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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Carbon Emissions Take Record Drop In The US

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 1:33 pm

The US Energy Information Administration has just released its review of CO2 emissions in the US for 2009. That year's report shows the largest ever absolute drop and percentage drop ...
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Contagion Brush Fire

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 11:31 am

“Each of the six banking systems Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Greece, the UK... faces different challenges, but the contagion risk could dilute these differences and impose very real, common threats ...
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A Note On Inflation From The Fed

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 10:59 am

A note from the desk of President Jeffrey M. Lacker, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: "The median inflation expectation from the University of Michigan's monthly survey of consumer sentiment is 2.9 ...
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Is US Bailing Out Greece?

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 10:27 am

From the desk of Senator Jim DeMint: "Right now, 17 percent of the IMF funding pool that the $40 billion bailout is being drawn from comes from U.S. taxpayers. If that ...
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Productivity Still Too Hot

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 10:12 am

Although productivity is not rising at the rate it did in the first quarter, the increase is still too "hot" to help employment.  According to the BLS: "Nonfarm business sector ...
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Top Rumors of the Day (May 6, 2010)

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 8:40 am

The rumor mill usually runs into trouble or gets light on Thursday ahead of the crazy "Rumor Friday"... Yet there are still several ongoing and newer issues running around Wall ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ADCT, ALU, FRE, FNM, JDSU, MED, MPEL, NBG, QCOR, TGT)

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 8:21 am

There are many movers today, but a lack of the double-digit gainers and losers we have seen.  The movers on news this Thursday for day traders and active traders are ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ATU, BP, GLW, ENOC, HLS, ITMN, MU, NWS, SNDK, RIG)

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 7:44 am

These are some of this Thursday morning's top analyst research calls seen in upgrades, downgrades, and initiations: Actuant Corp. (NYSE: ATU) Raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo. BP plc (NYSE: ...
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Nintendo Unit Sales Drop 21% From Last Year

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 5:34 am

The news is bad for Nintendo. It reported its fiscal year numbers. The video game company posted its first full-year drop in revenue in six years. Wii sales were down ...
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Freddie Mac: Another $10.6 Billion From Taxpayers

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 5:08 am

Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) lost another $8 billion in the first calendar quarter of the year. That includes $1.3 billion in dividends paid to the Treasury. Freddie might have simply ...
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Senate Financial Reform Plans Can’t Address Short Term Trouble

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 4:31 am

The Senate has voted 96 to 1 in favor of a program that prevents the use of government funds to bailout large financial firms the way that the TARP fund ...
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The World’s Most Important Bond Investor Calls Ratings Agencies As Flawed

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 4:00 am

Bill Gross, the head investment officer of bond giant PIMCO and the most famous fixed-income investor in the world, dismissed Moody's (NYSE: MCO) and S&P as deeply flawed arbiters of investment ...
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Media Digest 5/6/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 6, 2010 at 3:19 am

MarketWatch: Asia shares were off by 2%. Reuters:   Riots against austerity measures continued n Greece. Reuters:   US regulators want to increase supervision of broadband. Reuters:   The Fed's Rosengren says rates ...
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Google Regains on Search Share Loss (GOOG, MSFT, YHOO, IACI)

Posted: May 5, 2010 at 4:13 pm

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) got its mojo back.  In March, the world's dominant search engine managed to slip under the 70% share mark for the first time since June 2008.  ...
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Out of The Gulf, Devon’s Star Rises, BP Sinks Further

Posted: May 5, 2010 at 2:05 pm

Executives at Devon Energy Corp. (NYSE:DVN) are probably congratulating themselves on their foresight this week. The company has spent the last year divesting itself of virtually all its assets in ...
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