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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Next Week’s Can’t Miss Earnings (C, IBM, KO, JNJ, AAPL, VMW, YHOO, EMC, MCD, WFC, EBAY, QCOM, SBUX, F, PEP, VZ, AMZN, AXP, MSFT, HON)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 3:48 pm

Earnings season is off to the races, even if Friday was a curve-ball for the markets and for reactions to earnings.  Most of the big stocks are off on Wall ...
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Oracle Nabs Another Software Developer

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 1:58 pm

As news of the SEC complaint filed against Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is pushing everything else off the news feeds, this morning's purchase of drug software company by Oracle Corp. ...
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Paulson Inadvertently Kills Gold (GLD, NG, KGC, AU, GFI)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 1:28 pm

We aren't going to bother telling you the news on Goldman Sachs being charged by the SEC with fraud over mortgage products.  The notion that hedge fund Paulson & Co. ...
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Iceland Volcano Cloud Costs Airline Industry $200 Million A Day

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 1:09 pm

From the IATA (International Air Transport Association), an estimate of what the Iceland volcano is costing the airline industry per day--$200 million. The IATA represents 220 airlines comprising 93% of ...
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Stock Options Explosion in Goldman Sachs (GS)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 12:31 pm

Trying to count options contracts in shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is nearly impossible, and this was copied from trade blotters with snapshots of 12:12 to 12:18 ...
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Goldman Sachs Speaks, The Empire Strikes Back (GS)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 12:04 pm

You have already seen the news most likely about how Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) was charged with civil fraud by the SEC over its conflicted role in certain ...
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Goldman Sachs, SEC Charges With Hand in Cookie Jar (GS)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 10:52 am

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) was already getting negative press for profiteering from the demise of the mortgage market.  It isn't that it made billions off that, it is ...
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Takeaways From the New Fortune 500 List

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 10:08 am

This year's Fortune 500 list, which ranks companies by their gross revenues, hit newsstands today and business writers are chewing it over. In 2010 Wal-Mart topped the list, dethroning oil ...
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Ford Captures Lead in European Auto Market & Slams Opel Bailout

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 9:14 am

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is crowing this morning. The company claimed that it is the leader in European sales for the month of March, displacing Volkswagen AG for ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AMD, AEZS, BSX, GCI, GE, GOOG, ISRG, LGF, PALM, PFWD, SIRI)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 9:12 am

We have many significant pre-market stock movers this morning, some on news and some on earnings.  We have outlines more extensive data and analysis over at VSInvestor.com here on several ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/16/2010)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 9:05 am

Updated throughout the day. Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE : GS) Rajat K. Gupta, who is being investigated for insider trading, will not stand for re-election to the board. (WSJ) Symphony Asset Management and ...
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Posted: April 16, 2010 at 8:45 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 have ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMD, CAH, DMND, FDX, FLR, FWLT, GME, MA, MSFT, NVDA, RVBD, RIG, UPS, V)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 8:13 am

There are many more significant calls than we expected in this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) ...
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Bank Of America Posts Strong Q But Fails To Impress

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 8:00 am

Based on early pre-market trading, Bank of America Corporation's (NYSE BAC) failed to impress, although the number beat Wall St. estimates. It may be that the results of JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) ...
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Declines At GE May Be Good Enough (GE)

Posted: April 16, 2010 at 7:08 am

As far as General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) and earnings, we felt as though GE was going have to beat earnings expectations handily to keep the investing public interested after ...
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