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Monthly Archives: September 2011

The Highest Paying Jobs With The Most Time Off

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 4:06 pm

The vast majority of high-paying jobs require a significant initial commitment in the form of education, training and tuition, and then hard work while on the job. Most high-paying jobs ...
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Will Natural Gas Prices Ever Rise? (XOM, BP, CHK, ECA, COP, DVN, EOG, APC, UPL, STR)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 2:01 pm

A barrel of oil contains about six times as much energy as a thousand cubic feet of natural gas. By that metric, at today's WTI price of around $90/barrel, natural ...
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Is IBM’s Growth Dying? (IBM, HPQ, DELL)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 1:20 pm

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) might have been raised to "Buy" by Goldman Sachs in the middle of August, but the ongoing slowness in the economy may be taking ...
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Verizon Surprises Us With Dividend Hike… AT&T Next? (VZ, T)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 1:05 pm

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) has just delivered on another dividend hike, making this the fifth consecutive year that the telecom giant has boosted its payout.  The boost is by ...
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Sanchez Energy IPO Filing, An Eagle Ford Shale Winner (SEN, CHK, ECA, MRO)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 12:01 pm

A new initial public offering being filed by a Houston-based company called Sanchez Energy Corporation may not garner much interest all on its own.  Not until investors realize that this ...
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Wendy’s Gets New Blood To Fuel Turnaround (WEN, YUM, MCD)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 11:14 am

The Wendy's Company (NYSE: WEN) has been stuck in the mud.  The company has jettisoned its failed Arby's experiment and now it is back to a single brand.  This morning ...
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Retail Round-Up: Back-to-School Creates Winners & Losers (COST, TGT, M,SKS, JWN, JCP, KSS, GPS, WTSLA, BKE, ZUMZ, XRT, RTH)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 10:51 am

Retail sales in August put up solid gains that were slowed somewhat by the effects of Hurricane Irene along the eastern seaboard. Among the stores reporting sales numbers today are ...
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Oil Companies Reacting to Gulf of Mexico Storm (BP, CVX, APC, RDS-A, XOM)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 10:11 am

What would become Lee is currently posing a threat the entire Gulf Coast again in the Gulf of Mexico.  The East Cost just had to deal with Irene and is ...
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T-Mobile Merger Not Dead Yet (T, DTEGY, S, VZ, VOD, LEAP, PCS)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 9:02 am

Yesterday's filing by the US Department of Justice in the proposed $39 billion merger between AT&T (NYST: T) and T-Mobile may be, in the words of Winston Churchill, just "the ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (9/1/2011) Jobless Claims Fall

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 8:56 am

Yahoo! Finance: Goldman, two firms agree on foreclosure-signing practice: report MSNBC: Jobless claims drop in sign layoffs may ease WSJ: Breaking: U.S. jobless claims fell by 12,000 to 409,000 last ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/1/2011) Bank of NYMellon CEO Fired

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 8:50 am

Updated throughout the day. Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has agree with New York State officials to end robo-signing practices (WSJ) Bank of NY Mellon (NYSE: BK) CEO Robert Kelly was ...
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Jobless Claims Set Tone For Unemployment & Payrolls Data

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 8:39 am

Weekly jobless claims from the Labor Department looks good on the surface, but it isn't too good and it won't give any great hope for Friday's unemployment and payrolls data.  ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ACPW, AMAT, ACI, BCS, CELL, COG, DUK, HCA, MDT, OMG, PT)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 8:11 am

These are some of this Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Active Power Inc. (NASDAQ: ACPW) Started as Buy at ...
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Another Government-Backed Solar Player Dies (INTC, FSLR, TSL, STP, JASO, YGE, LDK)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 8:01 am

The month of August was hard on US solar makers. Evergreen Solar closed its doors a few weeks ago, followed by privately held and Intel Corp.-supported (NASDAQ: INTC) SpectraWatt, Inc. ...
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Unemployment and Obama — All Joblessness Is Local

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 6:39 am

President Obama is set to unveil his new jobs packages. They are meant to bring down unemployment from above 9%, where it has been since just after the start of ...
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