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Monthly Archives: April 2010

The Cellular Market In The US Is Saturated

Posted: April 23, 2010 at 5:30 am

Among them, Verizon Wireless, AT&T (NYSE: T), Sprint (NYSE: S), and T-Mobile have almost 260 million wireless subscribers in the US. The population of the US is 305 million people and ...
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Should Goldman Sachs Back Down?

Posted: April 23, 2010 at 5:00 am

Wall St. and legal experts have begun to question whether Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) should settle charges by the SEC that it defrauded investors by not disclosing its role ...
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Media Digest 4/23/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 23, 2010 at 3:54 am

Reuters:   The push for a stronger yuan has been modest at the G20 meetings. Reuters:   A Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) Director Rajat Gupta told hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam about a ...
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Cloud Computing Makes Americans Anxious

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 8:28 pm

Storing files on remote servers whether those files are e-mails or medical records in a bad idea. The security the protects the data may be poor. That risks personal records, ...
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US Adults Still Despair About Their Financial Condition

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 7:59 pm

The percentage of people who feel that believe their financial situations are "good" or "excellent" fell to a new low in a Gallup poll which has been since 2001. That means the attitudes on the ...
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Awareness of Wage Inequality Causes No Action

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 7:41 pm

Most adults in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia are aware of pay inequality. The does not seem to help women get equal pay with men. Recent Census data shows ...
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Microsoft: Windows 7 A Winner, All Other Results Weak

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 4:48 pm

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) traded within pennies of its 52-week high today, a sign of the optimism that the market has about the technology sector in general and especially the  strength of the adoption ...
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Amazon.com New Highs Fizzle on Earnings (AMZN)

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 4:18 pm

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) was hitting new all-time highs today before earnings.  The online e-tail giant posted $0.66 EPS on $7.13 billion in revenues versus $0.61 EPS and $6.87 billion ...
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New Leverage & Inverse ETF Competition (KBW, KRU, KRS, FAS, FAZ, UYG, SEF)

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 3:30 pm

By now you know all about leveraged ETF and leveraged inverse ETF products.  But you might not have heard of two new leveraged and inverse ETFs that launched from ProShares ...
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Sen Kaufman Of Delaware To Pole-Axe Big Banks

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 12:32 pm

Senator Ted Kaufman of Delaware doesn't care what Obama says in his speech on Wall St. today or what Volcker or Dodd want to do to break apart the largest ...
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A Government Sale of AIG, Caveat Emptor (AIG, C, MS, GS, JPM, FNM, FRE)

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 12:12 pm

Imagine the government and taxpayers finally being out of AIG... Who doesn't love to hate AIG?  The financial crisis and the bailouts might have been much different had American International ...
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The Politics of Green Energy

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 11:44 am

The $787 billion federal stimulus package enacted last year included $20 billion to subsidize energy efficiency programs in the states. Adding insulation, installing more efficient lighting, and other such ...
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Is GM Turning Itself Around?

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 10:11 am

By John Hudson of The Atlantic Wire Things are finally looking up for GM. On top of news that Americans again believe the U.S. makes better cars than Asian companies, ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/22/2010)

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 9:55 am

Updated throughout the day. Bernie Madoff's famous lipstick building in NY may have to be sold (NYPost) Obama will beat up on Wall St. in a speech in NY  (various) Goldman ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (NOK, QCOM, ETFC, DCTH, SNDK, NBG, EBAY, Q, CTL)

Posted: April 22, 2010 at 9:04 am

There are almost too many key stocks to note as pre-market movers this morning because of the floodgates of earnings news.  We have covered some of the larger volume and ...
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