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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Google Kicks Verizon To The Curb, Rejects Carrier For Nexus One

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 3:47 pm

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) reversed course today and said it will not offer its Nexus One handset on the Verizon Wireless network. The reason for the decision is a secret but almost ...
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Canadian Oil Sands: The Race to Secure Energy’s Future

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 2:08 pm

The oil sands deposit in western Canada has been called many things, but Canadian researcher and writer Alastair Sweeney may be the first to call them a "calming, stabilizing force ...
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Hey Southwest Airlines – Where’s the Beef?

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 10:22 am

By Robert Herbst After only $99 million profit on $10.4 billion in revenues last year, the best Southwest NYSE: LUV) could do for the recent 1st quarter was a paltry ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BPAX, DEAR, DRAD, GES, HUM, PMI, TWPG, TZOO, WHR)

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 9:11 am

These are this morning's top day trader and active trader alert stocks seen in the pre-market hours: Biosante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX) is up over 10% this morning after announcing ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/26/2010)

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 8:48 am

Updated throughout the day Warren Buffett wants an exception for Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) as derivative bill nears (WSJ). Blackstone (NYSE: BX) has pulled out of the bidding for RBS (NYSE: RBS) ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Update 4.26 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 8:33 am

Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (DELL, FNGN, HEW, NWL, NKE, NOK, PRSP, HOT, TMO, ZMH)

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 8:25 am

These are ten of the top analyst calls seen so far this Monday morning from the upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street firms: Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) Cut to ...
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The Expense Of Healthcare, The Need In The Future

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 8:13 am

By John Tamny of Forbes Seemingly all sides agreed that health costs should come down in the reform debate. The problem there is that high costs anywhere else are a ...
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Oil’s Next Big Surge

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 5:55 am

Crude oil prices are back above $85 and seem ready to breach $90. The leg from $69 to $85 which began in February had hit a plateau, but optimism about ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 15

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 5:37 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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China: Technology Thieves Again

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 5:26 am

China's tech pirates are at it again. Merchants in the People's Republic are selling knock-of versions of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, Reuters reports. They look a bit different from ...
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Media Digest 4/26/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 26, 2010 at 3:58 am

Reuters:   Germany's ruling party is keeping pressure on Greece to restructure debt. Reuters:   The growth forecasts of the G20 do not make economic sense. Reuters:   Oil moved higher on strong ...
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The Growing Despair Of The American Workforce

Posted: April 25, 2010 at 7:48 pm

The recession is over and unemployment will begin to drop shortly from its perch near 10%. Larry Summers, the head of the National Economic Council,  and Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, say ...
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Germany Holds A Gun To Greece’s Head

Posted: April 25, 2010 at 8:12 am

The ministers attending the G20 conference urged the IMF and Eurozone nations to handle the debt situation in Greece as quickly as possible. There is understandable concern that if the capital markets fear ...
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Powerful Banking Group Rejects Global Reform Plan

Posted: April 24, 2010 at 5:24 pm

A number of the finance ministers and central bank managers in Europe support creating a bank tax to handle financial firm bailouts in the future. A related levy has been ...
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