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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Windows Phone 7 Versus Smartphone Heavyweights, Better Late Than Never (MSFT, AAPL, RIMM, GOOG, HPQ, T)

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 12:16 pm

There doesn't seem to be too much excitement among the technorati for the new Windows Phone 7 operating system from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). The comments generally replay the "too little, ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ACTI, AIB, CIEN, COCO, GERN, ININ, KG, MEDQ, SYNA, TQNT, TXIC)

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 9:00 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Some of the most active stocks or largest ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 10/12/2010 Pfizer M&A, GAP Logo

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 8:49 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 (10/12/2010) Avon For Sale

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 8:38 am

Avon (NYSE: AVP) will be taken over by L'Oreal. (The Daily Mail) Forty states attorneys general will probe the mortgage foreclosure debacle  (WSJ) John Varvatos, the menswear label currently owned ...
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GE Expands Solar Efforts (GE, FSLR)

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 8:26 am

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is expanding its advanced solar products and services portfolio.  The new solar thin film panel, system and inverter products are said to "enhance GE’s ability ...
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Barclays: Apple To Become Most Valuable American Company At $352 Billion

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 8:21 am

Barclays has set a new price target of $385 for Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) which is 31% above its current share price. Apple is currently the second most valuable company ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AEP, AAPL, APOL, CNI, CEO, DD, FDO, FLIR, KLIC, LIZ, TKC, VZ, WYNN, YRCWD)

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 8:05 am

These are some of this Tuesday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Electric Power Co., Inc. (NYSE: AEP) Cut to Hold at Jefferies. ...
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New Economists’ Survey Says Economy Is Dead

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 7:56 am

The National Association of Business Economics cut its forecast for 2010 and 2011 growth. This makes it more likely that the Federal Reserve will as well, which could lead to ...
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Short Sellers Abandon Weak Stocks, Bet On Market Recovery

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 6:11 am

Short sellers aggressively sold off  shares of companies which have lost value over the last month, perhaps on the chance that a rising market will life all ships. For the ...
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Gap To Dump New Logo, Revert To Old

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 5:53 am

Gap (NYSE: GPS), founded in 1969 as a the Woodstock generation left Woodstock for home as the company likes to say, has succumbed to customer pressure to keep its old ...
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Women In Scandinavia Treated More Fairly Than Elsewhere

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 5:39 am

Women are treated more like men in Nordic nations,  according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2010. "Nordic countries Iceland (1), Norway (2), Finland (3) and Sweden ...
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Patients Walk Away From Expensive Drugs, Get Sicker

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 5:19 am

A study by medical industry research firm Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions reported on in The Wall Street Journal, says that people who order prescription drugs often do not pick them ...
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Wal-Mart To Sell Apple iPad, But Not Very Many

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 4:57 am

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) will begin to sell the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, which would not make much difference since the tablet is available almost everywhere else. The Wall Street Journal ...
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Google To Fund Huge Wind Farm Project, Make No Money

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 4:36 am

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will be one of the major investors in a massive wind farm project on the East Coast. It is hard to see how the search engine company ...
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Media Digest (10/12/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 12, 2010 at 3:54 am

Reuters: Asia nations have begun to guard against foreign capital inflow as currency tensions continue. Reuters:   A halt in foreclosures could hurt investors in related securities. WSJ:   Wall St. pay ...
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