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Monthly Archives: February 2011

Small Business Employment Continues To Leak

Posted: February 6, 2011 at 4:11 pm

The jobs that might have been created in 2010 but were not are largely due to small businesses which could not afford to add the workers they needed to. According ...
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The Coming Week’s Must See Stock Events (ANN, VOXX, BEC, BMY, SU, CNQ, DIN, GS, EGPT, ICGE, OTEX, JDSU, KMP, KMR, KV-A, LULU, MU, NDAQ, OREX, QCOR, SIRI)

Posted: February 6, 2011 at 8:55 am

Earnings season may still be in force, but we are looking for the coming week's top coming events that could have a large impact on shares on Monday and throughout ...
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Tablet PC Sales To Rise 12-Fold By 2015 Driven By Apple iPad

Posted: February 6, 2011 at 7:31 am

Apple (AAPL) may make significantly more money from its new iPad that it has on any other product it has launched since 2001 when the iPod came to market. Research ...
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Obama To Business: Make Improvements, But We Wont

Posted: February 6, 2011 at 6:55 am

President Obama said in his weekly address that American businesses should increase their hiring and spending but did not say that the government would do anything meaningful to either stimulate ...
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The Top 5 Analyst Calls of the Week, or 6 (IRE, AIB, CELG, CCME, CSCO, GRMN, LUV)

Posted: February 5, 2011 at 9:58 am

Analyst calls are sometimes great and sometimes not.  Each week we review the major analyst calls for those standout research calls that were above the grain or are outside of ...
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The Stock Market Last Week–Biggest Losers

Posted: February 5, 2011 at 7:18 am

S&P 500 WEEK: BOTTOM 10 (28 JAN-03 FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 03Feb11 Close Price 28Jan11 PACCAR Inc PCAR -7.9 50.50 54.82 Genworth Financial Inc GNW ...
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The Stock Market Last Week–Top Gainers

Posted: February 5, 2011 at 7:14 am

S&P 500 WEEK TOP 10 (28 JAN -03 FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 03Feb11 Close Price 28Jan11 Market Cap($Mil) MEMC Electronic Materials Inc WFR 21.9 13.41 ...
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Next Week’s Must See Earnings Previews (NYX, TEVA, OPEN, KO, CSCO, WFMI, JASO, PEP, PM, S, KFT)

Posted: February 4, 2011 at 2:12 pm

Earnings season is actually close to winding down for the December quarter.  We still have many late reports coming out for the December quarter and year-end.  We have identified 11 ...
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2011 Stock Buybacks on Fire, Over $34 Billion (PFE, UNP, GME, ERTS, GD, TUP, MHS, VZ, UNM, MO, AZN, SYMC, YUM, DGX, COH, TIF, INTC)

Posted: February 4, 2011 at 12:17 pm

The method of using capital from the corporate treasury to return capital to shareholders via share repurchase programs has long been under question.  Most buybacks never are fully utilized, and ...
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GameStop’s Stock Buybacks Shouldn’t Please Shareholders (GME, ERTS, GOOG, MSFT)

Posted: February 4, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Video game retailer GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) today authorized a boost of $500 million in its share buyback program, replacing a $300 million authorization made in September 2010, and about half ...
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Boeing’s Challenge of Order Cancellation (BA)

Posted: February 4, 2011 at 10:58 am

Not only does The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) have problems delivering its new 787 Dreamliner and 747-8 passenger planes, now the company is getting cancellations on orders for its sturdy ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/4/2011) Ally IPO, Beckman Coulter M&A

Posted: February 4, 2011 at 9:09 am

Updated throughout the day. New pension finance treatment could change earnings at AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE VZ). (Bloomberg) Ally picked Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), JPMorgan ...
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Government Uses Magic to Fudge Unemployment Data

Posted: February 4, 2011 at 8:56 am

The Labor Department is out with its unemployment rate and the change in non-farm payrolls.  If you like to challenge the government's math or accuse the government of fudging numbers, ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (CSTR, PWER, JDSU)

Posted: February 4, 2011 at 8:52 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Coinstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR), Power-One, Inc. (NASDAQ: PWER), and JDS ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMR, CVS, KR, FSLR, GRMN, SOLR, K, LDK, OXY, PTEN, PWER, TSO, TIF, WAG, ADTN, EK)

Posted: February 4, 2011 at 8:29 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. AMR Corp. (NYSE: AMR) Cut to Hold at Argus. CVS ...
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