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Monthly Archives: September 2011

24/7 Wall St. Top Analyst Calls of the Week (ATVI, AAPL, AMAT, CSCO, GLW, DNKN, LEN, LULU, MSI, NDAQ, SODA, TLB, TEA, TSO, TIVO)

Posted: September 10, 2011 at 7:31 am

Each morning we review our top upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research notes.  We then look back over these at the end of the week to more closely ...
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The Eight Beers Americans No Longer Drink

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 2:55 pm

Some of America’s most famous beers have lost a tremendous amount of their national sales over the last five years. Mostly, they are full-calorie beers, and they have lost sales ...
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Japan Deepening Ties with Leading Oil Producer Saudi Arabia

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 1:37 pm

Since Japan and Saudi Arabia established diplomatic relations in 1955, Japan has become one of the biggest importers of Saudi oil, with trade in 2010 exceeding $ 43 billion. Japanese ...
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South China Sea Maritime Dispute Continues to Roil Region

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 1:18 pm

Contested overlapping maritime offshore claims between China, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei over the South China Sea continue to disrupt relations between the six nations. China claims approximately 75 ...
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Euro-Dollar Breakdown: The Calls For Parity Return, A Hit To GDP (UUP, FXE, EUO, FXF)

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 12:47 pm

It was just under ten years ago that I was in Spain and Portugal for a vacation and a day of running with the bulls in Pampalona.  Unlike most trips ...
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Is Solar Power Cheaper Than Wind? (FSLR, STP, JASO)

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 11:43 am

As the cost for crystalline solar PV panels falls toward the magic number of $1/watt, the cost of building a utility scale solar plant approaches the cost of building an ...
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Raising Apple Earnings, Sales, Price Target Projections (AAPL)

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 11:12 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has so far refused to succumb to the economic slowdown in the same manner as other technology companies.  Even the threat of a long-term brain drain ...
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McDonald’s Misses… Has Its Cycle Finally Peaked? (MCD, YUM, SBUX, DNKN)

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 10:27 am

Same-store sales figures out this morning from McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) have come in weaker than the consensus estimate and that is dragging shares down by more than -4% in ...
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As Backers Sell Dollar General, Just Another Buying Opportunity (DG, FDO, DLTR, NDN, BIG, KKR, BRK-A)

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 9:57 am

Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is seeing its stock trade a bit soft this morning on news that private equity backers are selling 25 million shares of common shares at ...
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Lululemon Forecast Brings a Cloud (LULU)

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 9:21 am

Athletic apparel maker Lululemon-Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) reported earnings this morning for its second quarter ending on July 31st. The company posted diluted EPS of $0.26, compared with EPS of ...
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Credit Suisse Downgrades S&P 500 and GDP Targets for ’11 and ’12 (SPY)

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 8:52 am

Credit Suisse is downgrading the benchmark targets for the stock market and for economic growth.  Before you panic too much, the Global Equity Strategy group is still maintaining an Overweight ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (DNDN, LULU, MCD, TZOO)

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 8:48 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN), Lululemon Athletica inc. (NASDAQ: LULU), McDonald's ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (9/9/2011) McDonald’s Same Store, Bank Of America Layoffs

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 8:34 am

Yahoo! Finance: Economic gloom piles pressure on G7 finance talks USA Today: Reports: Bank of America could cut at least 28,000 jobs Zerohedge: MCDONALD'S AUG. U.S. EUROPE COMP SALES UP ...
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Todya’s Best Market Rumors (9/9/2011) NYSE Merger Block, Bank Of America Layoffs

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 8:17 am

Updated throughout the day. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) will cut 40,000 jobs (WSJ) Nasdaq OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ) will press its objections about the NYSE (NYSE: NYX) merger with Deutsche ...
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The Best Value Stock in Conglomerates, Dividend Lovers (GE, UTX, BRK-A, HON, MMM, TXT, TYC, ITT, IYJ)

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 8:10 am

The latest carnage in the market has left some companies at valuations that are getting hard to ignore, even knowing about the harder economic times. Value investors invest before recessions, ...
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