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Monthly Archives: February 2011

The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: Frontier Oil Holders Revolt Against Merger

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 9:47 am

Shareholders of Frontier Oil are displeased about its merger with Holly Corp. It would be more accurate to say that Holly is making an acquisition for $2.9 billion. Shareholder class ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (CNXT, DTV, SMSC, VRTX)

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 8:56 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Conexant Systems, Inc . (NASDAQ: CNXT), DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV), Standard ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/23/1011) iPad 2 Launch, NASDAQ Bid For NYSE

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 8:06 am

Updated throughout the day. NASDAQ may make at bid for NYSE (NYSE: NYX) (various) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release its iPad 2 on March 2 (Reuters) The SEC will launch ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (APD, AEP, AMAT, EBAY, EL, EXPD, HON, JASO, LLL, NFLX, UFPI, YOKU)

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 8:03 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Raised to Buy ...
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Secular Pressure Continues at Garmin (GRMN, GOOG, AAPL, TNAV, T, VZ, TRMB)

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 7:39 am

Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) is starting to show more cracks in its story against the world of bundled GPS and personal navigation services in smartphones.  The GPS leader turned in ...
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The Ten Industries Most Damaged By Inflation

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 6:38 am

24/7 Wall St. has decided to investigate where inflation has the greatest potential to damage the economy.  There is plenty of ground to cover. It is clear that the cost ...
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New and Old Products Close In On Hulu

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 6:11 am

Hulu's management may not have admitted it already, but the company is about to be irreparably damaged by new initiatives to stream premium content  to the home. The first ...
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Will The iPad 2 Come Too Soon?

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 5:36 am

The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad was launched last April and sold three million units in 80 days. Apple sold 7.33 iPads in its fiscal first quarter. There are a number ...
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In Housing Trouble, The Seeds For Recovery

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 5:13 am

There was not a bit of good news in the S&P/Case-Shiller data about the housing market for the last quarter of 2010. The National Index was down 4.1% from the ...
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Media Digest (2/23/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 4:19 am

Nasdaq OMX may bid for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NYX) (Reuters) Oil reached a 2 1/2 high on Middle East concerns (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) made a grim ...
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HP Differs From Dell in Earnings (HPQ, DELL)

Posted: February 22, 2011 at 4:13 pm

Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has just reported its first real quarter earnings report under the new CEO Leo Apotheker. The PC, server, and IT giant reported earnings of $1.36 ...
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New Airline Risks: Global Strife & High Oil (LUV, AMR, UAL, DAL, LCC, FAA, RYAAY)

Posted: February 22, 2011 at 3:52 pm

If there is one industry which reacts immediately to higher oil prices and to global unrest, it is the airline sector.  These are technically not new risks but these two ...
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Lessons of and Incidents of Force Majeure

Posted: February 22, 2011 at 2:10 pm

Force Majeure is perhaps one of the least favored aspects of corporate law.  In short, Force Majeure is that odd exception that suddenly gives a supplier or a customer a ...
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America’s Worst Board Members: Matthew H Paull Of Best Buy

Posted: February 22, 2011 at 1:37 pm

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) just issued another piece of nasty news. It will close its nine branded stores in China. It is another in a series of signs that the ...
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Ten Hidden Gems in Intel’s Annual Report (INTC, MU, AMD, HPQ, DELL, NVDA, QCOM, BRCM, TXN)

Posted: February 22, 2011 at 12:59 pm

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is among many of the established companies which has filed its annual report or 10-K with the SEC.  These reports are almost always long and boring ...
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