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Monthly Archives: April 2011

Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/4/2011) BP Drills In Gulf, Wachovia Charges

Posted: April 4, 2011 at 8:48 am

Updated throughout the day. Interpublic owns a piece of Facebook worth $300 million (FT) Wachovia will face government charges for its sales of subprime mortgage paper (WSJ) BP plc (NYSE ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ADS, ARAY, CNP, RE, F, FCX, GME, GD, OPTR, POT, RIMM, VZ, AAPL)

Posted: April 4, 2011 at 8:29 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Alliance Data Systems Corporation (NYSE: ADS) Cut to Market Perform ...
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As The Tax Man Comes, Yacht Owners Take To The Seas

Posted: April 4, 2011 at 5:53 am

Tax authorities find it hard to ferret out how rich people hide their money. The IRS says it has increased its audit of millionaires. The Greeks say that they have ...
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Ethanol And Gas Both Get Expensive: An Energy Nightmare

Posted: April 4, 2011 at 5:30 am

Nuclear energy has gone out of vogue. The price of gasoline has risen quickly. And, now, the price of ethanol is about to soar. Corn prices have doubled to nearly ...
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America’s Ten Most Fraud-Ridden States

Posted: April 4, 2011 at 4:39 am

Americans are preyed upon. They either do not protect their own interests or the government does not do enough to prevent fraud and identify theft. Clever criminals have ways to ...
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Media Digest (4/1/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 4, 2011 at 4:11 am

Data mistakenly released by Epsilon compromised the personal security of millions of people including customers at Citigroup (NYSE: C), Capital One (NYSE: COF), and Tivo (NASDAQ: TIVO) (Reuters). Tepco used ...
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The Deadly Business of Crystal Meth

Posted: April 3, 2011 at 3:07 pm

Americans probably spend more on getting high on crystal methamphetamine than they do on books or on veterinary care for their pets.   That underscores the power that the illegal drug ...
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Apple Stock Chart Outlook, Wavering to Very Ill (AAPL, QQQ, SPY, T, VZ, GOOG, MSFT, NFLX, AMZN)

Posted: April 3, 2011 at 8:00 am

Using technical analysis may often feel like alchemy even under normal circumstances.  Using it on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is especially tricky. Nonetheless, Apple's stock chart has wavered for weeks.  ...
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Southwest Air Cancellations: Another Black Eye For Boeing

Posted: April 2, 2011 at 4:04 pm

Southwest (NYSE: LUV) canceled 300 flights today as it inspects 79 of its fleet of Boeing (NYSE: BA) 737s. Southwest made it clear that Boeing will be a part of ...
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The Top 5 Analyst Calls of the Week (BRK-B, DNDN, LVS, WYNN, TSLA, AONE, HEV)

Posted: April 2, 2011 at 10:53 am

This was yet another great market week and it concluded the best stock market first quarter in years.  We also saw several research calls which stood out from the usual pack ...
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The Cheapest $26 Million Ford Ever Spent, As Its Stock Beats Apple’s

Posted: April 2, 2011 at 8:56 am

Ford Motor (NYSE: F) CEO Alan Mulally made $26,520,515 in 2010, according to the company's proxy. It is the cheapest $26 million the firm ever spent. Ford was at death's door ...
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ETF Watch: The Trouble With Semiconductors (SMH,XSD, SPY)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 3:02 pm

We have seen a steady climb up again this week in stocks.  The market may have not been in a straight line but it did trend higher.  What we wanted to ...
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Commodities Watch: Corn, Cattle Futures Booming; Ethanol Makers Could Give Up Federal Tax Credit (SWY, KR, WMT, WEN, JACK, MCD, YUM, C, CS, MS)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 2:01 pm

It's time for our daily look at commodity prices and developments that will carry over ahead in commodities. Corn and cattle prices top today's news and these both have many ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: US Energy Policy Debate Kicks-off; Saudi Arabia Looks to Solar & Nuclear Growth; Hydropower Gets a Boost

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 1:09 pm

Policy stories have piled up today in alternative energy and energy, led off by a response from the Republican Party to President Obama's energy speech. The GOP has introduced a ...
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M&A Watch: Is LogMeIn Now Bait? (LOGM)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 12:55 pm

LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM) is one of the strange situations that will make traders and investors alike question what they should do next.  Shares were halted today and the last ...
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