Monthly Archives: April 2010

Treasury Reaps 8.5% Return From Companies Exiting TARP

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 9:33 am

Banks' repayments of TARP preferred stock and warrants continue to turn a profit for the U.S. Treasury Department, according to analysis by SNL Financial done by By Andrew Schukman ...
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Heating Up the Canadian Oil Sands

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 9:15 am

The oil sands deposits in western Canada give the US's closest trading partner the second largest total crude oil reserves in the world, some 175 billion barrels. Only Saudi ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/5/2010)

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 7:52 am

Updated throughout the day. Democrats are unhappy about an Obama Memorial Day deadline for a financial reform package (Politico) Yamaha plans to raise $810 million. (Bloomberg) Extended Stay, the hotel ...
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Apple iPad Figures Out; Under Some Targets (AAPL)

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 7:39 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has released some first-day sales figures on the iPad. The numbers are huge and above the initial projections we were using of 250,000 to 300,000, but ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Watch 4.5

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 7:33 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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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AA, ACL, CREE, EMC, GNW, JNPR, KMP, MPEL, MWW, TSO, TASR, YGE)

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 7:19 am

These are this Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research notes this morning: Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank. Alcon Inc. ...
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Don’t Federalize Underwater Mortgages

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 7:03 am

By John Tamny of Forbes The Obama's administration's plans to excuse 'underwater' mortgages is yet another bailout of the imprudent on the back of the prudent. Read more... ...
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Buffett and Berkshire Stocks With Most Upside, Q2 2010 (BRK-B, BAC, KO, COP, GCI, IRM, NLC, RSG, SNY, UNH, WLP, CMCSA, GE, KFT, STI, USB, WFC)

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 6:46 am

Everyone likes to see the Warren Buffett stock holdings, particularly when there are changes. He has a different timeframe than most investors for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) because ...
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Crude Jumps Above $85 As Reaction To American Jobs Figure

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 5:26 am

The BBC reports that crude traded over $85 on the first day after the Easter weekend reaching $85.31 a barrel for light crude. The news service identified the US jobs ...
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Apple iPads Won’t Charge In Windows PCs

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 5:03 am

An unsettling piece of news from Consumer Reports via Business Insider. The non-profit consumer protection and testing firm reports "we've been unable to charge our iPads in any USB port ...
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Commercial Real Estate: No Relief In Sight

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 4:58 am

Reis, the commercial real estate survey firm, said that occupancy of office buildings hit its worst rate in the US since 1994. Reis said the rate at which the problem was ...
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The Death Of Digital Dominance: Easter Box Office Sets A Record

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 4:27 am

The VCR was supposed to ruin box office demand. Then Blockbuster (BBI) was the spoiler. Then came DVDs and high-def DVDs. That spawned NetFlix (NFLX) and kiosk operations like Redbox. What DVDs ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings (Week 13)

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 4:04 am

The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product ...
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Media Digest 3/5/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 2:55 am

Reuters: China said nothing about the US delay of currency manipulations charges. Reuters: Office vacancy rates hit a 16-year high. Reuters: CEO pay is down from last year and Ellison ...
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Workers Worried Enough To Take Pay Cuts

Posted: April 4, 2010 at 8:49 pm

The average worker may be a bit less worried about losing his job. That is what a survey from job site Glassdoor says. About half of those surveyed said that ...
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