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Monthly Archives: August 2010

What If There Is No GM IPO? Breaking Up The Car Company

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 5:22 am

There are rumors that GM will delay its IPO and others that it will sell preferred stock along with common. The need to sell preferred is a sign that GM ...
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Dell Shareholders Turn Against Michael Dell

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 4:58 am

The Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) board of directors must have adopted the philosophy that firing Michael Dell will not bring back the tens of billions of dollars that the company's market ...
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Media Digest 8/18/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg: BHP Bid Goes Hostile

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 4:08 am

Reuters:   BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) has begun an attempt at a hostile deal for Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters:   A female contractor of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) said she lost work because ...
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GM’ Recall Impact for its IPO

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 4:38 pm

General Motors will be filing its IPO paperwork shortly.  It could come literally any hour now.  Today's news of a recall may only be an asterisk in the grand scheme ...
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A Research Case Builds Against Google (GOOG, MSFT, YHOO, AAPL, RIMM, ORCL, VZ)

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 3:03 pm

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) earned an 'underperform' rating and a $525/share price target from Wedbush Securities as the investment firm started coverage on the world's leading search engine. Wedbush cited strong ...
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Minn Fed Chief: Unemployment Will Stay Very High

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 12:48 pm

The heads of the regional Federal Reserve banks are thinkers, but they may not be doers. Narayana Kocherlakota, the President Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said today that "unemployment will ...
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THQ’s uDraw, A Page Out Of Apple’s Playbook (THQI, AAPL, NTDOY)

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 12:42 pm

THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) may have just taken a page out of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) playbook.  By creating demand where there has been none, this could be a ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (POT, CAGC, SEED, FISV, MNKD, PEIX, PTV, RIMM, RICK, TOO)

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 8:58 am

Many stocks are on the move this Tuesday.  Our top day trader alerts and active trader alerts are seen in Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc. (NYSE: POT), China Agritech, Inc. ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/17/2010)

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 8:41 am

Updated throughout the day. GIC Real Estate, the real-estate arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp plans an IPO (NYT) Spain's Santander has renewed talks to merge its U.S. ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (8/17/2010) Walmart Improves, Potach Rejects

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 8:27 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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Top Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades (MMM, AEG, AGU, ATHN, BHI, DLTR, FLIR, HON, MOS, OTEX, TGT)

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 8:14 am

These are some of this Tuesday's top research calls with upgrades. downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street analysts: 3M Co. (NYSE: MMM) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. Aegon NV ...
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Walmart: Time To Spin Out International Ops

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 7:51 am

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) posted pathetic US numbers, but was saved by its international group as it posted good earnings and revised its forecast for the year upward. Walmart reports second ...
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Potash & Ag Merger Offer Changes Sector Valuation Models (POT, BHP, MON, MOS, AGU, CF, IPI, MOO)

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 7:47 am

Agriculture and potash investors had one small deal to consider yesterday, but today investors have the mother load to consider.  Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) has rejected an unsolicited ...
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The Fed Asks Banks To Stop Screwing Customers

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 6:24 am

The US, unlike other nations, at least asks its lending institutions to abuse their customers as little as possible The Fed's latest directive is that banks should not let mortgage ...
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Past Due Mortgages Become More Past Due

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 6:08 am

Two studies--one by Deutsche Bank and the other by TransUnion-show that mortgages with payments that are past due for 60 and 90 days have risen sharply. The Deutsche Bank data ...
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