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Monthly Archives: December 2010

US Home Values To Drop $1.7 Trillion In 2010

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 8:14 am

The aggregate value of homes in the United States will drop $1.7 trillion this year after a drop of $1 trillion in 2009. That data comes from a report from ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CM, CTB, EIX, FMCN, GT, HD, JNS, LM, LOW, OPEN, PAYX, RY, UA, WAG)

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 8:10 am

These are some of this Thursday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE: CM) Raised to Equal-Weight at Morgan ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/9/2010)

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 8:00 am

Updated throughout the day. MasterCard (NYSE: MA) will buy Travelex (Reuters) Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) will sharply cut management pay (WSJ) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) did not complete a buy-out of ...
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China Car Sales Reach All-Time Record

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 5:57 am

China's November car sales hit a one-month record. Total cars and light vehicles shipped to dealers reached 1.34 million, up 29% from the same month last year. Sales for the ...
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The Tax Cut Vs. Deficit War

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 5:27 am

Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma told the FT that new tax cuts, an extension of Bush programs, will send the capital markets a simple message: America does not care about ...
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2010′s Worst-Performing Companies On the S&P 500

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 4:34 am

Meet the Nine Worst Performers Of The S&P 500, the broadly followed stock market index, that analysts expect will improve next year.  The reasons why they are in the Wall Street ...
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Media Digest (12/9/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 4:06 am

Seventeen billionaires including Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz have agreed to pledge most of their money to charity. (www.thegivingpledge.org) (Reuters) WikiLeaks supporters shut down the MasterCard (NYSE: MA) and Visa ...
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Why E-Commerce Still Doesn’t Count

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 6:58 pm

There has been just as much written about e-commerce as there is about bricks-and-mortar sales this holiday season, if a quick read of online business sites and financial publications is ...
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Howard Stern & SIRIUS Contract Countdown Heats Up (SIRI, AAPL)

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 5:46 pm

The speculation of what will become of Howard Stern's contract with SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is heating up.  This stock may have had a stellar rise over the ...
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Airlines Are Getting Better (DAL, LUV, UAL, AMR, ALK, JBLU, LCC, AAI, SKYW, HA)

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 4:28 pm

How much are US air travelers willing to put up with from the airlines? The short answer is probably, "A lot," because, after all, we don't have a lot of ...
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Intel’s Total Market Share Loss May Not Matter (INTC, QCOM, AAPL, ARMH, AMD, TXN)

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 2:48 pm

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) seems to be losing some of its edge when it comes to its share of the global semiconductor business.  Gartner Group gave a forecast of total ...
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$100 Oil Once More on the Horizon

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 2:15 pm

We did a story in October detailing five reasons to worry about oil getting to $100/barrel by the end of next year, and another five reasons to worry that oil ...
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Toyota’s Bright Spot: Lexus Is No.1 US Luxury Car

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 12:49 pm

Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM), its brand besieged in the US and elsewhere due to recalls, has one bright spot in the US. The company's luxury brand, Lexus, was the No.1 ...
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A Tale of Two Chinese Coal Companies (PUDA, CREG, CSUAY, CCOZY, KOL)

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 12:47 pm

In 2010, China is expected to import about 130 million metric tons of coal, and that number could grow to 162 million metric tons in 2011. The country is trying ...
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Spin-Off Alert: Value in ArcelorMittal’s Stainless Steel Unit? (MT, PKX, TYEKF, ANIOY, OUTKF, CRS, ATI)

Posted: December 8, 2010 at 11:12 am

The world's largest steelmaker is giving up on stainless steel. ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) has announced that it plans to go through with a plan it began discussing during the summer ...
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