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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Starbucks+Yahoo!=New News Service For Coffee Shop

Posted: October 20, 2010 at 5:06 am

Starbucks (NADSAQ: SBUX) will begin to offer new Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) online services as part of its free in-store WiFi plan. It already gives away some content on the network ...
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Media Digest (10/20/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 20, 2010 at 4:07 am

Reuters:   Wall St. was disappointed by Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue forecast. Reuters:   French police unblocked the fuel deposites held by strikers against auterity. Reuters:   The CEO of Research In Motion ...
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China Plans to Withhold More of Rare Earth Elements: US In Deep Trouble

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 5:18 pm

The international concern over China's cut in exports of the rare earth elements, REEs, has just been ratcheted up a notch as a Chinese government official said that the country ...
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Yahoo! Earnings Mostly Good Enough (YHO)

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 4:33 pm

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has issued its earnings.  The lagging search and online content giant reported earnings of $0.17 EPS on $1.6 billion in revenues, but traffic acquisition costs were ...
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Defending Cree After Earnings Becomes Costly (CREE)

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 4:18 pm

When you see high-growth stocks run into trouble for two quarters in a row, a stock  reclassification for investors is necessary.  That is the case for Cree Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE), ...
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Looking For Cover in Defensive Stocks (KO, JNJ, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MCD, AWK, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, CL)

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 3:10 pm

The bulls ran for cover today as commodities and financial stocks are pulling the market lower.  After two huge 'sell the news' earnings reactions were followed by even more 'sell ...
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Tale of Two IPOs: NetSpend Vs. ShangPharma (NTSP, SHP, META, GDOT)

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 2:03 pm

Overseas initial public offerings have been doing very well in the U.S.of late.  Today brought on two more IPOs, with an American IPO doing well and a Chinese offering not ...
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Two Billion People May Be Online This Year

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 1:26 pm

Want proof the world is getting smaller?  A United Nations agency estimates that 2 billion people will be online at the end of this year, up from 1.4 billion in ...
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Molycorp, Where Debt & Leverage Is Favorable (MCP)

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 12:59 pm

Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is one of 2010's top performing initial public offerings.  Usually, newly-IPO companies issuing debt or even selling shares after a recent successful IPO is a sign ...
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Palm Phones Return… Palm Pre 2, With webOS 2.0 (HPQ, AAPL, GOOG, VZ)

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 11:38 am

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) acquired Palm Inc. earlier in the year and there has been no new release, no new phones, and no new direction announced.  Until now.  H-P is ...
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As Uncle Sam Telegraphs Stake Share Sales (C, AIG)

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 11:21 am

The US Treasury will offer for sale 1.5 billion shares of Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) of the 3.6 billion shares it still holds in the bank. The sale of the common ...
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Taking Stock of Massey’s Options (MEE, BTU, CLF)

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 9:43 am

Last April's mine explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine killed 29 miners in the worst coal mining disaster in 40 years. Massey Energy Co. (NYSE: MEE), the mine's owner, ...
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Thoughts on SIRIUS XM, After Howard Stern? (SIRI)

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 9:32 am

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is down again this morning after having recently hit a high of $1.44.  The first drop had been a mixed market and profit taking ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 10/19/2010 BA, Goldman Earnings, Housing Starts

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 9:10 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 145 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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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/19/2010) Goldman Refuge, Tribune xCEO

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 8:59 am

Updated throughout the day. The CEO of The Tribune Company is about to resign (NYT) Pierre-Henri Flamand formerly of Goldman Sachs Group (GS) raised $1 billlion for a hedge fund. ...
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