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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Top Day Trader Alerts (C, CJBK, GTXI, MGM, NVDA, SOLF, PHYS, VRTX)

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 9:07 am

Today's day trader and active trader alerts are not your normal movers.  We have shares of Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C), Central Jersey Bancorp (NASDAQ: CJBK), GTx Inc. (NASDAQ: GTXI), MGM ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/26/2010)

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 8:51 am

Updated throughout the day. The Qatar Investment Authority may take a large position in Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) (FT) The Justice Department is examining Apple Inc's (NASDAQ: AAPL) dominance in ...
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A Surprise in Durable Goods

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 8:39 am

The Commerce Department released the most recent data on the highly volatile Durable Goods Report.  The April reading showed a gain of +2.9% versus a Dow Jones estimate of only ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 5.26.2010 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 8:37 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 have ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CERN, C, DWA, JCG, DWA, LOW, MERU, NVDA, SLRY, RIG, WDR, ZION)

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 8:28 am

These are some of this morning's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday: Cerner Corp. (NASDAQ: CERN) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. Citigroup, ...
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Buffett’s Biggest Upside Stocks, Summer 2010 (BRK-A, AXP, BAC, CMCSA, XOM, GCI, GE, IRM, MCO, SNY, WFC, WLP)

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 6:14 am

Warren Buffett does not have the same time frame as most investors.  How many of you buy with a "forever" outlook?  Buffett says he likes that term, short of whether ...
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OECD Sharply Upgrades Global Economic Forecasts

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 6:08 am

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development upgraded its outlook for worldwide economic growth. The agency said "Gross domestic product (GDP) across OECD countries is projected to rise by 2.7% ...
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Server Sales Surge As HP Pushes IBM From No.1 Spot, Time For Big Blue To Buy Dell

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 5:39 am

Hewlett-Packard's (NYSE: HPQ) plan to dominate the global hardware business is working. It has a huge line of PCs and servers along with software and tech consulting arms to get ...
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Justice Department Squeezes Apple

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 5:16 am

The Department of Justice is considering the extent to which Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has a monopoly in the digital music sales business. Its iTunes store controls much of the ...
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Short Sellers Bet Big Against Sirius And Starbucks

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 4:51 am

The bets made for and against banks and tech companies were mixed for the period ending April 14. Short selling showed no particular pattern for the two huge industries. Shorts ...
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Media Digest 5/26/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 3:50 am

Reuters:   BP plc (NYSE: BP) had warning signs of pressure on its Deepwater Horizon rig. Reuters:   Geithner went to Europe to press for more reform. Reuters:   The Qatar sovereign wealth ...
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America’s Poorest Presidents: Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Extreme Financial Hardship

Posted: May 25, 2010 at 9:08 pm

American presidents became bankrupt at a rate at least 20 times the national average. Most of their troubles came from real estate speculation, poor crop yields on the lands that ...
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Plunge Protection Team Intervention?

Posted: May 25, 2010 at 5:53 pm

Government intervention in the financial markets without your knowledge, and maybe without your support ... that is what many feel that the Plunge Protection Team is.  A mechanism designed to ...
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The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill – the Top Kill Attempt

Posted: May 25, 2010 at 4:28 pm

The next attempt to shut off the flow from the leaking BP well in the Gulf is still aimed to occur early Wednesday. The attempt will use the “top kill” method ...
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Select Fund Sell-Offs in Europe (EWP, EWI, EWG, EWU, EWQ, IEV, IRL, SNF, GF, RNE, CEE, EWL)

Posted: May 25, 2010 at 2:50 pm

It is not hard to find ADRs which have sold off by about 50%, and some are worse than that out of Europe.  These shares are getting the double-whammy now ...
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