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Monthly Archives: December 2010

Are Homebuilders About to Bounce Back? (DHI, RYL, PHM, LEN, KBH, TOL, XHB)

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 10:08 am

Today's disappointing report on unemployment from the US Labor Department sent stock futures down sharply this morning.  Along with that slide may have gone some glimmers of hope for US ...
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Seagate Is Not For Sale, Who Will Buy It (STX, WDC, IBM, HPQ, SNDK, AAPL)

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 9:25 am

Earlier this week Seagate Technology PLC (NYSE: STX) said that it was ending discussions with private equity firms concerning a possible sale, and that the company would instead begin a ...
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New ETF for White Metals: Silver, Platinum and Palladium (WITE, GLTR, SGOL, PPLT, PALL, SLV)

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 9:22 am

There is becoming an ETF for everything, and now a new combined metals ETF is being launched that will hold hold silver, platinum and palladium in fixed weights.  ETF Securities ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ASCMA, CISG, DRYS, SMT)

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 8:49 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Ascent Media Corporation (NASDAQ: ASCMA), CNinsure Inc. ...
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Reality Check on Unemployment & Jobs Creation, Ugliness

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 8:41 am

The Labor Department is out with the newest round of its unemployment and non-Farm payrolls data.  Unlike expectations, it is ugly.  The data for November showed an unemployment rate of ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (STD, BRCM, CSIQ, CMG, DD, EBAY, ENDP, IACI, JASO, KR, MRVL, NDAQ, PCX, BTU, SWY, SOLF, TWX, YGE)

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 8:21 am

These are some of this Friday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Banco Santander S.A. (NYSE: STD) Raised to Overweight at HSBC. Broadcom Corporation ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/3/2010) South Korean Cars, Apollo Buyout

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 8:19 am

Updated throughout the day. Apollo Management will buy Regis (NYSE: RGS) (NYPost) A free trade deal between the US and South Korea is hung up on the issue of tariff's ...
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The Ten States Where The Most People Go Hungry

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 6:29 am

There are at least ten states in which 6% or more of population experiences very low food security. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, "In households with very ...
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Does Anyone Want Super Fast Wireless Service?

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 6:08 am

Analysts who follow the telecom industry were surprised when Verizon Wireless recently announced it would offer LTE 4G broadband service in a number of cities. One reason for the shock is that ...
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Tax Everything That Moves

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 5:37 am

The head of auto research firm Edmund's recently suggested that the federal government raise the tax on gasoline. He thinks the President's deficit reduction panel has overlooked how much a ...
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What Will China Do With All Of Its Gold?

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 5:05 am

The Xinhua news agency reports that China imported just under 210 metric tons of gold in the first ten months of 2010. That is about five times the what it ...
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Media Digest (12/3/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 4:08 am

Trading activity in several healthcare deals is being examined by federal authorities.(WSJ) Payroll numbers should have improved in November. The jobless rate was probably flat. (Reuters) China said it would ...
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S&P May Downgrade Greece

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 8:51 pm

Global capital markets investors are bound to once again take a dim view of the future stability of the eurozone. S&P has warned that is may downgrade the sovereign debt ...
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S&P Warns of Greece Downgrade, Very Late

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 5:56 pm

Did you hear?  Greece has problems.  They are bad enough that S&P has threatened a sovereign downgrade on the debt of Greece.  Just one problem here, or more than one.  ...
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Four More Financial Services ETFs Launched (KBW, KBWY, KBWD, KBWX, KBWP)

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 5:22 pm

Invesco PowerShares has launched four new ETF products today.  The group launched new ETF portfolios which are based on Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (NYSE: KBW) indexes on the NYSE ...
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