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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Petrobras Clears the Way to Huge Share Offering (PBR, RDS-A, REP, XOM, HES)

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 11:03 am

Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE: PBR), better known as Petrobras, has agreed to pay the Brazilian government $42.5 billion for the rights to produce 5 billion barrels of oil from government-owned ...
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Sudden Excitement in Jobs & Staffing Companies (PAYX, ADP, MWW, MAN, CTAS, KFY)

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 9:53 am

After a long period of unemployment, any upside to the jobs numbers at any point offers a helping hand to the stocks of companies that revolve around the jobs market.  ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors 9/3/2010

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 8:53 am

Updated throughout the day. Obama may extend an R&D tax credit that is set to expire (Bloomberg) Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube will have $450 million in revenue this year and ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (9/3/2010) Unemployment

Posted: September 3, 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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9.6% August Unemployment, When Bad Feels Good

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 8:40 am

The official unemployment rate for August is out from the Labor Department and the unemployment rate grew 0.1% to 9.6% as expected.  The total non-Farm payrolls was -54,000 in August, ...
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The Ten Things The Government Could Do To Cut Unemployment In Half

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 8:31 am

Unemployment, according to a number of government officials and economists, has become intractable and the August jobless rate hit 9.6% as non-farm payrolls dropped 54,000. That cannot be said about ...
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Top Active Trader Alerts (APC, BRCD, CLDX, FNSR, HRB, MAT, TTWO, ULTA)

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 8:27 am

Many stocks are on the move this Friday morning.  Active traders and day traders are likely to be watching the moves seen in Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC), Brocade Communications ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BKC, PSS, DROOY, GFI, KSP, MFE, MITL, MELI)

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 7:53 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes this morning: Burger King Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BKC) Cut to Neutral at ...
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Bernanke: Close The Banks That Can’t Cut It

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 6:19 am

During his interminable testimony before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that banks that posed a major risk to financial stability should be closed. "If ...
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Too Many Cell Phone Companies Expect Huge Unit Growth

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 5:50 am

Samsung, one of the five largest cellphone manufacturers in the world, raised its forecast for 2010 unit sales to 25 million. The South Korean company added that it expects to ...
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China Growth For Major Car Companies Slows

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 5:26 am

It may turn out that China is not the Holy Grail for multinational car companies that they believed it would be. The world's largest car market was supposed to offer ...
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BP plc Oil Spill Cost Pass $8 Billion As Claims Back Up

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 5:03 am

BP plc (NYSE: BP) disclosed that its costs to clean-up the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe have risen above $8 billion, and the company still has to fund a $20 billion escrow ...
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Family Healthcare Costs Rise, But Workers Pay For The Increase

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 4:45 am

Family health premiums rose 3% to $13,770. this year. The number seems modest but it is not for those who are insured. According to new data from the Kaiser Family ...
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Media Digest (9/3/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomerg

Posted: September 3, 2010 at 3:52 am

Reuters:   China has approached a Canadian fund about a rival bid for Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters:   The cost of Gulf clean-up hit $8 billion. Reuters:   China said that its $2.45 ...
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American’s Most Efficiently Run Brands

Posted: September 2, 2010 at 12:52 pm

The media is filled with brand lists, most of them which are based on research which estimates the value of a given brand. It is hard to connect these valuations ...
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