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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/15/2011) Germany Kill Euro-Bond

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 8:19 am

Updated throughout the day German and France have turned down a proposal to issue eurobonds (FT) Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AET, AIXG, CTSH, FFIV, GDOT, HFC, ITW, IBM, LXK, MWV, NTAP, OPTR, ORCL, PIR, TYC, UA, UIS, V, VMW, GWW)

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 8:18 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Reiterated Buy with $51 target at ...
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Google Follows Apple Into Hardware, But With Weak Hand

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 7:46 am

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will buy mediocre handset firm Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI). It is probably a play to compete with Apple. The difference is that Motorola has a relatively weak ...
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Top 10 Stocks To Watch This Week, The Unusual Suspects (BAC, CARB, CSCO, HMSY, KND, MNKD, MU, NVDA, S, RAH)

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 7:43 am

There are many things happening this week that are either fresh events or which are follow-on events from last week.  We have already compiled an earnings calendar with detailed previews ...
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The Demise of Saab

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 6:38 am

Saab is one of the major brands that will go under this year. Once owned by GM (NYSE: GM), it has not been able to find financial backers to take ...
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Japan — Another Major Economy Shrinks

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 6:32 am

Economists were overjoyed because Japan's GDP only contracted at an annual rate of 1.3% based on readings from the past quarter. They had expected a figure closer to 2.6%. Consumer ...
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Nations That Wouldn’t Trade Places with the U.S.

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 6:29 am

"... there’s not a country on Earth that wouldn’t trade places with us." So President Barack Obama said in his weekly radio address. President Obama's comments that every and any ...
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Robert B. Zoellick, World Bank Group President, Says Economy in Danger Zone

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 6:21 am

Robert B. Zoellick, the World Bank Group president, recently said that the global economy had reached a "new danger zone." He added, "I think that confidence in economic leadership has ...
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Media Digest (8/15/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 6:16 am

Time Warner (NYSE: TWC) to buy Insight Communications from Carlyle for $3 billion. (Reuters) Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) expects holiday sales to be strong. (Reuters) Security experts say hackers may ...
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The Ten Countries Where People Save the Most Money

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 5:56 am

When it comes to saving, behavior varies widely among nations. Residents of the United States only save 5.8%. But the residents of 10 countries save more than 9% of their ...
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24/7 Wall St. Top Analyst Calls of the Week (AIG, ACM, ARMH, BBBY, BRK-A, BSX, CSCO, KO, CREE, FSLR, AWAY, ERIC, MHR, SLM)

Posted: August 13, 2011 at 11:14 am

Each morning of the week we pull the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research reports.  It turns out that some research calls were far more important ...
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CEOs Buying Their Own Companies At A Discount (NLY, CHTR, D, EQY, GBX, HUN, LEAP, LGND, MBRG, MS, TIE, WIN)

Posted: August 12, 2011 at 3:49 pm

Investors couldn't have missed seeing the recent waves of new corporate share buyback plans. What they may have not noticed as clearly is the increasing trend in "legal insider trading" ...
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Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (DDS, LDK, LOW, ADI, DELL, HD, TJX, WMT, DE, DRYS, JDSU, NTAP, SPLS, TGT, BRCD, GME, GPS, HPQ, CRM, SHLD)

Posted: August 12, 2011 at 2:26 pm

The coming week has many key earnings reports, some tech and some retail.  We have tracked the major reports by day, shown Thomson Reuters estimates, as well as given price ...
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Has the Solar Sector’s Fate Changed? (FSLR, SPWRA, TSL, LDK, JASO, SOL, WFR, YGE, TAN, KWT)

Posted: August 12, 2011 at 12:39 pm

Solar companies have seen a big bounce from recent lows and it seems as if something may be brewing if the underlying will cooperate.  The most significant event in the ...
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More Trouble at American Superconductor, But There’s Still Hope (AMSC)

Posted: August 12, 2011 at 10:51 am

Since last April the news from American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC) has been uniformly awful. The company's largest customer refused to pay for shipments received in the second half of ...
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