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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Some Good News in Solar, On A Rainy Day (SPWRA, LDK, JASO, YGE, TSL, TAN)

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 12:33 pm

Three solar PV companies reported earnings after the markets closed yesterday, and both delivered decent earnings along with cautions about the rest of the year. SunPower Crop. (NASDAQ:SPWRA) reported revenue ...
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Technical Alerts Flying in S&P and VIX (SPY, VXX, VXZ)

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 12:14 pm

The S&P 500 and the SPDRs (NYSE: SPY) as the key tracking ETF may have just found trouble on the charts this Wednesday as the DJIA is down over 200 ...
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PetroAlgae (Biomass) Raising $200 Million in IPO (PALG, FWLT)

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 11:44 am

PetroAlgae Inc.  has just filed to come public via an initial public offering.  While terms were not disclosed, the filing is for up to $200 million in common stock.  The ...
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Oil Supplies & Weak Refining Offer No Oil Gains (OIH, USO, VLO)

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 11:00 am

The Department of Energy released its weekly Crude Oil and energy inventories this morning.  Despite some supply issues being obvious, there has been no help as investors are looking to ...
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S&P Index Launch: Spreads on Gold, Oil, Stocks, and Bonds

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 10:38 am

Standard & Poor's is launching a new index series today that aims to show inherent risk premiums between asset classes and the financial markets.  This has been measured privately for ...
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AIG Hides Asset Sale Terms in AGF-Fortress Deal (AIG, FIG)

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 9:18 am

American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is still one of the most hated companies, but not so by private equity buyers looking to see what meat can picked off of ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors 8/11/2010

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 8:49 am

Updated throughout the day. India shut down Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry service (Reuters) GM earnings will rise sharply for the second quarter 2010 (Reuters) "Spyglass Entertainment was ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AONE, AOSL, ASML, CREE, LDK, SPWRA, RGNC, SATC)

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 8:48 am

There are many stocks on the move this morning for day traders and active traders.  Stocks we have seen news on with volume and price moves are A123 Systems (NASDAQ: ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Watch (8/11/2010) Trade Deficit, Yen, And China Growth

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 8:41 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 (AMAP, AVGO, BCSI, BPO, DEO, GPS, MOSY, MYGN, NRGY, SBUX, XLNX)

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 8:24 am

These are some of this Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: AutoNavi Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: AMAP) Started as Outperform at Pacific Crest. Avago ...
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Flood of Secondary Offerings Coming (AVGO, DPM, EVEP, JNPR, MOH, RGNC)

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 8:11 am

The markets are up over the last month, so companies are raising cash.  The secondary offering floodgates are opening up.  We have seen a wave of secondary offerings filed last ...
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Green Mountain Gets Larger With Lavazza (GMCR)

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 7:46 am

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) is already large, but its ties are about to get even larger.  The company has announced that it and Luigi Lavazza S.p.A have ...
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At Least A Quarter Of Home Sellers Have Cut Prices

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 7:27 am

Twenty-five percent of people with homes on the market as of August 1 have cut the prices of their homes at least once according to real estate research firm Trulia. ...
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Amazon May Push Into Tablet PCs

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 6:31 am

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) was ambushed by Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) when Jobs & Co. launched the iPad. It was close enough in price to the Amazon Kindle and had more ...
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Oil Demand Predictions Revise Up For 2010 And 2011, Maybe

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 6:10 am

The International Energy Agency has revised upward its forecast for oil demand this year and next. Demand is seen at 86.6 million barrels per day in 2010 , 50,000 barrels ...
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