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Monthly Archives: November 2010

AIG’s Billions in Losses Overshadows Repayment Plans (AIG)

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 8:50 am

American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) has some wide losses being reported, even if comparing these to any real estimates will be a challenging feat.  Most headlines are keying on ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (NBG, SBUX, CROX, ATML, JAZZ)

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 8:46 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of National Bank of Greece S.A. (NYSE: NBG), ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/5/2010) Blackberry Loses

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 8:44 am

Updated throughout the day. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is under to buy back sour mortgages that it syndicated (NYT) Bank of America and Citigroup (NYSE: C) have begun to ...
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Unemployment Holds, Yet Corporations More Than Double Hiring Expectations

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 8:38 am

Before you were setting yourself to get overly excited about today's jobs data, there is a camp that believes the jobs data was as relevant as gold to a dead ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AXP, ATML, CLWR, STZ, CTCM, EXPE, FICO, INTC, MRVL, PCS, MSFT, NVDA, PT, USM)

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 8:10 am

These are some of this Friday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) Raised to Buy at Argus. Atmel Corporation ...
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Consumer Reports Says Microsoft Kinect Is Not “Racist”

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 5:55 am

Is the new Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Kinect game system "racist?"  Consumer Reports says no. The problem began when Gamespot reported: [Our] testing suggests facial recognition features of Microsoft's motion-sensing camera ...
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China Pushes US Back Onto It Heels

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 5:36 am

China has already begun to harass the US ahead of the upcoming G20 conference. And, it has a reasonable amount of ammunition. The People's Republic has rejected American suggestions to ...
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Toyota: Winner And Still Champion

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 5:14 am

Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) announced its earnings for the quarter that ended September 30, and they were impressive. The company damaged its reputation due to millions of recalls and the ...
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Dell To Replace BlackBerry With A Handset That May Not Work

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 4:46 am

Dell (NASDAQ:DELL has decided to replace the 10,000 or so Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerries that its employees use with its own Venue Pro smartphone. The Dell product is ...
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Media Digest 11/5/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 5, 2010 at 3:55 am

The Federal Reserve may allow some of the nation's strongest banks to raise their dividends. (Reuters) The S&P and DJIA hit 2 year highs. (Reuters) China attacked the US over ...
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Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac Costs Could Be $700 Billion

Posted: November 4, 2010 at 5:45 pm

The cost of bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is soaring. New S&P research estimates that it will take $700 billion to bring the firms back to financial health, ...
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Starbucks’ Caffeinated Earnings Brings Multi-Year Highs (SBUX)

Posted: November 4, 2010 at 5:08 pm

Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is managing to do what many probably thought was not possible.  It isn't a shock that Starbucks beat earnings and raised guidance.  The surprise is that ...
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The Return of the Bank Dividend (JPM, BAC, WFC, MS, FAS)

Posted: November 4, 2010 at 4:35 pm

Money is short and times are hard, but the government is paid back and bank investors may find dividend checks in with their holiday cards. The Wall Street Journal broke ...
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Whistleblowing: The Next Wave

Posted: November 4, 2010 at 4:19 pm

Published with permission from Audit Integrity Inc. In an article published November 2 ("The Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Provisions:  Some Other Things to Worry About") , the D&O Diary pointed out that the Dodd-Frank ...
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When P/E Ratios Become Challenging (LVS, NFLX, WYNN, AMZN, WYNN, BIDU, RHT, OPEN, CRM, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: November 4, 2010 at 2:44 pm

The most common method of valuing stocks is the good old P/E ratio that measures the share price versus the trailing 12-months earnings.  For many tech and biotech stocks, that ...
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