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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AET, AMR, CSIQ, FXCM, GG, IPXL, INTC, JASO, LDK, M, MCD, MON, NFX, RSH, CRM, SBUX, STP, SPWRA, YUM)

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 8:28 am

These are some of this Tuesday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Reiterated Neutral with $39 target at ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/11/2011)

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 8:20 am

Updated throughout the day. MySpace will layoff 500 workers. The company is a division of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) (WSJ) The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone will cost Verizon $5 billion ...
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Level 3 Reaffirms Ahead of Offering (LVLT, CMCSA, NFLX)

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 8:06 am

Level 3 Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is back again in the capital markets.  Once a seller, always a seller.  The company will offer $300 million in eight-year maturity notes, pushing ...
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Sprint The Casualty In AT&T vs Verizon War

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 5:56 am

Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) did not get the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. Verizon Wireless did. Analysts say that Verizon may have to pay $2.5 billion to purchase iPhones this year. It ...
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Underwater Mortgages — Measuring the Unmeasurable

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 5:35 am

Underwater mortgages are a serious problem affecting the economy, but much of the conventional wisdom about the issue makes no sense. For instance, no one is quite sure how many ...
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Steve Ballmer Is Not Going Anywhere

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 5:34 am

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is not going anywhere. Some analysts say that the company's performance at CES was poor. The world's largest software firm said sales of its ...
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Japan To Buy Euro Debt

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 5:02 am

Japan plans to join China as a major buyer of debt in EU nations, particularly those in financial trouble. "Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Tokyo was considering using its ...
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Media Digest (1/11/20110 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 11, 2011 at 4:05 am

The G20 has begun work to lower chances of a food crisis (Reuters) China is likely to tighten again (Reuters) Oil stayed above $89 due to a shutdown of the ...
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The 10 Companies That Added The Most Jobs In 2010

Posted: January 10, 2011 at 6:29 pm

Last year seemed like another of unrelenting layoffs, but ten large companies added, in total, more than 200,000 jobs, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Most of this increase in ...
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Groundhog Day in Chip-Land: AMD Loses Another CEO (AMD, INTC)

Posted: January 10, 2011 at 4:44 pm

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) set CEO Dirk Meyer up for failure from his first day on the job.  After the close came the announcement that Meyer was resigning ...
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Alcoa Delivers, While Tone Expected (AA)

Posted: January 10, 2011 at 4:27 pm

Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) did manage to turn in better-than-expected performance to kick off earnings season.  That was expected of the company after the gains we have seen of late ...
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Is LDK’s Move Sustainable? (LDK, FSLR, STP, SPWRA, JASO, TAN)

Posted: January 10, 2011 at 1:15 pm

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) is surging after this morning's guidance.  Shares are up by double-digit percentages on higher guidance for its fourth quarter 2010 and for its fiscal ...
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DuPont Buying Danish Food Additives Firm

Posted: January 10, 2011 at 1:07 pm

For the first nine months of its 2010 fiscal year, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (NYSE: DD) got nearly one-third of its sales from its agricultural and nutrition ...
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Dot Hill, Gains, and Rethinking Tech M&A (HILL, NTAP, ORCL, HPQ, DELL, EMC, CSCO)

Posted: January 10, 2011 at 11:05 am

Dot Hill Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: HILL) is finding itself back in favor this morning.  The company has aspects of the cloud for investors but it is more for storage solutions, ...
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Smith & Nephew Becomes Worth an Arm and a Leg in M&A (SNN, JNJ, ZMH, SYK, MDT)

Posted: January 10, 2011 at 10:34 am

Smith & Nephew plc (NYSE: SNN) is trading higher today on reports that it rebuffed an approach for a takeover by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ).  What is interesting about ...
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