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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ACN, ALU, ARMH, SID, CPX, BEN, MON, NOK, SIVB, TXN)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 8:13 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Accenture PLC (NYSE: ACN) Reiterated Buy with $62 target at ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/28/2011) NYSE M&A, Glencore IPO

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 6:53 am

Updated throughout the day. Glencore will have its Hong Kong IPO this week (Reuters) Facebook may hire former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs (NYT) Harry & David Holdings may file ...
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Which State Will Get Lower Taxes To Get Amazon And Caterpillar Business?

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 5:53 am

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is so upset by the prospect that it must collect state sales taxes on items it sells that it will desert its operations in Dallas because Texas ...
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Angela Merkel’s Nearly Perfect Storm

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 5:23 am

Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat party was badly beaten in the elections just held in Baden-Württemberg, where it has been the dominate political force for more than five decades. The Green Party will probably ...
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What If Some CEOs Are Idiots?

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 4:57 am

Buried in The Wall Street Journal is a summary of the recent study done by management research firm ExecuNet Inc. The core is that CEOs and the people who work for ...
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Media Digest (3/28/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 4:05 am

Facebook may hire the former White House press secretary Gibbs (Reuters) Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) will reopen stores it had to shutter in Japan (Reuters) Jobs may be the lagging indicator ...
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The Drastic Impact To Airlines from Fuel Price Increases

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 3:22 am

By Robert Herbst You think you are paying more at the corner gas station? Checkout what the airline industry is looking at! If the current price of jet fuel was the average ...
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American Ghost Towns Of The 21st Century

Posted: March 27, 2011 at 10:13 pm

There are several counties in America, each with more than 10,000 homes, which have vacancy rates above 55%. The rate is above 60% in several. Most people who follow unemployment ...
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Fed Member–End QE2, Maybe

Posted: March 27, 2011 at 9:36 am

Charles I. Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, would like the central bank to get out of the QE2 business as soon as possible. He ...
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Americans Begin To Admit Social Security Trouble

Posted: March 26, 2011 at 10:23 am

Americans continue to protest cuts in Social Security as a  means to bring down the national deficit. It appears that some expect payments to be lower. A new Gallup polls ...
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Top 5 Analyst Calls of the Week (AMZN, NFLX, PHM, GOLD, SIRI)

Posted: March 26, 2011 at 10:17 am

We had another crazy week in the markets with shares on a tear.  There were many key analyst calls that moved shares this week.  We have identified five specific analyst calls ...
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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: March 26 The Companies With The Most Bad Press

Posted: March 26, 2011 at 7:47 am

Lennar (NYSE: LEN)  received a large amount of bad press after it was disclosed that an outsider had been accused of insider trading in the company's shares  Alcatel Lucent's (NYSE: ...
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Commodities Watch: Cocoa is Good, Gold & Silver Challenge (ADM, BHP, POT, SLV, GLD)

Posted: March 25, 2011 at 3:01 pm

It's time for our daily look at commodity prices and news. Researchers at Harvard University analyzed data from a number of studies and concluded that cocoa consumption may reduce blood ...
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IPO Watch: AMC Entertainment Debt Filings

Posted: March 25, 2011 at 1:01 pm

AMC Entertainment Inc. is set to be one of our Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2011.  Now the company has an SEC filing from late-Thursday showing that it has ...
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Mounting An Assault Against Netflix (NFLX, LINTA, TWX, CBS, CMCSA, LVLT, AMZN)

Posted: March 25, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) appears to have united just about everybody but its customers to curb the company's growing power. The latest foray comes from the Starz pay-cable TV channels, ...
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