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Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Rich Are Growing, What They Do With Their Money (BAC)

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 9:11 am

In 1926 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." Today, we don't call people rich because that smacks ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ASMI, MU, PTIE)

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 8:51 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of ASM International (NASDAQ: ASMI), Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU), and Pain ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALTR, BSX, COH, CMCSA, GFA, KKR, MAS, MU, ORCL, POM, RHT, SO, TSM, TIF, VRSN)

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 8:32 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) Raised to Outperform as Bull of ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/24/2011) GoDaddy Sale, Google Antitrust

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 8:17 am

Updated throughout the day. Everbright of China delayed a $6 billion IPO (Reuters) Regulators will begin an examination of Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) possible monopoly in the US search market (WSJ) ...
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Sears Moves to Spin Off Orchard Hardware, With Lampert Controlling That Too (SHLD)

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 8:17 am

Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is shrinking its empire, sort of.  The company is spinning off its Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corporation holdings to its shareholders.  Sears holds effectively all ...
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Major S&P Index Changes Impacting Shares (MPC, RSH, HHS, HTCH, MRO, AMCXV, BYD, SRT, CVC, HOC, FTO, ENTR, GM)

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 7:46 am

We have some major changes announced by S&P for its three key indexes.  Changes are in the S&P 500 Index, S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index, and in the S&P SMall Cap ...
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Quality Ratings Have Little To Do With Car Sales

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 6:56 am

J.D. Power released its initial quality auto survey for this year which is based on questions put to 78,000 motorists. The headline most of the media carried about was that ...
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What If People Do Not Want Ads On Their Mobile Phones?

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 6:54 am

Research firm BIA/Kelsey released a survey widely covered in the press predicted that "total U.S. mobile ad spending will grow from $790 million in 2010 to $4 billion in 2015." ...
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Media Digest (6/24/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 6:52 am

The IEA and OPEC disagreed about the size of oil reserves. (Reuters) Greece has an agreement with the EU and IMF along with new austerity plans. (Reuters) A Reuters poll ...
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Greece: The Renegotiation Begins

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 6:52 am

New Greece Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos tried to renegotiate more favorable bailout terms at the last minute with the IMF and EU. He supposedly believed that a less onerous package ...
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Skyrocketing Costs Of Child Care: 1960 to Today

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 6:51 am

It cost $25,299 to raise a child from birth to age 18 in 1960. The amount rose to $226,920 last year. This may be one of the many reasons Americans ...
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Oracle Beats Earnings, Perhaps Not Enough on Hardware Drop (ORCL)

Posted: June 23, 2011 at 4:24 pm

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) managed to beat earnings, but shares are lower on the report because Wall Street was not impressed.  It reported $0.75 EPS on a 12% gain in ...
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Death of a Threat: Netflix CEO Joins Facebook Board… It Matters (NFLX)

Posted: June 23, 2011 at 3:16 pm

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) shareholders had plenty of concerns even before Facebook announced that it was going to get into video delivery of selected movies.  In a SWOT analysis, the ...
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Are More Mosaic Shares To Be Sold? Already? (MOS)

Posted: June 23, 2011 at 2:45 pm

The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) was perhaps one of the largest secondary offerings out there of its sort.  The tally was close to $6 billion when it was all said ...
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Commodities Watch: Crude Oil Sends Prices Tumbling (CORN, JJG, MOO, DBA)

Posted: June 23, 2011 at 12:56 pm

This morning's announcement by the International Energy Agency that it would release 60 million barrels of crude from member nations' stocks has dealt a crushing blow to commodity prices. Only ...
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