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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Top Day Trader Alerts (ARNA, ARMH, BP, GENZ, GILD, FSLR, ONXX)

Posted: July 26, 2010 at 8:56 am

Many stocks are on the move for day traders and active traders this morning.  Oddly, most are not on earnings.  Some of the top percentage movers and standout stocks are ...
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Sam’s Club Exposes the Bank Bailout Lie

Posted: July 26, 2010 at 8:49 am

By John Tamny of Forbes The entrance of Sam's Club into lending is yet another example of how unnecessary the bank bailouts were.  Going back at least 100 years, most ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AEP, CEDC, CBOE, EL, INTU, KMB, PTEN, SNY, SLB)

Posted: July 26, 2010 at 8:40 am

These are some of this Monday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls: American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) Started as Outperform at Wells Fargo. Central European ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 7.26.2010 The Wisdom Of Crowds

Posted: July 26, 2010 at 8:37 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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United Arab Emirates Restricts BlackBerry Use

Posted: July 26, 2010 at 5:57 am

Social networks and search engines have been restricted by regimes that want to control access to news and manage public opinion. Now the Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry is ...
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Tony Hayward’s Firing At BP: The Ghost Of Former CEO Lord Browne

Posted: July 26, 2010 at 5:33 am

BP plc's (NYSE: BP) CEO Tony Hayward, who is about to be sacked by the big oil company, has only been in his position for about two years. That raises ...
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The Biggest Companies You’ve Never Heard Of…And What They Do

Posted: July 26, 2010 at 4:57 am

The great majority of the largest companies in America are easily identified by name by most consumers. That is because their names match one or more of their most important ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 28

Posted: July 26, 2010 at 4:32 am

The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product ...
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Media Digest 7/26/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 26, 2010 at 3:59 am

MarketWatch:   A number of economists now expect Q2 GDP to be below 2%. Reuters:   BP plc's (NYSE: BP) CEO Tony Hayward is expected to resign. Reuters:   Hayward will leave with ...
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Goldman Sachs May Face Huge Audit By Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

Posted: July 25, 2010 at 7:47 pm

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, unhappy about the efforts by Goldman Sachs Group (GS) to give it comprehensive data on its derivatives trading group, may find the information out anyway ...
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Venezuela May Cut US Oil Supply, A Reason For Crude To Rally

Posted: July 25, 2010 at 6:26 pm

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has once again threatened to cut the South American country's supply of oil to the US, according to a number of news reports. Venezuela has been ...
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White House Expects Unemployment Above 9% Until 2012

Posted: July 24, 2010 at 8:53 am

The White House's annual Mid-Session Budget Review, sent to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, shows that unemployment will not fall below 9% until 2012.The Administration has finally given in ...
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US Bank Closures Hit 103 Compared With 64 Last Year

Posted: July 24, 2010 at 7:23 am

The FDIC in conjunction with state bank authorities closed seven more banks on July 23, bringing the total for the year to 102. The cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund ...
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Looking at Genzyme’s Peers for ‘Other Buyout Candidate’ Probabilities (GENZ, SNY, GILD, CELG, BIIB, LIFE, HGSI, DNDN)

Posted: July 23, 2010 at 2:15 pm

Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ) is flying high on reports that Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) may have an interest in buying the company.  The WSJ reports that the large drug giant has ...
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Smart Grid and Energy Efficient Technologies Boost Earnings for Established Companies (JCI, HON, XIDE, WMT)

Posted: July 23, 2010 at 1:55 pm

While there are a lot of small companies vying for market share in the rapidly growing alternative energy sphere, they're not the only players in the game. Two established players ...
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