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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Cisco Manages To Sneak Past Estimates, Margin Pressure Lives (CSCO)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 4:25 pm

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is out with earnings and it is not as dire as the market has warned you about from peer earnings.  The networking equipment giant reported ...
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Nine Key Stocks Bucking The Selling (AWK, AVT, CLWR, CREE, DMD, EPD, FSLR, HI, RL)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 2:19 pm

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has bounced after Jamie Dimon and Societe Generale have defended the system and after Brian Moynihan defended his bank.  The DJIA is still down 210 ...
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10-Year Treasury Auction Challenging All-Time Low Yields

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 1:42 pm

The Treasury has just held a $24 billion 10-Year Treasury Note auction that seems almost baffling.  The auction high rate was 2.14% and the Treasury received $77,38 billion in bids.  ...
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Apparel Retailers Score As Cost Pressures Plummet (RL, M, GPS, SKS, LULU, LIZ, RTH)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 1:15 pm

From a high of more than $2/pound, cotton prices have tumbled to around $1/pound. The collapse is likely due to what analysts think will be a record cotton crop for ...
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Walmart Kicks Off Movie Streaming on iPads (WMT, AAPL, NFLX, AMZN, GOOG, CSTR)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 12:04 pm

Just a day after closing its MP3 music download offering, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has launched a streaming video service for the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Walmart ...
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Market Rumors Attack: 2008 Redux… Bear Stearns to Lehman to Societe Generale

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 11:26 am

If you know one thing about the meltdown that took place in 2008 and then again in 2009, you know that rumor mongering exacerbated the situation massively.  To say whether ...
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The Ten Most Valuable Companies In America, Apple Rules

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 11:19 am

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) became the most valuable company in America yesterday when its market cap passed Exxon Mobil’s (NYSE: XOM). The move draws attention to what market capitalization means, and ...
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Short Sellers Increase Bets & Clean House in SIRIUS XM (SIRI)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 10:37 am

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has been a very heavily attacked stock by short sellers despite a very low share price.  The short selling peaked in May before some ...
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Mortgage Applications Rise, But Not for New Buyers (NVR, PHM, MHO, RYL, DHI, BZH, XHB, STC)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 10:18 am

For the second week in a row, the number of US mortgage applications rose, but the vast majority of the action came in refinancing, not new purchases. This spells continuing ...
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Carbonite Slashes IPO Price (CARB)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 9:52 am

Carbonite, Inc. has filed its eighth amendment to its S-1 filing to come public.  It was just on August 1 that we had financial terms set at 5.4 million shares ...
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Crude Demand Falls, Profits to Follow? (XOM, CVX, COP, BP, VLO, TSO, WNR, SLB, HAL, NE, APA, DVN, CHK)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 9:42 am

High prices have finally contributed to curing high prices in the world's crude oil market. The gloomy economic forecasts for the second half of 2011 have combined with $120/barrel prices ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (8/10/2011) Groupon Accounting, IEA Oil Demand

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 9:11 am

WSJ: Tencent's Profit Falls Short of Forecast http://on.wsj.com/qSBeIh NYT: DealBook: Groupon Drops Criticized Yardstick, but Shows More Growth http://nyti.ms/oyOxf6 CNNMoney: IEA says oil demand could be hurt by a sluggish ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (CREE, MOTR, PR)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 8:54 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE), Motricity (NASDAQ: MOTR), and Polo Ralph ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/10/2011) Renting Foreclosed Homes

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 8:50 am

Updated throughout the day France has begun work to keep its AAA rating (WSJ) Obama will offer a plan to turn foreclosed homes held by the government, into rentals. Douglas ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AZO, CSCO, CTB, CREE, ECL, HEV, EXPE, FSLR, KND, MON, MWW, MOS, NEM, OPEN, PLD, VMW, WNR)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 8:22 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. AutoZone Inc. (NYSE: AZO) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. Cisco ...
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