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Monthly Archives: December 2010

DIRECTV Expands Latin American Ambitions (DTV)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 2:02 pm

DIRECTV Latin America, a subsidiary of DIRECTV (NYSE: DTV) is further expanding into Latin America, underscoring its ambition in such a high growth market. The company announced that it has ...
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Agrium Issues New Debt and Sells Commodity Trading Business

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 12:18 pm

Earlier this month, Canadian agribusiness giant Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) completed its purchase of Australia's AWB LTD for $1.24 billion. That deal was announced in August, shortly after Agrium lost ...
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Moody’s Warns on Downgrade of Greece, Late and Again (Spain too)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 12:02 pm

Another day, another late-late sovereign debt rating downgrade warning.  Moody's has just placed the "Ba1" rating of Greece on review for a possible downgrade.  This is on the heels of ...
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R-I-M Earnings Preview (RIMM)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 11:40 am

Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) is set to release earnings today after the closing bell.  Thomson Reuters has consensus estimates for earnings of $1.64 EPS and $5.40 billion in ...
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Oracle Earnings Preview (ORCL)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 11:29 am

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today.  Thomson Reuters has estimates for earnings of $0.46 EPS and $8.34 billion in revenue. For ...
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Coffee Conundrum: Coffee Shelf Life vs. Corporate Finance (ICE, KFT, SBUX, FARM, GMCR, PEET, CBOU, JO)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 11:17 am

Coffee prices have been rising, primarily as a result of a projected failure in the Colombian crop due to heavy rains. Colombia usually produces about 12 million bags of coffee ...
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Rising Rates, Now Only A Few DJIA Stocks Out-Yield Longer Treasuries (TBT, KFT, MRK, PFE, T, VZ)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 11:01 am

The longer-end of the curve is is still rising.  Earlier we had seen the highest yields since June, and now we are seeing the highest yields since May.  The 10-Year ...
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Why U.S. Must Have Rare Earths (MCP, REE, QREDF, REMX)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 10:24 am

The global supply of rare earth elements faces a supply shortage because there is but a single source of approximately 97% of the minerals. That source is China, which has ...
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Caterpillar Still Shows Big Regional Sales Gains (CAT)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 9:44 am

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is out with its monthly sales figures for November.  The gains are very high on the surface.  Asia/Pacific and the EMEA (Euro, Africa, Miidle-East) saw an ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 12.16.2010 Twitter Value, Jobless Claims

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:59 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 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AEE, ADM, BAC, CHTR, CMA, PGN, GOLD, RTN, RF, JOE, HOT, TLB, TSN, VRSN, WYNN)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:56 am

These are some of this Wednesday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls.  This morning we have two key updates from late yesterday afternoon, followed ...
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Rite Aid Earnings, Wrong Answer (RAD, WAG, CVS, WMT)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:53 am

Rite Aid Corp. (NYSE: RAD) is getting clipped this morning after its quarterly earnings report.  As you have grown accustomed to, the 'earnings report' is really a loss report.  The ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/16/2010) Aro And Google M&A)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:36 am

Updated throughout the day. Aeropostale (NYSE: ARO) has hired bankers to defend it from a takeover (NYPost) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube will try to buy Next New Networks (NYT) Douglas A. ...
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Jobless Claims Hold, Still Red-Line for Unemployment

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:35 am

The U.S. Labor Department is out with its latest round of weekly jobless claims. Last week's figure came to a drop of 3,000 on a revised basis to 420,000 versus ...
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Higher Dividends in Garbage (WM, RSG)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:24 am

Waste Management Inc. (NYSE: WM) has announced an increase to its quarterly dividend rate by about 8% this morning.  The old $0.315 per quarter dividend will now come to $0.34 ...
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