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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Media Digest 7/18/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 19, 2010 at 3:58 am

Reuters: Moody's downgraded Ireland's debt. Reuters:   Engineers detected seepage  around the capped BP well. Reuters:   The National Association for Business Economics says companies will begin to hire again but the ...
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The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead (AAPL, BP, CROX, GE, GOOG, OREX, SWY, SD, VVUS, VOCL, CALL, VG)

Posted: July 18, 2010 at 11:56 am

This weekend's edition of The Unusual Suspects includes mostly non-earnings events that will be on deck this coming week and/or some of the carry-over issues from last week.  Our list ...
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Motorola Droid X Sold Out

Posted: July 17, 2010 at 9:24 am

Consumers who want to buy a new Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Droid X from Verizon Wireless may want to buy an Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4 instead, even if it ...
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Airlines Set To Fly To Near Record High Revenues For Second Quarter

Posted: July 17, 2010 at 8:59 am

Starting with Monday's 2nd quarter earnings release by Delta (NYSE: DAL) and ending on July 29thwith Southwest (NYSE: LUV),AirlineFinancials.com estimates the nine largest US airlines will report an accumulated $1.77 ...
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Six Banks Fail As Total Nears 100

Posted: July 17, 2010 at 7:00 am

Six more American banks failed. The FDIC and state bank authorities took over each one and sold the assets off to other firms. The tally of banks that failed this ...
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Next Week’s 11 DJIA Component Earnings On Deck (IBM, JNJ, KO, UTX, MMM, T, TRV, AXP, MSFT, MCD, VZ, DIA)

Posted: July 16, 2010 at 3:30 pm

This week brought about 5 of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average components that have reported earnings this earnings season.  We have a mixed fanfare so far, but next week ...
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Smart Grid Challenges and Opportunities (CEG, CNP, DUK, NEE, PGN, EXC, HON, ED, WHR, GE, ELON, MTZ, GRID)

Posted: July 16, 2010 at 2:30 pm

Of the $787 billion federal stimulus bill passed in 2009, more than $3.4 billion was targeted at modernizing the US electricity transmission and distribution systems and promoting investments in smart ...
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Jobs iPhone Fix Speech Pushes Apple Higher On Offer Of Rubber Phone As Market Drops 2.5%

Posted: July 16, 2010 at 2:20 pm

Steve Jobs is an excellent public speaker. He proved that again when he defended the issue of reception problems with the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4. Apple's stock is up ...
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Airline Earnings Hit Runway Next Week (CAL, UAUA, DAL, AAI, AMR, LCC, ALK, JBLU, LUV, FAA)

Posted: July 16, 2010 at 2:06 pm

Continental Airlines, Inc. (NYSE: CAL) may still be trying to score on its UAL Corporation (NASDAQ: UAUA) merger, but earnings season features almost every major airline next week.  The news ...
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Mixed Picture in Oil Rig Counts (BHI, OIH, USO)

Posted: July 16, 2010 at 1:16 pm

With all of the trouble in drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, we wanted to look at the most recent weekly rig count data just released from Baker Hughes Inc. ...
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Rethinking Apple Earnings Strategies (AAPL, ADBE, MSFT, GOOG, AMZN, INTC, T, VZ)

Posted: July 16, 2010 at 11:28 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is starting to feel the heat in the aftermath after having become the biggest and best for new hot products along with a cult stock following.  ...
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Consumer Confidence Collapses As “Recession” Returns

Posted: July 16, 2010 at 11:11 am

The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index plummeted to 66.5 from 76.0 in June. That was below market expectations for 74.5, according to the news service. The number ...
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Trouble in Oil Spill Clean-Up Shares (BP, CLH, NLC, NR, MOPN)

Posted: July 16, 2010 at 10:43 am

BP plc (NYSE: BP) managed to get a cap on the well disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.  Pressure continues to build and it is unknown if the cap will ...
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Honda Going Green with Hybrid-only Civic

Posted: July 16, 2010 at 10:21 am

There hasn't been an official announcement yet, but it seems that Honda Motor Co. (NYSE: HMC) will stop building its gasoline-powered Civic for the domestic Japanese market. The company will ...
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Foreign Purchase Of US Assets Wither

Posted: July 16, 2010 at 9:31 am

The U.S. Department of the Treasury released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for May 2010. From the data: Net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $35.4 billion. * Net foreign ...
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