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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Signs Of The Apocalypse: Federal Government Hiring Drives Jobs Growth

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 7:36 pm

The major concern about the March employment numbers is that the economy added 162,000 jobs, but of those, 48,000 were temporary workers who have been hired for the 2010 Census. Economists pointed out ...
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Top After-Hours Stock Movers (BZH, BP, FSS, IVAC, LF, MCK, MU, NTRI, PBI, PWAV, QCOR, SPG, GGP)

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 6:01 pm

We have many after-hours movers.  Some are earnings related, and some are not.  Movers in the after-hours session include Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH), BP plc (NYSE: BP), Federal ...
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Fed: Bankers Clamp Down On Lending

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 2:56 pm

It is no wonder that small business and consumers are not as active as they would need to be to support a meaningful improvement in US GDP. The Federal Reserve ...
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Political Train Wreck: Opposition to Electricity Grid Plan Grows

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 12:55 pm

The American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 included plans on how to pay for the cost of electricity transmission from projected wind farms in remote parts of the US ...
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Winners & Losers in Auto Parts (JCI, ALV, BWA, GNTX)

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 12:28 pm

Morningstar is well known for fund research and ratings, but the company also focuses on research in many equities and ETF products as well.  One of today's focal points was ...
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Gabelli’s New Focus Five Picks (HSNI, MJN, AMTD, TIVO, WFT, CVC, KOF, STZ, MA, ESI)

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 12:01 pm

GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE: GBL) is the parent of Gabelli & Company and is run by the very well known investment manager Mario Gabelli.  This morning came the release of ...
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24/7 Wall St. Poll: Continental & UAL Merger (CAL, UAUA, LCC)

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 11:13 am

Continental Airlines, Inc. (NYSE: CAL) and UAL Corporation (NASDAQ: UAUA) have done what has been speculated upon many occasions.  The two have announced a relative merger of equals, after talks ...
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Why Did Microsoft Kill Its Coveted Courier Tablet?

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 10:46 am

By Max Fisher of The Atlantic Wire Microsoft had long been rumored to be planning a tablet computer called the Courier, a Windows-running gadget akin to Apple's iPad. The Courier's ...
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Oil Spill Could Affect Onshore Refineries

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 10:38 am

The crude oil leak caused by the explosion and sinking of BP plc's (NYSE:BP) Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible rig continues to pump about 5,000 b/d into the waters of the Gulf ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/3/2010)

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 9:04 am

Updated throughout the deay. Cost of oil spill could go over $14 billion (CNBC) Apple (NYSE: AAPL) sold over one million iPads in first month (CNBC) Apple could be the ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BPAX, BP, FTBK, GS, POZN, SIRI)

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 8:58 am

These are this morning's top day trader and active trader alerts.  We have a link to more detail and analysis on each where applicable at VSInvestor.com: Biosante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 5.3 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 8:46 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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The US Will Not Be The Next Europe

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 8:11 am

By John Tamny of Forbes All this talk about the U.S. becoming the next Europe presumes that we're the same as the Europeans.  That's not remotely true.  While most Americans ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADTN, ATHN, CLH, DPS, GS, IM, O, RMD, SPWRA, TLAB)

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 8:10 am

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we saw from Wall Street research calls this morning: Adtran Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) Started as Neutral at Goldman Sachs. ...
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An Ugly Move Down For S&P 500

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 7:59 am

For all of the quants and technical traders, nearly 87% of the S&P  500 stocks were above their moving averages on April 30, down from over 92% at the close ...
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