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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Target’s Flop, Many Retailers Stand Out (TGT, COST, BJ, M, SKS, DDS, GPS, LTD, ANF, AEO, ARO, WMT)

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 9:24 am

Retail stores are reporting December sales today and the news is, at best mixed. Retailers reporting already include Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT), Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST), BJ's Wholesale Club ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ARHM, MSFT, HAUP, QDEL, SVA, XOMA)

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 8:50 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH),  Hauppage Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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The Ongoing Folly of Quantitative Easing

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 8:35 am

By John Tamny of Forbes The Fed's latest minutes make plain that there's ongoing support within the central bank for quantitative easing.  This is naive.  Much like the 1930s, banks ...
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Jobless Claims Revert Back to Caution

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 8:34 am

The Labor Department is out with its latest round of weekly jobless claims.  There was a known seasonality and weather impact that could have played a part in the last ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMZN, AGNC, AXP, NLY, BUD, ATHR, BJ, BRCD, CHL, DHI, XOM, MSFT, MSI, RAX, GOLD, TOL)

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 8:16 am

These are some of this Thursday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Reiterated Buy and raised target to $198 at ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/6/2010) Cadillac Models, Capital Source M&A

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 8:13 am

Updated throughout the day. LinkedIn will have a 2011 IPO (various) Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) passed on a chance to invest in Facebook last year (NYT) Capital Source (NYSE: ...
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Gold Looking At Fourth Day in the Red (GLD, IAU, GDX, KGC)

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 8:01 am

2011 is not looking at all like 2010 when it comes to the initial trading for gold prices.  This morning we see that Gold is trading lower yet again in ...
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Roustabouts Have Worst Jobs, Software Engineers Best

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 6:33 am

Working on a oil rig is a bad job. Working as a software engineer is great. "Twelve-hour shifts, exposure to the elements in hostile environments, low pay, high risk of ...
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China Races To A Bailout Of PIIGS

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 6:03 am

China says it will buy as much as $7.9 billion of Spain's sovereign debt. That is a large investment given Spain's modest $1.3 trillion GDP. China can spare that money. ...
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The Top 10 Layoffs Of 2010

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 5:59 am

The rate at which people are losing jobs in the United States has decreased, according to economic data. There is also information, which includes the December ADP report, that suggests ...
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Healthcare Expenditures Reach 17.6% Of GDP As Nearly Everyone Get Sick

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 5:49 am

Health Affairs Magazine reports that health care costs reached 17.6% of GDP in 2009. The figure rose from 16.6% in 2008. The magazine reported that "The growth rate of health ...
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A Modest Proposal: A (temporary) IRS Amnesty

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 5:47 am

There is a simple, easy way that will help close the $1 trillion-dollar federal deficit: Declare a temporary tax amnesty. Under the 24/7 Wall St.  plan,  individual and business taxpayers ...
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Deepwater Horizon Spill Panel Blames Everyone Involved With Disaster

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 5:20 am

The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling was appointed by the President to examine why the oil rig disaster in the Gulf happened and ...
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Microsoft Sells 8 Million Kinects In Sixty Days As Ballmer Rules

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 4:51 am

Steve Ballmer gave his annual address at the Consumer Electronics Show. Among the things that he mentioned was that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) had sold 8 million Kinect video game consoles ...
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Media Digest 1.5.2011 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 4:01 am

LinkedIn will go public this year (Reuters) China said the yuan was not the cause of trade problem with the US (Reuters) BP plc (NYSE: BP) and other firms involved ...
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