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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Unemployment/Payrolls Should Influence Voters Next Month

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 8:39 am

The Labor Department is out with the latest round of bad news on unemployment and the change in non-Farm Payrolls data for September.  September's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6%.  ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AA, AMZN, EXPE, YGE, JCP, JKS, MOT, NBIX, QLGC, SCSC, SOLF, VALE, VSAT, VMW)

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 8:21 am

Maybe everyone is hanging on for the unemployment report, but this Friday morning there are many key influential analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Alcoa ...
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China Soon To See Sovereign Rating Upgrade

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 8:04 am

Things are looking better and better for China as it is one of the key growth engines of the world.  Moody's Investor Service has placed the sovereign credit rating of ...
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Gap’s Logo Change Adding Brand Damage (GPS)

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 7:42 am

Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) has a brand crisis in the works.  Yesterday it was no winner in the move for same store sales in September at a time when many ...
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American Brands In Foreign Hands

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 6:12 am

The most powerful brands in the world, based on name recognition and earnings, usually take decades to create. The most fertile period of brand creation in America lasted from the ...
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China Telecom May Sell Apple iPhone

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 6:01 am

Today's best unfounded rumor comes from Bloomberg. China Telecom, the third largest wireless company in the People's Republic, is in talks with Apple Inc., (NASDAQ: AAPL) to sell the iPhone ...
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GM Debt Gets The Junk Rating It Deserves

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 5:54 am

S&P gave GM a corporate rating of "BB-," which put it well into "junk" territory. However, the credit agency was optimistic about some of the No.1 American car company's prospects. ...
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Social Security Sends Nearly 72,000 Checks To The Dead

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 5:25 am

A new report from the Social Security Office of the Inspector General says that the agency sent nearly 89,000 checks for $250 each to people who were dead or in ...
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Moody’s May Upgrade China As It Downgrades The World

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 4:52 am

Moody's says it may upgrade the sovereign rating of China from its current A1 level. That would put it on a fast track to match the levels of several other ...
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Media Digest (10/8/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 4:06 am

Reuters:   The federal government will supply states with $1.5 billion in funds for small businesses. Reuters:   Financial leaders around the world have begun to work to stop a currency war. ...
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Shanghai Composite Rockets 3.1% Higher

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 3:25 am

The Shanghai Composite moved up 3.1% in post-holiday trading. Resource shares rose in concert with commodities prices. Cooper and mining companies made the strongest gains Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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Good News/Bad News About The Holiday Season

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 6:16 pm

With the start of the baseball playoffs and football season, investors are starting to look past Halloween to the December holidays.  So far, they are liking what they are seeing. ...
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Micron, Where So-So Earnings Meet Deep Value (MU)

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 4:50 pm

Micron Technology Inc. (NYSE: MU) has just reported its quarterly earnings  for its quarter-end (Sept. 2, not Sept. 30) and the report was not great, but may be good enough ...
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Alcoa and the Earnings Shell Game, Actual Improvement (AA)

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 4:17 pm

Alcoa Inc (NYSE: AA) may be a master at playing the earnings shell game.  After expectations had been brought down so much, the DJIA's first component to report earnings for ...
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Microsoft/Adobe, The Rumor Mill Keeps Firing (ADBE, MSFT, AAPL)

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 3:45 pm

Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) has seen a flurry of volume today after the New York Times reported that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives showed ...
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