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Monthly Archives: December 2010

Toll Brothers’ Profits in Housing, Sort Of (TOL)

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 7:15 am

Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE: TOL) managed to post a quarterly profit in its fiscal fourth quarter earnings report this morning.  It sounds great on the headline for a homebuilder to ...
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Pepsi Acquisition of WBD Goes Much Deeper Into Russia (PEP, WBD)

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 7:01 am

PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) has a long history of operating in Russia.  It is about to get much deeper into the country.  This morning came the announcement that PepsiCo is ...
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Warren Buffett’s Ten Best Investments For 2011 (BRK-A, BRK-B, AXP, BAC, BK, GCI, GE, KFT, MCO, PG, UPS, WFC, WMT, SNY, GSK)

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 6:43 am

Investors have tried for years to follow the strategy of Warren Buffett, considered by many to be the greatest investor in history. That's ironic given how little he seems to ...
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Costco Same-Store Sales Up 9%

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 6:20 am

Costco (NASDAQ: COST) same-stores sales rose 9% in November. For the four weeks which ended November 28, international same-store activity was up 13%. The huge big box retailer said it had ...
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The Car Industry Can’t Even Build Bumpers Right

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 5:55 am

There were two pieces of important information about the US car industry yesterday. The first is that domestic sales rose 17% in November. The second is that the car industry ...
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Riding The Wave Of The Foreclosure Business

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 5:34 am

One out of four residential homes sold in the third quarter of this year was a foreclosed property, RealtyTrac reports. That makes the sales of such residences big business for ...
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What Is “Net Neutrality”?

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 5:04 am

The document called the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI REMARKS ON PRESERVING INTERNET FREEDOM AND OPENNESS was released recently. Perhaps the most unexpected part of the chairman's comments was ...
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Media Digest 12/2/2010 Reuters, WSJ, FT, NYT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 4:18 am

The European Central Bank has been strongly pressures to help with the region's financial crisis (Reuters) Geithner has started to work with Congress on the fate of the Bush tax ...
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The US Can’t Feed Europe To The Wolves

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 3:30 am

The U.S. contributed $13 billion to rebuild Europe after World War II. More than 60 years later, Uncle Sam may ride to the continent's rescue again. Financial markets reacted Wednesday ...
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Sequenom Raising Capital (SQNM)

Posted: December 1, 2010 at 4:24 pm

Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) became a very painful stock for many investors after the problems surfaced over its test results.  While things have recovered substantially at the company, pressure has ...
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Starbucks Investors Focus on China Over Valuation (SBUX)

Posted: December 1, 2010 at 1:31 pm

Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has been releasing data at today's investor conference, and the slow growth in the U.S. may be greatly overshadowed by the company's aggressive expansion plans for ...
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Fed Details Huge Support For US Banks

Posted: December 1, 2010 at 12:57 pm

The Federal Reserve has been forced to disclose its aid to American financial firms during the credit crisis. Ben Bernanke probably wanted to avoid these disclosures, but under the Dodd-Frank Wall ...
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SunPower & NRG Double Down on Solar (SPWRA, NRG, PCG, FSLR, WFR, TAN, PBW)

Posted: December 1, 2010 at 12:27 pm

The state of California has mandated that a third of its electricity come from renewable sources by the end of the decade. This has caused something of a boomlet in ...
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Deere & Co. Joins Dividend Hike Game (DE)

Posted: December 1, 2010 at 11:18 am

The Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is the latest of the industrial giants to raise its dividend.  This morning, the machinery and equipment giant announced an increase on its quarterly ...
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When Disaster Strikes: Corinthian Colleges Loses CEO After President Leaves (COCO, APOL, STRA, EDMC, CECO)

Posted: December 1, 2010 at 11:03 am

The battering continues among for-profit colleges. Faced with federal rules changes that could affect their ability to secure student loans, the colleges have seen their stock prices tank in the ...
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