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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/4/2010)

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 9:19 am

Updated throughout the day. Update 1:45 PM EST: Tellabs Inc. (NASDAQ: TLAB) is at risk of losing much of its AT&T business due to vendor consolidation (Barclays research downgrade). Shares ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BIDU, EPAY, CETV, NUS, OMNI, RCMT)

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 9:12 am

Today is almost nothing to do with earnings and some of these moves may be more due to jobs data being poor rather than stock news.  Stocks on the move ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 6.4.2010 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 9:09 am

SJ 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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Only Job Creation From Uncle Sam’s Head Counters at Census

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 8:48 am

A disaster... That is all that can be used to describe (politely) the May jobs data.  The unemployment rate came out as an official 9.7%, meeting estimates.  But the non-Farm ...
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Could Dell Really Go Private? (DELL, HPQ, AAPL)

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 8:34 am

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is a lost company by the count of many investors.  Gone are the hay-day gains of the company with new PC's selling like hotcakes as everyone ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (MCD, NLC, PUK, PXD, RIMM, STP, STM, YUM, X, WEN)

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 8:14 am

These are ten of this Friday morning's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) Started as Positive at Susquehanna. Nalco Holding ...
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Key To May Jobs Report: Ignore Census Hiring

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 6:05 am

Consensus estimates are that there were 520,000 to 540,000 jobs created in May, the largest gain in 27 months. About 400,000 of those were due to temporary jobs created by ...
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ICSC: Retail Sales Up 2.6% In May

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 6:00 am

The retail shopper may be running low on steam. The ICSC says its data shows that retail sales were up only 2.6% in May. Tight credit, a flight to savings, ...
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Barnes & Noble, Hurt By Kindle, Offers Incentive

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 5:53 am

There are many estimates of the size of the e-reader market and which companies have the most market share. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) claims it has sold "millions of Kindles" and ...
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Ballmer’s Defense Of The PC Supported By Facts

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 5:25 am

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer says the future of the Windows operating system for PCs is bright. History is on his side, but is Wall St.'s perception of the ...
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McDonald’s Recalls 12 Million “Shrek” Glasses

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 5:08 am

McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) describes its collaboration with the producers of the animated "Shrek" movie, which appeals to youngsters, as a way "to encourage kids around the world to make balanced ...
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Walmart To Aid Employees To Get College Educations

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 4:44 am

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) plans to help 1.4 million of its US workers to get a higher education. The company announced that "Walmart’s Lifelong Learning Program will make it more convenient ...
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Media Digest 6/4/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 4, 2010 at 3:48 am

Reuters:   More doubts about the global economy arose as the G20 prepares to meet. Reuters:   American International Group (NYSE: AIG) is not sure about the future of AIA. ...
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Oil Spill May Move Up the Atlantic Coast

Posted: June 3, 2010 at 4:32 pm

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has put together computer models that show the slick from the Deepwater Horizon leak reaching the East Coast and well into the Central ...
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The Oil Spill And A Storm Surge

Posted: June 3, 2010 at 4:00 pm

The federal government has not made public any forecast of what would happen if a storm the magnitude of Katrina occurred over the next two months and the Deepwater ...
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