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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/15/2011) Nokia Siemens M&A, NASDAQ Offer For NYSE

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 8:09 am

Updated throughout the day. Nasdaq OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ)  may make an offer for NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) (Reuters) Nokia Siemens will try to renegotiate it $1.2 billion deal to buy ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMSC, CENT, CVX, DVN, DRI, DFS, XOM, GM, INTC, JASO, NFLX, OXY, STP, TLAB)

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 8:04 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC) Cut to Hold at Needham. ...
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Four Dollar Gas Has Arrived

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 7:00 am

Every motorist's nightmare has come true:  gas prices have topped $4 per gallon in Hawaii. Data on the American Automobile Association website shows that regular fuel in the Aloha State ...
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Hewlett-Packard’s Pipe Dream

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 5:53 am

Hewlett-Packard's (NYSE: HPQ) new CEO Léo Apotheker laid out a relatively simple formula for the expansion and improved profitability of the large technology firm that completely ignores the work of his ...
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Rebuilding For The 1,000 Year Disaster

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 5:23 am

The earthquake and tsunami in Japan have already raised the question of whether reactors should be built to handle 9.0 scale earthquakes and whether sea walls which cover 40% of ...
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Will Americans Stop Buying Cars? Japan Impact

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 4:45 am

Americans may cut back car purchase as shipments of automobiles from Japan fall due to the earthquake and tsunami there. The effect on US car companies would seem to be ...
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States Running Out Of Doctors

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 4:20 am

There are several ways to measure what many experts describe as a shortage of physicians in some parts of the United States. The first is the ratio of doctors per ...
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Media Digest (3/15/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 4:12 am

The Nikkei fell 11%. The Ethisphere Institute released its list of the most ethical companies saying those most open with employees and shareholders topped the list. (Reuters) The euro zone ...
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D.C. Policy: Keep Supporting Nuclear Power At Home (PKN, NUCL, USU, CCJ, SHAW)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 8:52 pm

Nuclear power as a carbon-free movement and as a path to energy independence in America is not likely to get sidelined in the immediate aftermath of the Sendai, Japan earthquake.  ...
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Online News Growth Faces Challenges

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 6:30 pm

About the only good news in the news business is coming from the web.   The growth, though impressive, is not enough to sustain the profitability of newspaper publishers which are ...
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Mr. Dumas Accounting Award Winner: China MediaExpress (CCME)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 4:54 pm

The world of reverse mergers from questionable Chinese companies is about to come under even more scrutiny.  China MediaExpress Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCME) has been halted for news pending for a ...
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Lawson: Carl Icahn Looks For Highest Price (LWSN)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 3:20 pm

Lawson Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWSN) has bucked the market today and shares have risen after news of its $1.8 billion buyout offer on Friday.  It was an offer from software ...
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The Eight ETFs Which Owe Japan (KOL, TAN, KWT, PBW, EWV, UNG, GAZ, NAGS)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 2:35 pm

The news coming out of Japan for its nuclear reactors is sadly starting to now get more media coverage than the vast death toll.  The projected death toll is somewhere ...
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IPO Daily: LinkedIn Files Updated Financials in IPO Process (GS, MHP, SAP)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 1:01 pm

It wasn't that long ago that we named LinkedIn as one of our Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2011.  It was just in late January that the social networking ...
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Solazyme Files for IPO, Another Biofuel Maker (CDXS, AMRS, GEVO, VRNM)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 12:50 pm

Solazyme, Inc. has filed a Form S-1 with the SEC announcing its plans for an IPO. This is the first filing for the company and does not include any pricing ...
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