Monthly Archives: August 2010

Small Business Despairs, Despite Rumors Of A Recovery

Posted: August 3, 2010 at 5:54 am

The government and most economists say that the recession is over. It ended late last year, in fact. Several recent polls of consumers show that the average American believes that ...
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Car Sales And The Financial Threat Of Incentives

Posted: August 3, 2010 at 5:36 am

July car sales will almost certainly be the best since the "Cars for Clunkers" period last September. Industry experts expect annualized figures to reach 11.8 million. That is still far ...
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Allergan: The Power Of Botox

Posted: August 3, 2010 at 5:19 am

Allergan (NYSE: AGN) announced its second quarter earnings and a dividend of $.05 a share. The company can afford it. Allergan made $242 million in net income on $1.27 billion ...
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Gulf Oil Spill Hits A Record

Posted: August 3, 2010 at 5:00 am

It now appears that the Gulf oil spill was the largest in history. A statement released by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center on August 2 says "at the ...
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Media Digest 8/3/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 3, 2010 at 4:05 am

Reuters: BP plc (NYSE: BP) will try to "kill" its well leak by today. Reuters: The Fed may buy new mortgage bonds to help the credit system Reuters: The US ...
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Exxon Mobil’s Invisible Man — Rex Tillerson

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 7:17 pm

Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) Chief Executive Rex Tillerson keeps a low profile. How low? His picture is not provided in his official corporate biography as it is for other top ...
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Amazon.com New Kindle Already Selling Out (AMZN)

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 3:37 pm

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may face many hurdles in the world of eReaders versus iPads and other tablets. You never know how many it was braced to sell and they ...
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Solar Trends: Great for Utilities, Bad for PV-Makers (FSLR, WFR, SOLF, SPWRA, AMAT, TAN, PBW)

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 2:46 pm

Solar power is great, unless you make the equipment behind all the solar power. The insatiable and endless growth in demand for solar panels and materials used to make them ...
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Will Ethanol Continue to Get Taxpayer’s Support? (ADM, ANDE, VLO, PEIX)

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 1:41 pm

The corn ethanol industry in the US has received some $41 billion in federal subsidies since 1980. This year alone, federal subsidies are expected to total about $7.6 billion. As ...
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Who Will Replace NBCU’s Jeff Zucker?

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 1:18 pm

Jeff Zucker's departure as GE's (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal CEO is among the worst kept secrets in the history of Hollywood. What remains a mystery, however, is who would want ...
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Molycorp Second Look: Great Promise, No Hurry (MCP)

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 12:58 pm

Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) has only been public three days. The company's stock debut was met with much of the same "sell the IPO" reaction by investors who secured shares. ...
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ISM: Slow Growth, No Double-Dip Recession

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 10:33 am

Manufacturing is not dead and growth is still alive. The equity markets were already higher ahead of the Institute for Supply Management this morning, but the ISM data is one ...
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Management Reshuffle Drives National Bank of Greece (NBG)

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 9:40 am

National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) is following the charge of Greek banks by recovering today on top of major gains seen from their recent lows. National Bank of ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/2/2010)

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 9:11 am

Updated throughout the day. AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and Barclays will compete with Visa (NYSE: V) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) in the online payment business. (WSJ) David Wehner ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ASF, ARNA, ABK, BAC, CRL, DISH, DRYS, GENZ, GERN, HUM, OSK)

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 9:00 am

There are many stocks on the move for day traders and active traders to pick from this Monday morning. We are watching the key moves in Administaff Inc. (NYSE: ASF), ...
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