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Monthly Archives: October 2010

SIRIUS XM Debt Refi & Subscriber Adds (SIRI)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 8:04 am

SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) is getting on the debt refinance game.  The company's XM Satellite Radio subsidiary is offering up to $550 million of senior notes that will mature ...
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Solar Stocks Run Bright, Performance Looking Tired (FSLR, LDK, JASO, CSIQ, TAN, BP, ESLR, ASTI)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 6:31 am

Is it a jinx to say that a sector has risen too much?  Sometimes, but the recent run up in solar shares ahead of earnings season is looking like many ...
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Luxury Car Companies Grow By Abandoning Luxury

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 6:25 am

Luxury car companies have begun to move down market into the $35,000 range, which is the realm of the more pricey Buicks and Fords.  It is easy to see why ...
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Banks–Bad Investments And Bad Customers

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 5:49 am

The FDIC has begun the process of the creation of a road map to show how massive financial firms should be put to death if they become threats to the ...
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Online Video–A Money Sinkhole

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 5:38 am

The use of online video has gone beyond the borders of the extraordinary. According to a new study by comScore, 175 million people watched video online last month. Americans spent ...
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Media Digest 19/13/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 4:00 am

Reuters:   Geithner says there is no risk of a global currency war. Reuters:   Hedge fund investors favor the stock market Reuters:   Oil moved above $82 as China crude imports grew. ...
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Eight Products Targeting Seniors

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 11:39 pm

The elderly are different than you and me, and it is not just because they are over 65. The habits of older Americans are, in many cases, much different from ...
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Apple iPhone 4 Screen Flaw: It Shatters Like Glass

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 7:15 pm

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has a new problem with its iPhone 4. The screen on the smartphone is prone to shattering. Warranty firm SqaureTrade claims that the iPhone 4 screen ...
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Chevron’s Warning: A Warning-Lite, With Refining Twist (CVX, XOM, COP, VLO)

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 5:43 pm

Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) is apparently neither immune to international currency issues nor to swings in the oil patch despite oil  prices being higher year-over-year. The company has issued a ...
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Pimco’s El-Erian’s Lost Decade — Is He Right?

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 4:31 pm

Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., coined the phrase "the new normal" some time ago.  Now, he is hoping to add "the lost decade" to the ...
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Intel Gives All-Clear Sign Ahead, Of A Sort (INTC, MU, AMD, SMH)

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 4:23 pm

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has just reported its Q3-2010 earnings and given an outlook for what lies ahead for the tech sector.  The processor and chip giant had already warned ...
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Value Hunt Continues: Dell MBO or Dividend (DELL, HPQ, AAPL)

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 3:24 pm

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: (NASDAQ: DELL) is seeing some unusual activity ahead of its earnings report.  Perhaps more interesting is what is causing the move.  There are a couple of rumors ...
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Earnings Guidance & Outlook To Dominate Intel Earnings (INTC, AMD, SMH)

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 2:36 pm

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is just about to be the second DJIA component to report its third quarter earnings for this earnings season.  We have already gotten a warning from ...
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FOMC Minutes Outline Quantitative Easing Circumstances

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 2:17 pm

The most recent minutes from the FOMC are out and this shows us a bit more about how quantitative easing may work. The consensus is that monetary stimulus is appropriate ...
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OPEC Looking For More Oil Demand

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 12:29 pm

In yet another sign that the no one knows for sure what's happening in the world oil market, OPEC has raised its estimate for demand growth for crude oil by ...
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