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Monthly Archives: February 2011

The Twitter-24/7 Market Report (2/3/2011) Jobless Claims, Retail Sales

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 8:45 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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Falling Jobless Claims Meet Falling Wages

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 8:39 am

The U.S. Labor Department just released the weekly jobless claims and the reading fell by 42,000 down to 415,000.  The week's reading from a week ago was revised to 457,000 ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (APC, ACI, BSX, EAT, DHI, FITB, FSLR, IACI, JPM, JNPR, KBH, MRVL, MU, PHM, RFMD, LUV, TLAB)

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 8:22 am

These are some of this Thursday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) Cut to Equal-Weight at Barclays. ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/3/2011) Nortel Patents, Genzyme M&A

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 7:53 am

Updated throughout the day. Sanofi-Aventis may announce the purchase of Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ) next week (Le Figaro) A number of bidders have lined up to buy Nortel patents (AllThingsD) Douglas ...
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The Return Of Layoffs

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 5:38 am

Economists cheered the ADP data that showed the private sector added 187,000 jobs in January. It did not help the stock market much but was probably offset by bad news ...
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Snow And The Future Of Retail Sales

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 5:13 am

Several industry groups and weather and securities analysts say that the cold and snowy first month of the year will hurt retail sales and airline traffic. That is almost certainly ...
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Media Digest 2/3/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 4:18 am

A judge said BP plc (NASDAQ: BP) $20 billion fund head Ken Feinberg is not independent of the oil company. (Reuters) Record snow will hurt retail sales. (Reuters) Poor weather ...
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America’s Ten Biggest Corporate Turnarounds

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 3:34 am

Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along ...
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Electronic Arts Sees Future in Smartphones (ERTS, AAPL, AMZN, RIMM, GOOG, MSFT)

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 7:14 pm

Games-maker Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) is getting a boost in share price today following a better-than-expected third fiscal quarter earnings report, and a buoyant outlook. That outlook depends on ...
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Has Extreme Winter Killed Global Warming?

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 3:02 pm

The extremely cold and snowy winter of 2010-2011 may be challenging the core case of global warming.  The earth is warming, the greenhouse gases are rising, and the oceans are ...
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Twist of Fate: MEMC Now May Save Solar Stocks (WFR, SOLR, JASO, SPWRA, FSLR, TAN, PBW)

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 1:22 pm

MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) is leading solar related shares higher after its earnings.  The irony is that MEMC is perhaps one of the larger disappointments in the world ...
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US Adds More Jobs, Markets Unconvinced (ADP)

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 12:24 pm

Private employers added 187,000 jobs in January, according to the latest report on private-sector employment from Automatic Data Processing Inc. (NYSE: ADP). The number beat expectations of 145,000, but wary ...
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Strong Debut for Epocrates IPO (EPOC)

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 12:05 pm

Epocrates, Inc. (NASDAQ: EPOC) saw a strong debut so far on Wednesday after its IPO was given a premium price above the range.  Yesterday's range was put at $13 to ...
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Apple Permits Only One Water-Damaged iPhone

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 11:18 am

Recently, I violated the cardinal rule of Apple  Inc.  (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone ownership -- I got mine wet.  Worse, the "incident" occurred in the bathroom.  Details will be spared, but suffice ...
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Weather, Fuel Costs Continue to Batter Airlines (AMR, UAL, JBLU, LCC, ALK, DAL, LUV, AAI, RJET)

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 9:40 am

The month of December was not so hot for international air carriers. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), air traffic demand growth fell by -2.3% month-over-month, from 8.2% ...
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