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Monthly Archives: April 2011

The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (4/11/2011) JPMorgan Earns, Tyco M&A, Oil $106

Posted: April 13, 2011 at 8:22 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 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALU, ALTR, AMZN, MT, BX, CLF, DFS, ENDP, KIRK, ERIC, M, MCD, NOK, POT, LEDS)

Posted: April 13, 2011 at 8:12 am

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/13/2011) BP Trouble, China Bank Assets

Posted: April 13, 2011 at 7:51 am

Updated throughout the day. Deutsche Bank will restructure in the US to avoid certain federal regulations (WSJ) Schneider Electric made a $30 billion offer for Tyco (Reuters) BP may sell ...
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J.P. Morgan Earnings Settle Bank Expectations for Earnings Season (JPM)

Posted: April 13, 2011 at 7:19 am

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has just started the earnings season for the banks and financials.  Jamie Dimon and friends reported that the bank made some $2.37 billion.  ...
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Break Up AT&T Again

Posted: April 13, 2011 at 6:07 am

The Bell System divestiture was the final act in an epic antitrust battle between the phone company and the federal government. It caused AT&T to shed its local phone companies ...
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Asians Work As The Turks Play

Posted: April 13, 2011 at 5:34 am

The new OECD Society at a Glance report shows that men in Asia do more hours of paid work than their counterparts in other regions of the world. Paid work ...
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IMF Says US Must Decrease Debt, Voters Disagree

Posted: April 13, 2011 at 5:01 am

The IMF's new Fiscal Monitor says "The United States will require significant deficit cuts in 2012 and 2013 to meet their commitments over the next few years. A downpayment in the ...
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Media Digest (4/13/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 13, 2011 at 4:16 am

The Fed's exit from QE2 may involve rate increases (Reuters) Deutsche Bank will restructure its US bank business to avoid regulation (WSJ) Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) new CEO will be carefully ...
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Buying A $100,000 Kidney: A Story of Supply and Demand

Posted: April 12, 2011 at 8:35 pm

The idea of  compensating donors of vital organs, which strikes many as morally repugnant, is gaining acceptance among some parts of the medical community which has grown frustrated at watching ...
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SIRIUS XM Short Sellers Get More Ambitious Each Day (SIRI)

Posted: April 12, 2011 at 7:31 pm

Why are short sellers attacking SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) harder and harder?  This morning when we saw the short interest reports on about 300 companies, SIRIUS XM did not stand ...
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Tax Freedom Day Is No Cause For Celebration

Posted: April 12, 2011 at 7:05 pm

Here's an excuse to party if anyone needs one:  it's Tax Freedom Day.   It's a  "holiday" invented in 1948 to commemorate the time of the year when Americans have ...
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Earnings Preview for JPMorgan (JPM, BAC, WFC, XLF, FAS)

Posted: April 12, 2011 at 4:29 pm

On Wednesday morning will come the highly anticipated news regarding the first quarter earnings announcement from none other than Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM).  This single ...
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Commodities Watch: Goldman Sachs Cashes Out; Oil Prices Could Slow Global Economy or Lead to Demand Destruction or Both (GS, CORN, BAL, GLD, SLV, CVX, XOM, COP, USO)

Posted: April 12, 2011 at 3:17 pm

Today's commodities news leads off with report that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and its leading commodities strategist are recommending that investors abandon long positions in copper and platinum ...
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IPO Watch: Chefs Warehouse (CHEF)

Posted: April 12, 2011 at 1:50 pm

Chef's Warehouse Holdings, LLC will likely soon be public as The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc.  It has filed to come public via an Initial Public Offering and plans to list its ...
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IPO Watch: Staffmark Holdings (STMK)

Posted: April 12, 2011 at 1:01 pm

Staffmark Holdings, Inc. has filed to come public via an Initial Public Offering.  The staffing services provider plans to sell up to $125 million in an equity offering.  The plans to ...
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