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Monthly Archives: March 2011

24/7 Wall Street/Harris Poll On Social Media And Television: Social Media Works

Posted: March 29, 2011 at 4:35 am

The 2011 Oscar telecast will go down as one of the worst in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.   At least that is what many ...
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Media Digest (3/29/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 29, 2011 at 4:05 am

Off-exchange traded fund BATS will go public to challenge NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ). (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has take a sex bias case against it to ...
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Commodity Watch: Glencore Watch; Bracing for Cotton (XSRAY, LIZ, WMT, JCP, GPS, PKX, BP, RDS-A, XOM, CVX, COP, BRGYY, BHP)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 4:14 pm

Time now for our daily look at commodity prices and news. Swiss-based commodities trading house Glencore International AG is expected to conduct an IPO on the Hong Kong exchange around ...
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Glencore Readies IPO, While Cotton Prices Predicted to Fall (XSRAY, LIZ, WMT, JCP, GPS, PKX, BP, RDS-A, XOM, CVX, COP, BRGYY, BHP)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 4:02 pm

Time now for our daily look at commodity prices and news. Swiss-based commodities trading house Glencore International AG is expected to conduct an IPO on the Hong Kong exchange around ...
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Can iPad2 Save RadioShack? (RSH, AAPL, BBY, WMT, T, VZ)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 2:58 pm

RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) is seeing shares higher today on news that it will be selling the iPad2 from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) at about 500 stores throughout the country.  ...
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ETF Watch: Housing Resilience (XHB, ITB, PHM)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 2:20 pm

The economic data on the housing front seems to have very little to cheer about.  Maybe there is some hope on pending sales today, but actual sale closings in existing ...
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BofA Top Cleantech Winners (CREE, GE, FSLR, BP, AMRS, GEVO, XOM, TSLA, GM, SPWRA, ENOC, AONE, HEV, CLNE)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 1:11 pm

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has a report out to start this week with a longer-term outlook for cleantech and alternative energy.  The firm has a view of several key ...
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IPO Watch: LDK Has A Hidden Gem (LDK)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 1:01 pm

 Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) is seeing shares rise more than most solar peers today.  We thought perhaps maybe it was part of a value screen we ran late last ...
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M&A Watch: eBay & GSI Commerce, A Home Run Buyout (EBAY, GSIC)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 12:01 pm

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is trading south on news that it is going to acquire GSI Commerce Inc. (NASDAQ: GSIC).  Most acquirers see their shares getting hit when they make ...
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Dividend Watch: FMC Technologies Coming Share Split (FTI, PBR)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 11:01 am

FMC Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FTI) is soon to reflect what many investors consider the next best thing to a dividend: a stock split.  It was about a month ago that ...
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Kodak Patent Hopes, Mirage Versus Reality (EK, AAPL, RIMM, MMI, NOK, SNE, ERIC)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 10:20 am

It is perhaps a truism that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That seems to be the thinking at Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK), ...
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BioHealth Watch: Cancer Wars (BMY, DNDN, VICL)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 10:01 am

The fight against melanoma just got a new weapon after a drug called Yervoy, or ipilimumab, was given FDA approval for late-stage metastatic melanoma.  The approval is a win for ...
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Austerity Daily 3.28.11 — Government Shutdown, NY Deal

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 9:47 am

Here is our latest installment of the Daily Austerity Watch, 24/7 Wall St.’s summary of the major news off efforts by governments to bring their fiscal houses in order. US ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (3/28/2011) Personal Income Up, Income Lags

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 9:05 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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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (FUQI, JASO, NVDA)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 8:51 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Fuqi International, Inc. (NASDAQ: FUQI), JA Solar Holdings Co., ...
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