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Monthly Archives: September 2011

Oil Shales & Sands: Massive Job-Creating Machines (BP, HAL, SLB)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Recent reports from North Dakota illustrate just how much demand there is for workers in the Bakken oil and gas fields. Unemployed workers have relatively little trouble finding jobs there, ...
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A Pickens Win: Westport & Shell Target LNG Vehicles & Fuels (WPRT, RDS-A, CLNE, CHK)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 11:33 am

The Pickens Plan is getting one more round of formal support, well indirect support at any rate.  Westport Innovations Inc. (NASDAQ: WPRT) was halted ahead of news that it and ...
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Consumer Spending Plunges In August

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 11:28 am

Consumers have lost faith in the recovery to the extent to which they are unwilling to spend money. There is no evidence that joblessness has risen in the last six ...
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Despite Weak Payrolls, Job Openings Reached New Cycle High

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 11:15 am

The U.S. Labor Department has some data which may be a bit difficult to understand when you see unemployment is staying above 9% and when no new net non-farm payrolls ...
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M&A Value For American Coal Players? (WLT, KOL, CNX, BTU, ANR)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 9:56 am

Walter Energy, Inc. (NYSE: WLT) is the next M&A target if the daily rumor mill has any truth to it.  The rumor is that Anglo American is weighing on whether ...
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Boeing in China (BA, EADSY, AIRYY, ZNH, CEA, RYAAY)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 9:50 am

The market for commercial airplanes in China is set to explode. At least that's the prediction from a senior official at Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), who has predicted that over ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (LDK, NOK, NVDA, URBN)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 8:52 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (NYSE: LDK), Nokia Corporation (NYSE: ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (9/7/2011) Saab Closes, Yahoo! Fires

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 8:51 am

USA Today: Saab files for bankruptcy, makes last stand NYT: U.S. Slides, Singapore Rises in Competitiveness Survey NYT: Saab Files for Bankruptcy Protection Bloomberg: HSBC to Cut 3,000 Jobs in ...
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GE Gets Wrapped Up in FHFA Litigation With Banks (GE)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 8:36 am

It is not just the banks getting wrapped up in this latest FHFA litigation notice.  General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has issued a release this morning showing that it ...
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After Bartz & Sum of the Parts: What’s Yahoo! Worth? (YHOO, GOOG, MSFT, BX, AOL, KKR)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 8:21 am

Now that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has fired CEO Carol Bartz about as gracelessly as it could and set out on a strategic review of its business under interim CEO ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/7/2011) Google Investigation, AT&T Bid

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 8:07 am

Updated throughout the day Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) offices in South Korea were invaded by government officials (Reuters) AT&T (NYSE: T) may be able to lower its offer for T-Mobile if ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ABAX, BUD, AMAT, BX, COF, CECO, DOV, GS, HUM, JDSU, LVS, NDAQ, RFMD, SWKS, THI, TQNT, WYN)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 8:04 am

These are some of this Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Abaxis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABAX) maintained Underperform as Bear of ...
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Global Cybercrime Costs $114 Billion a Year

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 6:30 am

Consumers and corporations may want to turn off their PCs and return to the days when all transactions were done with paper and cash. “For the first time a Norton ...
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Austerity Strikes Reach Italy

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 6:26 am

The labor stoppages and strikes that have hit Greece and other southern EU nations, the results of austerity measures adopted by national governments, have reached Italy. It is another sign ...
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Bank of America Reorganizes — to What End?

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 6:22 am

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has announced another management reorganization that seems to do nothing to solve the bank’s balance sheet and legal problems. That makes the new structure useless. ...
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