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Monthly Archives: September 2011

Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/29/2011) Ford To Add 10,000 Jobs

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 8:21 am

Updated throughout the day Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has hired Goldman Sachs (NYSE GS) to erect defenses against activist investors (WSJ) Ford (NYSE: F) may add 10,000 jobs in the US ...
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Germany Votes To Support European Financial Stability Facility

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 6:44 am

The vote was not decided until the last moment. The German parliament approved new power for the European Financial Stability Facility. The fund, which many economists believe must be increased ...
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Nokia Becomes an Unemployment Sink Hole

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 6:31 am

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has let go 7,000 people since CEO Stephen Elop joined the company after a career at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). He says Nokia will cut another 3,500 jobs. ...
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China’s Corn Shortage and a Lack of Solutions

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 6:29 am

China’s Ministry of Agriculture said it will have to make an extraordinary effort to increase the nation’s supply of corn. That assumes the government can control the weather, the quality ...
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How the Government Failed Small Business

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 6:25 am

The Obama administration set a fund of $30 billion to help small businesses. The Treasury Department closed the fund recently after distributing only $4 billion of the money. The action ...
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Canadian Pipeline Debate: No Facts, No Figures

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 6:22 am

The State Department recently supported a proposal to run a pipeline from Canada down the middle of the U.S. The Keystone XL project will, according to operator TransCanada (NYSE: TRP), create ...
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Media Digest (9/29/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 6:18 am

Angela Merkel faces a test: will her own party support money being used for the bailout of Greece? (Reuters) Bernanke says the Fed may have to act if inflation falls ...
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Cars Americans No Longer Drive

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 5:05 am

The number of cars and light trucks sold in the U.S. fell 25% over the past five years, from over 16.4 million for the model year beginning September 2005 to ...
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Top Debt & Credit Rating Agency Actions (MCD, CRH, CHK, WFC, TXN, CTL, EK, CODI)

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 2:31 pm

Today's ratings actions start of with a real no-brainer. McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) received an 'A' rating from Fitch Ratings on a new $500 million 2.625%, 10.25-year senior unsecured note ...
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3D Glasses Price War Kills RealD (SNE, RLD, NWS, IMAX, RGC, CNK, DWA)

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 1:05 pm

Reports from the Hollywood Reporter are not likely to move stocks on most days.  Today is no normal day.  A report from Tuesday afternoon saying that Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE) will stop ...
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Google’s Solar Investments Could Be Real Winners (GOOG, FSLR, TSL, JASO, STP)

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 12:19 pm

Last June Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) created a $280 million fund with SolarCity to finance residential solar projects. Yesterday the world's search engine giant created a $75 million fund with ...
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Amazon’s New Kindle Touch: iPad Killer or Bookstore Killer? (AMZN, AAPL, BKS)

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 11:40 am

Many investors of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be worried that today marked the official launch notice of the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN).  It ...
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Europe Hits Struggling Airlines With Carbon Tax (AMR, UAL, DAL)

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 10:57 am

The European Union plans to initiate a plan next year that would force any major airline that flies to a European destination to participate in the European cap-and-trade system designed ...
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E.U. Financial Transaction Tax: Stupid Idea From Stupid Leadership

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 10:27 am

If you can count on the Europeans to invent one thing, it is the invention of taxation.  The latest effort by the European Commission is one that is just baffling if ...
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US Energy Review Puts Focus on Electric Vehicles (HMC, TM, GM, F, NSANF, ADM, VLO, CLNE)

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 9:51 am

If the US has an energy policy -- a big if -- that policy turns on two factors. One, reducing energy imports; and two, reducing environmentally harmful emissions. How the ...
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