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Monthly Archives: December 2010

Today’s Best Market Rumors 12.14.2010 Yahoo! Layoffs, Gawker Hack

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 8:56 am

Updated throughout the day. Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will layoff 600 people (various) The FBI will investigate the hacking of Gawker (various) Douglas A. McIntyre   ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AMBC, GXDX, OXPS)

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 8:53 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Amgen, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBC), Genoptix, Inc. (NASDAQ: GXDX), and optionsXpress ...
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The Clinton Economy: Good Luck, Good Policy, or Both?

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 8:42 am

By John Tamny of Forbes Considering the Clinton economy, was it luck, good policy, or both?  Surely a combination. Read more.... ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMGN, T, BCSI, BP, CMCSA, COP, EMC, XOM, IGT, NTAP, Q, S, TSO, TSL, VZ, VMW)

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 8:17 am

These are some of this Tuesday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Raised to Overweight at Piper Jaffray. AT&T Inc. ...
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Fed’s Best Bet Is To Sit On It Hands

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 7:08 am

Many of Ben Bernanke's fellow Fed governors are sullen if not mutinous about the decision to buy in as much as $600 billion in US paper. Some consider it a ...
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Airline Baggage Fees Reach $2.6 Billion

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 6:18 am

Business school professors and airline analysts will look back on the first three quarters of 2010 and say that the industry finally found a way to make money. Baggage fees for ...
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Overseas Sales Push Google Android Share

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 5:58 am

The head of Android operations at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) says that the adoption of the mobile operating system has gotten a substantial lift from outside the United States. That does nothing ...
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McDonald’s Fights The Fat Kid Tax

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 5:38 am

McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) is tired of taking blame for soaring childhood obesity rates and the resulting  Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The company's CEO Jim Skinner told the FT that ...
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Apple And Lenovo Take PC Growth Lead

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 5:15 am

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Chinese firm Lenovo had a surge in sales of their personal computers last month. Most of the rest of the industry did not. NPD Group, the research ...
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GM: Still Downsizing After All These Years

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 4:43 am

GM (NYSE: GM) has offered buyouts to 3,000 workers at 14 of its plants. Most of these employees have special skills beyond assembly work. Many are electricians and welders. The ...
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Media Digest (12/14/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 4:04 am

The new tax package made it through the first stage of Congressional approval. (Reuters) The federal government began the process of setting higher capital requirements for US banks. (Reuters) China ...
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Despite Fresh Highs, Berkowitz & Fairholme Keep Adding AIG Shares (AIG)

Posted: December 13, 2010 at 4:50 pm

American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) keeps seeing Fairholme Capital Management, L.L.C. and Bruce Berkowitz take a  larger stake in the company.  AIG shares hit a new 52-week high just ...
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Junk Bond Funds Losing Face On Treasury Yields (HIO, MHY, PHK, HYG, JNK)

Posted: December 13, 2010 at 1:32 pm

As the economic outlook continues to improve, lower Treasury bond prices and higher yields seem to be putting pressure on several of the key high-yield bond funds on the market ...
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Moody’s Warning On US Debt Rating Ignored By Congress

Posted: December 13, 2010 at 12:45 pm

Moody's says that plans by Congress and the Administration to extend tax cuts may stimulate the US economy for the next year. That will be the end of the positive ...
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Swift Set for IPO, A Re-Public Offering (SWFT)

Posted: December 13, 2010 at 12:18 pm

Swift Transportation Co. (NASDAQ: SWFT) is set come public this week, and that should read "come public again."  The trucking giant is coming back as a public company on Wednesday ...
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