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Monthly Archives: June 2010

More Good News for Chip Cap-Ex, This Year (AMAT, KLAC, LRCX, NVLS)

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 10:07 am

It is not often that you see industry predictions for a virtual doubling in spending, but that is what Gartner Research is forecasting for semiconductor capital equipment in 2010.  If ...
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Prediction Of A Surge In Chip Sales To $291 Billion

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 9:54 am

The Semiconductor Industry Association reports that it expects chip sales to surge by almost 30% this year, with global revenue reaching $291 billion. Its projections for growth in 2011 and ...
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Environmentalism Is the Preserve of Very Rich Countries

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 9:32 am

By John Tamny of Forbes Whatever the truth about the theory of global warming, individuals aren't born with a desire to protect the environment as much as their wealth affords ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ARMH, APWR, ALKS, APC, BP, JASO, LULU)

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 8:58 am

There are many big movers today in the day trader and active trader alerts.  Stocks on the move are ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH), A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/10/2010)

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 8:54 am

Updated throughout the day. 2:00 PM Update: Rumors that ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) is being thwarted after Davidson downgraded the stock were being unfounded... Shares are now only up ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 6.10.2010 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 8:40 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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The Jobless Claims Keep Coming

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 8:38 am

The weekly jobless claims from the Labor Department was roughly in-line with expectations as the rate came to an adjusted drop of 3,000 jobless claims to 456,000.  The reading from ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AEG, BHI, BP, K, KKD, MBT, NAV, CRM, SLB, UTHR, VIP, WFT)

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 8:27 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning: AEGON NV (NYSE: AEG) Cut to Market Perform ...
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EU President Says Current $1 Trillion Bailout May Not Be The End

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 8:13 am

Herman Van Rompuy, the EC President, said the current $1 trillion rescue package may not be th end of financial support for the region. He told Belgian magazine Trends-Tendances It ...
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The Idiots At BP: We Don’t Know Why Share Price Is Down

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 7:22 am

In a classic, "hear no evil, see no evil, speak not evil", that BP management says it sees not reason for a 16% drop in its stock prices yesterday. The ...
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Government Attacked For AIG Bailout

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 6:13 am

The Congressional Oversight Panel attacked the Treasury for two aspects of its bailout of American International Group (NYSE: AIG): "By providing a complete rescue that called for no shared sacrifice ...
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The Rich Flex Their Muscles

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 6:04 am

America's upper class has begun to return to the free spending ways that characterized their behavior prior to the recession. This may be because the percentage of people unemployed among ...
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Will China Crush Chinese Unions?

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 5:41 am

The China of Tiananmen Square has not entirely disappeared. The central government is still willing to assert control, often brutally. Last year, riots in the interior, based on a push ...
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Foreclosure Rates Settle, But At Historically High Levels

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 5:20 am

The foreclosure rate in the US is not getting any worse, but unfortunately, it is not getting any better. According to RealtyTrac, May foreclosures were 322,920. That number was a ...
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Deepwater Drilling May Surge, Just Not In US

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 5:00 am

This year it takes 86.4 million barrels a day of oil to quench the planet's growing energy needs, an increase of 60,000, according to a forecast by the International Energy ...
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