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Monthly Archives: April 2011

BioWatch: Dendreon Looks Even Brighter (DNDN)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Earlier this week, we highlighted Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) as one of five biotechs with 50% implied upside.  A new report is out from Canaccord Genuity that has figures which ...
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Dividend Watch: How Many Dividend ETFs Are Needed? (HDV, DVY, IDV, SDY)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 11:06 am

This week marked the launch of yet another high-yield dividend exchange-traded fund.  This one came from iShares and the field of dividend oriented ETFs is getting crowded.  The name is the ...
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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: April 1 The Companies With The Most Bad Press

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 10:41 am

The press pounded on Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) as David Sokol, a key Warren Buffett aide, resigned in shame, causing concerns about governance at the conglomerate.  Toyota (NYSE: TM) stayed ...
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GNC Tries Tame Re-IPO (GNC)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 10:32 am

GNC Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNC) is public again.  The vitamin and nutrients retailer sold 22.5 million shares at a price of $16.00 per share.  This was in the middle of ...
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Daily Austerty Watch (4/1/11) — Social Security

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 10:20 am

Below is 24/7 Wall St.'s daily take on important fiscal news. US Budget -- As the U.S. Congress comes ever-closer to striking the budget deal that many in Washington,  bureaucrats ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (4/1/2011) US Jobs

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 10:12 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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GameStop Saves Itself, Buying Into The Download Model (GME, BBY, ERTS)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 10:01 am

Bricks-and-mortar game retailer GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) has made a couple of acquisitions that the company expects to help it pick up some business in the online video gaming market. ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (HBAN, LOGI, OPTR)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 8:55 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (NASDAQ: HBAN), Logitech International (NASDAQ: LOGI), ...
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Unemployment Gains Aided by Private Sector

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 8:40 am

The US Labor Department has just released the March unemployment data and the figures around the change in non-Farm Payrolls.  The unemployment rate was listed as 8.8% on a official ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/1/2011) Buffett Aides

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 8:38 am

Updated throughout the day. The SEC may begin to examine trades may by Warren Buffett aid David Sokol (NYT) Gregory Abel may now be a candidate to take Buffett's job ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALEX, BIDU, CNP, DPM, FSYS, GS, LVS, MS, MOS, RHT, SRE, SFG, STRI, TSCO, URBN, WFMI)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 8:27 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Alexander & Baldwin (NASDAQ: ALEX) Raised to Market Perform at ...
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From Shame to Antitrust: NYSE and NASDAQ-ICE Merger (NYX, NDAQ, ICE, CME)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 7:35 am

First it was the shame that one of America's greatest names was going to effectively be foreign-owned.  The NYSE Euronext, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) is currently in a pending merger agreement ...
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April Fools Market, Revisiting Greatest Stock Market Hoaxes (ALU, AAPL, ELX, GE, GIS, AMR, EK, MSFT, MAR, T)

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 6:54 am

It is April Fools' Day but we are not going to propagate any hoaxes.  What we do want to revisit is some of the great frauds which have originated outside of ...
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Toyota To Raise Prices, Test Consumer Resilance

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 6:03 am

Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) will raise prices on some of its cars and light trucks by 2.2% in May. It is a risk worth taking if  sales of all vehicles ...
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Oil Prices And S&P Profit Forecasts

Posted: April 1, 2011 at 5:46 am

JPMorgan recently increased its profit estimate for the S&P 500 2011 earnings from $94 to $97.50. The bank is not alone in its optimism. The direction of the market, which ...
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