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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Foreclosures Are About 25% Of Q2 Home Sales

Posted: September 30, 2010 at 5:16 am

Foreclosed home sales were 24% of all transactions in the second quarter of 2010. The average price of a foreclosed home that was sold was 26% below comparable homes not ...
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Moody’s Downgrades Spain From Aaa Rating As Austerity Protests Grow

Posted: September 30, 2010 at 4:44 am

Spain lost its precious Aaa rating as Moody's downgraded its sovereign debt one notch to Aa1. The agency said the outlook for the new rating is stable. Moody's gave three ...
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Media Digest (9/30/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 30, 2010 at 3:54 am

Reuters:   China said legislation aimed at a devaluation of the yuan violated WTO regulations. Reuters:  IPOs do poorly in the People's Republic now but can raise money from overseas investors. ...
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The Top Ten Ways Workers Waste Time Online

Posted: September 30, 2010 at 12:07 am

It is broadly assumed that American workers with access to computers spend some portion of their day using them for personal communication, gain, or pleasure. The actual wasted time and ...
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Insider Sales: Dismissing NetApp as a Buyout Target (NTAP, DELL, HPQ, ORCL, IBM, NZ, CSCO)

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 4:50 pm

Insider selling often does not usually offer any more insight than insider buying.  But when you have a hot sector that is full of rumors about who the next storage, ...
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A New CFO For Wal-Mart (WMT)

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 4:36 pm

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is getting a new CFO.  The company has an SEC filing that shows that Thomas M. Schoewe will retire on November 30 as executive vice ...
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BP’s Dudley Makes Safety Pledge With Few Specifics

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 12:38 pm

BP Plc.'s incoming CEO (NYSE: BP) Bob Dudley knows that the public is skeptical about his company's plans to create a Safety Division.  After all, the oil company has made ...
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A Loose Defense of Monsanto (MON, MOO)

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 11:35 am

Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is down and out as a stock.  At $48.50, its 52-week trading range is $44.61 to $87.06.  This was also a $120 stock as recently as ...
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New Chip Set Maximizes Efficiency of Solar Arrays (NSM, WFR, GE, FSLR)

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 11:13 am

The issue of intermittency is well-known in alternative energy circles. Solar panels don't work when the sun doesn't shine, nor do wind turbines when the wind doesn't blow. But there ...
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Meet the 2010 Gold Laggards (GDXJ, GDX, DROOY, JAG, RGLD, HMY, AUY, KGC, GLD)

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 9:52 am

Gold is a currency on fire.  Currencies are losing their value against hard assets as it seems most nations are devaluing in a race to zero.  Gold is now above ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AIG, BP, FDO, GMCR, RPRX, ZZ, SMSC, YRCW)

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 9:02 am

Active traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG), BP plc (NYSE: BP), Family ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 9/29/2010

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 8:33 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 (9/29/2010)

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 8:24 am

Updated throughout the day. Sanofi-Aventis may raise its bid for Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ). The Administration has begun to pressure American International Group (NYSE: AIG) to find a way to lessen ...
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Bill Gross Of Pimco: No One Will Make Any Money Any More

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 8:09 am

Bill Gross of Pimco may be the most widely-admired fixed income investor in the world. He is also a first rate pessimist in a pessimistic time. His most recent monthly ...
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Genzyme Set For Higher Bid? (GENZ, SNY)

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 8:02 am

The proposed merger and acquisition of Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ) by Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) is about to get interesting.  There is a building collective thought that a higher bid price ...
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