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Monthly Archives: September 2010

National Employee Morale Day At Fedex

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 9:24 am

Fedex (NYSE: FDX) said it would cut 1,700 people. The announcement was made as part of the air freight company's earnings release. The firm reported earnings of $1.20 per diluted ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (9/16/2010) Fedex, Jobless Claims

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 9:09 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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Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/26/2010)

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 8:58 am

Updated throughout the day. Alibaba may seek the shares that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) holds in its company (MarketWatch) Elizabeth Warren will be the first head of a new consumer advocacy ...
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Pre-Market Active Trader Alerts: Cellular Tissue (CLU) Up 57%

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 8:14 am

These are issues active before the bell. Fedex (NYSE: FDX) is off 3% to $83.14 on new that earnings were weaker than expected. The freight firm will cut 1,700 jobs. ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades And Downgrades (NOK)(F)(NFLX)

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 7:48 am

Barclays raised Ford (NYSE: F) to "overweight" from "equal weight" with a $16 target. Credit Suisse upgraded NetFlix (NASDAQ: NFLX) to "neutral" from "underperform" Morgan Stanley downgraded BT Group from ...
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Greece Will Not Default–Ever, Maybe

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 6:21 am

Greece will never default on its sovereign debt. That is, at least what Greece’s finance minister George Papaconstantinou says. His argument has less to do with his nation's precarious situation ...
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America’s Love Affair With Housing Begins To Disappear

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 6:09 am

The attitude among American when it has come to owning a home has changed radially, according to Fannie Mae. "A majority of Americans (67 percent) continue to believe that buying ...
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Apple’s Downfall, Android Sales

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 5:39 am

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is no longer the major challenge to the sales of Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-powered smartphones are. New data from ...
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New “Halo” Sales Hit $200 Million On Day One

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 5:21 am

Sales of Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT)new "Halo: Reach" video game reached $200 million on the first day it was available. The world's largest software company expects sales of the game to ...
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Home Foreclosures Soar, Again

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 5:00 am

Home foreclosures remained high again in August, as might have been expected given recent news on home prices and housing sales. According to RealtyTrac, foreclosure actions were reported on 338,836 ...
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Media Digest (9/16/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 3:54 am

Reuters:   Japan says it is ready to move into the forex market to support the yen. Reuters:   George Soros says that China was the big winner coming out of the ...
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The History Of What Things Cost In America: 1776 to Today

Posted: September 16, 2010 at 12:21 am

The cost of living in America has gone up about fifteen fold since the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. Of course, not all prices have risen at the ...
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Why America is Losing Its Innovative Edge

Posted: September 15, 2010 at 2:11 pm

As the world economy entered its worst decline since the Great Depression, corporations were less interested in  innovating.   Now, as the economy begins to recovers  U.S. corporations are in ...
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When Japanese Yen Intervention Runs ETFs (FXY, UUP, UDN, GLD, SGOL, SLV)

Posted: September 15, 2010 at 11:57 am

After seeing headlines "The Yen at Multi-Year Highs Against the Dollar" for days, we finally saw a sudden change.  Japan intervened on its currency to prop up the US Dollar.  ...
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Chase Closes Website Again

Posted: September 15, 2010 at 11:31 am

The Chase e-commerce website, chase.com, is shut down completely again "Due to scheduled system maintenance out site is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later"--www.chase.com. After a short period when the ...
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