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Monthly Archives: April 2011

Exxon Mobil, Making More Than $10 Billion A Quarter Now (XOM)

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 9:22 am

Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) has released earnings on the heels of a dividend hike and shares are flirting with a new 52-week high.  Now investors get to digest the ...
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GDP & Jobless Claims Both Heading the Wrong Way

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 8:59 am

Having a Ben Bernanke press conference immediately after the FOMC meeting where rates were kept at zero in Fed Funds is one thing, but the weakness and the implied economic ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AKAM, FLEX, TFM, URBN)

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 8:56 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), Flextronics Technologies (NASDAQ: FLEX), The Fresh ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 4.28.2011

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 8:46 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 (ABB, BAC, BK, ABX, CVX, PLCE, KOF, COP, EBAY, ESLR, DD, HES, INTC, ITRI, JNPR, ERIC, NOV, PTEN, URBN, YUM)

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 8:43 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. ABB Ltd. (NYSE: ABB) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse; ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/28/2011) Chrysler Bonds, Facebook Shares

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 8:37 am

Updated throughout the day. Some Facebook employees have tried the market to sell $1 billion worth of shares (Reuters) Chrysler may sell enough bonds to pay back all government loans ...
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iShares Silver Trust Set To Grow Even More With New Shares Sales (SLV)

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 8:32 am

If you think that silver demand is tempering as prices have passed $40.00 and then some, the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV) is about to get even larger.  After reviewing ...
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Daily Austerity Watch: The Philadelphia Story

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 8:17 am

Anyone wondering whether the economic recovery is taking hold might want to take a look at yesterday's announcement of massive layoffs from the Philadelphia School District. Faced with a mammoth ...
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Short Sellers Attack Tech

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 5:54 am

Short sellers seem to have ignored the strong earnings released recently by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM). They have, for the most part, bet strongly that the stocks ...
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Baidu Earnings: China Search Industry Still Tiny

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 5:41 am

China's largest search company, Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU,) released its first quarter 2011 earnings. The firm's growth rate is impressive, but its total revenue is not. For the period which ended ...
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Americans Despair About The Economy

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 5:14 am

No matter what Ben Bernanke says about a slow economic recovery or what improved GDP growth and lower unemployment signal, many Americans still believe the economy is in horrible ...
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Media Digest (4/28/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 4:07 am

Many experts believe the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates near zero until the end of the year (Reuters) Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) says Sokol deceived the company and may ...
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All The Things Bernanke Did Not Say

Posted: April 27, 2011 at 6:59 pm

Journalists who cover Congress usually believe that they are smarter than the public servants.  Politicians think most journalists are biased dolts. Each group has now had a chance to publicly ...
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Chief Offshore Oil Drilling Regulator Criticizes Lack of Oversight and Promises Fixes

Posted: April 27, 2011 at 5:30 pm

by Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica, April 27, 2011, 4:45 p.m. Earlier this week the top regulator of offshore drilling denounced the lack of regulation covering the thousands of contractors on offshore ...
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Berkshire Hathaway Further Distances Itself From David Sokol (BRK-A, LZ, C)

Posted: April 27, 2011 at 4:49 pm

We have been awaiting a disclosure from Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) over its current fiasco over David Sokol's trading in the Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE: LZ).  Now the data is ...
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