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Monthly Archives: August 2010

iPhone 4 vs. iPhone 3GS: What Apple Smartphone Users Really Think

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 9:51 am

The Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4 launched in late June and was initially heralded as one of the most successful product releases in Apple’s history. But within days the firestorm over ...
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Garmin Beats, Secular Pressure Remains (GRMN, GOOG, NOK, AAPL, TNAV)

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 9:49 am

Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) is still in this fight for perpetual relevance after earnings now that there is so much new competition that is free or close to free that ...
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Valuable Freebies From Big Companies

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 9:27 am

By Douglas A. McIntyre You could get freebies every day if you wanted to. Go to any restaurant and chances are high you'll be able to grab matches, toothpicks or ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AIB, IRE, BKS, BGP, DNDN, DSCO, XJT, FTLK, PCLN, SQNM, SIRI, WFMI)

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 8:47 am

Day traders and active traders have MANY huge movers to choose from this morning.  Some of the active stocks and large movers we are tracking are Allied Irish Banks plc ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/4/2010)

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 8:30 am

Updated throughout the day Citigroup (NYSE: C) put up its Egg online bank business (FT) Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) will launch a tablet to compete with ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AEP, BKS, BBBY, BP, CAT, DNDN, DOW, ELX, LLY, FE, LEAP, MET, PCLN, SQNM, SOLF)

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 8:21 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning: American Electric Power Co., Inc. (NYSE: AEP) Cut to Neutral ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Watch (8/4/2010) Sirius XM And BP Top Kill

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 8:14 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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SIRIUS XM Keeps Growing (SIRI)

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 8:03 am

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is trading higher after its earnings report this Wednesday morning.  The king and monopoly of satellite radio reported a 16% gain in revenues to ...
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What’s Happening Wednesday in the Markets

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 7:49 am

Our great week that started out for the month of August took a turn for the worse yesterday as the DJIA lost 38.00 points and closed down at 10,636.38.  DJIA ...
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Toyota Financial Results: What Recall?

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 5:46 am

Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) reported earnings for the quarter ending June 30--its fiscal first quarter--and the numbers were sterling even though it has recalled nearly nine million of ...
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New Tablet Competition From Motorola And Verizon

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 5:14 am

It has to be frustrating to Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) to stand by and watch the success of the Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and iPad which helps its ...
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With Three-Quarters Of Oil Spill Dissapated, BP Liability May Fall

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 4:58 am

A new government study done for the NOAA shows that only 26% of the oil spilled into the Gulf by the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe still poses a threat to shorelines ...
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Media Digest (8/4/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 4, 2010 at 3:58 am

MarketWatch:   Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) upped its full-year forecast Reuters:   BP plc (NYSE: BP) began the "static kill" of its well in the Gulf. Reuters:   Japan is worried because the ...
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Barnes & Noble: The Titanic Goes On Sale

Posted: August 3, 2010 at 7:39 pm

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), a slightly younger brother to Blockbuster in the retail industry, has gone up for sale. The book store firm's stock moved up 30% after hours ...
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Nvidia’s Bumbling CEO Has An Equally Inept Board

Posted: August 3, 2010 at 3:34 pm

Jen-Hsun Huang, the co-founder, president and chief operating officer of Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA), is reportedly a perfectionist who has little patience for screw-ups by employees.  Too bad he isn't ...
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