets (SE, RRC, DVN, XOM)

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 1:00 pm

By Eric Chenoweth of Morningstar The energy sector has some key players trading at a discount to a longer-term fair value.  Morningstar highlights this with new updated price targets in ...
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Greek Bond Auction Versus U.S. Bond Auctions (NBG)

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 11:23 am

We have been given the pricing of Greece's seven-year benchmark note offering.  Frankly, the yield is rather surprising.  The 5 Billion Euro issue bears a 5.90% coupon for an April ...
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Draggin ‘Dragon’ vs. ‘Avatar’ and ‘Alice’, A 3D Sector Watch (DWA, NWS, DIS, IMAX, RGC, CNK)

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 10:15 am

DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. (NYSE: DWA) is supposed to be the secondary winner off of the "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland" trend toward 3D movies.  This weekend was the launch ...
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Selling American Idol and Elvis (CKXE)

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 8:39 am

CKX, Inc. (NASDAQ: CKXE) is for sale.  This morning the company confirmed that it was in discussions about a possible transaction.  This is not your typical merger, not at all.  ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/29/2010)

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 8:07 am

Updated throughout the day. Morgan Stanley (MS) will underwrite the sale of the government's piece of Citigroup (C) (CNBC) JP Morgan's (JPM) One Equity Partners unit will take CKS private. ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BKD, EOG, ITRI, K, PTEN, PEET, PGR, THRX, VALE, VRSN)

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 7:38 am

These are this Monday's top ten analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls: Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) Removed from Goldman Sachs Conviction Buy List. EOG ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Watch 3.29

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 7:15 am

Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter ...
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Let Markets, Not Protectionism, Fix Immigration

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 7:03 am

By John Tamny of Forbes Curbs on immigrants seeking work anywhere are tariff-like for propping up the least efficient practices at the expense of more productive endeavors.  Better to let markets control ...
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Another Break In The Sovereign Debt Wall: S&P Warns On UK

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 6:15 am

S&P and other credit rating agencies haven't had anything positive to say about sovereign debt recently no matter what country they analyze. The latest is that S&P said that its outlook on ...
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Wal-Mart In Big Online Push In China

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 5:18 am

Walmart.com typically falls into the top 20 most visited sites in the US as measured by Comscore, just behind online e-commerce giant Amazon.com (AMZN). Walmart has launched initiatives to increase its traffic ...
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The Year Of The Grasshopper And Bioengineered Seed

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 4:51 am

The Wall Street Journal reports that millions of acres of prime American farmland will be destroyed this year by a plague of grasshoppers. The paper reports that "grasshoppers will likely ...
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