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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Short Sellers Exit Tech

Posted: January 12, 2011 at 6:15 am

Short sellers cut their bets against tech shares as earnings seasons approaches, based on data of short interest in major stocks as of December 31. Shares short in Intel (NASDAQ: ...
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Google App Store Growth Eclipses Apple’s

Posted: January 12, 2011 at 5:59 am

The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) App Store may have 300,000 downloadable software applications, but Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is gaining on that number at a remarkable pace. The Apple app figure doubled ...
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Job Bias Charges Hit Record As Economy Struggled

Posted: January 12, 2011 at 5:26 am

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that job bias claims reached a record in its fiscal year which ended last September. As evidence, the agency said reports by workers ...
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Suddenly, Everyone Wants To Fund Europe

Posted: January 12, 2011 at 5:02 am

It was only a few weeks ago that the Irish debt crisis caused investors to lose confidence in the sovereign debt of other financially weak EU nations. There has been ...
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Media Digest 1/12/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 12, 2011 at 4:10 am

Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) will increase financial disclosure but the firm will do little else to change its business practices. (Reuters) A few economists believe the Fed could run ...
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Another Bogus Real Estate Market Statistic

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 5:35 pm

The real estate web site Zillow ginned up a real doozy of a statistic about the state of the real estate market today arguing that the "Zillow Home Value Index ...
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Lululemon, When Great Things Get Even Greater (LULU)

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 4:18 pm

Shares of Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) had a great 2010 and the company had already risen after raising its guidance after earnings in early December.  When things go well ...
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At 52-Week Lows, Reconsidering RadioShack (RSH, VZ, AAPL, WMT, TGT, BBY)

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 1:16 pm

RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) is off to a very rough start in 2011.  Its stock has only enjoyed one day of gains since the start of the year.  Yesterday brought ...
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For-Profit Colleges: Looking for Bottom as Enrollments Fall (APOL, STRA, EDMC, COCO, CECO, DV)

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 12:27 pm

The University of Phoenix, owned by Apollo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL), reported first fiscal quarter revenue of $1.33 billion and EPS of $1.61, both higher than expectations of $1.26 billion ...
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Earnings For Homebuilders, They’re Back… Almost (LEN, KBH, RYL, DHI, PHM, TOL, XHB)

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 11:05 am

A second homebuilder has reported fourth quarter and full-year earnings that handily beat very low expectations. Lennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN) reported this morning that it had quarterly EPS of $0.17 ...
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Turnaround? Sears Sees Rise in Earnings (SHLD, WMT, TLB, TIF)

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 9:58 am

Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) today reported same-store sales and estimated net income for its fourth fiscal quarter ending January 29th. Same-store sales at Kmart and Sears stores were off ...
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A Valuation Turnaround Call for HP (HPQ)

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 9:45 am

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is a truly different company without Mark Hurd.  After his departure and ouster, the stock never found its way back to normal in 2010 despite a ...
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Alcoa Not Weighing On Aluminum Sector (AA, ACH, RS, CENX, NOR, KALU)

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 9:27 am

Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) was the first component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average to report earnings.  Last night's report was actually above estimates on earnings even if revenues were ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (APOL, GLUU, HILL, SHLD)

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 8:54 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Apollo Group inc. (NASDAQ: APOL), Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU), Dot ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (1/11/2011) AMD CEO, Japan Bond Buy

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 8:32 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
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