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Monthly Archives: June 2010

10 Law Schools Found Inflating Student Grades

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 10:00 am

By John Hudson Law school just isn't what it used to be. According to The New York Times, law schools across the country are inflating students' grades to increase their ...
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Petrobras Offering Delay — Latin America At Its Finest (PBR)

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 9:55 am

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras, is delaying its monster offering.  Reports from Brazil say its huge $25 billion share sale is now expected to take place in September ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ADBE, BP, KMX, CIM, MAIL, PPL, RHT, RAD, RGLD, AAXJ)

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 9:06 am

There are many stocks on the move on news for day traders and active traders this morning including Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE), BP plc (NYSE: BP), CarMax Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/23/2010)

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 8:44 am

Updated throughout the day. Video site Hulu is in talks to carry content from CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS), Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA), and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX). Lloyd Blankfein ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CVC, DPS, DIOD, UFS, DWA, EW, JKS, LULU, MWW, ONNN)

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 8:39 am

These are some of this Wednesday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan. ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 6.23.2010 The Wisdom Of Crowds

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 8:33 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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As Toyota And Honda Face More Strikes, Their Market Shares Are Threatened

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 6:01 am

At the depth of the recession when there was a falling market for new cars,  strikes were almost welcome in the US and EU. Most car companies had so much ...
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The UK Austerity Plan And A Voter Revolt

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 5:41 am

UK unions may not take to the streets to protest the new austerity budget the way the Greeks or Spanish have. Or, they might. George Osborne, the finance minister, proposed ...
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TARP: A Profit For Taxpayers?

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 5:06 am

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made a number of important observations during his testimony before the Congressional Oversight Committee. The most outstanding of these is how much money from the TARP ...
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The Fifteen Nations With The Highest Unemployment In The World

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 4:25 am

The global unemployment problem is so huge that the total number of jobless in the ten most populous nations in the world totals 1.1 billion. That is only slightly smaller ...
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Media Digest 5/23/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 3:50 am

Reuters:   Auto dealers will not be subject to new financial regulations. Reuters:   The FCC said AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) could buy assets from Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). Reuters:   Firm ...
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Number Of Millionaires Hit 10 Million In 2009, No Word On Poor

Posted: June 22, 2010 at 3:27 pm

According to the Merrill Lynch/ CapGemini "State of the World's Wealth" report, the number of high net worth individuals rose 17.1% last year to 10 million. Their total assets combined ...
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Drilling Moratorium Killed By Court, Obama Plan Rejected

Posted: June 22, 2010 at 3:08 pm

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled that the six month moratorium set for deepwater drilling would cause irretrievable loss to the plaintiffs and irreparable harm ...
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Cracks Found in Boeing 767 Engine Pylons

Posted: June 22, 2010 at 2:39 pm

Since its introduction in 1982, the 767 from Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA) has accounted for sales of more than 1,000 planes. Recent discovery of cracks in the engine pylons, which attach ...
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Apple Sells Three Million iPads–Could Be A $5 Billion Product In 2010

Posted: June 22, 2010 at 11:34 am

Apple today announced that it sold its three millionth iPad yesterday, just 80 days after its introduction in the US. iPad is a revolutionary and magical product that allows users ...
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