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Monthly Archives: November 2010

PIIGS Banks Defying The Market (AIB, IRE, NBG, STD, BBVA)

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 9:09 am

The markets may be headed lower on Friday morning after a sell-off in China, but the stocks of some of Europe's troubled banks in the lands of the PIIGS are ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (BA, DIS, DVOX, ESE, FNSR, NVDA, OINK, WEN)

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 8:51 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking movement in shares of The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), Dynavox ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (11/12/2010) The Beast M&A, Airbus Trouble

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 8:30 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 ...
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Prudential Raising Close to $1 Billion (PRU, AIG)

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 8:24 am

Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) has raised close to $1 billion.  If no over-allotment shares are exercised, this figure is closer to $970 million.  The insurer sold 18.35 million shares ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AET, MO, BBBY, BA, CLWR, ETN, HUM, MPEL, NVDA, ZQK, RSG, HOT, UNH, WM, WSM)

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 8:11 am

These are some of this Friday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Started as Hold at Jefferies. Altria Group Inc. ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors 11/12/2010 Privacy Czar, Yahoo! Rumors

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 7:59 am

Updated throughout the day.Walmart (NYSE: WMT) may buy Indonesia retailer Matahari (Reuters)The Obama administration will create an online privacy czar (WSJ)Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) may cut its job force (WSJ)Douglas A. ...
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Even With Sell Off, China’s Markets Give Up Little

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 6:09 am

The Shanghai Composite lost 5.2% overnight, some say in reaction to a potential tightening of lending. Others say it a fear that there will be a sovereign debt crisis is ...
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Yahoo! Layoff Rumors: Is The Old Internet Dying? No More Than Anything Else

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 5:38 am

There is a rumor that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will layoff 20% of its workforce or 20% of the workforce in one of its divisions. Neither may be true. Yahoo! has ...
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Ireland And The Return Of Moral Hazard

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 5:05 am

Ireland is in deeper financial trouble than it might imagine. A recent Bloomberg  poll of global capital markets investors showed that 51% believe Ireland is likely to default on its ...
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The Next 7 American Monopolies (NFLX, SIRI, LULU, AWK, FICO, MCP, MON)

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 4:36 am

Few companies have a true monopoly in any market.  More common are "virtual monopolies" or "near-monopolies" that exist due to geography or brand recognition.  When consumers hear the term monopoly, ...
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Shanghai Market Drops 5.2%

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 4:33 am

The Shanghai Composite closed down 5.2% over concerns of rate hikes and the sovereign debt crisis in Ireland Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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Media Digest 11/12/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 4:04 am

EU officials tried to reassure capital markets about Ireland's viability. (Reuters) Yahoo ! (NASDAQ: YHOO) said a report it would lay of 20% of staff was "misleading." (Reuters) Newsweek and ...
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Why Oil Sets New Two-Year High on Growing Demand, Weaker Dollar

Posted: November 11, 2010 at 3:24 pm

The price of a barrel of WTI crude oil reached $88.63 early today, a level it has not reached in more than two years. The price has dropped a ...
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The Good, The Bad, And The Irrelevant: The Shopping Season Is Toast

Posted: November 11, 2010 at 1:02 pm

BAD The more data that becomes available on the holiday retail season, the worse it looks. New Gallup data shows that "Consumers' self-reported daily spending in stores, restaurants, gas stations, ...
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The Good, The Bad, And The Irrelevant: Level 3 Finally Gets It Right

Posted: November 11, 2010 at 10:24 am

Good For the first time in a wretch history of poor management, Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) finally got something right. The company has 67,000 miles of broadband backbone used to for ...
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