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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AIXG, BLK, CEO, DVN, FL, GPS, HGSI, JCG, MRO, RIMM)

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 7:29 am

These are this Thursday's top ten analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Aixtron Aktiengesellschaft (NASDAQ: AIXG) Started as Buy at UBS. BlackRock, Inc. ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Watch 4.1

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 7:22 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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An American In Paris

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 5:24 am

It is a good thing for American banks that Berlin and Munich, Paris and Lyon, are not in the U.S. The French and Germans have decided to levy a bank ...
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US Crop Production High With No Buyers In Sight

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 5:13 am

The under-developing world needs food while the developed world is full. US crop yield reports sunk commodities prices as the U.S. Agriculture Department's Prospective Plantings numbers showed that farmers are having ...
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China’s On Fire As Factory Production Rises Again

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 4:59 am

The recession and unemployment across the world must have been cured. How else could China's factories push out more and more products every month as concerns about its economy overheating ...
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Experts Say iPad Could Break The Back Of AT&T Network

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 4:45 am

AT&T (T) has spent months building up its crippled wireless network which has been overloaded by data sent to and from Apple (AAPL) iPhones. The telco says it has finally cured ...
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Hedge Fund Management Pay Moves Back Above $1 Billion Per Man

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 4:19 am

According to the annual pay survey done by AR: Absolute Return+Alpha magazine and reviewed by The New York Times, the top 25 hedge fund managers made $25.3 billion in 2009. ...
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Incentivitis Hits The Car Industry

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 3:52 am

Most economists would reason that as demand for a product rises so should a producer's opportunity to raise or at least hold price steady. The auto and airline industries have ...
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Top 200 Company CEOs Made Median $6.95 Million

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 3:32 am

According to the annual Wall Street Journal report on the median compensation of the CEOs at America's 200 larges companies by revenue, their median comp was $6.95 million in 2009. And, ...
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Media Digest 4/1/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 3:01 am

Reuters: Factories in China and India upped production last month. Reuters:   Asian stocks hit and 11 month high. Reuters:   General Growth filed a plan to exit bankruptcy. Reuters:   Reviews praised ...
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