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Monthly Archives: August 2010

China Cuts US Treasury Holdings By Record Amount

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 5:45 am

For those who believe that China will eventually use its holdings in long-term US debt to pressure America to keep open trade and not press too much on the value ...
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Harvard Ranks First Among US Universities For Good Reason

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 5:21 am

Harvard ranked first among American universities in the US News poll of national universities. And, well it should. The college has produced eight US presidents, and a number, including Obama ...
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Media Digest 8/17/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 17, 2010 at 4:23 am

Reuters:   The GM IPO is about to be filed. Reuters:   Several members of the Senate want the FCC to push ahead with its own internet rules and not rely on ...
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Berkshire Hathaway & Buffett’s Latest Stock Holdings ‘S to Z’ (BRK-B, BRK-A, SNY, TIF, TMK, USB, USG, UPS, WMT, WPO, WFC, WSC)

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 5:12 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on June 30, 2010. These have been broken down into 3 groups of ‘A to ...
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Berkshire Hathaway & Buffett’s Latest Stock Holdings ‘H to R’ (BRK-B, HOG, HD, IR, IRM, JNJ, KFT, LOW, MCO, NRG, NLC, NKE, PG, PG, RSG)

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 4:54 pm

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on June 30, 2010.  These are Buffett’s most recent holdings, even though some ...
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Berkshire Hathaway & Buffett’s Newest Stock Holdings A to G (BRK-B, BRK-A, AXP, BAC, BDX, KMX, KO, CMCSA, CDCO, COP, COST, XOM, FISV, GCI, GE, GSK, GS)

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 4:32 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of June 30, 2010.  Some may have changed slightly since the ...
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Carl Icahn Gets More Into Energy Stocks (BP, CHK, APC, ESV, NRG)

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 3:20 pm

Carl Icahn is known for many things, particularly when it comes to shaking companies up.  A theme throughout Icahn's newest holdings as of June 30 was an increase in the ...
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Credit Metrics Continue to Improve at AmEx (AXP)

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 1:26 pm

American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) is continuing to see better credit trends among its card holders.  The borrowers who were at least a month behind fell to 2.6% in July ...
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New Round of M&A in Ag and Potash (AGU, CF, POT, MON, MOS)

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 12:15 pm

Canadian agribusiness giant Agrium Inc. (NYSE:AGU) lost out on its bid for CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CF) earlier this year, and CF went on to acquire Terra Industries for $4.6 ...
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BlackRock Goes on Watch Lists (BLK, BAC, GS, BX)

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 12:02 pm

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) shares are lower on WSJ reports that Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) may look to unload its 34% (approximate) stake in the money management giant.  ...
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Home Sentiment Is Crushed

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 10:16 am

Home builder confidence was crushed this month and cam in well below analyst estimates. The numbers from the National Association of Home Builders reported that the Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (PAR, ASIA, AT, CTIC, CNAM, COCO, ONP, SYUT, STRA)

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 8:48 am

Day traders and active traders have many movers this morning to choose from.  The top alerts were seen in 3PAR, Inc. (NYSE: PAR), AsiaInfo-Linkage,Inc. (NASDAQ: ASIA), Atlantic Power Corporation (NYSE: ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/16/2010) Goldman Undermines Rivals, Hurd Angers HP Board

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 8:31 am

Updated throughout the day. The board of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) was angered when Mark Hurd made a private deal to settle sexual harassment charges made by a consultant (WSJ) Many ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ATML, AEG, CNP, CHK, COCO, DYN, EM, NE, RIMM, TDC)

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 8:18 am

These are some of this Monday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms: Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) Cut to Market Weight at FBR. ...
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Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (8/16/2010): China Growth, Japan Shrinks

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 8:17 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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