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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Hardest Hit Gold Stocks, Searching For Value (GLD, GDX, GDXJ, BVN, GSS, NAK, NG, RBY, UXG)

Posted: July 7, 2011 at 7:46 am

Gold has held up rather well compared to many metals, yet the mining stocks and the underlying gold stocks are in many cases performing as though they will not benefit ...
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Beyond Greece & ECB, Debt Woes Only Growing Elsewhere in Europe (TI, PT, EWI, AIB, IRE, NBG, EWP, SNF)

Posted: July 7, 2011 at 7:18 am

Greece saved itself with its latest austerity measures.  For a few months, maybe.  If you have read about Greece's woes and read about the bailout and rescue process, the real ...
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The 15 Corporate Earnings That Will Rule The Markets This Summer (AA, YUM, JPM, GOOG, C, AMZN, AMR, AN, MSFT, AAPL, KO, JNJ, UNH, INTC, EMC)

Posted: July 7, 2011 at 6:31 am

24/7 Wall St. is probably not alone in noticing that there were very few earnings warnings issued by the major companies that dictate market trends going into the end of ...
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Microsoft: The World’s Newest Phone Company

Posted: July 7, 2011 at 6:27 am

It would have been hard to imagine just a year ago that Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) growth engine would be the phone business. It has turned out that the most exciting ...
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Men Get Jobs, Women Lose Them

Posted: July 7, 2011 at 6:22 am

U.S. Labor Department data showed that, during the downturn, men lost jobs at a faster rate than women. There was never an entirely adequate explanation of the trend. Women do ...
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Video Chat, An Old Technology, Makes It To Facebook

Posted: July 7, 2011 at 6:19 am

The press has given the joint venture between Facebook and Skype to deliver video chat a large amount of coverage. Facebook Video Calling does not offer anything new. Skype has ...
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Media Digest (7/7/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 7, 2011 at 6:17 am

Treasury officials examine ways to prevent default if an August 2 deadline to increase the debt cap is not met by Congress (Reuters) LaGarde will give a Chinese official a ...
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Zillow Sets IPO Terms, Online Real Estate Bonanza (Z)

Posted: July 6, 2011 at 4:48 pm

Zillow Inc. has now set preliminary terms for its initial public offering.  The initial filing came in mid-April and that filing was for up to $51.75 million in proceeds and ...
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GM Offers Drivers A Reason To Wreck Their Cars

Posted: July 6, 2011 at 4:46 pm

It makes sense for a car rental company to offer drivers insurance. The car does belong to the rental company. The idea that an auto manufacturer would offer free insurance ...
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Government Workers Take Brunt Of June Layoffs

Posted: July 6, 2011 at 3:30 pm

The price of austerity has begun to hurt local and state government employment again. The trend is the continuation of one that started three years ago as a sharp drop ...
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Alt Energy Watch: Solar Venture Funding Steady in Second Quarter

Posted: July 6, 2011 at 10:51 am

The projected oversupply of solar PV modules for 2011 and into 2012 has chilled some investors enthusiasm for the solar sector. But one area of the solar world that still ...
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Non-Manufacturing ISM Craters

Posted: July 6, 2011 at 10:26 am

Challenger, Gray & Christmas remarked that layoffs moved higher in June. "The number of planned job cuts announced by U.S.-based employers increased by 4,297 or 11.6 percent to 41,432 in ...
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Are You Ready… The Cloud ETF Arrives (SKYY, NFLX, RNOW, OTEX, RAX, TIBX, INFA, APKT, TDC, ARUN, EQIX)

Posted: July 6, 2011 at 10:14 am

The new saying in investing is "There's an ETF for that!"  Now you can count THE CLOUD in there.  First Trust has just launched its Cloud-ETF, called the First Trust ...
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How Does Moody’s Know Balance Sheet Of EU Banks? It Doesn’t

Posted: July 6, 2011 at 9:49 am

Moody's has been called arrogant before. It has misread the value of mortgage-backed securities and re-rated troubled balance sheets of corporations and nations well after the bad news that affects ...
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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: Companies With The Worst News (July 7)

Posted: July 6, 2011 at 9:37 am

Nothing compared to the negative press News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has gotten in the last three days as its The News of The World is accused of tapping the phone ...
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