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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/30/2011) Zynga IPO, New American Air Jets

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 8:28 am

Updated throughout the day Zynga may launch and IPO today (Reuters) Living Social will file for an IPO soon (Reuters) American Airline (NYSE: AMR) will get Boeing (NYSE: BA) and ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALU, ACI, CLS, EBAY, FSLR, HES, HCBK, KBH, LULU, PKI, RENN, SKT)

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 8:08 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Buy at UBS. Arch Coal ...
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The Foods Making Americans Fat (And Skinny)

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 6:49 am

In the most comprehensive study of its type, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated the cost of obesity at $170 billion a year in 2008 dollars. Twenty five ...
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Only One Week Later, 24/7 Wall St’s Disappearing Brands Begin To Disappear

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 6:43 am

Typically, 24/7 Wall St. waits a year - six months in the case of recessions - to report on how our predictions for which brands will disappear turned out.  This ...
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American Airlines: Boeing’s Last Stand

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 6:29 am

American Airlines (NYSE: AMR) has begun to consider replacing 250 of its oldest planes, according to The Wall Street Journal. That is nearly four out of ten aircraft in its ...
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Greece And The Right To Riot

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 6:26 am

The Greek constitution probably allows people to stage peaceful gatherings. It is unlikely that it permits those gatherings to turn into dangerous riots. Many Greek citizens don't care about those ...
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What Happens When Every State Hits Amazon On Taxes?

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 6:23 am

California means to make Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and other e-commerce companies pay state sales taxes on all the goods and services the companies sells in the largest state by population. ...
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Media Digest (6/30/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 6:19 am

Markets expressed concerned about what the Fed will do as QE2 ends. (Reuters) Lloyd's new CEO may cut 15,000 jobs. (Reuters) Asia will press Lagarde to keep promises she gave ...
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Long Live Swipe Fees and Interchange Fees (JPM, BAC, COF, C, V, MA, FAS)

Posted: June 29, 2011 at 4:10 pm

Banks were already having a good day, but a new ruling has come out from the Federal Reserve on interchange fees.  Maybe the proper description would be "less bad" of ...
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More Defense of Spreadtrum (SPRD)

Posted: June 29, 2011 at 3:45 pm

Another research report is actually out in support of Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD).  Yesterday came a report from short seller Muddy Waters questioning some accounting issues from back years ...
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When Great Share Buybacks Are Clouded By Awful Buybacks, Dividends Rule (XOM, IBM, PG, EMC, COP, HPQ, DTV, TRV, KO, MCD, MSFT, CSCO, WMT, LOW, HD, PFE, GS)

Posted: June 29, 2011 at 2:39 pm

There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks.  Dividends ...
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Commodity Watch: Stirring the Aluminum Pot (AA, CENX, AWC, KALU, NOR, ACH, KO, GS, RIO, JJU)

Posted: June 29, 2011 at 1:40 pm

Aluminum prices climbed by more than 10% from January through April this year, to rise above $1.22/pound before losing all it had gained and returning to about $1.10/pound. At today's ...
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Alt-Energy: Unsexy Batteries, Sexy Forecast (JCI, XIDE, MXWL, FLEX)

Posted: June 29, 2011 at 12:07 pm

When (if) a conversation ever turns to battery technology, most folks' eyes glaze over and they begin to think about their next vacation. Maybe that should change.  Johnson Controls, Inc. ...
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Funds Watch: Homebuilders’ ETFs Defy Gravity (XHB, ITB, PKB)

Posted: June 29, 2011 at 10:25 am

Over the last couple of week's, two of the best performing ETFs were the iShares Dow Jones US Home Construction ETF (NYSE: ITB), up more than 7%, and the SPDR ...
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Oil Sands Pipeline Under Increasing Fire (TRP, COP, SU, TOT, RDS-A, XOM, BP)

Posted: June 29, 2011 at 10:21 am

The Keystone XL Pipeline project has been under review for more than two years now, and has already secured approval from the Alberta provincial government and the Canadian national government. ...
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