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Monthly Archives: July 2010

AT&T Gets Slammed By S&P, ‘A’ Corporate Credit Rating In Doubt

Posted: July 28, 2010 at 10:29 am

S&P may lower AT&T's (NYSE: T) credit rating, on the heels of Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) posting a widening loss. "AT&T Inc. may not be able to achieve financial metrics fully ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (APL, BWLD, DJSP, DRYS, EK, HGRD, SIMG, S)

Posted: July 28, 2010 at 8:52 am

Day traders and active traders have many stocks on the move to choose from this Wednesday.  Some of the top percentage movers and standout stocks are Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (7/28/2010)

Posted: July 28, 2010 at 8:38 am

Updated throughout the day. Yahoo! (NYSE: YHOO) is building a competitor to Facebook (WSJ) Sallie Mae may be broken up and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) may handle the transaction (NY ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (7/28/2010) The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: July 28, 2010 at 8:29 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 & Downgrades (AGCO, BP, COF, CRZO, CRDN, FSLR, GPN, MOTR, NDAQ, OAS, RSYS, WBSN)

Posted: July 28, 2010 at 8:24 am

These are some of this Wednesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls: AGCO Corp. (NASDAQ: AGCO) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. BP plc (NYSE: ...
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Apple Keeps Intel in New Powerful PC (AAPL, INTC, AMD)

Posted: July 28, 2010 at 8:08 am

If you have been keeping up with trends from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), it is no secret that the company is trying and trying to do what it can to ...
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Apple Sued Over “Overheating” iPad, As Success Breeds Envy

Posted: July 28, 2010 at 6:03 am

The Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad apparently overheats when left in the sun, which makes it like almost everything else left to bake. A suit filed in federal court in ...
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BP plc–Rebuilding A Safety Structure In An Unsafe World

Posted: July 28, 2010 at 5:41 am

The oil industry apparently did not learn much from the Exxon Valdez spill, the Ixtoc 1 Oil Well catastrophe of 1979, the Amoco Cadiz disaster off Brittany in 1978. And ...
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GM’s Volt–An Electric Car No One Will Buy

Posted: July 28, 2010 at 5:13 am

GM's Chevrolet division will start to sell the electric Volt model later this year but will produce only about 10,000 models between then and the end of 2011. Nissan will ...
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Top Ten Consumer Complaints Dominated By Lies And Poor Service

Posted: July 28, 2010 at 4:58 am

The Consumer Federation of America has come out with its list of the top ten complaints for 2009 based on a survey conducted with the National Association of Consumer Agency ...
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Media Digest (7/29/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 28, 2010 at 4:08 am

Reuters:   BP plc's (NYSE: BP) new CEO called the spill a "wake up call" for the oil industry. Reuters:   The IMF backed down on its comments about the yuan's value. ...
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Broadcom Runs Into Headwinds (BRCM, QCOM)

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 4:30 pm

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) appears to have missed the mark on its earnings report, which is now looking much less like QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) earnings last week.  There is ...
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Another Coffin Nail For Housing: High Vacany Rates

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 2:33 pm

Foreclosures and a buyer's strike may be the most visible enemies of a recovery in the housing market. Vacancy rates in homes and apartments could be just as severe a ...
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Local Governments May Slash Nearly 500,000 Jobs, Ruin Unemployment Forecasts

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 1:42 pm

The Administration said last week in its mid-year report to Congress that unemployment would remain above 9% until the beginning of 2012. That goal may be a struggle, as there ...
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Boston Scientific’s New Stent May Assist in Turnaround (BSX, ABT, JNJ, MDT, STJ)

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 12:51 pm

Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) has been a long and painful investment for thousands of shareholders who have held shares in hopes that this turnaround stock can eventually turn around.  ...
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