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Monthly Archives: September 2011

Starz Could Just Be The Tip Of The Iceberg At Netflix (NFLX, CSTR, AMZN, BLOAQ, LSTZA, DIS)

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 10:18 am

What a difference a couple of months can make.  Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has gone from the hottest controversial stock in the market to a controversial stock in trouble, and ...
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Valero Grabs Another Refinery (VLO, MUR, CVX, HFC)

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 9:56 am

Crude oil refining doesn't get much respect. The business is cyclical to the point of fickleness and it is often a drag on the profits of integrated oil & gas ...
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Drop in Shipping Could Mean Weak Holiday Season for Retail (DRYS, GNK, EXM, SSW, DAC, TGT, M, WMT)

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 9:01 am

One indicator of a profitable holiday season for US retailers is the flow of goods into US ports. The shipping season for holiday goods generally starts in July and August ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (9/2/2011) Economy Adds Zero Jobs

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 8:57 am

Zerohedge: Birth Death Adds 87K To Today's NFP Miss, 491K Jobs In Past Year Due To "Statistics" NYT: U.S. Showed No Job Growth in August; Rate Stays at 9.1% Yahoo! ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/2/2011) Bank Of American Trouble

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 8:50 am

Federal authorities want a plan from Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) to cover plans if its financial situation gets much worse (WSJ) Regulators have pressed high frequency traders to reveal ...
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Unemployment & Payrolls Signal The Double-Dip Recession

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 8:40 am

The jobs recession is afoot, as if you did not already know that.  The Labor Department reported a dismal figure of ZERO on the change in non-Farm payrolls for August.  ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AGNC, NLY, CAB, CP, CIM, EDMC, FDX, FSLR, GS, HTS, IVR, JOSB, LQDT, MDR, ODFL, RIMM, SKS, TD, UPS)

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 8:26 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. American Capital Agency Corp. (NASDAQ: AGNC) Cut to Neutral ...
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Special: Labor Day Laborers

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 6:59 am

On Labor Day, Americans honor the country’s workforce and the end of summer. However, while most of us enjoy a day off, millions must continue to work to keep the ...
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Tablet PC Price Wars Explode as Carnage Looms

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 6:36 am

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be able to hold on to the market share the iPad has in the U.S. The battle for the second, third and fourth places has become ...
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U.S. Car Sales in August Mean Nothing

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 6:34 am

Many economists said U.S. car sales were strong in August and that the improvement was a sign of a better trend in consumer spending. That was hardly true. Sales rose ...
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Icahn’s Latest Blunder as Clorox Shares Falter

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 6:31 am

Carl Icahn’s investment in Clorox (NYSE: CLX) has begun to look like one more in a long line of blunders. The share price of the company reached $74.55 when he ...
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Ten Steps to Get BofA Stock Back Above $10 (BAC, JPM, C, WFC)

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 6:31 am

To say that the situation had become painful at Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) would be the understatement of the year. Shares were trading at $10.22 on July 21, before ...
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Media Digest (9/2/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 6:27 am

U.S. regulators may ask high-frequency trading firms to provide details of their trades. (Reuters) The Federal Reserve tells Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) it must review its foreclosure records. (Reuters) Experts ...
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Talbots Revamps Its Image

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 5:19 pm

Sycamore Partners disclosed a 9.9% ownership stake in Talbots (NYSE:TLB), and shared its views in an August 1 regulatory filing that the women’s apparel retailer was "undervalued.” The private-equity fund ...
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Who Are America’s Top 10 Gas Drillers?

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 5:17 pm

by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica, Sep. 1, 2011, 4:12 p.m. Natural gas—often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy—has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with ...
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