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Monthly Archives: February 2011

Molycorp’s Painful Dilution (MCP, REMX, REE, AVL)

Posted: February 11, 2011 at 7:01 am

Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is finally bringing this secondary offering of common stock for holders and is selling some mandatory convertible preferred shares.  The terms of the deal may be ...
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Kinder Morgan IPO Premium Price, Still Leaving Some on the Table (KMI, GS, KMR, KMP, AMJ, FMO, KYN, AMLP)

Posted: February 11, 2011 at 6:45 am

We have been calling for a premium IPO and a higher share count deal for Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) and its highly anticipated IPO.  Technically this is a re-IPO ...
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24/7 Wall St./Harris Poll On Tax Cuts & Consumer Spending

Posted: February 11, 2011 at 6:33 am

Nearly every adult American with a job knows that the "Bush" tax cuts were extended into 2012. The general understanding of most people who have deductions taken out of their ...
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Lessons of the Greatest Bull Markets, 1900 to Today

Posted: February 11, 2011 at 5:57 am

We are in the midst of one of the greatest bull markets ever seen in modern times.  Stocks are rising more often than they fall and we have just seen ...
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Will Amazon Run Out Of Places To Operate Its Business?

Posted: February 11, 2011 at 5:36 am

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) will close a distribution center in Texas and will almost certainly not have any employees in the state ever again. Texas will need to provide unemployment benefits ...
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Concern About Unemployment Soars

Posted: February 11, 2011 at 5:12 am

The inability of the government and the economy to create jobs is not lost on most Americans. Nearly 16 million people are still looking for jobs in the US. The ...
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Nokia’s Future And Microsoft’s Money

Posted: February 11, 2011 at 4:49 am

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) won a huge victory today. Struggling handset company Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which is still the global leader in its industry, will use Redmond's mobile OS in its ...
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Media Digest (2/11/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 11, 2011 at 4:04 am

Reuters: A Deutsche Borse deal with the the NYSE (NYSE: NYX) faces regulatory resistance (Reuters) Reuters: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will try to create competition for Google's ...
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Unusual After-Hours Stocks on the Move (NILE, EXPE, PNRA, HOKU, VITA)

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 5:07 pm

We are seeing yet another high number of shares on the move in the after-hours session this Thursday.  Five top movers are Blue Nile Inc. (NASDAQ: NILE), Expedia Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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Ford’s Preferred Redemption Trims Out Another $3 Billion in Debt (F)

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 4:29 pm

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is continuing to make good on its promise to cut debt and get its finances in better order.  Despite having the best balance sheet by ...
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Alcatel-Lucent Suddenly The Sector Leader of 2011 (CSCO, ALU)

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 3:28 pm

Despite being grossly disappointed with John Chambers and the earnings guidance from Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), it is still hard for us to believe that Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) is ...
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Bracing for a Higher Kinder Morgan IPO (KMI, KMP, KMR, GS)

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 3:15 pm

Kinder Morgan Inc. (NYSE: KMI) is supposed to price tonight.  While many already expected the IPO to be hot, the talk is that hot became hotter.  The last formal count ...
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Does Akamai Deserve the Pounding It’s Getting Today? (AKAM, AAPL, LLNW, FFIV, NFLX)

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 12:38 pm

Global internet traffic is expected to jump by more than four times by 2014. The primary driver is video, which in 2010 leaped past peer-to-peer traffic for the first time ...
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Activision Pulls the Plug on Guitar Hero, Outlook for 2011 Disappoints (ATVI, ERTS, TTWO, THQI, MSFT, SNE, AAPL, RIMM)

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 11:12 am

Game maker Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) posted unimpressive fourth quarter results after the market closed last night, and to make matters worse, offered a weaker-than-expected outlook for the current ...
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Global Oil Demand Estimate Rises

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 9:59 am

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has raised its estimate for global oil demand by 120,000 barrels/day for 2011, to a total of 89.3 million barrels/day. The increase came as a ...
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