Monthly Archives: March 2011

GrowOp’s Updated Data For The Medical Marijuana IPO

Posted: March 7, 2011 at 7:13 am

The controversial field of medical marijuana is heading to Wall Street. An initial public offering is likely on the way from an equipment-maker for this sector. GrowOp Technology Ltd. is ...
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Trend Returns: Empeiria, A Blank Check IPO

Posted: March 7, 2011 at 6:20 am

Stocks are way up in the last couple of years and the IPO market is back to producing some of the usual companies you might expect. Now there may even ...
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Over A Two-Year Period, BP Does As Well As Exxon Mobil

Posted: March 7, 2011 at 6:06 am

Exxon Mobil's (NYSE: XOM) stock should have outperformed BP plc's (NYSE: BP) over the last two years, but it has not. Exxon's shares are up 40% over the period. BP's ...
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China Wants To Have It All

Posted: March 7, 2011 at 5:32 am

China's five year economic plan is as ambitious as any laid out by the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s. The Chinese have set a 7% GDP growth target for ...
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Why Moody’s May Not Have Cut Greece Enough

Posted: March 7, 2011 at 5:04 am

Moody's downgraded Greece's government bond ratings to B1 from Ba1 and said its outlook for the sovereign paper was "negative." The drop was three notches, an unusual move for a credit ...
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Media Digest (3/7/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 7, 2011 at 4:05 am

The US may take oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve. (Reuters) The London Stock Exchange may try to take over NASDAQ. (The Times) A National Association for Business Economics survey ...
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Saudi Arabia Avoids The Revolution

Posted: March 6, 2011 at 7:06 pm

Many analysts have pointed out that the political instability in the Middle East is the result of the lack of jobs and affordable food. Choosing democracy as a form ...
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US Strategic Petroleum Reserve Could Spring a Leak As Obama Considers Use

Posted: March 5, 2011 at 10:53 am

White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley told Meet The Press that President Obama may release some amount of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to lower oil prices. The US ...
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The Top 5 Analyst Calls of the Week (NLY, AAPL, BAC, C, MRVL, SIRI)

Posted: March 5, 2011 at 10:50 am

This last week had some key analyst calls that either stood out from the pack, showed some key insight, or which moved shares more than just a garden variety upgrade ...
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Bracing for the HCA IPO (HCA, BAC)

Posted: March 5, 2011 at 9:41 am

HCA is on deck for its IPO this week. The IPO is expected to raise close to $3.5 billion from the sale of about 124 million shares. Be advised that ...
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Next Week’s Top Earnings on Deck (CIEN, URBN, AIB, DMND, DYN, FNSR, AEO, MCP, CWTR, FMCN, ARO, CLNE, NSM)

Posted: March 5, 2011 at 9:06 am

Earnings season has mostly come to a close but we still have many companies trickling out earnings which could easily move the needle on shares. This coming week we will ...
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BP Should Be Asking For Tony Hayward’s Bonuses Back

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 4:19 pm

Tony Hayward, who business school students will be studying for generations as an example of ineptitude, is back in the news again. BP Plc.'s board of directors has decided that ...
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The Ten Highest-Paid Government Jobs

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 3:37 pm

Working for the government is often referred to as public service. The term implies sacrifice or taking less than what could be earned in the private sector or in an ...
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Value Trap or Value… Family Dollar Conundrum (FDO, WMT, DG)