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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Ten Companies That Will Disappear This Year

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 10:38 am

Companies disappear all the time. Sure, it may be news when large corporations with well-known brands go belly-up. But think about it: Businesses like Circuit City, Northwest Airlines and Countrywide ...
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Online Brokerage Firm Earnings: Return of Retail Investors (AMTD, SCHW, ETFC)

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 10:12 am

The S&P 500 Index rose about 17% in 2010, a good year by any measure. That rise apparently indicates that investors' appetite for risk is growing. But is that actually ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AAPL, ARIA, DTLK, CMA)

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 8:53 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Ariad Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARIA), Datalink Corporation ...
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Taking a Bite Out of Citigroup on Earnings

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 8:45 am

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) has announced its fourth quarter earnings and the headline data is both disappointing and somewhat not as representative as it seems on the surface.  Earnings were ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AAPL, ACI, ARMH, BP, GOOG, HUM, JNS, LH, PCX, SYMC, YHOO, YOKU)

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 8:14 am

These are some of this Monday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Overweight at Piper Jaffray. Arch ...
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WikiLeaks–The 21st Century Washington Post

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 6:17 am

There is another round of outrage among businesses and banks because WikiLeaks has gotten hold of private documents from bank Julius Baer from one of its former executives. Reuters reports ...
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Obama’s New Economic Plan: A Wing And A Prayer To Cut Paperwork

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 5:32 am

President Barack Obama used the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal to address many of the economic needs of the United States and to provide some of his solutions. ...
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OPEC’s Funny Math For Oil Demand

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 5:03 am

OPEC recently released its January Monthly Oil Report. The analysis by the economists for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is that the need for crude this year has ...
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Media Digest (1/18/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 18, 2011 at 4:09 am

Some Senators said they would pass a currency bill to punish China on the value of the yuan just as the People's Republic president Hu Jintao visits Obama. (Reuters) Citigroup ...
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The Eight States Running Out Of Homebuyers

Posted: January 17, 2011 at 8:37 pm

The single biggest problem in the U.S. real estate market is simple: There are very few homebuyers. That seems obvious, but the “buyers’ strike” has caused house prices to drop, ...
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The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead (AAPL, BP, DANG, EMC, XOM, DVN, GENZ, JCG, RVBD, SNN, VOD, WMT, FXI, MUB, PZA)

Posted: January 17, 2011 at 1:11 pm

There are many new characters in this week's installment of "The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead."  We have tracked news and added color on each where applicable.  The cast ...
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Apple’s Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave, Shares Likely To Plunge

Posted: January 17, 2011 at 8:57 am

Steve Jobs wrote Apple employees that he will take a medical leave of absence but will stay CEO. It is one of the few piece of news that could cause ...
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Shanghai Composite Drops 3% As People’s Republic President Visits US

Posted: January 17, 2011 at 6:26 am

The Shanghai Composite dropped 3%. The reasons included concerns that the central bank has tightened to prevent inflation. That maneuver may not be successful due to rising labor and ...
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A Colossal CyberAttack On The World’s Internet System

Posted: January 17, 2011 at 6:10 am

The OECD has released a report entitled “Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk” which argues that hackers could bring global financial and infrastructure systems brought to their knees. The shock could be so ...
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Americans Expect Home Prices To Fall

Posted: January 17, 2011 at 5:35 am

A majority of Americans expect the drop in home prices which began in 2007 and has occurred each year since then to continue in 2011. This is not surprising. S&P ...
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