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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Screening the Highest Dividends in Defensive Stocks (MO, RAI, LO, KMB, LLY, HNZ, CAG, TAP, DPS, AWK)

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 3:39 pm

We may have just witnessed an oversold bounce in the stock market, or we may be in for more days of recovery.  The markets are flirting with six weeks of ...
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Coffee Starts to Weigh on Roasters and Retailers (SJM, SBUX, GMCR, KFT, MCD, JO, CAFE)

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 1:15 pm

As is the case with crude oil, people just can't seem to get enough coffee. Global consumption of coffee rose 2.4% in 2010, to 134 million bags (each bag weighs ...
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Another Health Care Insurance Merger in the Works? (UNH, CI, AET, HUM)

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 12:49 pm

It is no secret that health care insurance and health care service providers are going to continue to consolidate in the months or years ahead.  We have already seen UnitedHealth ...
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Daily Austerity Watch: Greece’s Economy Is On Life Support

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 12:00 pm

Just when things look like they couldn't get any worse for Greece comes word that the Southern European nation grew at a mere 0.2% in the first three months of ...
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Trend Watch After EPA Rules: Time to Rethink Utilities? (AEP, XLU, IDU, RYU, UPW, ETR, ITRI)

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 11:22 am

The utilities sector had been performing incredibly.  We recently highlighted the strong performance seen this year and over the last year with many of these names up 20% to 30% ...
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Alt-Energy Watch: Germany to Replace Nukes with Fossil Fuels, Build Smart Grid (FSLR, SPWRA, TSL, STP, GE, VWSYF, ABB, SI, SBGSY, ALSMY, AMSC, BGC, QCLN, GRID, PWR)

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 10:47 am

The German government's decision to abandon nuclear power generation by 2022 briefly put a little wind in the sails of alt energy sources like solar and wind. Now, however, Chancellor ...
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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: Companies With The Worst Press (6/9)

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 10:29 am

Nokia was badly hurt by poor earnings and rumors of a takeovers. CVS suffered from a report by Fox Business the organized crime has hurt retail margins. EMC division RSA ...
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Lost Trust After Lost Value In Chinese Internets, But… (RENN, NQ, QIHU, BIDU, SNDA, SINA, LDK)

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 9:54 am

Maybe it was a really bad IPO. Maybe you can blame the constant accounting fiction by public and state-owned companies.  Maybe it is the nation's effort to kill growth by ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (6/9/2011) Jobless Claims, Trade Gap

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 9:00 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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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/9/2011) Nokia M&A, GM Sell Opel

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 8:50 am

Updated throughout the day. GM (NYSE: GM) may sell its European Opel operations (Reuters) Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will be bought by Samsung (various) Securities regulators are reviewing transactions between Goldman ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Offer Little Hope of Employment

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 8:39 am

The weekly jobless claims data from the Labor Department is not getting off to the right start for June after we saw an uptick in the unemployment rate in May.  ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AIG, BJ, BWA, CIEN, ELN, ERJ, FGP, MMM, M, MCD, MDCO, NDAQ, RIMM, SEE, TXN, UNH, UTX, AAPL)

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 8:20 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Started as Buy at ...
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Citigroup Data Breach–Moving Cash Back Under The Mattress

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 6:37 am

The Financial Times reports that hackers have gained access to a number of Citigroup (NYSE C) credit cards numbers which belong to the bank's customers.  "The bank said that about ...
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Will Saudi and Canada Plans Trump OPEC Decision?

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 6:33 am

OPEC decided not to change its production targets after bickering among its members. Crude prices rose above $100 on the news. There are worries that any sign of increased global ...
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Is Agustin Carstens Too Fat To Be IMF Chief?

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 6:23 am

The race to be IMF chief has come down to two candidates. The favorite is France's finance minister, Christine Lagarde. She has been deeply involved in the EU bailouts of ...
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