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Monthly Archives: October 2010

The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (10/22/2010) Verizon Earns, AIA IPO

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 9:03 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 145 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 Alerts (ALGN, AMZN, ARST, BIDU, LIVE, ERIC, NFLX, RVBD, SNDK, VPHM)

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 8:58 am

Active traders have several big moves this morning that are on the trading radar screens.  We are tracking key moves in shares of Align Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALGN), Amazon.com, Inc. ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/22/2010) News Corp Newsstand, MGM M&A

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 8:51 am

Updated throughout the day. News Corp (NYSE NWS) has killed its digital newsstand (Reuters) Cnooc of China and Ghana National Petroleum have bid $5 billion for Kosmos Energy’s assets in ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ANAD, MT, BIDU, LSCC, MAR, PENN, HOT, UNP, WYNN)

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 8:25 am

These are some of this Friday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Anadigics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANAD) Raised to Buy at Needham. ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) ...
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GE & Clarient Merger, Expanding Cancer Diagnostics (GE, CLRT, SFE)

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 8:14 am

General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is still doing M&A deals.  The company has had its checkbook out lately and announcing ventures, and this morning came word from GE Healthcare that ...
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AIG Scores Better With AIA IPO in Hong Kong (AIG, PUK)

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 8:00 am

AIG is paying back more money to Uncle Sam.  American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) has raised a large sum via its AIA Group Ltd. initial public offering in Hong ...
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Sex.com Domain Sold For $13 Million

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 6:08 am

The Sex.com domain sold for $13 million. Clover Holdings, based on the island of St. Vincent, made the winning bid. No one knows why. The BBC reports that "The sex.com ...
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A Tablet PC From HP, A Gamble On Windows

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 5:54 am

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has begun to show its new Slate tablet PC. The company still guards some details about the machine, but the media has ferreted out a bit about ...
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The World Of Austerity: As Debt Costs Fall, The Temptation To Spend Returns

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 5:29 am

The cost for the UK to borrow money fell to its  lowest level in decades. It is now below Germany, which is close to a miracle based on how the ...
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Search Industry, Born In The US, Struggles In China Which May Not Want Search At All

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 5:09 am

The search engine as a key part of the internet was born with the products of companies such as Altavista back in the late 1990s. The usefulness of search to ...
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Media Digest (10/22/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 4:09 am

Reuters:   The US will push a trade and foreign exchange agenda at the G20 meeting. Reuters:   Fed officials are still not in agreement about quantitative easing. Reuters:   ...
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How Google Pays Next To Nothing In Taxes

Posted: October 21, 2010 at 3:35 pm

"Double Irish" and "Dutch Sandwich"  sounds like action movies or detective novels.  The last thing that anyone would suspect them to be were  sophisticated tax avoidance strategies that save Google ...
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Taxpayer Cost Of Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac Could Reach $363 Billion

Posted: October 21, 2010 at 12:45 pm

Like all well-run businesses, the federal government has a worst, best, and middle case for the cost to bail out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The range is from $221 ...
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Oil Field Services Firms’ Earnings are Good Enough (DO, NE, HAL, WFT, SLB, RIG)

Posted: October 21, 2010 at 12:37 pm

How investors view the oil field services business depends a lot on whether a company is heavily involved in offshore drilling. Onshore drillers have seen share prices rise steadily as ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (10/21/2010)

Posted: October 21, 2010 at 9:00 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 145 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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