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The Best Video Game Stock For 2011 (GME, THQI, ERTS, TTWO, ATVI, MSFT, NTDOY, AAPL)

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 11:54 am

Video game investing has been the pits lately and a disappointment of the home-bound trade for the recession and recovery.  The fun and cool games have so far not translated ...
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The Best Solar Stock for 2011 (FSLR, STP, LDK, JASO, SPWRA, ENER, TSL, TAN, PBW)

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 11:23 am

If there's any single word that defines the solar market for 2011, it is "uncertainty." Policy changes in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere in Europe are expected to ...
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Best Oil Field Services Stock for 2011 (SLB, HAL, NOV, BHI, WFT, GE, OIH)

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 9:33 am

With crude oil prices hovering around $90/barrel, exploration and production companies are expected to increase their spending in 2011 by about 11%, for a total of about $490 billion. Oil ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 12.31.2010 Oil $90, Greek Debt

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 8:53 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 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 Alert Stocks (BGP, BSQR, IMAX, MCP, XING)

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 8:53 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Border's Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP), BSQUARE Corporation (NASDAQ: BSQR), IMAX ...
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Bubble Alert: Rare Element Insider Sales (REE)

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 8:45 am

Rare Element Resources Ltd. (NYSE/AMEX: REE) is lower ahead of the market open this morning.  Late on Tuesday afternoon came a Form D filing showing that insiders of the company ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors 12/31/2010

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 8:33 am

Updated throughout the day. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) shipped 1.6 million Kindle e-readers this month. (Apple Insider) MySpace will lay off 50% of its staff and be put up for sale ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMZN, APC, BIIB, CRIC, DFS, EJ)

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 8:32 am

The research calls are running light as many markets either close early or are on very low volume with skeleton crews manning the trading desks.  These are some of this ...
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The Best of the Best IPOs from 2010 (MCP, BSFT, CIS, FN, HSFT, JKS, MMYT, QLIK, RP, VRA, YOKU)

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 8:05 am

We do not need to bother telling you that 2010 was a great year for stocks with a return of the economy for the 90% of you with jobs.  We ...
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CHINA IPO FILING: China Dredging Group (CLFF)

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 7:45 am

You have to love another Chinese company sneaking in an F-1 filing on December 30 with its intent to come public.  That is just what China Dredging Group Co., Ltd. ...
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China Internet Users Soar To 450 Million, But Search Remains Low

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 7:12 am

China now has 450 million people online, a number nearly 50% greater than the population of the US. The Xinhua news agency reports that Wang Chen, head of China's State Council ...
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Android Gains On Apple App Store With 200,000 Applications

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 5:46 am

It has been generally assumed that one of the advantages Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has in the smartphone business is its App Store. That may be much less true than it ...
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Crude Oil Problem May Not Be As Bad As Its Seems

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 5:28 am

The media and some Wall St. analysts have pressed the point that $90 crude could derail the recovery. The argument seems to make sense unless experts look to the beginning ...
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Media Digest 12.31.2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 31, 2010 at 4:42 am

Jobless data and factory PMI raised hope about the recovery (Reuters) Facebook move past Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) as the most visited site in the US (Reuters) Crude is up 12% ...
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The Best Water Stock for 2011 (WTR, AWK, AWR, CWT, LAYN, TTEK, WTS, PHO, PIO)

Posted: December 30, 2010 at 2:10 pm

Water is perhaps one of the most misunderstood and most under-invested themes for most investors looking for income and stability year after year.  It is also exceedingly harder and harder ...
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