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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Media Digest (3/14/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg Nikkei Down 6.2%

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 4:13 am

The rook of a second nuclear reactor blew off in Japan. (Reuters) A hacker group plans to release Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) e-mails today. (Reuters) Members of Congress are ...
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Ten Huge Global Brands The Chinese May Buy

Posted: March 13, 2011 at 11:56 pm

"We will encourage the best firms to acquire or build up overseas operations and to license or acquire famous global brands in order to obtain international recognition and improve ...
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Cost Of Japan Earthquake May Hit $35 Billion

Posted: March 13, 2011 at 7:01 pm

Preliminary estimates for the cost of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake are as high as $35 billion, and the effects of the tsunami could cause that to grow According to research ...
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Top Stocks To Watch in the Week Ahead (BAC, BIG, CVX, CBLI, FSIN, HPQ, EWJ, KV-A, LWSN, LEA, EGPT, SNDK, CIGX, TAYD, TRAD, YHOO)

Posted: March 13, 2011 at 11:22 am

This next week is going to be a very light one for earnings but will be a very active week for other news.  The Japanese quake aftermath and many other ...
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The Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades of the Week (CIEN, GMCR, MCP, NFLX, NVDA, SBUX, AMD, BRCM, MU, NVDA, SMH)

Posted: March 12, 2011 at 7:31 am

This last week had several key analyst research calls which stood out from the pack and went against the grain.  The top research calls we tracked after going through the ...
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S&P 500 Gainers For The Week 3.4-3.10 (SBUX, S, LUV)

Posted: March 11, 2011 at 6:38 pm

Starbucks Corp SBUX 14.6 37.97 33.12 28325.6   Western Digital Corp WDC 14.4 34.32 30.01 7950.8   Sprint Nextel Corp S 12.9 4.90 4.34 14652.6   Iron Mountain Inc ...
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iPad Sold Out Online? (AAPL)

Posted: March 11, 2011 at 4:03 pm

For those who couldn't wait until 5 p.m. PT to get an iPad 2 from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) at a retail store, the company offered online sales at its ...
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YouTube Finally Starts Paying Off for Google (GOOG, NFLX, AMZN, AAPL, NWS, DIS, CMCSA, TWX)

Posted: March 11, 2011 at 1:15 pm

When Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) coughed up $1.65 billion for YouTube in 2006, there were plenty of questions about what the Google brass was smoking. It's still not clear whether  ...
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IPO Outlook: ServiceSource… Sales in the Cloud (SREV)

Posted: March 11, 2011 at 1:01 pm

ServiceSource International, LLC appears to be one step closer to its initial public offering.  The company has set terms for its IPO of 11,940,133 shares in a price range of ...
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Next Week’s Top Earnings on Deck (DRYS, GES, FDX, LULU, LDK, NKE)

Posted: March 11, 2011 at 12:27 pm

Earnings season is over for the most part.  Next week we will have a few key earnings from a few players.  While none are likely market-moving events, these can still ...
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Daily M&A: Rethinking Irish Banks As Buyout Targets (AIB, IRE, BKU, BX)

Posted: March 11, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Something happened in recent weeks which was easy to miss out on and easy to have forgotten about, but which Irish bank investors need to consider.  Other geopolitical news has ...
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Nuclear Plant Extension Underwhelms Entergy (ETR, EXC, DUK)

Posted: March 11, 2011 at 11:33 am

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a 20-year renewal of Entergy Corp.'s (NYSE: ETR) Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Whether that's good news or bad for Entergy remains to ...
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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: March 11 Bad Weather For Del Monte

Posted: March 11, 2011 at 11:13 am

AIG (NYSE: AIG) suffered from news that it will buy back $16 billion of distressed securities. Del Monte (NYSE: DLM) received bad press because of concerns about poor weather effecting ...
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Daily Dividend: Rising Bank Yields & Already High Bank Dividends (JPM, WFC, USB, BK, STT, MTB, NYB, CFR, BOH, TRMK)

Posted: March 11, 2011 at 11:01 am

24/7 Wall Street is bringing news and analysis in dividends and dividend trends for income oriented investors each day at 11:00 AM EST.  We are now less than two weeks ...
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Johnson & Johnson FDA & Recall Scrutiny (JNJ)

Posted: March 11, 2011 at 9:54 am

The US Food and Drug Administration and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) have agreed to a consent decree under which the agency will monitor manufacturing processes at three plants operated ...
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