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Monthly Archives: May 2010

The Good Part Of Being Goldman Sachs

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 9:45 am

The government may have filed civil actions against The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) and criminal charges may be coming. The bank also disclosed in its 10-Q that the feds could ...
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Today’s Best Rumors 5.10.2010

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 9:01 am

Updated throughout the day. Prudential UK will prepare an additional $1.5 billion for its AIA Asia purchase (Bloomberg) Elena Kagan will be nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court (various) ...
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Can IPOs Recover With the Market? (CHRM, AOSL, MITL, GGS, MUSA, MERU, CALX, AVEO, PRI, FNGN, HTHT)

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 8:49 am

The good news is that many of these post-IPO losers are actually popping back up now that the markets overseas are pulling us up.  The bad news is that this ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 5.10 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 8:48 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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Fannie Mae Says Its Long-Term Viablity May Be At Risk, Needs $8.4 Billion

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 8:36 am

Admitting what the market already knows, Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) said in its 10-Q that Accordingly, there continues to be uncertainty regarding the future of Fannie Mae, including whether we will continue ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AAPL, ASML, ERIC, CSCO, BPOP, DRYS, CSIQ, JASO, ACAS, INTC, NBG, AIG, PHG, ALU)

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 8:33 am

Monday is so far turning out to be one of those days where news here may not matter much as far as stocks on the move.  This is all about ...
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Goldman Sachs 10-Q Details Worst Case Scenario

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 8:17 am

It the filing of its 10-Q, The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS) said its was cooperating with federal authorities on charges that include SEC allegations of fraud and possible criminal charges from the ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ATVI, AYR, CFN, CMCSA, DRWI, RDY, RBCN, SPWRA, WAG, YHOO)

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 8:15 am

These are this Monday's top ten analyst upgrades downgrades and initiations in Wall Street research calls: Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Added to Best Idea List at Wedbush Morgan. Aircastle ...
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Oil Down, Gasoline Prices Up

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 6:03 am

The highly regarded Lundberg Survey said that the price of regular grade gas rose 7 cents in the last two weeks to $2.92. The average price of premium was up to ...
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Weather Pushs Gulf Oil Spill Toward Texas

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 5:41 am

There has been a great deal of concern that the oil slick created by 5,000 barrels a day from the wrecked Deepwater Horizon would hit beaches in Louisiana. Alabama, and ...
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The EU Rescue: End Of “Wolf Packs” But Not Riots

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 5:16 am

The EU laid out its ambitious plan to steady the finances of the region. The three-part program was explained by the group: "The Council and the Member States have decided today on a comprehensive ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 17

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 4:42 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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Media Digest 5/10/2010

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 3:50 am

Reuters:   The US exchanges will testify before Congress about the market plunge. Reuters:   The NYSE and NASDAQ said that they would cooperate with investigations of the market meltdown. Reuters:   S&P ...
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The Unusual Suspects (AIG, BIDU, BP, RIG, CSCO, DRWI, GGP, GS, ITA, MED, ROAC, SIRI)

Posted: May 9, 2010 at 9:31 am

The new list of Unusual Suspects for stocks to watch this coming week is out.  How can you pick out just over ten stocks to watch in the week ahead ...
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New Oil Threat Described By NOAA

Posted: May 9, 2010 at 9:02 am

"The experimental containment dome was successfully positioned over the leaking riser pipe last night, but then had to be removed after a large volume of ice-like methane hydrate crystals accumulated ...
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