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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Frontier Markets Hanging on Tunisia & Egypt Violence (AFK, EGPT, FFD)

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 10:15 am

Global violence and protests have moved from Tunisia to Egypt now, and the unrest may not yet be abating in the region just yet.  These may matter little on the ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (1/28/2011) GDP Up 3.2?

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 8:59 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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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AMZN, INFN, TMRK)

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 8:51 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Infinera Corp (NASDAQ: INFN), ...
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Q4 GDP Lacks Major Recovery

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 8:47 am

The Commerce Department has released the fourth quarter of 2010 figures for Gross Domestic Product, or Gross National Product as it used to be called.  GDP came in on a ...
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Today’s Best Marker Rumors (1/28/2011) Paulson Earns $4 Billion, Sara Lee M&A

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 8:44 am

Updated throughout the day. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) may pay a larger portion of its bonuses in cash (WSJ) Hedge fund manager John Paulson made $4 billion last year ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AFL, T, BP, KMX, CL, DANG, GE, JBLU, NVDA, POT, PG, TRV, SVU, SOL)

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 8:33 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL) Started as Neutral at Goldman Sachs. ...
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Sara Lee More Valuable As Spin-Off Versus Sale (SLE)

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 8:07 am

Sara Lee Corporation (NYSE: SLE) has been a takeout candidate and restructuring candidate for what may be a decade now.  In recent days and recent weeks, Sara Lee shares went ...
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BankUnited Returns As Public Bank With IPO (BKU, BX)

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 7:49 am

BankUnited, Inc. (NYSE: BKU) is coming public again today, for the second time.  The bank you used to know as "BKUNA" is now "BKU" and is far more healthy and ...
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The 8 Greatest Dividend Gains For 2011 (AWK, CSCO, XOM, FDX, GE, HPQ, JPM, WMT)

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 5:49 am

Corporation are now sitting on billions and billions of dollars in their corporate treasuries.  They are keeping their share prices higher by returning capital to shareholders.  Most are certainly not ...
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Americans Will Take Jobs They Don’t Want

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 5:47 am

Americans who need jobs will take jobs other than the ones they desire. A new Gallup poll says that "Six in 10 unemployed Americans say the next job they get ...
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Moody’s Opinion On “Evolution” Of US Aaa Rating

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 5:19 am

There was more bad news about the view credit rating agencies have on the debt of large developed nations. Moody's released a new Special Comment entitled "Evolution of Moody's Perspective ...
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Nothing Wrong With Amazon.com’s Financial Results

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 4:58 am

There was nothing wrong with Amazon.com's (NYSE: AMZN) quarterly results when they are viewed through the lens of  the e-commerce company's battle with the bricks-and-mortar sector. America's largest retailers ...
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Media Digest (1/28/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 4:12 am

The IMF "Fiscal Monitor" and ratings agencies have both warned Japan and the US on their growing debt loads (Reuters) Ford Motor's (NYSE: F) annual profit may be its largest ...
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LinkedIn Files For IPO (GS, MHP, SAP)

Posted: January 27, 2011 at 4:50 pm

LinkedIn Corporation is one of our top 17 IPOs to watch for 2011, and it has now formally filed for its IPO.  The social networking site for professionals has filed ...
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Margin Pressure Continues at Amazon.com (AMZN)

Posted: January 27, 2011 at 4:34 pm

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) was hitting all-time highs just last week before earnings were due today, but that was then and this is now.  The online retail giant has now ...
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