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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Full 360-Degree Preview For Google Earnings (GOOG)

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 10:02 am

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today. Analysts are estimating earnings of $7.86 EPS and $6.55 billion in revenues for the June ...
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Retail Sales Spike In Positive Sign, Gas Throttles Back

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 9:11 am

The consumer economy is not entirely moribund. Retail sales rose .1% in June. It was not a sharp jump, but a modest sign that the American public has not locked ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (CLNE, HGSI, SOLR, VALV)

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 8:50 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (NASDAQ: CLNE), Human Genome Sciences ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ADTN, BMR, COF, CETV, ERTS, EPB, IDIX, LYG, MMM, NTGR, PLD, PL, SWC, TOL, TSM, VRTX, WSM)

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 8:34 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Adtran Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) Reiterated Buy with $49 target at ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (7/14/2011) Obama At Camp David, S&P Secret Meetings

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 8:30 am

Updated throughout the day S&P has had private meetings with Congressional leaders to talk about the seriousness of a downgrade of US debt (Politico) China has privately warned the US ...
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Conoco Moves For Break-Up To Enhance Value (COP, MRO, MPC, HFC, XOM, CVX)

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 8:24 am

Looks like the whispers we were hearing yesterday about a split-up of some sort at oil major ConocoPhillips Corp. (NYSE: COP) were true. The company has announced this morning that ...
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Despite Chip Warnings, Value Lurks in Chip Stocks Ahead of Earnings Season (ADI, AMAT, AMD, CRUS, INTC, SNDK, TXN, XLNX, MCHP, NVLS, SMH)

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 8:16 am

Disappointing earnings and poor guidance from the likes of Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP) and Novellus Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVLS) this week have cast a very dark shadow on semiconductor ...
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Jamie Dimon Delivers J.P. Morgan Earnings Home, Discount to Book Value (JPM)

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 7:19 am

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is the first of the banks to report earnings and the results are ahead of estimates.  America's top bank reported $1.27 EPS on ...
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Real Progress In The Move To A Green Economy

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 6:44 am

Often, large reports on trends put out by think tanks are a waste of paper or server storage space. Often, the documents are tainted by the political bias of the ...
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How The World’s Greatest Investors Lost Billions

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 6:34 am

Proprietary trading is supposed to be the core of bank profits. That is one reason financial firms have been concerned about the need to rid themselves of their proprietary trading ...
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Sony Should Exit The E-Reader Business

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 6:29 am

Sony (NYSE: SNE) continues to humiliate itself with a series of poor decisions, many of which have severely damaged earnings. The latest of these is to launch yet another e-reader ...
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Why Hasn’t Moody’s Already Cut The US Debt Rating?

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 6:25 am

Moody's has warned the U.S. that its paper may be downgraded if it defaults on its sovereign obligations after an August 2 deadline -- the day by which the debt ...
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Media Digest (7/14/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 6:20 am

The EU has reached no decision on Greece. The IMF favors private sector involvement (Reuters) Japan warned about the economic results of the rapid rise in the yen (Reuters) The ...
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Moody’s Threatens US Downgrade

Posted: July 13, 2011 at 5:32 pm

In an action that the markets are likely to ignore until the US gets much closer to the August 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling, Moody's put America's Aaa ...
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More Brand Death Concerns: Delisting Notice Heads American Apparel’s Way (APP)

Posted: July 13, 2011 at 4:43 pm

American Apparel, Inc. (AMEX: APP) was recently called out by 24/7 Wall St. as a brand which may disappear in 2012 in a large brand "deathwatch" piece in recent days.  ...
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