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Monthly Archives: August 2010

At Last, GM’s Full IPO Filing, Common & Preferred Stock

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 3:54 pm

General Motors is out with its S-1 filing.  In short, its IPO filing is now out and official.  Terms are not disclosed and the amount listed for filing purposes was ...
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Druckenmiller’s Top Stock Sale Candidates (AKAM, AAPL, CSCO, C, EOG, JPM, MCD, MYL, NFX, WFC)

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 2:33 pm

What happens when large hedge funds shut down?  They unload their holdings, at least assuming the clients say they would prefer to receive share distributions.  Stanley Druckenmiller is shutting down ...
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Gold Trends Versus Platinum and Palladium (GLD, PPLT, PALL, PLTM, PGM, PTM)

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 12:00 pm

The relationship between gold and platinum has been a tenuous one.  When things got really bad in 2008 platinum lost its longstanding premium to the shiny yellow stuff.  The market ...
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Consolidation Coming to Homebuilders (BZH, MTH, RYL, DHI, KBH, PHM, XHB)

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 10:30 am

Mergers are headed the way of smaller homebuilders.  That is the take from Citi.  The firm is looking at several companies in the sector and it featured Beazer Homes USA ...
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The Cheapest Ag Stocks After Potash For More M&A (BHP, POT, MOS, AGU, CF, IPI, CMP, SYT, TNH, MOO)

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 9:47 am

The all-cash $130.00 share, $38.6 billion offer from BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) has brought the agriculture sector to the forefront in a ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (CRDC, DRYS, JAZZ, NFLX, BQI, PTEC, POT)

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 9:01 am

Day traders and active traders have many movers this Wednesday morning to choose from.  The top alerts were seen in Cardica, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRDC), DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS), Jazz Pharmaceuticals, ...
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Shaking Off News in Solar Sector (STP, TSL, WFR, SOLR, FSLR, TAN)

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 8:36 am

We are seeing another mixed bag in the solar sector of late.  Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) earnings look soft and there was a loss after items.  Trina ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors 8/18/2010

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 8:18 am

Updated throughout the day. Jodie Fisher may have lost consulting revenue because she did not sleep with Mark Hurd of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) (various) GM may sell preferred shares as ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CSCO, CRXL, ITW, LVS, NFLX, POT, PT, SUPM, WRI, XEL)

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 8:07 am

These are some of this Wednesday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms: Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) Cut to Underperform at First ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (8/18/2010) BHP Goes Hostile With POT

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 8:04 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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Deere Momentum Stalling In Fields

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 8:00 am

Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) finds itself in a strange spot this morning.  The company blew past earnings estimates with $1.44 EPS, far above the Thomson Reuters consensus of $1.21. ...
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The Layoff Kings: The 25 Companies Responsible for 700,000 Lost Jobs

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 7:14 am

By Douglas A. McIntyre Between December 2007 (when the recession officially began) and last month, more than 8 million Americans have lost their jobs, according to the government. Of those ...
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HP Consultant Says She Lost Business For Refusing Hurd Sex

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 6:29 am

Usually sexual harassment settlements come with a confidentiality clause. That must not be the case with Jodie Fisher who had an undisclosed relationship with former Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Mark ...
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The Housing Aid Debate Goes On As Rome Burns

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 6:04 am

Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner says that the the US must keep a role in the housing market recovery as it there is one. He claims that the federal ...
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Frugality Returns To Corporate America

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 5:43 am

Several retail analysts pointed out that Walmart's (NYSE: WMT) earnings and those of Home Depot (NYSE: HD) were helped by rigid cost controls. This is not the first time during ...
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