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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Apple And Bank Of America: The Market In Minature

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 11:46 am

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) are a nearly perfect cameo of where the stock market is now, and where it is likely to remain after ...
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Can Big Coal Earnings Hold Up to Performance? (BTU, MEE, ACI, CNX, ANR, KOL)

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 11:44 am

The coal sector has enjoyed much of the same run that has been seen by other commodities of late.  Coal companies and commodities companies are about to start reporting earnings ...
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A Deep Google Earnings Preview and Review (GOOG)

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 10:32 am

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is set to report earnings right after the close of trading today.  With fresh industry merger rumors abound, investors and traders alike will be paying very ...
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Oil Prices Likely To Stay Below $85 (USO, OIL, OIH)

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 9:00 am

Predicting oil prices a month from now is a risky business. Predicting oil prices a year from now is close to madness. Perhaps it is fairer to say that believing ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (APOL, COCO, DV, ESI, AT, EMC, FSLR, LSTR, MGM, SIRI, YHOO, ZAGG)

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 8:52 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Some of the most active stocks or ...
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Jobs and Inflation: Two Different Tales

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 8:38 am

The Labor Department has two key reports out showing somewhat differing trends.  The Producer Price Index, ow wholesale inflation, met Weekly Jobless Claims.  Jobs are headed the wrong way and ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AGU, ALKS, ANN, APOL, PLCE, DHI, F, GHL, JPM, MSFT, MGM, PHM, STX, VOD)

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 8:15 am

These are some of this Thursday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) Removed from TD's Action Buy List but target ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (10/14/2010) Aol/Yahoo! Merger? Foreclosure Debacle & Dollar Pounded by Yen

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 8:14 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 have ...
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Apple, Dell, HP All Find Big Changes in Q3 PC Shipments (HPQ, DELL, AAPL, INTC, MSFT)

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 7:53 am

The personal computer business is changing.  In some ways the changes are better, but in many ways the changes are not good for the sector.  Gartner Group's Q3 preliminary data ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/14/2010) AOL & Yahoo!, Walmart Mini-Stores

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 7:07 am

Updated throughout the day. AOL (NYSE: AOL) has considered a buy-out of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) (WSJ) Walmart (NYSE: WMT) plans a series of small stores in big cities (WSJ) PAI ...
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Before GE Earnings: Upside in Conglomerates (BRK-A, GE, HON, MMM, UTX, SPY, DIA)

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 7:01 am

Conglomerates have enjoyed solid performance in 2010 and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is set to report earnings on Friday morning.  A market concern and a sector concern so far ...
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Communities The Recession Has Left Behind Forever

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 6:05 am

The Brookings Hamilton Project recently pointed out that some of the communities affected by the 1980 to 1982 recession have still recovered. The same is likely to happen to many ...
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Bank Repossessions Of Homes Top 100,000 For First Time, With No Solution In Sight

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 5:32 am

Bank repossession of homes passed 100,00 for the first time in September, according to industry research firm RealtyTrac. A record total of 102,134 bank repossessions were reported for the month. ...
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Airlines Will Have Record Profits For The Third Quarter

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 4:55 am

AirlineFinancials.com estimates the nine largest US airlines, starting next week, will collectively report $2.4 billion in profits from $33.3 billion in revenues. The average net profit margin is 7.2%. Assuming ...
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Toxic Toys: Who Inspects Them? Wal-Mart? Not Likely

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 4:51 am

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) continues to sell a number of products which contain high lead levels and some of these are toys. The same is true about children's products sold by ...
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