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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Consumer Credit Keeps Shrinking

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 3:18 pm

Everyone has either grown to hate credit now, or miss it because it has been taken away.  The Federal Reserve just gave a report for the month of August which ...
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Petrobras Busts The Price & Ignores Oil Trends (PBR, BP, XOM, CVX, COP)

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 12:55 pm

Crude oil has been on fire and prices were as low as $74 per barrel less than 3 weeks ago before recent highs  of $84.00.  Generally a rise in the ...
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ETF Volatility Bets for DJIA 11,000 & Unemployment (DIA, SPY, VVX)

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 12:03 pm

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was all set to see an 11,000 print this morning.  After the strongest September gains in most of our lives, the psychological level would have ...
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The Gold Mania That Never Was

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 11:43 am

Sometime in 2010, gold fever became gold mania and then a gold panic.  Now comes word from Brett Arends of the Wall Street Journal that that many investors are sitting ...
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Select Winners & Losers in September Retail Sales (ANF, AEO, GPS, LTD, M, JWN, TGT, ZUMZ, RTH)

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 9:56 am

We already knew that September was not going to be as cautious in retail sales compared to some of the summer months.  What was not known was that some of ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 10/7/2010 Gold & Jobless Claims

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 9:05 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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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ALVR, ABK, BIOF, FSLR, BLUD, ITMN, IVR, JASO, PEP, AIB)

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 9:04 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning.  We are tracking moves in Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK), BioFuel ...
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Today’s Best Marker Movers 10/7/2010 iPhone Again

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 8:55 am

Updated throughout the day Verizon Wireless will offer the Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone next year (WSJ) Man Group shares rose on takeover speculation (Bloomberg) Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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Value Search: Dirt Cheap Tech Stocks (STX, WDC, KLIC, HPQ, DELL, SNDK, MU, CSC, MSFT, INTC)

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 8:45 am

Looking for companies that are "cheap" is often a tricky situation when you just run the numbers.  Cheap stocks are usually cheap for a reason, and that reason is either ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Slight Improvement, But No Celebrations

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 8:37 am

The Labor Department is out with its latest weekly jobless claims and we saw a drop at -11,000 to 445,000, although the figures from a week ago were revised slightly ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ARMH, ASML, BAC, BBT, CROX, CHKP, FITB, GME, JPM, WFR, MTB, MON, STM, ECOL, VE)

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 7:59 am

These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley. ASML ...
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Poverty Threatens The Suburbs

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 6:15 am

Poverty is supposed to be primarily an urban problem. Many believe cities are home to the chronically unemployed and minorities and young people, who traditionally find it hard to get ...
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The World Gets To Sweat Oil Prices Again As Crude Move Toward $85

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 6:00 am

Oil prices came close to $84 today. The cost per barrel has moved up relentlessly for three weeks. It was only two months ago that light crude priced at just ...
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Panasonic Wants Back In The Video Game Business

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 5:40 am

Panasonic wants to join Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Sony (NYSE: SNE), and Nintendo as a large provider of video game consoles. It will launch a product into that market called "Jungle." ...
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China Asks The World Not To Beat The Yuan

Posted: October 7, 2010 at 5:12 am

China's Premier Wen Jiabao has told European leaders that if they join the US in an effort to devalue the yuan that all will regret the decision. "I say to ...
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