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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Oracle’s Ellison Calls HP Board Idiots: The Stanley McChrystal Issue

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 7:49 pm

Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), and a founding father of Silicon Valley, took issue with the decision of the Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) board to fire chief Mark ...
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Crocs Defies The Naysayers

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 4:38 pm

Reports of the demise of Crocs Inc. (NYSE: CROX) have proven to be premature -- again. Four years ago, Crocs  seemed doomed after George B. Boedecker, the footwear maker's largest ...
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Can Ameritrade Buyback Enough Stock? (AMTD)

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 3:22 pm

TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTD) is seeing a gain today after it announced a buyback plan of up to 30 million shares of common stock.  When you consider its ...
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Is a Yen/Dollar Bubble Forming? (FXY, EWJ)

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 1:31 pm

You have not heard as many arguments for the case of deflation gathering much more steam since commodities have gone back up in price.  The only real nation with deflation ...
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Michigan Pipeline Leak Could Be Worst Ever in the Midwest

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 1:30 pm

The blown-out BP plc (NYSE:BP) well in the Gulf of Mexico was such a horrific and dramatic disaster that it nearly totally obscured a ruptured pipeline near Marshall, Michigan, that ...
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Caution Grows in Tesla as Quiet Period Ends (TSLA)

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 11:26 am

Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has seen a strange trading pattern since its IPO first came to market in June.  The quiet period has now ended and the analyst pool ...
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Goldman Sachs Revises 2010 S&P 500 Target Down

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 11:15 am

It should come as a shock to no one that major investment houses and analysts have begun to make downward revisions to the forecasts for the stock market indexes, joblessness, ...
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Skype Looking for IPO (EBAY)

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 9:41 am

Almost everyone in the world knows about Skype. After eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) sold off a majority stake to a private equity group, the company had been valued at roughly ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (DGI, HPQ, LSCC, JADE, MCD, RPRX, SKH, SWSI, YRCW)

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 8:55 am

The top day trader and active trader alerts seen this Monday are not so much just on earnings as we have seen for the last month.  There are still many ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/9/2010)

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 8:51 am

Updated throughout the day Research In Motion's (NASDAQ: RIMM) deal with Saudi Arabia over BlackBerry use is said to undermine use by younger subscribers. (Bloomberg) Whitehaven Coal rose in Sydney ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Watch (8/9/2010): HP Girl, McDonald’s Sales, BP Costs

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 8:31 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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McDonald’s Sales Explode Higher

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 8:21 am

McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) proved once again that it may be the only company based in America with growth as bulletproof as Apple's. Same-store sales for July exploded upward by 7%, ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (APC, BVF, JKS, MDT, ZEUS, PG, SKH, TSLA, THQI, VECO, WFMI)

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 8:17 am

These are some of this Monday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) Cut to Market Perform at FBR. Biovail Inc. ...
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Genzyme Needs to Update Its Merger Status (GENZ, SNY, PFE, AMGN, JNJ)

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 8:01 am

Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ) still has an incredible merger 'deal premium' associated with it over a pending Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) buyout.  Genzyme's troubles have left it vulnerable to a deal ...
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Monday Morning Market Snapshots

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 7:43 am

Stocks are mixed this Monday morning with an upside bias so far despite the negative impact of H-P affecting the DJIA.  DJIA futures are trading higher by 0.3% and S&P ...
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