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Monthly Archives: November 2010

Government Response Attacked In Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Posted: November 23, 2010 at 4:59 am

Among the causes of the spread of crude from the leak caused by an explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig were that the federal government was in no position to ...
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Media Digest 11/23/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 23, 2010 at 4:02 am

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) raised its earnings outlook for 2011.  (Reuters) J Crew Group (NYSE: JCG) is close to a $2.8 billion takeover by private equity interests. (Reuters) Oil fell to ...
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HP Joins Other Tech Earnings, Distancing Itself from Cisco Woes (HPQ, IBM, DELL, CSCO)

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 4:24 pm

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is out with earnings and the IT and PC giant reported $1.33 EPS on $33.28 billion in revenues.  Thomson Reuters had estimates of $1.27 EPS on ...
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Why Asking For Higher Taxes Is Patriotic

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 3:10 pm

Is it patriotic for a group of 45 millionaires to petition the government to raise their taxes?  You betcha. In fact, Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength are willing to sacrifice ...
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GM Analyst Call Lacks Conviction (GM, F)

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 2:32 pm

General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM) may have been one of the top IPOs of American history.  It was also one of the biggest bankruptcies in American history.  S&P Equity Research ...
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Massey Energy Directors Divided on Strategy (MEE, ANR, MT, ACI, CNX, KOL)

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 1:58 pm

The board of directors of Massey Energy Co. (NYSE: MEE) are meeting this week to decide on the company's next step following a report in mid-October that it was "exploring ...
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McDonald’s Online Promotion, Proven Success For Others to Follow (MCD, WEN, JACK, YUM)

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 1:31 pm

comScore data comes out monthly and it is very frequent where the trends come in almost exactly as you might have guessed when it comes to popular websites and the ...
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The Good, The Bad, And The Insignificant: Shadow Foreclosures Surge

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 1:00 pm

Verdict: Very Bad Shadow inventory of unsold homes jumped in the month of August, according to CoreLogic "CoreLogic estimates shadow inventory, sometimes called pending supply, by calculating the number of properties ...
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Insider Trading Woes Come Home (GS, MS, BAC, JPM, FAZ, FAS)

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 12:34 pm

Speculation is running rampant on insider trading.  This is over who is going to get caught up in the dragnet of insider trading charges rather than on which companies are ...
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St Louis: The Most Crime-Ridden City In America

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 11:34 am

The mayor and residents of St. Louis will not like this, but the city is the most crime-ridden in the United States. This may shock some, as most people would ...
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High Expectations for H-P (HPQ, ORCL, SAP, IBM, DELL)

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 11:27 am

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) reports earnings this afternoon, after the market closes. Non-GAAP EPS is expected to be $1.27 on revenue of $32.75 billion. That's substantially better than the EPS ...
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Are New Rules For For-Profit Colleges An Opportunity? (APEI, WMT, APOL, EDMC, CECO, COCO, DV, STRA, WPO)

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 10:11 am

Earlier this month, while everyone's attention was focused on the midterm elections, the US Department of Education published proposed new rules governing access to federal direct and federally guaranteed student ...
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Netflix: A Surrender On DVD Model, A Tough Bet On The Internet

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 9:50 am

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will not admit publicly that its DVD-via-mail business is dying. But, its announcement today that it will offer an "internet only" product is a powerful hint that ...
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Real Mergers & More in Potash Sector (POT, BHP, VALE, KCL.TO)

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 9:41 am

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) may have seen its shares surge on a buyout offer from BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP), but there is other merger that is standing ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AFFY, CLDX, CRUS, GMCR, NFLX, NOVL)

Posted: November 22, 2010 at 8:47 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Affymax, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFY), Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDX), Cirrus ...
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