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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Media Digest (7/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 25, 2011 at 6:21 am

Congress and the White House have made little progress on the debt talks (Reuters) The U.S. has come perilously close to a cut of its debt to Aa (Reuters) Moody's ...
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Gold Hits Record $1,621.80

Posted: July 24, 2011 at 8:07 pm

Gold rallied $20.30 to $1.621.80 as Congress and The White House failed to reach an accord on the debt cap late Sunday. In Japan, the Nikkei dropped .5% at the ...
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Clock Is Ticking Down With No Debt-Ceiling Accord

Posted: July 24, 2011 at 8:01 pm

“We have now run out of time,” the president declared on Friday. Up to now, the financial markets have remained remarkably sanguine, sharing the widely-held assumption that for the United ...
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Key Stocks To Watch The Week Ahead, The Unusual Suspects (AMD, BKU, BAMM, BPI, CA, CLH, DWA, ERTS, ETFC, F, GLD, SLV, LNKD, Z, P, LULU, NWS, WFT)

Posted: July 24, 2011 at 7:30 am

24/7 Wall St. usually looks for the companies with upcoming events in the week ahead.  During earnings season, we generally feature companies only with non-earnings events.  This is our list ...
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24/7 Wall St. Top 10 Analyst Calls of the Week (AAPL, CSCO, FIO, HGSI, LNKD, MON, NTAP, NFLX, RVBD, TLB)

Posted: July 23, 2011 at 10:11 am

24/7 Wall St. normally covers research and analyst calls each morning of the week.  After reviewing these, there always turn out to be some insightful research calls that stand well ...
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Stunning: Petrobras Spending $224.7 Billion on Offshore Oil (PBR, NE, DO, RIG, HAL, BHI, SLB)

Posted: July 23, 2011 at 9:30 am

Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), commonly called Petrobras, has approved a plan it announced last September to spend $224.7 billion developing an estimated 5 billion barrels of reserves. The ...
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Ten States That Added The Most Jobs In The First Half

Posted: July 22, 2011 at 3:00 pm

Ten states added over 25,000 jobs each in the period from January to June 2011. The list was topped by Texas, which added over 117,000. Among the ten, the total ...
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Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (BIDU, NFLX, MMM, AMZN, BIIB, FSLR, F, JNPR, COP, GMCR, V, WFM, ALU, CHK, S, SBUX, TYC, AMGN, ITT, MRK)

Posted: July 22, 2011 at 1:48 pm

Earnings season is in full throttle and many major companies are due to report in the week ahead.  Some of the key reports we are featuring for detailed earnings previews ...
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AMD Soars: Will a New CEO Help or Hurt? (AMD)

Posted: July 22, 2011 at 1:12 pm

Ever since Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) forced out former CEO Dirk Meyer in January it has been hunting fruitlessly for a new leader. Several candidates are reported to ...
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US Electricity Grid Gets a Boost (GE, ABB, SI, AMSC, SATC, PWER)

Posted: July 22, 2011 at 12:17 pm

More than a year ago the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a proposed rule for planning and paying for upgrades to the national electricity grid. The agency released its final ...
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Mutual Funds Withdrawals Continue (FAIRX, FMAGX, AGTHX, EILVX)

Posted: July 22, 2011 at 11:44 am

Throughout July stock mutual fund capital outflows have continued the pattern established in June, when $18 billion in outflows was logged. Worries over Europe's debt troubles and the threat of ...
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Is Silver Heading for $100? (SLV, SIVR, DBS, SIL)

Posted: July 22, 2011 at 9:29 am

Since posting a high over $49.50 in late April, silver has been treading water at around $35/ounce. But there are several analysts who believe that the devil's metal is looking ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (HEAT, SIFY, SNDK)

Posted: July 22, 2011 at 8:55 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of SmartHeat Inc (NASDAQ: HEAT), Sify Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: SIFY), ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (7/22/2011) GE, McDonald’s, Caterpillar

Posted: July 22, 2011 at 8:46 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 225 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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Apollo’s New IPO: New MBS REIT (AMTG, APO)

Posted: July 22, 2011 at 8:32 am

We have a new mortgage Real estate investment trust coming on the market.  Apollo Residential Mortgage, Inc. (NYSE: AMTG) is coming public after pricing its initial public offering of 10,000,000 ...
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