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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report

Posted: August 30, 2010 at 8:23 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 (AGU, BCE, CERN, LULU, TXN, ANDE, ZOLT)

Posted: August 30, 2010 at 8:21 am

It's a late-August Monday, so there are fewer analyst calls than normal.  These are some of this Monday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street ...
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Cisco May Buy Skype

Posted: August 30, 2010 at 8:14 am

The media is full  or rumors that Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) could by Skype. Cisco has a history or M&A, and Skype would fit with its move into consumer voice and ...
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The Unusual Suspects (BUD, AAPL, ARUN, CAL, UAUA, GENZ, SNDK, PAR, UNG)

Posted: August 30, 2010 at 7:53 am

The Unusual Suspects was a tad shorter than most editions due to the time of year and due to lower news flows.  We have no market-moving earnings this week.  The ...
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Gasoline Prices Plunge

Posted: August 30, 2010 at 6:12 am

Gas prices often rise  in August as Americans take to the road. The prices sometimes peak on Labor Day. The three-day weekend is the last chance to vacation for the ...
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Pay And Stress Lead US Worker Concerns

Posted: August 30, 2010 at 5:47 am

Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 5-8, 2010, with a random sample of 1,013 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., ...
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Chrysler May Shine As Car Sales Slow

Posted: August 30, 2010 at 5:28 am

Car sales will probably slow in August as the economy begins to sputter and people wait to see more of the models which will be launched for the 2011 model ...
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Economists See Better Days Ahead

Posted: August 30, 2010 at 5:01 am

Someone forgot to tell a number of the world's leading economists that the economy has begun to turn down. A panel of 242 members of the National Association for Business ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 33

Posted: August 30, 2010 at 4:42 am

The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product ...
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Media Digest (8/30/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 30, 2010 at 4:11 am

Reuters:   The Bank of Japan eased policy to fight a rise in the yen. Reuters:   Obama said the economy is not growing fast enough. Reuters:   Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) will buy ...
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10 Fascinating Countries Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You To Visit

Posted: August 28, 2010 at 1:08 pm

By DOUGLAS MCINTYRE Veteran travelers know the U.S. State Department keeps a list of countries where it is dangerous to travel. The list is updated periodically, in response to geopolitical ...
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Senior Executives Expect Recession Will Not End Until 2011

Posted: August 28, 2010 at 8:32 am

A new study of 350 senior corporate executives posted results which look like those of many surveys of American consumers. The recession is not over, and, in fact, will not ...
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Sorry Acer, the iPad Isn’t Going Anywhere

Posted: August 28, 2010 at 7:34 am

Earlier this week,  Acer Chairman JT Wang made the bold if foolish statement that the market share of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad would fall to 20 percent over ...
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Eight Of America’s Most Secretive Companies

Posted: August 27, 2010 at 7:54 pm

Secrecy is critical to more businesses than most people might imagine. Entire industries are based to some extent on the process of creating goods and services and then putting them ...
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Paul Allen’s Patent Case Against Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo (AOL, AAPL, EBAY, GOOG, NFLX, ODP, OMX, SPLS, YHOO)

Posted: August 27, 2010 at 3:38 pm

Patent wars in technology are nothing new.  Sometimes they are promising, sometimes they are just noise-making events.  Paul Allen's Interval Licensing LLC has filed a complaint today in the U.S. ...
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