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Monthly Archives: September 2011

Media Digest (9/7/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 6:19 am

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz fired over the phone. (Reuters) Obama may propose a $300 billion employment package with tax cuts and new expenditures to train workers. (Reuters) Pressure ...
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Will Apple Lose Top Employees? The Great Brain Drain (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 5:53 am

When great CEOs leave a company, an entire corporate culture is at risk to change, even when the new CEO is the favored replacement. Tim Cook is said to be ...
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America’s Worst Directors: Roy Bostock of Yahoo!

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 9:12 pm

Roy J. Bostock has made more mistakes than any media company chairman in recent memory. His latest misstep was to fire CEO Carol Bartz over the phone, and forgetting to ...
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How The Seven Biggest Presidential Speeches On The Economy Failed

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 5:38 pm

President Barack Obama will give a speech before a joint session of Congress this week, in which he will lay out a job creation plan. There have been only seven ...
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Sprint Piles In (T, DTEGY, S, VZ, VOD, LEAP, PCS)

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 5:14 pm

Not even a week after the US Department of Justice filed a complaint to block the proposed $39 billion merger of AT&T  (NYSE: T) and the T-Mobile USA division of ...
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Teavana: When Good IPOs Become Fully Valued (TEA)

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 2:58 pm

Teavana Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TEA) has seen its quiet period come to an end today, making the analyst community that works for the companies which did the underwriting free to ...
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Coffee Prices Set to Fall (SBUX, MCD, GMCR, DNKN, KFT, SJM, KKD)

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 1:19 pm

Coffee prices rose steadily from July 2010 to March 2011, before dipping a little, and then climbing back to a price of more than $3/pound. The price today is about ...
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Can Sunoco Shed its Refineries? (SUN, MRO, MPC, COP, VLO, RDS-A, MUR)

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 11:44 am

Beginning in the early 1990s, integrated oil companies and some independents began stripping away their midstream assets like interstate pipeline and gathering systems to focus more on the money-making parts ...
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China’s Leading Solar Player Gets Big Bank Boost (GCPEF, TSL, STP, JASO, YGE, LDK, FSLR, SPWRA, TAN)

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 10:52 am

The China Development Bank has provided the country's largest polysilicon maker with two new credit facilities totalling $713 million. GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. (OTC: GCPEF) can add that total to ...
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Carlyle IPO Filing: Making the Billions Even More Liquid

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 10:17 am

Another private equity giant is set to come public in an initial public offering.  The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO), Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ...
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Toyota Makes Some Major Model Moves (TM, HMC, F, GM, BYDDF, BRK-A, BRK-B)

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 9:57 am

Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) rolled out its 2012 model Camry in Japan yesterday. For the Japanese market, the carmaker will sell only the gasoline-electric hybrid. That puts the company ...
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Fund Manager Sentiment Reaches Extreme Bearish Levels

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 9:49 am

Hedge fund managers have turned very bearish against domestic stocks.  The new data from BarclayHedge/TrimTabs Investment Research Survey showed that Bearish Sentiment on the S&P 500 rose handily in August ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AAPL. NOK, STP, WAL)

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 8:42 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK), Suntech Power ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/6/2011) Robo-Signing

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 8:28 am

Updated throughout the day US banks were offered a settlement which would cost them billions of dollars to end robo-signing suits by states (FT) Nine Entertainment TV will have its ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ATVI, BEAV, CF, DDS, DNKN, ERTS, LDK, MRGE, NOV, PHM, SODA, TEA, X, WAIR)

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 8:15 am

These are some of this Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Started as Buy at ...
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