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Monthly Archives: April 2010

As Obama Shuts Off-Shore Drilling, Bids Open For Alaska Pipeline

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 4:34 pm

Partners TransCanada Corp. (NYSE:TRP) and Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) have announced the beginning of a three-month open season for capacity on the proposed Alaska Pipeline. The pipeline, if its built, ...
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Next Week’s Can’t Miss Earnings (MA, MRK, PFE, SIRI, CHK, GRMN, JDSU, LVS, SYMC, FNM, LVLT, AIG, CROX, KFT, NVDA, SQNM)

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 2:59 pm

Earnings season is slowly getting behind us for the regular quarter-end companies.  But there are still many influential companies still reporting which can still move their respective sectors.  Many cult ...
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Massey Defense, When No News Is Good News (MEE, KOL)

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 1:28 pm

Massey Energy Company (NYSE: MEE) has been thrashed since its catastrophic mine explosion.  Shares were near a 52-week high when this came about, and things have gone far south from ...
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Gulf Oil Leak Will Stall Offshore Drilling Expansion

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 1:07 pm

David Axelrod, an adviser to President Obama, said this morning that no new drilling offshore of the US will be authorized until the cause of the explosion and 5,000-b/d leak ...
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Signs There Is No Intelligent Life At Hewlett-Packard

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 11:56 am

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) will regret the day it decided to buy Palm (NASDAQ: PALM), and it will be soon. Palm was nearly worthless when HP made its offer, and that ...
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Government Launches Criminal Probe of Goldman Sachs

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 10:13 am

By John Hudson of The Atlantic Wire Shares of Goldman Sachs are down following reports that federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into whether the investment bank committed securities ...
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Broker Revenge: BofA Cuts Goldman Sachs (BAC, GS)

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 10:00 am

All bulge bracket firms and most major banking and brokerage firms cover each other in traditional analyst calls.  Usually there is a coverage that involves trends in the sectors and ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (CSUN, DNDN, GS, MFE, PWER, RPRX)

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 9:04 am

These are six of the biggest movers this morning in pre-market trading: China Sunergy Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: CSUN) is up as it didn't get the memo about slower growth in ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/30/2010)

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 9:04 am

Updated throughout the day. The Justice Department is looking into possible fraud involving mortgage-backed securities trading (WSJ) UAL (NASDAQ: UAUA) and Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) are closer to a merger ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 4.30 The Wisdom Of The Crowd?

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 8:48 am

Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some ...
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GDP Hot, But Not Too Hot

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 8:43 am

The preliminary figure for Q1-2010 GDP this morning from the Commerce Department came out at +3.2%.  While this is hot as it is above the 3.0% mark, this is south ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AIXG, AEP, CMCSA, HAL, MFE, POT, RIG, WYNN)

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 8:31 am

These are some of the top analyst calls seen so far this Friday morning from the upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street firms: Aixtron AG (NASDAQ: AIXG) Cut to ...
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The New iPhone And The Dawn Of Video Calls

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 6:04 am

The first attempts to market video phones are now 30 years or more old. They were run on residential landlines, weak sisters to the video conferencing just emerging at large ...
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RIM Gains Power In Global Handset Market

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 5:35 am

The Research-in-Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry has not been pulled down from its perch as one of the world leading cellphones by either the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone or Google- (NASDAQ: ...
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A Scorched Earth Policy For Greece

Posted: April 30, 2010 at 5:21 am

By God, the Greeks will suffer for profligacy. If the IMG and Eurozone nations give them a dime, they will take it out in blood. The rescue package which was once ...
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