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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Top Active Trader Alerts (PAR, DELL, GES, MNTA, NFLX, PCBC, SCON, TRMA, YRCW)

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 8:53 am

Active traders and day traders have several big movers to choose from this morning.  Stocks on the move are 3PAR, Inc. (NYSE: PAR), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), Guess? Inc. (NYSE: ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (8/26/2010) Dell Ups Offer, Jobless Claims

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 8:43 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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When Awful Jobless Claims Looks Good

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 8:34 am

The Labor Department's weekly jobless claims fell a sharp 31,000 to 473,000 in the last week, something which which may be a relief to many hoping that the trend can ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BHP, BA, SCHW, CHA, CMED, LFC, CIT, CREE, KONG, PAYX, HTM)

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 7:59 am

These are some of this Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) Target raised overseas by UBS. Boeing Co. ...
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The Cost Of Phone Calls Is Headed Toward Zero

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 6:12 am

Skype, which offers free voice calls from PC-to-PC and cheap calls from phones has about 400 million subscribers. More than 25 million of them use the service at any one ...
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S&P To Rise To 1,500?

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 5:46 am

Many of Wall St's most well-regarded analysts still believe that the S&P 500 will rise from its current level of 1,055 between now and the end of the year. Some ...
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The SEC’s Meaningless Plan To Offer Shareholders More Power

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 5:18 am

The way that board members get elected at public companies is simple. The nominating committee of the board, often friends of the CEO, put the name of current directors or ...
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A New Round Of Corporate Layoffs?

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 4:49 am

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman cut 642 people from its ship building operation yesterday. That follows another 300 cuts from the same operation last month. The reason given was that the ...
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Media Digest (8/26/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 4:02 am

Reuters:   BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) will take its case to Potash (NYSE: POT) shareholders. Reuters:   Google In.c (NASDAQ: GOOG) will allow phone calls from Gmail accounts. Reuters:   The Bank of ...
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What About Those Job Loses From The Drilling Moratorium?

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 5:11 pm

In early June, an irate Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal fired off a letter to the White House warning that as many as 20,000 jobs would be lost over the next ...
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Labor Day Travel Increases, Airlines Remain Disappointed

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 5:11 pm

Holiday travel for this Labor Day weekend is expected to make a recovery from last year’s decline, AAA reports. The increase in late-summer vacations, which is expected to be 9.9% ...
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It’s Official: The Roubini Stock Rally

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 4:37 pm

Thank you Nouriel Roubini!  There was weakness in equities after more dismal economic data from durable goods and new home sales had stock markets weak all day.  Well, almost all ...
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BHP Fiscal Year Profit Doubles and Bid for Potash on the Front Burner

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 4:09 pm

Australian mining giant BHP Billiton plc (NYSE:BHP) reported full fiscal year 2010 earnings today of $12.72 billion, more than double the $5.9 billion the company earned in 2009. BHP also ...
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The Real Labor Shortage: Skilled Blue-Collar Workers

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 4:06 pm

As the global economy recovers and businesses around the world begin to expand their workforces again, labor shortages are bound to become a mounting issue for the developed world - ...
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General Growth Closer to Break-Up (GGP)

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 2:30 pm

General Growth Properties, Inc. (NYSE: GGP) may soon need to change its name to General Break-Up.  The mall REIT operator Spinco, Inc. (“Spinco”), has filed a registration statement with the ...
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