Monthly Archives: October 2010

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ALL, AOL, AZPN, STD, BPO, DRWI, JCP, K, M, MPEL, MSFT, OCR, PVH, PTP, UAL, VOD)

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 8:06 am

These are some of this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. AOL Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Big Risks in Genzyme As Sanofi-Aventis Bid Goes Hostile (GENZ, SNY)

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 7:49 am

The Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) acquisition attempt of Genzyme Corp. (NASDAQ: GENZ) is taking a turn in a strange direction. The company is holding out for more than the $69.00 cash ...
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Stunning Oil Rally Moves Crude Back To $82 On 16% Recent Rise

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 6:06 am

Crude oil traded just above $70 a barrel in late August. That was its 52-week low. It has rallied 16% since then, and the rally may not have ended. There ...
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Carol Bartz: Yahoo! CEO For Life

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 5:45 am

Carol Bartz, the CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), is supposed to be fired this week, this month, or later this year, according to a number of media outlets. The reason ...
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Individual Investor Leaves The Market? He Is Just Asleep

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 5:18 am

Almost every piece of data on major market volume shows that the number of shares traded on an average day continues to drop. There are a great number of guesses ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 39

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 4:45 am

The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product ...
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Media Digest 10/4/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 4:05 am

Reuters: The American Sociology Review said a group of mortgages aimed at racially segregated neighborhoods helped cause the mortgage crisis. Reuters: Sanofi-Aventis made an $18.5 billion offer for Genzyme (NASDAQ: ...
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The Best and Worst Run States In America: A Survey of All Fifty

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 12:30 am

How well run are America's fifty states? 24/7 Wall St. has taken several months to consider that question. Our writers looked at hundreds of data sets ranging from debt ...
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Ireland’s Low Tax Days Are Numbered

Posted: October 3, 2010 at 4:36 pm

Ireland's economy is in a state of chaos thanks to a taxation system that is both inefficient and unfair. About the only group not complaining are the many American companies ...
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The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead (ATVI, TTWO, AMZN, GMCR, FNF, FAF, GERN, GYMB, JPM, MON, NBG, NFLX, SDTH, SIRI, TSLA, UAL, UTX, WDR)

Posted: October 3, 2010 at 10:25 am

This weekend's edition of The Unusual Suspects is different. While some earnings focus is made, there are several key events coming up that investors and traders alike will want to ...
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