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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Demand For Apple iPad May Be Higher Than Expected

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 4:18 am

The demand for the Apple (AAPL) iPad may be like the iPhone and iPod. iPod sales are now approaching 300 million worldwide, although it is not clear how many of ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings (Week 12)

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 3:55 am

The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product ...
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March Jobs: What If Productivity Is Just Too Good?

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 3:47 am

The consensus estimates for the March jobs report is that non-farm payrolls improved by 160,000 which would decrease the unemployment rate a one-tenth of a percent or two-tenths. That would ...
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Reuters Rarely Links To Outside Websites

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 3:35 am

There has been an ongoing debate between Felix Salmon, a blogger for Reuters, and Henry Blodget of Business Insider, about the quality of the content of BI and the rules ...
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Media Digest (3/29/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 29, 2010 at 2:51 am

Reuters:   A suicide bomber killed 37 in Moscow. Reuters:   China sentenced Rio Tinto (RTP) executives in prison for ten years. Reuters:   A JPMorgan $1.4 billion tax write-off faces FDIC scrutiny. Reuters:   ...
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Apple iPad To Ship Late

Posted: March 28, 2010 at 2:44 pm

What can go wrong, will go wrong. Apple's (AAPL) website shows that new online orders for the company's iPad will ship as late as April 12. The product debuts in Apple ...
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Verizon And Vodafone Talk Merger, Would Create Mammoth Telco

Posted: March 28, 2010 at 5:31 am

Verizon (VZ) owns 55% of Verizon Wireless and Vodafone (VOD), the largest cellular company in Europe owns 45%.  Now that most of its debt is paid down, Verizon Wireless can ...
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The Unusual Suspects (AIG, AAPL, APOL, ABIO, DG, LULU, MOS, POT, RSH, BBY, RAD, MOS, RIMM)

Posted: March 27, 2010 at 10:40 am

This weekend has many big names in the Unusual Suspects.  We have a few earnings stragglers, but there are many issues outside of earnings to watch.  This week's unusual suspects ...
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The Government May Be Selling Its Citigroup (C) Stake Too Soon

Posted: March 27, 2010 at 8:23 am

The federal government may sell its stake in Citigroup (C) at a profits of about $8 billion, according to The Washington Post. But, a sale of the stake, about 27% ...
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The Weekly Dividend: Dividend Hikes and Stock Buybacks (EAT, RTN, SBUX, COP, NLY, CSCO, AAPL, WEN, NABI, RHT)

Posted: March 26, 2010 at 4:28 pm

This week was another big week in the world of dividends and the quest to hike and initiate payments to shareholders.  Brinker International, Inc. (NYSE: EAT), Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN), ...
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BioHealth Business Daily (ABIO, GENZ, SOMX, CRXX, VVUS, INO)

Posted: March 26, 2010 at 3:31 pm

Today was a crazy day for the markets, and as you'd expect there were many movers in the drug and biotech sectors.  Today's edition of the BioHealth Business Daily covers ...
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ARCA: May All Your BioPharma Dreams Come True

Posted: March 26, 2010 at 2:50 pm

Biopharmaceutical stock are the new age dot-coms, the public companies that took little internet firms with no revenue so high that the NASDAQ moved above 5,000 in early 2000. Most ...
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Next Week’s Must See Earnings (APOL, LDK, DG, RAD, MOS, RIMM)

Posted: March 26, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Earnings season is over, except for a few stragglers.  There are several big and active stocks to watch next week.  We have used Thomson Reuters consensus estimates and added in ...
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Many Pending Tech, Internet, Media, Software IPOs On Deck, the 2010 Vintage (BSFT, CNVO, DVOX, EVDY, EYEB, FTEN, GFLY, GLAS, IRON, MX, MOTR, INTC, QCOM, SQI, TELX, VRNG)

Posted: March 26, 2010 at 11:45 am

The recent strength of the market has invigorated the waves of offerings.  Just last week we had seen some 16 secondary offerings just by mid-week, but now we are seeing ...
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Pros and Cons of Foreclosure-Fighting Plan

Posted: March 26, 2010 at 9:59 am

By Max Fisher of The Atlantic Wire The White House is rolling out a program to fight back against the home foreclosures that have been crippling American communities for almost ...
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