Monthly Archives: May 2011

The States With The Most Land Owned By The Federal Government

Posted: May 16, 2011 at 4:52 am

The debate about closing the American deficit has gotten so contentious that the Treasury Department told Congress recently that the US could default on its obligations and throw the global ...
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Media Digest (5/16/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 16, 2011 at 4:09 am

IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged with sexual assault in NYC (Reuters) Glencore raised the mid-point of the price range of its IPO (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) recalled ...
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Strauss-Kahn, Sexual Assault, and the IMF… Shocking News, Not from the Tabloids

Posted: May 15, 2011 at 10:08 am

Sometimes it is almost hard to imagine that a news story did not start in the tabloids. The financial world and the political world have been shocked by news that ...
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New Storage Proposal For US Nuclear Waste Sure To Be Unpopular

Posted: May 14, 2011 at 11:30 am

No US politician ever lost an election by opposing a nuclear waste dump. That's why the latest report on from a US Department of Energy commission will end up in ...
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Top 6 Analyst Calls of the Week (ALKS, APO, DF, ETFC, PNSN, SPWRA)

Posted: May 14, 2011 at 10:16 am

Each morning during the week we publish the top analyst upgrades and downgrades that we see in the market. After looking deeper through the calls individually, there are always some ...
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The Week’s Biggest Market Losers (YHOO, BSX, C)

Posted: May 14, 2011 at 9:29 am

Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) lost ground after it disclosed that its short-term CEO, Ray Elliott, would leave. Elliott joined the firm two years ago to engineer a turnaround which never ...
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The Top Stock Gainers Of The Week (SYY, DF, M, NFLX)

Posted: May 14, 2011 at 8:32 am

Sysco's (NYSE: SYY) earnings, which were announced last Monday, drove the stock higher by nearly 13%. Goldman Sachs commented that Dean Foods (NYSE: DF) share price could double in two ...
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Five Stocks That Could Push The Dow To 14,000

Posted: May 13, 2011 at 6:51 pm

The Dow Jones industrial average, the best-known barometer of the U.S. stock market, has been on a tear recently, gaining more than 16% over the past year. Investors have not ...
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Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (JCP, LOW, URBN, DELL, HD, SKS, TJX, TSL, WMT, ALKS, BJ, DE, DDS, HPQ, PAAS, SPLS, TGT, ADSK, DLTR, GME, MPEL, CRM, SHLD, YGE)

Posted: May 13, 2011 at 2:01 pm

It may seem like corporate earnings season is just about over, but next week we have a flurry of reports with some tech and a monster amount of retail companies. ...
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Commodities Watch: Copper Stockpiles Falling in China; Weather Concerns Push Up Corn Prices; Silver, Gold, and Sugar in Brief (FCX, BHP, ADM, VLO, CORN, SLV, GLD, SGG)

Posted: May 13, 2011 at 1:43 pm

Today's commodities news starts off with a drawdown on copper from bonded warehouses in Shanghai. There are also new doubts about the US corn crop, and we finish up with ...
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Daily Austerity Watch: Nobel Winner Joseph Stiglitz Talks Sense

Posted: May 13, 2011 at 12:16 pm

Economist Joseph Stiglitz would win the Nobel Prize for plain talk if such an thing were ever awarded. Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University, had a simple message today for ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: Evergreen Solar Warns; Connecticut Rejects Wind Farm Plan; Car Buyers Thinking Electric (ESLR, GM, TM)

Posted: May 13, 2011 at 12:12 pm

Today's alternative energy news leads off with a warning from Evergreen Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESLR) that it may not be able to continue as a "going concern." The state of ...
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