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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Media Digest (9/22/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 22, 2010 at 4:01 am

Reuters:   White House adviser Larry Summers will leave. Reuters:   There is more support in Washington to press China hard on the yuan. Reuters:   The prime minister of Japan said its ...
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IRS Possibly Issues $1 Billion Worth Of Bogus Refunds

Posted: September 22, 2010 at 3:20 am

The sad state of the IRS's computer networks has been documented in government reports for years.  Now, as the federal government's deficit balloons past $1 trillion, the notion that the ...
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BlackBerry Maker To Launch Tablet PC

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 7:33 pm

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), maker of the iconic BlackBerry smartphone, will launch its own tablet PC, presumably to compete with the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, according to The ...
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White House Man Larry Summers To Return To Harvard, Site Of Former Glory

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 7:02 pm

Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the National Economic Council, will leave The White House later this year to return to the place of his former glory--Harvard University. He was ...
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Individual Investors Like Stocks Again — Reallly

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 4:19 pm

Are happy days here again?  That's the implication of a report from Bespoke Investment Group LLC, which argued that individual investors may be returning to stocks. Bespoke found that there ...
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Federal Reserve Sees Slowing, Refuses To Panic

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 2:24 pm

The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee notes were issued today and the agency said the economy was once again in nearly dire straights. "The pace of recovery in output and ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report: Housing Starts Rise

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 8:55 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 ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AAPL, CAG, GXDX, MMYT, SNDK, TNAV, TSTR, VVUS)

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 8:35 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to focus on this morning.  We are watching key moves in shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), ConAgra Foods (NYSE: CAG), Genoptix, ...
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The Dollar Is Cheap, Gold Is Not Expensive

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 8:34 am

By John Tamny of Forbes Not surprisingly gold has hit an all-time high amid a bipartisan rush among politicians to name China a "currency manipulator".  These are the same clueless politicians who want ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/21/2010)

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 8:31 am

Updated throughout the day. China's SAIC is still considering an investment in GM (various) The head of Unicredit will leave. (various) Hedge fund Brevan Howard will open an office in ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AIB, STD, OFC, CS, DNDN, JASO, MU, POT, RAX, SFSF, SNDK, UBS)

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 7:38 am

These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Allied Irish Bank plc (NYSE: AIB) Cut To Neutral From Buy By ...
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Airline Industry Expects Huge Profits

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 7:21 am

Airlines will make mammoth profits this year. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) revised its forecasts for the global industry higher--to $8.9 billion. In June, its forecast was only $2.5 ...
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Apple’s New iPad: Turning Customers into Lemmings (AAPL)

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 6:49 am

How on earth does Steve Jobs get away with it?  The latest and greatest talk of the technology world recently is that a newer version of the iPad that will ...
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America’s Biggest Companies, Then and Now (1955 to 2010)

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 6:46 am

Today's corporate America is dominated by service companies, tech firms, and huge retailers which have thousands of locations and hundreds of thousands of workers. At the end of the decade ...
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What Does Ron Burkle See In Barnes & Noble?

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 6:17 am

Ron Bukle's fierce battle for Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE:  BKS) is  baffling for many reasons.  The biggest mystery is why he is bothering at all. Barnes & Noble's prospects ...
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