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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Another Chinese Investment in Canada’s Oil Sands (PWE, PTR, ENB, CEO, SNP, TOT, COP, KMP)

Posted: May 15, 2010 at 8:45 am

Penn West Energy Trust (NYSE:PWE) is the latest beneficiary of Chinese interest in the Canadian oil sands. China Investment Corp., a state-owned sovereign wealth fund, has agreed to invest about ...
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Next Week’s Can’t Miss Earnings Reports (ABK, LOW, HD, WMT, HPQ, DE, AMAT, GME, SPLS, TGT, BRCD, DELL, GPS, MRVL, SHLD)

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 1:14 pm

Earnings season is already winding down, but don't think it is over yet.  Next week we still have much in retail and we still have DJIA components and major tech ...
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Gulf Oil Spill May Be Exponentially Worse Than Prior Estimates (BP, RIG)

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 11:49 am

A report on National Public Radio last night has led to demands for the federal government to get tougher with BP plc (NYSE: BP) and Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) regarding ...
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The Worst Oil Spill Ever?

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 11:42 am

From The Atlantic Wire Two alarming reports from National Public Radio and The New York Times this morning suggest that the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico ...
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The Weekly Dividend (CLF, CPY, FDS, KEI, MSA, OPNT, POR, TKR, F, BBT, DOW, FUN, BP, GMCR, SPAN, TNK, IIJI, RAIL)

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 11:27 am

We are not seeing the floodgate of dividend hikes as we had seen in earlier weeks this year, but hikes, talk of hikes, and other big dividend news changes are ...
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Coinstar: The Next Blockbuster

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 11:18 am

Stock analysts and investors assume that because one business model is better than another, the better business model is strong. That relies on the assumption that either business is ...
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Netflix Analyst Trifecta Cuts (NFLX, AMZN, BBI)

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 9:31 am

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) had been on another tear but a UBS downgrade from Neutral to 'Sell' yesterday refuted a WSJ story that Netflix could be a possible takeover target ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BIDU, BSMD, ERTS, HAUP, JCP, NBG, NVDA, BEE, YHOO)

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 8:57 am

Many of today's top day trader and active trader stocks are up on earnings but other news is running names as well. This Friday's top day trader and active trader ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/14/2010)

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 8:48 am

Updated throughout the day. Some Wall St. firms gambled that cities and towns would go bust  (WSJ) Prudential plans asset sales in Asia to help fund it buyout of AIA. ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 5.14 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 8:25 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 (APC, CRUS, LULU, MPEL, NFLX, NTAP, ODP, POZN, VRTX, WX)

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 8:16 am

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Friday: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. Cirrus ...
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Deepwater Horizon Spill Hits More Gulf Coast Shores

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 5:55 am

More oil moved ashore from the leak of the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon rig. Some scientists believe that the amount of crude being released each day-5,000 by NOAA estimates--is undermeasured ...
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Signs Of The Apocalypse: Euro Below $1.25

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 5:41 am

The euro dropped below $1.25 for the first time in 14 months. It may have happened because Paul Volcker said that “You have the great problem of a potential disintegration ...
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Video Game Sales Get Crushed, iPhone May Be Culprit

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 5:07 am

Video game sales in the US were decimated in April. It is not clear whether this is due to the growth of free games, especially online and on social network sites, ...
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The Further Weakening Of Housing

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 4:41 am

Mortgage rates hit their 2010 low on April 13 at 4.93%. At the same time, RealtyTrac announced that homes which were repossessed hit an all-time high of 92,432 in April. ...
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