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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Indian IPO Filing: MakeMyTrip (MMYT)

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 12:02 pm

There has been an IPO filing from online travel portal MakeMyTrip Limited  This is an Indian online travel company and it filed to raise up to $100 million in its ...
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Starbucks Facing Full Valuation & Chart Pause (SBUX)

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 11:35 am

Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) showed solid sales and earnings growth and boosted  its dividend last week.  Our initial take based upon the reaction to the guidance is that this turnaround ...
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Sizing Up For-Profit Education (DV, APOL, COCO, CECO, ESI, EDMC)

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 10:36 am

The for-profit education sector has seen its fair share of volatility lately. The sector seems to have settled down, but the current trend in Washington D.C. is still viewed as ...
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Consumer Confidence Poleaxed, Again

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 10:23 am

Consumer confidence will go to zero soon if it keeps falling at the current rate. The Conference Board reports that in July the figure hit 50.4 down from 54.3 in ...
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Housing Market Still Badly Broken: The Case-Shiller Index

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 9:25 am

The latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed some very modest improvement in home prices for May, but the data is old now and it likely to represent only a brief ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BP, RMBS, NVDA, RF, SANM, VLO, VECO, VLTR, ZRAN)

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 9:08 am

Day traders and active  traders have many stocks to choose from.  Some are on earnings, some are not.  The top day trader and active trader alerts early this Tuesday are ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 8:45 am

Updated throughout the day. Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ) is considering an offer from Sanofi-Aventis (Reuters) Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Goldman Sachs’s private-equity unit are negotiating to buy Harrington Holdings (Bloomberg) ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ATHN, BSFT, COST, ONE, LEA, MOS, OVTI, PCG, SVVS, WMT, ZRAN)

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 8:37 am

Analysts are moving stocks.  These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN) Cut to ...
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Money Supply Confuses Deflation’s Confused Proponents

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 8:35 am

By John Tamny of Forbes Money creation isn't the driver of economic energy as quantity theorists presume, instead it increases when money values are stable, trade free, and taxes/regulations light.  ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 7.27.2010 The Wisdom Of Crowds?

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 8:30 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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Largest Upside Stock in Big Banks (BAC, C, JPM, WFC)

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 7:44 am

Calling all major banks for upside targets! Earnings season has so far shown strong to decent bank earnings considering the recent passage of Financial Regulation and considering the end of ...
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As United Technologies Fires 1,500, As Corporate America Lays-Off Its Own Customers

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 6:08 am

There is a fiction mostly written by executive outplacement firms such as Challenger Gray & Christmas that corporate layoffs are falling sharply.  Its  survey may be incomplete, or at the ...
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State Tax Payments Rise But Several Still Face Ruin

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 5:38 am

The Commerce Department announced an improvement in new home sales for June. The figure seemed impressive compared to May, but it was still the second worst number on record. The ...
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Short Sellers Move Back Into Banks, Tech

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 5:17 am

Short sellers pushed back into banks and other financial firms during the period that ended on July 15. It may be that they sensed earnings would be weak. Or, that ...
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Yahoo! Japan To Use Google Search Technology

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 4:59 am

Yahoo! Japan will use the Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) search engine technology. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has a stake in the Japan operation, but is not the controlling shareholder. The decision ...
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