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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMAT, AZN, BSX, CCL, ENDP, JCG, KLAC, LRCX, LVS, MDT, MPEL, MGM, NVLS, PENN, DGX, TKC, WYNN)

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 7:44 am

These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) Started as Neutral at Susquehanna. AstraZeneca plc ...
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Hertz: M&A With A Brain

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 6:12 am

The president of PAR, which owns 7.7% of the shares in Dollar Thrifty (NYSE: DTR), told The Wall Street Journal that his fund will vote against a Hertz offer to ...
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Borders To Open 25 Temporary Stores: Hire, Then Fire

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 5:55 am

A temporary job is better than no job, until the person who has it is fired. Toys "R" Us said yesterday that it would add 45,000 workers for the holidays. ...
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American Mistrust Of Media Surges

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 5:35 am

American's do not trust the media, and this mistrust hit an all-time high in 2010, the fourth year the figure has gone higher. Fifty-seven percent of US adults have little ...
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Japan, Full Ahead For Now

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 5:12 am

The Bank of Japan's TANKAN Survey of the nation's large businesses for the month of September showed that the management at the companies polled like things as they are now, ...
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Can The US Dump AIG?

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 4:48 am

The media is full of stories about American International Group's (NYSE: AIG) plan to bring the Treasury's ownership in the company below 50%. The trustees of the firm and several ...
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Media Digest 9/29/1010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 4:10 am

Reuters:   The panel that will give advice to Obama about the deficit met but experts were concerned that it will offer few concrete answers. Reuters:   The House may approve a ...
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The U.S. Shouldn’t Punish Companies For Shipping Jobs Overseas

Posted: September 28, 2010 at 5:42 pm

Democrats in the U.S. Senate were dead wrong to try and punish U.S. companies for shipping jobs overseas.  The effort was thwarted by the Republican minority but is not going ...
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Green Mountain Game-Changer (GMCR)

Posted: September 28, 2010 at 5:34 pm

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) may have just seen a change on how investors are going to treat its growth story ahead.  The company's latest SEC filing disclosed ...
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HP Offers 2011 Revenue & Earnings Projections (HPQ)

Posted: September 28, 2010 at 5:02 pm

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) just released slightly better-than-expected guidance.  The company just noted: H-P released information about the company’s revenue and earnings per share outlook for its 2011 fiscal year.  ...
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Ethanol M&A (GPRE)

Posted: September 28, 2010 at 4:28 pm

Despite the known problems of ethanol, ethanol lives!  After the closing bell on Tuesday came word that Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRE) has entered into a definitive agreement ...
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TechCrunch Sells For $25 to $40 Million, Close To 24/7 Wall St. Estimate

Posted: September 28, 2010 at 2:16 pm

New reports say that AOL (AOL) bought TechCrunch for between $25 million and $40 million. Most estimates are that the initial payment for the tech blog will be $25 million ...
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How Much Can MGM Macau IPO Add to MGM Shareholder Value? (MGM, MPEL, LVS, WYNN)

Posted: September 28, 2010 at 2:07 pm

The end-game reward on how much MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) will add for shareholder value via a Hong Kong IPO of its MGM China Holdings Limited in Macau is ...
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Pacific Ethanol, When Debt Issuance Is Good (PEIX, ADM, VLO)

Posted: September 28, 2010 at 11:03 am

In March 2009, the five ethanol-producing plants owned by a subsidiary of Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEIX) filed for bankruptcy protection. The plants exited bankruptcy in June 2010, under ownership ...
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Sam Zell’s Solution For The Economy: Doing Nothing

Posted: September 28, 2010 at 10:53 am

Billionaire Sam Zell  has a simple idea for how his fellow Chicagoan President Barack Obama can best help the economy:  do nothing. It's not as crazy as it sounds. "The ...
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