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Monthly Archives: August 2010

The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Watch (7/30/2010): China Falls Apart, Blackberry Troubles

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 8:51 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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Mistaking Negative Symptoms for the Weak Dollar Problem

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 8:38 am

John Tamny of Forbes It's easy to worry about banks that won't lend, high unemployment, and out of controls GSEs such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  But all are ...
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Google Earth Goes To War With The Weather Channel

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 8:28 am

Accuweather, The Weather Channel and their websites have the market cornered to give consumers maps of weather patterns and forecasts. That era may be over. Google Earth has added a ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALU, AEP, ARNA, BYD, CHL, CHU, KO, CVH, SJM, FCS, GENZ, ITRI, MU, STM, TXN)

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 8:25 am

There are many big analyst calls this Monday.  These are some of this morning's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Maintained ...
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Top Dividends From Food and Your Belly (ARKR, EAT, WMK, SVU, SYY, CAG, KO, HNZ, KFT)

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 8:05 am

Dividends and income from your belly... We have decided to start taking some high-yield reviews of key sectors this week now that earnings season is past the half-way mark.  Dividends ...
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Monday Morning Market Snapshots

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 7:18 am

Stocks are firm in all major markets so far this Monday.  DJIA futures are trading higher by 0.7% and S&P futures are up 0.8%.  In Europe, the FTSE is up ...
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Time Spent On Social Networks Surges

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 5:55 am

The time that PC users spend on social networks has surged according to Nielsen. "Americans spend nearly a quarter of the time they're on the Internet from their PC, or ...
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Lloyd Blankfein–The Most Beloved CEO On Wall St.

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 5:27 am

Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) is the most highly regarded CEO of any large financial services firm by his employees. That is the conclusion of the ...
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GDP Will Finally Hit Earnings

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 5:02 am

The weak 2.5% GDP showing for the second quarter has brought dozens of new theories into the shopping bazaar of explanations about America's growth prospects. One school says that the ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 29

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 4:40 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 (8/2/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 4:02 am

Reuters:   BP plc (NYSE: BP) has made final plans to plug its well. Reuters:   The dollar index fell to a three-month low due to a slowing economy. Reuters:   Goldman Sachs ...
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Nine Big Companies That Grew Through The Recession

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 3:26 am

The recession that began in 2007, and by some accounts is only barely over now, shut down and largely reversed the growth of most American companies. Those that grew through ...
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Will BP Gas Stations In America Be Amoco Soon?

Posted: August 1, 2010 at 7:20 pm

People who drive by many BP plc (NYSE: BP) gas stations in the US throw rocks at them, which has become an expensive problem for the owners of the locations. ...
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What If Millions Of More Mortgages Go Underwater

Posted: August 1, 2010 at 6:59 pm

Alan Greenspan's mastery of  discovering the obvious is never more on display than when he examines a problem and says he has brought light to a dark corner which is ...
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The Unusual Suspects For This Week (AKAM, ALU, APP, BAC, CROX, F, GE, GENZ, RIMM, SYMC, WCRX, EZA, FFD, AFK)

Posted: August 1, 2010 at 12:13 pm

There are many major stocks to watch this coming week as The Unusual Suspects... We tried to refrain from many earnings previews as earnings season still has too many players ...
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