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Monthly Archives: May 2010

The Big Week of Dividends (ACE, BG, CLX, DPS, FRO, KNX, NOC, SWY, TRH, TIF, XEL, GE)

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 12:46 pm

This week felt like the sudden snap-back for dividend hikes after a week or two of fewer news announcements from major companies.  It was in big companies too, rather than ...
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China Gains Another Foothold in Brazil (STO, PBR, SNP, CEO, BP)

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 12:16 pm

Norway's Statoil ASA (NYSE: STO) has agreed to sell a 40% stake in its deepwater Peregrino field offshore Brazil to China's Sinochem Group for $3.07 billion. Statoil retains its 60% ...
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Next Week’s Big Earnings Events (CPB, MDT, TSL, TIVO, AEO, TOL, NTAP, TTWO, PAY, BIG, COST, HNZ, TIF, GES, JCG, NOVL)

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 11:12 am

Some of the top earnings next week are Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE: CPB), Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL), TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. ...
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The Dollar Stores Strike Back (DLTR, FDO, DG, NDN)

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 10:10 am

If you have watched the markets, and surely you have if you are reading here, then it has been impossible to not notice the sell-off.  But the retail segment has ...
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Warrant Watch: Wells Fargo, Uncle Sam, Mr. Buffett (WFC, BRK-B, BRK-A)

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 9:52 am

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is signaling that it can hold its own by buying out what could have been dilution from Uncle Sam selling warrants.  The Treasury will ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/21/2010)

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 9:00 am

Update throughout the day. The head of global markets for UBS in Asia is leaving. IFR "Citigroup sold a series of mortgage-linked securities without disclosing that Morgan Stanley helped shape ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BRCD, DELL, MRVL, NBG, RRGB, CRM)

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 8:57 am

There are actually fewer pre-market movers than many may have guessed considering how volatile the markets are.  Today's top day trader and active trader alerts are in Brocade Communications Systems ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 5.21 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 8:49 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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Hong Kong And Singapore Pass US In Competitiveness

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 8:31 am

For the first time in 16 years, the US is not the most competitive nation in the world. The IMD World Competitiveness Center, which measures 58 economies put Singapore and ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (C, DRI, DLTR, FDO, FMCN, NITE, MA, PFE, PG, VLCM)

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 8:19 am

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Friday morning in Wall Street research calls: Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) Started as Strong Buy at ...
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Dow Moves Back To 10,000

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 6:13 am

The DJIA is heading back to 10,000 and it may not take long to get there. The index moved into "correction" territory yesterday, down 10% from its peak. Another 1,ooo ...
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The FCC Prepares To Beat Down AT&T And Verizon, Lift Sprint

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 5:59 am

The FCC may try to undo what the free markets have done according to its annual report. It argues that the concentration in the wireless market is rising quickly, perhaps ...
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Politicians In Europe Try To Find The Details Of Austerity

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 5:28 am

Somewhere among all of those hundreds of billions of dollars in budgets from Greece, Ireland, the US, Spain, and Portugal, wasteful spending is hiding. Or, perhaps it is money that ...
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The Limits Of Science, Oil Leak At 95,000 Barrels A Day?

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 5:06 am

There is a wild divergence in the estimates of oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster. The NOAA and BP plc (NYSE: BP) estimates continue to be at 5,000 ...
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FDIC Signal Bank Industry Improvement, Hiding Scars

Posted: May 21, 2010 at 4:49 am

The FDIC Quarterly Banking Profit reports that industry net income rose to a two-year high of $18 billion. While that seems like a large number, it is spread across almost ...
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