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Monthly Archives: April 2011

Alternative Energy Watch: US Nukes Safe Americans Tell Gallup; Wind Installations Lag in 2010 (ARVCF, EXC, DE, AMAT, ASML, WFR, SPWRA, STP, YGE, XEL, GE, PCG)

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 11:18 am

It is time for our daily review of the alternative energy sector. The pollsters at Gallup asked US citizens in the last week of March if they thought US nuclear ...
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Dividend Watch: The Government Pays You, Really (GOV)

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 11:01 am

It is time for The Daily Dividend, and we have one that every investor should care about.  There is a way to make money off of Uncle Sam and off ...
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Austerity Watch (4/5/2011) Fear & Loathing In DC, The Collapse Of Portugal

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 10:02 am

The concerns over government spending and the need for a new budget in Washington grew as Tim Geithner said the Treasury would be out of money before mid-May. Members of ...
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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: April 5 The Companies With The Most Bad News

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 10:00 am

Note: The Flame Index scans thousands of news sites 24 hours per day and ranks companies getting the most negative press right now. The Flame Index Media Analysis Algorithm crunches ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (CBST, EXPE, LEDS)

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 8:56 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Cubist Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CBST), Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE), and SemiLEDs ...
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NASDAQ 100 Rebalance Explained: Picking Winners & Losers (AAPL, QQQ, CSCO, DELL, INTC, MSFT, ORCL)

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 8:46 am

The NASDAQ 100 has figured out a way to change its dependence upon and its dominance by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL).  A good old-fashioned reweighting is that plan.  The NASDAQ confirmed this ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/5/2011) Living Social Capital, Google FTC

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 8:27 am

Updated throughout the day. The FTC will begin an antitrust probe into Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) search business (Bloomberg) Living Social will raise $400 million (WSJ) Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ACN, CETV, CSCO, C, DELL, DFS, JPM, LVS, MAR, NKA, OXY, TXN, UTI, WFC)

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 8:13 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) Reiterated Outperform at Credit Suisse. Central European Media ...
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Gas, Up Nearly 3% In A Week, Presses Toward $3.75

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 6:12 am

Economists and the media continue to say that no one can predict when the price of gas will hurt consumer spending, damage business profits, and slow economic growth. There is ...
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The Ten States With The Worst Property Taxes

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 5:49 am

The burden of property taxes occurs several ways. The first is their cost. Others are relative--what someone pays in relationship to theoretical value of  their homes. Another is the percent ...
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Texas Instruments Pays Too Much For National Semi

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 5:46 am

Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) will buy National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM) for $25 a share in cash. The total value of the transaction is $6.5 billion. That price is 78% above ...
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The Case For Breaking Up Google

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 5:19 am

Like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) before it, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has become two or three companies. Its dominant business of search is no longer much of a ...
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Moody’s Downgrades Portugal–Throws It Under The Bus

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 4:55 am

Moody's downgraded Portugal again, this time to Baa1 from A3. The credit rating agency also said the outlook for the nation's financial prospects was negative. Moody's might as well have ...
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Media Digest (4/5/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 4:04 am

Republicans plan to cut $6 trillion from the budget over the next decade (Reuters) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) may be investigated by the FTC (Bloomberg) The FAA will begin inspection of ...
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Giant Chip Mergers Underway (TXN, NSM, ADI, SMH, ALTR, XLNX, MU, FCS, LLTC)

Posted: April 4, 2011 at 4:38 pm

If you have wondered why there have been so few legacy chip companies announcing mergers, you have to wonder no more.  After the close of trading came word that Texas ...
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