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Monthly Archives: October 2010

Europe Wants No Part of Canada’s Oil Sands — Or Does It?

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 11:46 am

In what many will view as another instance of the regulation-happy European Union getting smacked-down, the European Parliament's Environment Committee has delayed until December 2011 a ruling on how to ...
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Bloomberg Hasn’t Found The Newest Economic Indicator

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 11:33 am

What does it mean that Aon Corp.  (AON) is getting more calls from companies for compensation consulting?  Well, according to a Bloomberg News story,  the world's biggest insurance broker  sees ...
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Massive Gains for Dividends in 2010, More to Come (CSCO, MCD, JPM, SBUX, UNH, MSFT, T, WY, AAPL, GE, MMM)

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 10:43 am

Standard & Poor's has released a very positive dividend development trend for 2010 that covers roughly 7,000 public shares that report dividend information.  It is no small sum.  The third ...
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IMF: Global Recovery Dissolves

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 10:28 am

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) says that trouble with the sovereign debt markets and a collapsed real estate market in America have undermined the global financial recovery. Based on its ...
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Top 9 IPOs of 2010 (MMYT, HSFT, CCIH, QLIK, MCP, FN, AMAP, IL, GDOT)

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 9:41 am

2010 has turned out to have some great winners so far.  Sure there are some losers, and some big losers.  But there are many winners.  Some of the top IPOs ...
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The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs in America – 2010

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 9:12 am

The value of many of the most significant blogs have increased in the past year as the economy continued to improve and advertisers were willing to pay more to reach ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (CLDX, GYMB, GERN, WFR, MXL, SIRI, TLB)

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 8:34 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this morning.  We are tracking moves in Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDX), Gymboree Corp. (NASDAQ: GYMB), Geron Corporation (NASDAQ: ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 10/5/2010 BOJ Rate Cut, Ireland Rating

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 8:32 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 (10/5/2010) IPO, PE

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 8:20 am

Updated throughout the day. Italian coffee company Luigi Lavazza will not be sold. (Bloomberg) Canadian pension fund Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec will try to sell its private ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BUD, AAPL, CELL, ENER, HD, HCBK, MSFT, MOT, NVTL, PRI, RIMM, SWIR, WAG)

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 8:05 am

These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. Apple Inc. ...
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Chevron Buybacks Might Not Matter At All (CVX, XOM, COP)

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 7:31 am

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) traded higher in the after-hours session after the company gave an update to its buyback program.  The company said that it would begin purchasing common stock ...
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A New 3D TV Without Glasses And Perhaps Without Buyers

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 6:12 am

Toshiba has introduced a 3D TV that does not require consumers to wear the odd glasses that people must wear to view movies using the technology. Many electronics companies say ...
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Amazon Raises E-Book Prices Above Paper Versions

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 5:50 am

Amazon.com (NYSE: AMZN) has begun to raise the price of some of its e-books above their paper versions. According to The New York Times, “Don’t Blink,” by James Patterson and ...
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Moody’s May Downgrade Ireland, Again

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 5:29 am

Moody's Investors Service placed Ireland's Aa2 local currency and foreign currency government bond ratings on review for a possible downgrade. That means that global capital markets investors will force the ...
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Zero Interest And Bond Purchases: The Central Banks All Look The Same

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 5:12 am

The Bank of Japan did the unexpected. It cut policy interest rates to a range of .01% and zero. That program looks much like what the Federal Reserve and European ...
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