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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Apple iPad 3G: A 300,000 Unit Weekend And Blow To Competition

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 6:14 am

Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, a notorious Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) bull,  estimates 300,000 3G iPads were sold last weekend, its first on the market. This can be added to the one million ...
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China And The Deepwater Horizon: Oil’s Inexorable Move To $100

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 6:00 am

Oil trades up near $87 today, and it is bound to move toward $100 this month. The estimates for the Deepwater Horizon incident now range as high as 100,000 barrels ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 16

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 5:20 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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The Futility Of Oil Spill Cost Estimates

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 5:13 am

The Wall St. estimates of the cost of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill catastrophe are these: Analysts at Morgan Stanley put the figure at $3.5 billion, while analysts at Citigroup, ...
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Media Digest 5/3/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 3, 2010 at 3:52 am

Reuters:   UAL (NASDAQ: UAUA) and Continental's (NYSE: DAL) boards approved a merger. Reuters:   Investors are concerned about the Greek rescue package. Reuters:   Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) defended Goldman Sachs Group ...
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Oil Spill Comes Ashore

Posted: May 2, 2010 at 8:28 pm

The oil spill has begun to reach shore according to NOAA maps. Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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The Best & Worst of Buffett’s Weekend in Omaha (BRK-B, BRK-A, GS, KFT, MCO)

Posted: May 2, 2010 at 11:45 am

This weekend came both the Annual Meeting of Shareholders for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, NYSE: BRK-B) and the quarterly earnings report.  So you have seen the stock market's massive ...
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Greek Bailout Set, Papandreou Faces Challenges To Remain Premier

Posted: May 2, 2010 at 9:24 am

The Eurozone nations and IMF have bailed out Greece to the tune of more than $146 billion dollars, and Greece faces budget cuts of $40 billion over the next three years ...
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New Technology May Cut Oil Leak As Legal Actions Against BP Grow

Posted: May 2, 2010 at 7:25 am

Experts attempting to slow the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon rig collapse may have found a way to slow the pace at which oil reaches the surface of ...
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Johnson & Johnson Announces Children’s Tylenol Recall

Posted: May 1, 2010 at 12:53 pm

McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a division of Johnson & Johnson Inc (NSYE: JNJ), announced a voluntary recall of some of its OTC products sold in the US and Canada. After consultation with ...
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Berkshire Hathaway Swings To Big Profit

Posted: May 1, 2010 at 12:33 pm

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B, BRK.A) announced it made $3.6 billion in the first quarter compared to a loss of $1.5 billion in the year ago period. All of the improvement was ...
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The Unusual Suspects (BP, DNDN, ETFC, GE, JNJ, NFG, PALM, BPOP, POZN, SIRI)

Posted: May 1, 2010 at 9:44 am

Next week is still a deep earnings week, but we tried and tried to keep this weekend's edition of The Unusual Suspects as free and clear from earnings as we ...
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New NOAA Data Show Rapid Growth Of Gulf Spill, Obama To Visit Site

Posted: May 1, 2010 at 7:51 am

The pace at which the oil from the collapsed BP rig is spreading accelerated late on April 30.  The Coast Guard and Navy are placing "booms" in the Gulf to ...
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Mortgage-Related IPO Filing: Ellie Mae (ELLI)

Posted: May 1, 2010 at 6:25 am

If you thought any of the "Mae" sounding names were all dead, guess again.  We have one coming as an initial public offering, although this is not a government agency.  ...
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