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Monthly Archives: February 2011

S&P Cuts Irish Banks, Late Again (AIB, IRE)

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 9:28 am

Standard & Poor's is at it again, with late debt rating cuts.  This is actually in the Irish banking sector rather than in the sovereign ratings.  As this is too ...
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Level 3 Not Able to Move the Earnings Needle (LVLT, NFLX)

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 9:18 am

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is not out of the woods when it comes to its earnings.  The wholesale data packet carrier to large internet and telecom outfits tried ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (APKT, BRCM , MGIC, OREX)

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 8:54 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT), Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:  BRCM), Magic ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/22/2011) China Rates, EMI Sale

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 8:34 am

Updated throughout the day. China will raise rates again (NYT) Citigroup (NYSE: C) will try to sell EMI for $2 billion Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ATVI, APC, BX, DG, DLTR, ERTS, HXL, KMT, MMC, NUAN, OREX, PFE, HK, PLXS, QCOM, WAG, WMT)

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 8:25 am

These are some of this Wednesday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Cut to Neutral at BofA/ML. ...
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The Analysts The Media Loves To Hate

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 6:23 am

Veteran banking analyst Richard Bove,  a ubiquitous presence in the business press, insists that he hardly ever calls reporters except when he has "violent: disagreements with them.   They call him ...
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Remembering That Most Mergers Fail

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 6:13 am

A famous Bain & Co research report issued in 2004 said the 70% of mergers fail to create shareholder value. A Southern Methodist University study of 193 mergers which happened ...
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10 Companies To Rebuild America’s Infrastructure

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 5:41 am

America's core infrastructure is falling apart.  Roads are sinking, bridges have collapsed, dams are old, power plants and the power grid are substandard, rail systems are ancient, the levees are ...
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With The Bums Thrown Out, No Economic Solutions

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 5:31 am

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be gone in a few days, or in a few months if he has his way. Economists warn that capital is fleeing the country, that ...
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The Weather Conspires To Boost Inflation

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 5:05 am

The storms in the US and Northern Europe and Australian flooding could combine to fuel an already rapid move up in global inflation. Tropical Cyclone Yasi has strengthened to a ...
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Media Digest 2/2/2011 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 2, 2011 at 4:10 am

BP plc (NYSE: BP) may face US charges that it manipulated gas prices. (Reuters) Roche said that regulations in the US could harms its results. (Reuters) Borders Group (NYSE: BGP) ...
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Broadcom’s Confusing Earnings Meet Higher Dividend & Buyback (BRCM, QCOM)

Posted: February 1, 2011 at 4:27 pm

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) has come out with its fourth quarter earnings.  It has also hiked its dividend and  accelerated its share buyback plan. The maker of communications chips reported ...
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Car Sales Finally Signal Economic Recovery: Auto Companies Could Post Record Profits

Posted: February 1, 2011 at 3:32 pm

US domestic vehicle sales reached a a 27-year low in 2009 when only 10.4 million units were sold. The figure for 2005 was 16.94 million, a period of unusual prosperity. ...
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Tempering of January Same-Store Sales, Still Strong 2011 (LULU, VRA, ZUMZ, TIF, CWTR, AEO, TLB, PSUN)

Posted: February 1, 2011 at 3:24 pm

Blame it in part on the weather.  The major gain in same-store sales that has been seen in recent months  may be coming to an end.  There were several factors ...
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Shale Gas Producers Could Face Financial Pressure (XOM, CHK, HK, RRC, XCO, SM, HAL, SLB)

Posted: February 1, 2011 at 2:36 pm

The land rush to acquire and develop shale gas deposits remains as competitive as ever. But the way that the gas is extracted threatens to put a crimp in development ...
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