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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Media Digest (10/14/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 4:01 am

WSJ:   Private equity interests and AOL (NYSE: AOL) may make a bid for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). Reuters:   RealtyTrac said the number of homes taken by foreclosure topped 100,000 for the ...
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Loose Lips Alert: AOL and Private Equity For Yahoo!? (AOL, MSFT, AOL, GOOG, BX, INET)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 7:19 pm

Loose lips sink ships.  Maybe mergers are not as secretive as discussing military secrets, but the world of M&A and private equity has some new buzz: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) ...
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SIRIUS XM… A Hell of a Debt Restructuring Job (SIRI)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 6:54 pm

Some management teams know how to work the system better and to take advantage of opportunity in the land of junk bonds better than others.  Take a look at the ...
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Tough Times To Continue for Apollo and For-Profit Educators (APOL, DV, ESI, STRA)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 4:49 pm

If there is a sector under fire after insurance and banking, it is for-profit education.  Shares of the for-profit universities and for-profit continuing education companies have seen their stock prices ...
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Meet the Chilean Miners’ Rescuer: Layne Christensen (LAYN)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 2:16 pm

The 33 trapped Chilean miners are finally being rescued.  Images on TV are showing elated miners being pulled up the deep mine shaft through a two-foot narrow hole via a ...
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ETF Trends… Bubble in Agriculture? (MOO, POT, MON, ADM, MOS, BHP)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 1:42 pm

Higher ethanol, potash demand, ag-super-mergers, surging food prices... and now an ETF crossing the $2 billion in assets mark.  You have to ask if a bubble is being formed in ...
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IEA Joins OPEC in Higher Oil Demand Forecast

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 12:06 pm

Another day, another forecast for crude oil demand. Yesterday, OPEC issued its monthly oil report forecasting demand of 85.59 million b/d for the full 2010 calendar year. The cartel also ...
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Unloading MGM (MGM)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 10:25 am

MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) has been under pressure this morning on news that Kirk Kerkorian and the company were selling shares in a secondary offering.  The secondary offering priced, ...
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Intel Doesn’t Fear Competition from Tablets (INTC, AAPL, MFE, IFNNY, ARMH)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 10:18 am

In its third quarter earnings report, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) posted better than expected EPS and revenues, but the company had already lowered the bar in August. The chip giant ...
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Big Stock Losers That May Be Winners

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 9:55 am

When MarketWatch recently posted a list of the biggest stock losers so far this year, many investors probably decided to avoid them like the plague.  That would have been a ...
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Apple’s New Feat: $300 Stock Price (AAPL)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 9:05 am

It was just yesterday that Barclays joined in on the upgrading of targets for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) on earnings season with a call that it could become the most ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (10/13/2010) JP Morgan Beats, China Trade

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 9:01 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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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/13/2010)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 8:51 am

Updated throughout the day. Blackstone is buying debt stakes in hotels. (WSJ) Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) will try to sell $5 billion in spectrum to raise capital (Bloomberg) Warren Buffett and ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ALU, ALKS, CLWR, CSX, DRYS, INTC, JPM, LLTC, MXIM, MGM, NLST, PLAB)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 8:49 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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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ALU, ALL, AMZN, AU, CA, CHKP, COST, GE, HON, KEY, MYGN, PCLN, SIX, SFD, MMM, TYC, UTX)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 8:19 am

These are some of this Wednesday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) ...
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