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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Media Digest 8/13/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 13, 2010 at 4:02 am

Reuters:   The GM CEO will leave as the company has its IPO. 'Reuters:   Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) sued Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) over Android. Reuters:   Germany raised its forecast for the ...
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What the Double Dip Recession Will Look Like

Posted: August 13, 2010 at 3:34 am

“Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the economy has yet to hit bottom, a sharply higher percentage than the 53% who felt that way in January,” according to a recent Wall ...
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Green Dot Sees Strong Growth In First Earnings Report (GDOT)

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 4:13 pm

Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) just reported its first earnings report as a public company.  The prepaid financial services company reported a 48% jump up in Non-GAAP operating revenues to ...
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Poll: Do Taxpayers Really Want GM IPO Shares?

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 3:20 pm

Give taxpayers a shot at GM's IPO shares! That is, assuming anyone wants the shares.  There has been an interesting development of late in the General Motors public offering.  It ...
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Texas Tries Saving Offshore Drilling From Feds (BP, APA, XOM, CVX, COP, RDS-A)

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 2:46 pm

The governor of Texas and the state's Land Commissioner have filed suit in federal court in Houston that would block the second attempt by the federal government to impose a ...
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MEMC Insider Buying Versus Active Put Options (WFR)

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 2:33 pm

Investors would much rather see insiders of companies buying up stock rather than selling it.  That is particularly true in a stocks like MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) where ...
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MakeMyTrip Becomes Top IPO of 2010 (MMYT)

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 11:48 am

MakeMyTrip Ltd. (NASDAQ: MMYT) just became the best IPO of 2010 today.  Whether that status holds is something not yet known, but the IPO priced at the higher-end of its ...
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GM IPO Has To Be Without Whitacre As CEO (GM, AXP)

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 11:13 am

General Motors has already reported earnings and is due to file its paperwork with the SEC soon for its upcoming IPO.  But things just got complicated.  General Motors announced that ...
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A Very Contrarian Defense Case (RTN, LMT, GD, NOC)

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 10:58 am

The defense sector has been under pressure as the future military spending is moving away from the giant expense items.  This week's news was that $100 billion is the target ...
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Can VirnetX Win More Patent Suits? (VHC, AAPL, CSCO, MSFT)

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 9:59 am

VirnetX Holding Corp (NYSE: VHC) is out with more patent suits and the news is sending shares higher.  After all, it has already had a major success in its patent ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AVGO, CIEN, CSCO, CREE, EBAY, EL, NVAX, VHC)

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 9:04 am

Many stocks are on the move.  Some are repeat performers of yesterday and some are new.  The top day trader and active trader alerts so far in the pre-market are ...
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Jobless Claims, More and More Pain

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 8:37 am

Weekly jobless claims are getting worse and worse.  At this rate we'll be above 500,000 per week again very soon.  The weekly jobless claims reported by the Labor Department rose ...
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Kohl’s Doesn’t Stand Up to Macy’s (KSS, M)

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 8:24 am

The earnings report from Kohl's Corporation (NYSE: KSS) was partly like the Macy's Inc. (NYSE: M) report yesterday, but the outlook from Kohl's leaves a simple observation:  Macy's is taking ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARO, AAPL, CIEN, CSCO, EMC, FNSR, JASO, GOOG, MSFT, NTAP, TLAB, YHOO)

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 8:02 am

Tech seems to be dominating the analyst calls this Thursday based on new coverage of the sector at Wells Fargo.  There were many other calls that did not make the ...
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GM Earnings Report Sets Tone for IPO

Posted: August 12, 2010 at 7:51 am

General Motors, or Government Motors, has two key data points for today.  First is the earnings report.  Second is that it is about to formally file for its initial public ...
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