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Monthly Archives: April 2010

US May Fall Off Safest Soverign Debt Risk List

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 4:00 am

The safest sovereign debt investment in the world is Norway's bonds. Finland, Germany, and Sweden also receive good ratings in the latest version of the CMA Sovereign Debt Report for ...
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Media Digest 4/8/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 2:41 am

Reuters:   British Air and Iberia signed a merger deal. Reuters:   US Airways (LCC) and United (UAUA) are in merger talks. Reuters:   A Toyota (TM) executive warned about defects in January. ...
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The Oldest Game In The Airline Industry: United And US Air May Merge

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 6:04 pm

There are two opportunities for companies in the airline business to improve their prospects in troubled times. The first is bankruptcy and the other is M&A. US Air (LCC) and ...
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Google Taking Eye Off Search Market Share? (GOOG, MSFT, YHOO, IACI)

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 3:58 pm

Experian Hitwise sent out the monthly data on US search market shares for the month of March 2010.  The Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) combined gains ...
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Mine Disaster Is Not Only Problem Facing Coal Industry (ACI, ANR, BKH, CNX, JRCC, MEE, BTU, KOL, MSA, D, CGX)

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 2:30 pm

The coal sector has been rocked in the past two weeks by deadly accidents at mines in China and the US. In China, 32 miners are still missing and 6 ...
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Gold Benefits From Euro Implosion Risk Trading (GLD, SGOL, GDX, GDXJ)

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 2:23 pm

The US dollar and commodity prices are supposed to be inversely related, or so we saw during so much of the last 2009 gold rally.  Quite simply, global commodity assets ...
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BioHealth Business Daily (CELG, DUSA, ENCO, KERX, NPSP, OSIP, PFE, PURE, RNN, SQNM)

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 1:25 pm

There are more recognized stocks in today’s edition of the BioHealth Business Daily.  We are seeing significant and unusual moves, or implications, in shares of Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG), DUSA ...
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Bets On For Flash Memory Shortage (SNDK, MU, AMAT, KLAC)

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 12:33 pm

Have you been reading about flash memory shortages coming during the current consumer electronics boom?  Whether or not this comes true this time is something that will be seen, but ...
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Greeks Blow Budget Estimates

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 9:34 am

In what may be a coup de grace to Greece's chance to cooperate with eurozone nations and the IMF to raise money through the sale of sovereign debt by the ...
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Geithner Says China “More Open To The World”

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 8:24 am

From Bloomberg TV Geither's comments are very similar to 24/7's from earlier today. We said "China has argued that it will show a trade deficit in March and that ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/7/2010)

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 7:58 am

Updated throughout the day A number of private equity firms are considering bids for the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Global Merchant Services division. (WSJ) US regulators will examine high frequency trading ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AGAM, ALGN, AIB, IRE, BA, DRI, NFLX, NOK, SQNM)

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 7:56 am

These are the top analyst upgrades and downgrades seen this Wednesday morning from Wall Street research calls: AGA Medical Holdings (NASDAQ: AGAM) Started as Outperform at Baird. Align Technology (NASDAQ: ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Watch 4.7

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 7:44 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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Cost To Build iPad Under $260

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 7:27 am

Apple's (AAPL) cost to build its new iPad is extraordinarily low compared to what the firm charges consumers. iSuppli, a research firm which analyzes hardware expense of goods, estimates the total cost to ...
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Verizon Claims US Cellular Service Is World’s Best

Posted: April 7, 2010 at 5:11 am

Verizon (VZ) CEO Ivan Seidenberg must never have used an Apple (AAPL) iPhone which runs on the AT&T (T) Wireless network. The Ma Bell cellular service is notorious for dropped calls ...
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