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Monthly Archives: February 2011

Short Sellers Very Mixed in High-Priced Market Leaders (AMZN, AAPL, BIDU, FFIV, GS, GOOG, IBM, MA, NFLX, POT, PCLN, CRM, VMW, WYNN)

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 9:37 am

The short sellers have reversed their trend of the mass exodus in short selling.  What is interesting is that some companies are seeing a record low in the short interest ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (2/10/2011) Jobless Claims, Jobless Claims

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 9:21 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 (AKAM, CSCO, SQNM, EZCH)

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 8:55 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), Cisco Systems, Inc.  (NASDAQ: ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/10/2011) Twitter M&A, SEC Probes ETFs

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 8:38 am

Updated throughout the day Facebook and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) have both considered buying Twitter which probably has a value of close to $8 billion (WSJ) Blackrock and other investment firms ...
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Jobless Claims Hit Two-and-a-Half Year Lows

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 8:36 am

The weekly jobless claims are finally back under the 400,000 mark.  Today's reading showed that the drop was 36,000 down to 383,000.  To show just what a relief it is, ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BIDU, CRL, CHK, CSCO, CSC, ENER, HUM, IPI, ITT, JCI, NYX, RL, WMT)

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 8:27 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU) Raised to Overweight at HSBC. Charles River ...
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Sprint Shrugs Off iPhone With Good Earnings

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 7:38 am

Sprint-Nextel (NASDAQ: S) may not have the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone but that has not impeded its recover. The wireless provider posted relatively good numbers for the period which ended ...
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Why The ’100 Best Companies’ To Work List Is Useless

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 6:49 am

Anyone who enters one of the 77 high-end supermarkets owned by Wegmans Food Markets Inc.  throughout the Northeast or clicks on the website of the Rochester,  NY-based company quickly learns ...
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The IMF Gets Its Hands Slapped

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 5:59 am

The Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund issued its report on the IMF's actions as the credit crisis unfolded. It argued that the IMF could have done a ...
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Panel Unfortunately Attacks Feinberg Wall St. Pay Program

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 5:33 am

"Pay Czar" Kenneth Feinberg failed to reign-in Wall Street pay practices, according to a Congressional Oversight Panel  report entitled "Executive Compensation Restrictions in the Troubled Asset Relief Program." The panel ...
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Short Sellers Attack Weakest Companies

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 5:06 am

Short sellers moved into the shares of companies that Wall St. views as having weak earnings capacity and poor business strategies. Shares sold short in AMD (NYSE: AMD), which recently ...
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Media Digest (2/10/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 4:10 am

Bernanke warned that sharp budget cuts could derail the recovery. (Reuters) The Hong Kong exchange said it was open to mergers after marriages began between North American and European exchanges. ...
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The 12 Most Profitable International Crimes

Posted: February 10, 2011 at 12:59 am

The illicit trade in humans, drugs, organs, and nine other huge international criminal activities produces $650 billion in revenue per year. 24/7 Wall St. gathered data from from a Global ...
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News Corp. Raises $2.5 billion in 10 & 30 Year Debt (NWS)

Posted: February 9, 2011 at 4:59 pm

News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS) managed to do something rather impressive considering the  state of the media in the aftermath of the recession.  Rupert Murdoch and friends raised close to $2.5 ...
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Republican Budget Targets: Fossil Energy Research, Poison Control Centers, US Marshals Service

Posted: February 9, 2011 at 4:25 pm

House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers disclosed a partial list of 70 spending cuts that will be included in an upcoming Continuing Resolution bill. The CR legislation will fund the federal ...
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