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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Pay Czar: Did Wall Street Managers Take High Comp As System Collapsed

Posted: July 23, 2010 at 5:08 am

Pay czar Ken Feinberg will issue a report which shows that some senior managers at firms which include Citigroup (NYSE: C), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: ...
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Walmart Means To Spy On Clothing Use

Posted: July 23, 2010 at 4:47 am

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) plans to put radio chips into clothing including underwear. The big box retailer wants to know what and how much people buy  so it can order enough ...
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Media Digest 7/22/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 23, 2010 at 4:02 am

Reuters:   Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) beat Wall St.  expectations but it stock did not move. Reuters:   The pay czar will criticize Goldman Sachs Group, Citigroup (NYSE: C), and ...
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Dell Reaches Settlement, Agrees to Pay SEC $100 Million

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 5:33 pm

Today, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) announced that it has agreed to a $100 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the agency's investigation into the company's business practices ...
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SanDisk Founder Departure Clouds Mixed Earnings (SNDK)

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 5:00 pm

SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK) may have just ended its great winning streak in post-earnings reactions versus the great growth of flash memory.  The independent flash memory leader said that second-quarter ...
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Microsoft Delivers A Big Quarter, But Online Operations Lose $696 Million

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 4:36 pm

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced record fourth-quarter revenue of $16.04 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, a 22% increase from the same period of the prior year. Operating income, ...
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The Earnings Story Changes Amazon.com, Massively (AMZN)

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 4:30 pm

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has reported earnings as income increased 45% to $207 million in the second quarter to an earnings of $0.45 EPS versus $0.32 a year ago and ...
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Making Solar Modules is Not for Everyone (AMAT, FSLR, SWPRA, WFR, TSL, YGE)

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 2:16 pm

There was a time, not so long ago, when thin-film solar PV makers like Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) and First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR) had a decisive cost advantage over crystalline ...
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BP Clean-Up Now Faces Tropical Depression Three (BP)

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 2:10 pm

BP plc (NYSE: BP) may have a real "test" ahead of itself for the cap on the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.  Yesterday, a "tropical wave" was a cause for ...
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Major Earnings Previews Still on Deck (AMZN, AXP, MSFT, MOS, SNDK, F, MCD, VZ)

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 12:43 pm

Earnings season is now in full swing and we have many major market-movers that are on deck Thursday afternoon and Friday morning with key earnings reports.  Many are DJIA components.  ...
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Getting More Positive on Buffett’s Favorite Bank (WFC, BRK-A)

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 11:37 am

Banking analysts came out of the cracks in the floor this morning to be positive on Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC).  We have seen positive calls from several different ...
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Big Oil’s New Self-Regulatory Investment (BP, CVX, XOM, COP, RDS-A)

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 10:59 am

The continuing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is partly due to the lack of a coordinated response plan in the event of a well blow-out deep below the surface. ...
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Green Dot Debuts Strongly in Green (GDOT, WMT)

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 10:15 am

Green Dot Corporation (NASDAQ: GDOT) has made its debut, and made it with some cheer.  The prepaid finance company sold some 4,558,050 shares of its common stock at $36.00 per ...
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GM Buys AmeriCredit, Taking $11.40 From Every American (ACF)

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 9:42 am

General Motors must think that doing big deals after taxpayer bailouts does not apply to it in the new normal.   Will buying a finance company really help it meet ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ACF, GDOT, ISRG, MLNX, NFLX, NOK, SWI)

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 9:08 am

There are many stocks on the move this morning, most of which are tied to earnings.  The top day trader alerts and active trader alerts are being seen so far ...
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