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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Wal-Mart Raises Dividend, Will Other Retailers Follow? (WMT, COST, TGT, JCP, M, SHLD, JWN, BBY, GPS, KSS)

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 10:14 am

When the going gets tough, the tough raise their dividends. At least that's the way it seems with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), which is having trouble meeting its revenue ...
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Tablet Craze Echoes Netbooks

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 10:08 am

Less than two years ago, netbooks sales were going to tear the heart out of laptop makers. Companies led by Asus stormed US consumer electronics stores with $300 machine ideal ...
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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: March 4 Cigna Sex Suit

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 9:27 am

Cigna (NYSE: CI) was hit particularly hard by bad news today. The insurance company faces at $100 million gender bias suit.  Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was plagued with bad ...
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Unemployment Nearing Two-Year Lows

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 9:03 am

If the government can keep its counting at the same metrics, unemployment may get down under 8% again by year-end.  The Labor Department reported this morning that the 'official' unemployment ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (NLY, ERII, HUM, JNPR, LEAP, MRVL, MXIM, RCRC, BEE, OKS, UDRL)

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 8:51 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls: Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) Cut to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus. Energy Recovery, ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ERII, HERO, INVE, MRVL, ZSTN)

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 8:48 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: ERII), Hercules Offshore, Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (3/4/2011) Citi Downgraded, Wal-Mart Dividend

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 8:19 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/4/2011) Goldman CEO Testimony, Chrysler IPO

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 7:39 am

Updated throughout the day. Chrysler is in conversations with banks to refinance its debt ahead of an IPO (Reuters) Regulators have sent a proposal to banks as part of a ...
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The Sixteen States That are Killing Their Pensions

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 6:11 am

For decades, public employees have had pension plans identical to those provided by most large American companies. These are defined benefit plans that pay workers a fixed sum each year ...
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Food Prices: A Problem Without A Solution

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 5:52 am

IMF researchers believe that high food prices are a problem which will linger, at least in the foreseeable future. Bad weather is part of the reason. The growth in bio-fuels ...
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Will Social Networks Stop Taking Outside Capital?

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 5:16 am

Several media outlets reported that a venture division of JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) would invest $450 million in Twitter. The investment would have given Twitter a value of $4.5 billion. The ...
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Google’s Video David Battles Industry’s Goliaths

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 4:57 am

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) challenged the entrenched providers of video compression software when it bought small  firm On2. The search company took On2's advance video compression product and open sourced it. ...
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Media Digest (3/4/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 4, 2011 at 4:11 am

Jobs are expected to be at a nine-month high in February. (Reuters) Chrysler hopes to refinance its debt ahead of an IPO (Reuters) Banks which mishandled mortgage paperwork have been ...
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Has Facebook Reached its Peak Value Before the IPO?

Posted: March 3, 2011 at 1:57 pm

One of the co-founders of Facebook is looking to unload $300 million worth of shares in the pioneering social networking company, according to the New York Post.  The question is ...
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Does iPad2 Make Apple Stock Worth $555 (AAPL, DELL, HPQ)

Posted: March 3, 2011 at 12:52 pm

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still the darling of Wall Street and Main Street.  While Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) gets rolling with its Streak tablet and while Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) ...
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