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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Is Consumer Electronics Spending Immune To The Weak Economy?

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 11:37 am

The economy is still slowing.  Retail spending is spotty.  Housing is still in the toilet.  Unemployment remains at the nosebleed level.  And unease about leadership is near an all-time high.  ...
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Melcro Crown: How Macau Is An Earnings Haven (MPEL, WYNN, LVS)

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 10:03 am

There is a trend happening about gambling in Asia, and it no longer just involves Asian businessmen flying to Las Vegas.  This is about Macau, and the pure-play for Macau ...
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Is Ron Burkle Dumb Enough To Move Into American Apparel?

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 9:50 am

Ron Burkle already owns 6% of American Apparel (NYSE: APP). There are reports that he may buy a large portion of the retailer's debt via financing an offer by Jason ...
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Online Music Loses Court Fight, Wins Anyway (GOOG, AMZN, AAPL, SIRI, P, TWX, SNE)

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 9:45 am

A federal judge has ruled that music locker service MP3tunes has, in fact, infringed on the copyrights owned by music companies by allowing users to use a program to locate ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AAPL, ARMH, HPQ)

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 8:51 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Arm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARMH), ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (8/23/2011) China Manufacturing, Gold Record

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 8:50 am

NYT: DealBook: Foster's Moves to Thwart SABMiller's Hostile Bid CNNMoney: China's manufacturing sector improved in August, but growth remains sluggish. Global markets rose on the news MSNBC: States where no ...
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Is VMware Alienating Customers? (VMW, EMC, NFLX, CTXS)

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 8:47 am

VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is still the essentially unchallenged king of virtualization.  History dictates that when the king taxes the population too egregiously that bad things start to happen.  This ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/23/2011) New Apple iPhone, Boeing Gets Delta Order

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 8:40 am

Updated throughout the day. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is building a inexpensive 8GB iPhone 4 (Reuters) Boeing (NYSE: BA) will get orders for 100 737-900 planes from Delta (NYSE: DAL) McGraw-Hill ...
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Battle Looms for the North Pole Oil

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 8:22 am

In 2007 a Russian submarine planted a flag on the sea floor underneath the North Pole, and the country claimed the North Pole as Russian territory. Now Denmark/Greenland is preparing ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AET, AMR, ADM, MT, BG, CINF, COH, EXPE, FAST, HGSI, NSIT, JNPR, KMB, PCLN, RYL, LCC, SAFM, WAG)

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 8:11 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. AMR ...
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Nine Companies That Destroyed Their Largest Competitors

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 6:33 am

Most companies want to be number one in their markets. Once there, however, they have trouble keeping the top spot for long. They are flanked by smaller, nimbler companies that ...
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Does Android Matter?

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 6:30 am

Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android mobile OS continued to gain market share in the U.S. during the second quarter. But that may not matter. The operating system is free because it ...
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Foreclosure Market Gets More Complicated

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 6:27 am

Most data about the housing market shows that foreclosures and delinquencies are up. Yet, other information contradicts that. RealtyTrac said foreclosures fell to a multimonth low in July. Its CEO ...
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Baby Boomers to Cut Their Own Throats Financially?

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 6:23 am

Baby boomers, one of the largest groups to invest in the stock market over the past 30 years, will start to sell their portfolios as they retire. This will put ...
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Media Digest (8/23/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 23, 2011 at 6:20 am

Federal officials may consider cuts in food stamp programs that serve 46 million people. (Reuters) Housing prices probably continued to fall in July. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) and Ford (NYSE: ...
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