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Monthly Archives: May 2011

Six Huge American Companies With Total Revenue Over $250 Billion That Will Never Have An IPO

Posted: May 19, 2011 at 6:51 am

With all the hubbub surrounding the IPO of professional social networking site LinkedIn, along with rumored deals involving Facebook and Twitter, it's worth remembering that there are some companies that ...
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LinkedIn: How Long Will Rich Investors Stay Rich?

Posted: May 19, 2011 at 6:45 am

One of the lessons that was learned from the internet bubble of 1998 to 2000 is that many tech company founders woke up one day and found that they were ...
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The Last Nail In Greece’s Coffin

Posted: May 19, 2011 at 6:40 am

There has been some hope over the last several weeks that the holdouts who have resisted any restructuring of Greek debt might join other nations in the EU which want ...
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Credit Ratings Finally Get Leashed

Posted: May 19, 2011 at 6:36 am

The actions of Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch helped trigger the greatest credit crisis of all time. Each has been investigated and dragged before Congress because of AAA ratings ...
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Media Digest (5/19/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 19, 2011 at 6:31 am

Strauss-Kahn resigned at managing director of the IMF. The Japanese economy has fallen into recession and should recover late in the year. (Reuters) LinkedIn priced at $45, the top of ...
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Ratings Agency Thought: Should Whole Foods Still Be Junk-Rated? (WFM, KR, SWY, WMT)

Posted: May 18, 2011 at 3:47 pm

It seems that being a junk bond credit investor still allows you to pick from a whole slew of companies that should not be junk bonds.  Unfortunately, you as an ...
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FOMC Minutes… The QE2 Exit Strategy Discussions Have Started

Posted: May 18, 2011 at 2:18 pm

The minutes from the latest FOMC meeting on April 26 to 27, 2011 have been released.  The key takeaway here is that the FOMC has admitted that it has started ...
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Dividend Watch: Reinsurance/Insurance Managing Japan Risk Just Fine (ACE, RE, PRE, BRK-A)

Posted: May 18, 2011 at 1:20 pm

It was just on May 4, 2011 that ACE Limited (NYSE: ACE) released its quarterly earnings and when it outlined its costs pertaining to that catastrophe in Japan.  It appears ...
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ETF Watch: Small Cap ETFs for Anything, Hong Kong Small Caps (HKK, SKOR, TWON)

Posted: May 18, 2011 at 12:06 pm

They say there is an ETF for just about anything.  Now we have IndexIQ launching a small cap ETF based on Hong Kong's small cap equity listings.  The launch of IQ ...
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What Does It Cost? $6 Billion, What The Mississippi Basin Flooding Costs The Economy.

Posted: May 18, 2011 at 11:41 am

What is the cost of the current flooding of the Mississippi basin? According to Michael J. Hicks, the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State ...
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Closing Loopholes — Easier Said Than Done: Daily Austerity Watch

Posted: May 18, 2011 at 10:20 am

Loopholes, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. Whether 'tis nobler to give a leg-up to large corporations or individual taxpayers is a subject of endless debate among ...
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Value Investor Hunt: Finding Value in Shipping Containers (TAL, TGH, BOX)

Posted: May 18, 2011 at 10:14 am

Now that the stock market is not hitting new highs each day, investors are looking for value stocks.  They might be looking for value inside sectors either with companies trading ...
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The Basics Behind the Debt Limit Debate: More Partisan Than Practical?

Posted: May 18, 2011 at 9:48 am

by Marian Wang. ProPublica, May 17, 2011, 10:08 a.m.May 16, 2011 As you may have heard, the federal government hit its $14.3 trillion debt limit yesterday—something the Treasury has been ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (CLDX, DELL, SODA, SPLS)

Posted: May 18, 2011 at 8:57 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Celldex Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CLDX), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), Sodastream International ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St Market Report (5/18/2011) Strauss-Kahn, Oaktree Capital IPO

Posted: May 18, 2011 at 8:53 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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