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Monthly Archives: March 2011

How a Democratic Middle East Is Bad For The U.S. Economy

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 3:00 pm

Americans were heartened by the ouster of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.  They are pleased that Libyan madman Muammar Gaddafi may be about to get the hook as well and by ...
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iPad2… Killing ZAGG (ZAGG, AAPL)

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 2:03 pm

ZAGG Incorporated (NASDAQ: ZAGG) is getting crushed today due to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and a feature of its iPad2 that Steve Jobs himself debuted today.  ZAGG makes the invisibleSHIELD ...
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PPL’s U.K. Asset Purchase: Price Matters (PPL)

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 1:40 pm

PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) almost seems odd that its shares are trading higher after making such a premium acquisition.  The electric utility is paying more than $5.5 billion to acquire ...
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Dividends For Biotech? (AMGN, GILD)

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 12:44 pm

Investors love huge biotech opportunities for growth.  Investors also love to get paid in the form of dividends.  Unfortunately, the terms "dividend" and "biotech" never match up.  While some hopes ...
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ADP Reports Jump in Hiring (ADP)

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 11:25 am

Employment in the private sector rose by 217,000 in February, according to the latest report from Automatic Data Processing Inc. (NYSE: ADP). The reported increase of 187,000 new jobs in ...
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Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Result of Shale Gas Production (SWN, CHK, BHP)

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 9:59 am

More than 700 mild earthquakes have shaken an area of north central Arkansas in the past six months. State geologists aren't sure if the quakes are part of a natural ...
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Airlines Association Cuts Profit Outlook by Half

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 9:10 am

The favorite way for International Air Transport Association (IATA) president Giovanni Bisignani to describe airline profits is with the word "pathetic". In his first forecast for 2011, Bisignani noted that ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (EDGW, MCOX, SINA, WATG)

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 9:03 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Edgewater Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGW), Mexoc Lane Limited APR ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AZN, CNP, CEDC, FDO, GOOG, MAR, MGM, OPTR, CRM, SONS, UFPI, WFMI, XLNX, YHOO)

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 8:17 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. AstraZeneca plc (NYSE: AZN) Cut to Neutral at UBS. CenterPoint ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (3/2/2011) Yahoo! Japan, IEA Oil Prices

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 7:49 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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Todays’ Best Market Rumors (3/2/2011) Yahoo! Japan, Apple Support

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 7:24 am

Updated throughout the day Yahoo! will sell its Japan interests to Softbank for $8 billion (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will offer support services to small businesses for $499 a year. ...
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As S&P Warns About Portugal and Greece… (PT, NBG)

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 7:08 am

Are the credit ratings agencies still viable?  If you can believe it, there is a new round of warnings for credit rating downgrades in the lands of the PIIGS.  As ...
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Beating the Rise of Coffee Prices (JO, SBUX, GMCR, JVA, CBOU)

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 6:38 am

If you have been a frequenter of coffee shops in recent months, chances are that you have noticed that coffee prices have gone from high to higher.  Ditto for coffee ...
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Ten Companies The Internet Changed Forever

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 6:17 am

Most businesses which operated before 1990 had to adapt quickly or be damaged, or even destroyed, as technology quickly evolved. 24/7 Wall St. looked at several industries and picked key ...
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Producer Prices In Europe Turn Ugly

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 6:12 am

The equivalent of PMI in Europe is starting to look like China's. EuroStat announced that "In January 2011 compared with January 2010, industrial producer prices gained 6.1% in the euro ...
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