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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Media Digest 5/14/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 14, 2010 at 3:47 am

Reuters:   The Senate backed restrictions on credit rating agencies and credit card fees. Reuters:   Oil dropped to a three-month low based on demand. Reuters:   Facebook will hold a staff meeting ...
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The Thirteen Housing Markets That Will Never Recover

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 8:15 pm

New RealtyTrac numbers show that in April there were well over 300,000 foreclosures and the figure in on track to be higher in 2010 than in 2009. Several research firms ...
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Nordstrom: Value & Reality Catch the Stock (JWN, KSS)

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 4:47 pm

Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) may serve a different tier of the retail market than Kohl's Corp. (NYSE: KSS), but it is sharing the same trend: selling off after earnings as ...
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Blockbuster, Staggered, Loses Its Footing

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 4:32 pm

Blockbuster, Inc (NYSE: BBI), nearly ruined by the high cost of its store network and withering from competition from NetFlix (NYSE: NFLX) and the kiosk operator Redbox, posted another quarter of dismal results. The rental ...
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Leucadia Holdings More Like Buffett’s Alter Ego (LUK, BRK-B, ACF, CSWC, ENWV, IAAC, JEF, SMCG, TA)

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 12:17 pm

Leucadia National Corp. (NYSE: LUK) is generally touted as one of the baby Berkshires.... meaning it is treated along the same lines as Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) and Warren ...
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Alibaba Earnings Rise as Chinese Government Ponders New Regulations

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 11:57 am

Alibaba.com is the Hong Kong-listed unit of Alibaba Group, a Chinese B2B e-commerce company that is 39%-owned by Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). Alibaba.com reported better-than-expected earnings and revenues this morning, but ...
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Analysts Rethinking Cisco Upside (CSCO)

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 10:54 am

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is hard to argue about it being a bad quarter.  It was stellar with earnings above estimates at $0.42 EPS and $10.4 billion in revenue ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AMSC, AUTC, BIDU, CSCO, CLNE, EBAY, SY, SAP, URBN, WFMI)

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 8:57 am

Many day trader and active trader stocks are up on earnings but other news is running names as well. Thursday's top day trader and active trader alerts are in American ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/13/2010)

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 8:53 am

Updated throughout the day. The NY Attorney General is probing the relationship between eight banks and ratings agencies. The financial firms include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 5.13 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 8:41 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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Jobs Still Very Sluggish

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 8:37 am

Weekly jobless claims came in with a lackluster drop of 4,000 to 444,000, effectively in-line with Dow Jones estimates.  The week before was revised from 444,000 to 448,000.  The good ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (MT, EBAY, HAL, KBH, LEN, NBG, MS, MYGN, TDC, X)

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 8:29 am

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Thursday: ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) Cut to Neutral at UBS. eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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Will the Plundered Ever Shrug?

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 8:25 am

By John Tamny of Forbes Savers delay consumption so we can have jobs, and business owners risk their net worth while offering us guaranteed wages.  Their reward is to have ...
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What, Me Worry? American Confidence Unshaken

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 7:55 am

Whether total unemployment is at 17% of the population or the housing market is still collapsing. the American tradition of confidence in the future continues. It is not unlike BP's ...
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Banks Still Hobble Small Business And For Good Reason

Posted: May 13, 2010 at 7:28 am

Many economists believe that small businesses with under 100 employees are still the engine of the economy and the major source of new jobs. The banking system has killed that ...
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