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Monthly Archives: October 2011

The Love of Dividends: LyondellBasell (LYB, DOW, EMN)

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Investors love dividends and that is being proven yet again when you look at LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE: LYB) today.  The chemical company is far from its days of bankruptcy reorganization ...
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US Solar Makers Fire a Shot in Chinese Trade War (STP, TSL, JASO, YGE, LDK, FSLR, SPWRA, WFR, RSOL)

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 11:44 am

The blossoming trade war with China has just been warmed-up a notch. Led by a German solar PV maker with operations in the US, seven US-based companies have filed a ...
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Hard Hit States Have Unemployment Rise

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 11:27 am

Unemployment continued to gnaw at some of the most economically troubled regions of the US. States with statistically significant employment changes from August 2011 to September 2011, seasonally adjusted --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
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S&P Upgrade of Ford Signals Dividend Is Closer (F, GM)

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 11:00 am

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) may not yet quite be investment grade, but the company is getting closer and closer.  Friday morning brought the news that Standard & Poor's has raised the debt ...
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What Recession? Coal Acquisitions Keep on Coming (BTU, MT, MACDF, ACI, WLT, RIO, ANR, AAUKY, BHP, VALE, PCX, KOL)

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 9:55 am

While Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) and ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) haven’t been pursuing Australia’s Macarthur Coal Ltd. (OTC: MACDF) for more than a few months, the deal never really looked like ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (GMCR, HON, STX, STP)

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 8:51 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR), Honeywell International ...
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Groupon IPO Terms… Its Own Groupon at Half-Off (GRPN)

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 8:35 am

Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) has set its initial IPO terms and the valuation is still astronomical yet far less than what had been expected before.  The social couponing website plans ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BHP, BP, CIM, DRYS, FITB, GFA, HBAN, JCOM, JBHT, ERIC, MS, PLL, PETM, STX, STM, SYNA)

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 8:19 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) Cut to Hold at Societe Generale; ...
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GE Bounces Back

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 6:47 am

GE (NYSE: GE) posted earnings that were above average. Jeff Immelt may want to step down from his positions as Obama's adviser and spend all of his time at the ...
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EU Wants to Ban Sovereign Debt Ratings

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 6:40 am

It may be an affront to free speech, or just a plan that is totally unrealistic, but the EU wants to ban credit ratings of the sovereign debt of its ...
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Two Thousand Americans Made Over $10 Million Last Year

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 6:32 am

More than 2,00o Americans made in excess of $10 million last year. Most of them probably earned it, perhaps at investment banks or hedge funds. Some may be rich farmers ...
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The Myth of Infrastructure Repair

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 6:27 am

Infrastructure repair data often misleads, and this makes the argument about how government should spend money on upgrading America’s roads and bridges complicated and often biased. Transportation for America has ...
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Ford’s UAW Contract and Weak Consumer Spending

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 6:23 am

Ford’s (NYSE: F) new UAW contract is good news for the auto company’s financial future but bad news for workers, who will have a stagnant standard of living. It is ...
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Microsoft and Good News for the Corporate Economy

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 6:20 am

Some economists argue that while businesses have recovered a great deal from the recession, American workers have not. There is some proof of that in Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) latest quarterly ...
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Media Digest (10/21/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 6:16 am

Slow sales of Windows keeps Microsoft’ s (NASDAQ: MSFT) revenue low. (Reuters) The Murdoch family will face voters angered about the UK paper hacking scandal at today’s annual meeting. (Reuters) ...
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