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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Natural Gas Producers Looks to Oil for Profits

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 11:37 am

Companies that functioned primarily as natural gas producers have looked elsewhere for profits as the price of natural gas sticks around $4/thousand cubic feet. The development of tight shale ...
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Hulu Finally Starts To Menace YouTube

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 10:18 am

Hulu, the premium video site owned by NBC Universal, News Corp., The Walt Disney Company, and Providence Equity Partners, began to make impressive strides as it passed the number of ...
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More Hot Water For Ernst & Young With New Lehman Allegations

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 9:14 am

It may only be a matter of time before Ernst & Young gets in trouble in its role as auditor regarding the disintegration of Lehman Bros. The New York Times ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ABK, PALM, ENMD, XOMA, MIPI, BPOP, EXPE, PCLN, HBAN, KEY, RF)

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 8:07 am

These are the top day trader and active trader alerts seen in action this morning.  We have details in the links over at VSInvestor.com with more details and analysis on ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/13/2010)

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 7:56 am

Updated throughout the day. New Hope, which is trying to buy Macauthur Coal, has begun to talk to the target's large shareholders. (Reuters) OPEC might hike production if prices for ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Watch 4.13

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 7:42 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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Bernanke Is Wrong, the Bank Failures Signaled Economic Revival

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 7:15 am

By John Tamny of Forbes Fed Chairman Bernanke continues to give speeches suggesting government bailouts saved the economy, as though the U.S. economy is some kind of living, breathing, entity.  ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AA, AONE, CROX, EXPE, HBAN, KEY, PCLN, RF, RHT, UNH)

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 7:10 am

These are this Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) Cut to Neutral at UBS. A123 Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE) ...
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IEA Say Global Oil Demand To Hit Record In 2010

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 5:48 am

Another major piece of news that should drive crude has come out. The IEA has revised its figure for global oil demand upward. Global oil demand will hit a record high ...
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Big US Banks Recoil Against Plan To Revalue Mortgages

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 5:22 am

JPMorgan (JPM) and other big US banks have started a campaign against the Administration's proposed program for them to cut the amount of the principles on the mortgages of millions of ...
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China May Not Accomodate US On Yuan Value

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 5:10 am

A series of events in recent days is  making it more unlikely that China will allow any revaluation of the yuan and increase the chance that the US will label ...
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The White House Says Deficit Has Peaked, And May Be Wrong

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 4:40 am

The White House believes that the deficit has peaked and that the shortfall for the first half of 2010 will be much less than expected. The Administration bases this on an ...
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Short Interest Shows Gamble Against Tech

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 4:10 am

Many tech stocks have doubled or tripled from the March market lows. Short sellers are in many cases willing to bet that ride is not over. The short interest in ...
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Twitter To Sell Ads

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 3:36 am

Twitter will start to sell ads on its 75 million member micro-blogging system, a move likely to anger some who worry about privacy and behavioral targeting of marketing messages. Members ...
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America’s Most Successful Second Place Companies

Posted: April 13, 2010 at 3:28 am

“Never look over your shoulder. Something might be gaining on you.”--Satchel Page Jack Welsh once said that GE would sell any division of the conglomerate that was not No.1 or ...
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