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Monthly Archives: November 2010

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AKAM, MT, COP, DYN, EP, GBL, LLNW, MON, PVH, RAX, SLW, CODE, UNH, UNP, WLP)

Posted: November 15, 2010 at 8:19 am

These are some of this Monday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer. ArcelorMittal (NYSE: ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/15/2010)

Posted: November 15, 2010 at 8:00 am

Updated throughout the day. China car company SAIC will buy a stake in the GM IPO (Reuters) Facebook will add and e-mail service (WSJ) Goldman Sachs Group's (NYSE: GS) bid ...
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EMC Gobbles Up Isilon (ISLN, EMC)

Posted: November 15, 2010 at 7:47 am

Isilon Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISLN) has been one of the rumored acquisition targets in cloud computing and data storage.  EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Isilon.  ...
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Europe Paints A Bleak Picture Of Its Own Prospects

Posted: November 15, 2010 at 6:06 am

EuroStat, the statistics bureau of the EU, reports a sharp increase of both the  region's deficit to GDP ratio and debt to GDP ratio  calculated for last year. "In 2009, ...
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What Does Potash Do Now?

Posted: November 15, 2010 at 5:33 am

BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) has withdrawn its its bid to purchase Canadian fertilizer company Potash (NYSE: POT) and now plans to buy $4.2 billion of its own stock. BHP shareholders ...
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Media Digest (11/15/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 15, 2010 at 4:10 am

BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) abandoned its bid for Potah (NYSE: POT) and said it would begin a $4.2 billion buyback. (Reuters) SAIC has agreed to take a stake in the ...
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Greenspan, At 84, Can See The Future

Posted: November 14, 2010 at 1:58 pm

Alan Greenspan is a child of the Depression, born in 1926. He spends much of his time, now retired from the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve, traveling the globe dispensing ...
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The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead (ABKFQ, AAPL, BHP, BX, DYN, BSX, DELL, ETFC, GENZ, HGSI, JKS, MELA, NBG, PBR, RAI, STX, ST, WMT, HD)

Posted: November 14, 2010 at 9:42 am

The list of Unusual Suspects for the week ahead is a rather different list.  Some are due with earnings, some have FDA events, and others just have shareholder specific events ...
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Fed Official: Foreclosures No Better In 2011

Posted: November 13, 2010 at 8:42 am

Foreclosures, along with unemployment, are a plague that continues to bedevil the economy. The problem has caused the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could eventually cost taxpayers more than ...
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The Good, The Bad, And The Irrelevant: Turkey Prices Hit All-Time High

Posted: November 13, 2010 at 7:08 am

Bad. As Thanksgiving approaches, the price of turkey has hit an all-time high, evidence that inflation may have begun to affect the economy more than most Americans imagine Bloomberg reports ...
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Next Week’s Must See Earnings On Deck (LOW, HD, WMT, TGT, AMAT, DRYS, DLTR, GME, SHLD, DELL, CRM)

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 11:28 am

So much for thinking that earnings season was over.  Next week we have a another round  of earnings, with the big focus being retail mixed with some technology earnings.  On ...
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The Good, The Bad, And The Irrelevant: No GM Shares For The Masses

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 10:34 am

Irrelevant CNBC has reported that GM will not allocate any shares in its IPO for customers of Charles Schwab (NASDAQ: SCHW), TDAmeritrade (NASDAQ: AMTD), and E*Trade (NASDAQ: EFTC). That means ...
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Las Vegas Sands’ Improving Credit Metrics (LVS)

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 9:45 am

Things really must be getting better in Las Vegas, even if the city has one of the worst housing markets in the country.  It may mostly be that Vegas casinos ...
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Intel’s Dividend and Stance Distance It From Cisco (INTC, CSCO)

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 9:24 am

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is showing that it deserved the recent upgrades from Wall Street analysts because it is not sharing the woes of Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO).   The ...
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Is Starbucks Making the Same Expansion Mistake Twice? (SBUX, MCD)

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 9:13 am

Does the US consumers' taste for coffee translate well into Chinese? It looks like Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is determined to find out. Sales and profits have picked up in ...
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