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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Media Digest 6/2/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 2, 2010 at 4:03 am

Reuters:   The prime minister of Japan resigned. Reuters:   American International Group (NYSE: AIG) may have an IPO for AIA. Reuters:   Apple Inc.s  (NASDAQ: AAPL) Steve Jobs finds suicides at Foxconn ...
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The Oldest Public Company CEOs

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 10:03 pm

The official retirement age for executives at many large U.S. corporations has  been 65 for several decades - unless the executive also happens to be the founder. Forty years ...
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Global Financial Crisis Risks Move From Credit To Politics As Japan’s Prime Minister Resigns

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 9:34 pm

The causes of the global financial crisis of 2008 were almost entirely flaws in the credit system based on leverage, exotic financial instruments, and a sharp drop in American ...
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Uranium Miners Get Some Good News and Some Bad

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 2:27 pm

Last week, USEC Inc. (NYSE:USU) announced a $200 million investment from Toshiba Corp. and Babcock & Wilcox that would be spread out over three phases. Each of the investors will ...
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As Metals ETFs Expand (PPLT, PALL, PHYS)

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 1:23 pm

The ETF universe for metals is getting larger in new assets.  ETFS Physical Platinum Shares (NYSE: PPLT) and ETFS Physical Palladium Shares (NYSE: PALL) are getting larger via share sales.  ...
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Middle East Oil Troubles Could Lead To Lower Prices

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 11:36 am

Prices for crude oil fell below $74/b this morning as crude oil continues wobbling downward after hitting a high of around $87/b in early May. Conflicting signals from the Middle ...
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6 Reasons We Can’t Fix The Oil Spill

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 11:33 am

By Max Fisher of The Atlantic Wire The much-vaunted "top kill" attempt to stop the worst oil spill in U.S. history has failed, adding yet another failure to the joint ...
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BP Isn’t Obama’s Crisis, Katrina Shouldn’t Have Been Bush’s

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 11:29 am

By John Tamny of Forbes It doesn't require a law degree to understand that all the bashing of President Obama over BP, much like President Bush was criticized for Hurricane Katrina, is a ...
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7 Stocks For The Great Value Hunt (MRK, LLY, EXC, NOC, LLL, NLY, NEU)

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 9:25 am

Stocks may have bounced from their lows and gone lower of late, but there are still many down and out value stocks out there where shares may have been overly ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/1/2010)

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 8:52 am

Update throughout the day. Radio Shack (NYSE: RSK) is for sale and the top bidder is Blackstone Group (NYSE: BSX) (NYPost). Several large banks in Spain are about to merge ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AIG, BP, EVVV, RSH, IRE, AIB, NBG)

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 8:51 am

Today's day trader and active trader alerts are not at all based on earnings, yet we have many key movers early this Tuesday morning: American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 5.28.2010 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 8:39 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 ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AIB, CCE, CSX, GR, HAL, KALU, LVS, NDAQ, NSC, PCLN, UNP, PANL, V)

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 8:34 am

These are some of the top analyst calls seen with upgrades and downgrades in Wall Street research notes this Tuesday morning: Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) Raised to Buy ...
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National Employee Morale Day At Hewlett-Packard

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 8:14 am

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), one of the world's largest tech companies, will lay-off 9,000 people as it tries to boost the productivity of its biggest unit--enterprise services. The operations is about 25% of ...
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China Growth Slows Now, And Europe May Worse Trend

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 5:56 am

The two primary signs of China's manufacturing expansion showed weakness in May. The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing managers index dropped to 53.9 last month compared with 55.7 in ...
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