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Monthly Archives: August 2011

At LDK, Can Bad News Be Good? (LDK, TSL, TAN)

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 9:50 am

About 10 days ago, LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) lowered its guidance for the second quarter, and this morning the bad news became official. If anything, it's even worse ...
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All Top 20 US Real Estate Markets Show Year-Over-Year Declines

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 9:16 am

All 20 major US markets showed year-over-year home price declines during June. The drop was led by Minneapolis where prices fell 10.4%. Prices in Portland were off 9.6%. In Phoenix ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (BAC, DG, EMR, LDK, NOK, PATH)

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 8:45 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC), Dollar General Corp. (NYSE:DG), Emerson ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (8/30/2011) Starbucks K-Cup

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 8:39 am

Zerohedge: Fed Dove Evans Open Mouth, Demands More QE, Sends Gold Soaring Bloomberg: Labor supply dwindles in China | NYT: Italy Sees Borrowing Costs Fall WSJ: Starbucks to Be Offered ...
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Dollar General, A Secular Change Winner (DG, DLTR, NDN, FDO, BIG, WMT, BRK-A, KKR)

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 8:37 am

Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is packing a punch after earnings this morning after beating earnings and raising guidance.  The dollar store, or actually 'under $10 and under $5 store' ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/30/2011) News Corp Investigation

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 8:31 am

Updated throughout the day News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has expanding an internal investigation into reporting practices at its UK papers (Reuters) Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (MDRX, ANR, AMCX, AEO, BAC, CBRL, EMR, JNY, LDK, PERY, PCLN, R, HOT, SXC, VPRT)

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 8:08 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) Reiterated Buy with $27 ...
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S&P Slashes Europe GDP Targets, Still No Double Dip Recession (CAT, FLS, PCAR, OI, PLL, ADBE, LXK, F, GM, PM, CCE, MCD, YUM)

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 8:00 am

Europe posted anemic GDP growth in the second quarter of 2011, but the continent can still avoid a double-dip recession if European governments could solve a few problems. First is ...
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More 4G Smartphones Flood the Market

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 6:36 am

LG, the third largest handset maker in the world, is about to release its new 4G-enabled Thrill. It will be marketed by AT&T (NYSE: T). The Thrill is another in ...
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Italy: Austerity on Top of Austerity

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 6:34 am

Italy appears to have admitted that its recent austerity plans fail to go far enough to bring down its deficit to levels that would be acceptable to the European Central ...
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PIMCO’s Bill Gross Talks Too Much

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 6:26 am

Bill Gross, who manages the world’s largest bond fund, told the Financial Times and almost anyone else who would listen: “Do I wish I had more Treasuries? Yeah, that’s pretty ...
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Amazon Tablet May Sell Five Million Units in Q4

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 6:25 am

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is likely to succeed where Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and several other PC and consumer electronics companies have failed. Its ...
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Media Digest (8/30/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 6:22 am

Foreign oil companies may have to give up natural gas rights in Iraq. (Reuters) Several large pharma firms are in the early stages of an attempt to find new and ...
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The Hottest International Housing Markets

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 5:02 am

Even as the value of residential real estate around the developed world continued its multi-year plunge in the second quarter, some countries bucked the trend. In seven national markets, housing ...
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An H-P PC Unit Spin-Off, Oh Boy! (HPQ, AAPL, DELL, IBM, SNE)

Posted: August 29, 2011 at 5:59 pm

It was only recently that Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) dropped the news that it was evaluating strategic alternatives for its PC group, called the Personal Systems Group.  At the ...
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