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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Secondary Offerings Keep Coming (LIWA, PNW, NGLS, LYV, VRTS)

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 8:41 am

The floodgates of secondary offerings are not quite as open as they were two weeks ago.  Still, many secondary offerings are coming. Companies are raising cash and insiders are using ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ABK, MBI, ATLS, CASY, CTIC, PALM)

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 8:00 am

These are this Friday's top day trader and active trader alert stocks moving on news this morning.  There is more detail on the moves  on each over at VSInvestor.com: Ambac ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/9/2010)

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 7:54 am

Updated throughout the day. Bain and KKR plan IPOs for Toys 'R' Us, HCA, and NXP Semi (WSJ) Twitter will redesign its homepage. (AllThingsD) Continental (CAL) may push out US Air (LCC) ...
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What Does Twitter Say About The Stock Market? Plenty 4.9

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 7:36 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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DRAM Joins Flash Memory in Shortage Concerns (SNDK, MU, AMAT, KLAC, SMH)

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 7:25 am

Earlier this week, we noted Morningstar research on how to bet on winners during a coming flash memory shortage.  But the shortages and rising prices are expanding beyond flash memory ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CNI, CELG, FSLR, JCP, MGM, POT, QCOM, SYNA, TXN, WSM)

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 7:09 am

These are this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI) Cut to Sector Peform at CIBC. Celgene Corporation ...
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Store Sales Down, Wal-Mart Cuts Prices On 10,000 Items

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 5:00 am

It is a time-honored tradition within the retail industry. When sales drop, so do prices. Of course, not all retailers can afford that. As the holiday season in 2008 showed, ...
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The Market For $5 Milllion Plus Homes Falls Apart

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 4:27 am

The price at which real estate is dropping may have slowed, but that is not helping the ultra-rich to stay in their homes. A study commissioned by The Wall Street ...
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If Oil Goes To $100…

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 4:00 am

The FT reports that Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) both predict that oil prices could move to $10o per barrel in 2011. Jeff Rubin, a former CIBC chief economist ...
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Media Digest 4/11/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 2:56 am

Reuters:   The Fed once again pledged low interest rates. Reuters:   If the yuan rises, the euro may be badly hurt. Reuters:   Soda companies are hurt by the economy according to ...
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Housing Stumbles Badly, Again

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 7:44 pm

Home sales and home prices are supposed to improve in the spring despite the fact that government programs to encourage purchases will go away. Defaults must fall to fuel the ...
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ECB’s Trichet: What? Me, Worry

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 7:19 pm

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, an agency with almost no power, said that Greece will not default on its debts. It was as if there is some magic ...
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Cramer’s Anti-Greece Stock Militia (BBBY, TJX, GS, EOG, WYNN, ROST, TGT)

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 5:55 pm

It's been a while since we covered Jim Cramer on CNBC's MAD MONEY, probably for multiple reasons other than many of his shows seemed to be taped educational pieces.  But ...
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Which Way is the Wind Blowing?

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 3:45 pm

About 40% of US electricity is generated by burning natural gas. Another roughly 30% comes from burning coal and about 10% is generated by nuclear fission. Wind-generated power accounts for ...
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Retail Business Daily (TGT, GPS, RAD, AEO, ANF, GYMB, RTH)

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 2:31 pm

Today’s Retail Business Daily has a roundup of names in the retail sector that are responding to changes and news in the Industry. The market continues to improve for many ...
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