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Monthly Archives: October 2011

The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (10/19/2011) Abbott Lab Splits, Morgan Earnings

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 8:50 am

MSNBC: US housing starts jumped in September http://on.msnbc.com/pxVyNE NYT: Olympus Backtracks on Payments http://nyti.ms/pAPNmD CNNMoney: Apple 2.0: Apple's big miss: The analysts weigh in http://bit.ly/r7OZMN $AAPL FT: Olympus contradicts chairman ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/19/2011) GE Capital China, EU Bank Probe

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 8:42 am

Updated throughout the day Nomura will buy the GE (NYSE: GE) Capital unit in China (Reuters) The European Commission has taken bank records that disclose how interest rates were set (WSJ) ...
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13 Technology Stocks To Outperform Apple (AAPL, AKAM, BIDU, BMC, CLS, GLW, EMC, JNPR, MRVL, MU, NTAP, STX, VRSN, WDC)

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 8:23 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been the king of tech stocks. While Apple's results still showed rapid earnings and revenue growth, the report disappointed and results were below Wall Street's ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALU, APC, INTC, JNPR, LNKD, NRG, NUE, STLD, SHOO, X, WMT, WFM, ZLC)

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 8:22 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Alcatel-Lucent SA (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Underperform at Jefferies. Anadarko ...
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Cities Where Homes Will Not Sell

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 6:45 am

The number of homes listed for sale in the largest cities in the country has fallen 20% in the past year, according to a report released last week by Realtor.com. ...
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The Smartphone Business Loses Its Luster

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 6:35 am

The smartphone business was among the most attractive in the tech world until recently. That was before Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) forced several makers of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-based phones to ...
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Wall St. Protests Should Move to Washington

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 6:27 am

A number of people think that the protests on Wall St. do not belong there. The real problem is in Washington, they say, where financial CEO pay could be regulated ...
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Greeks Hit the Streets by the Thousands

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 6:23 am

A number of Greeks have decided, perhaps correctly, that if they threaten to put their own economy into ruins the government will relent on its austerity policies. New protests have ...
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Media Digest (10/19/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 6:20 am

Moody’s downgrade of Spain puts more pressure on the EU to address its sovereign debt crisis. (Reuters) Several large shareholders may fight to oust part of the News Corp. (NYSE: ...
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Moody’s Hammers Spain

Posted: October 18, 2011 at 5:21 pm

The trading day in America began with worry about a possible downgrade of France’s Aaa rating. Word that France and Germany had agreed to a bailout structure for trouble EU ...
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Apple Earnings Miss, Margins Slide … Peak of an Era? (AAPL)

Posted: October 18, 2011 at 4:48 pm

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is out with its fiscal 2011-end earnings report. The largest company by market cap reported earnings of $7.05 EPS and $28.27 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (BAC, CHTR, HAL, EP, KO, IBM, JNJ, STT, APEI, BMI, CROX, HALO, HOG, HGSI, USU)

Posted: October 18, 2011 at 4:08 pm

Today was a day of red that went to a day of green.  Earnings were at first a disappointment, and producer price index came out far hotter at +0.8% on ...
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Expected Upside Gains for Big Oil Companies (XOM, CVX, COP, BP, OXY, PBR)

Posted: October 18, 2011 at 3:08 pm

Large US oil companies have had a good year. Not the best ever, but good nonetheless on high prices for crude oil. The big reason for solid profits has been ...
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Full 360-Degree Apple Earnings Preview (AAPL)

Posted: October 18, 2011 at 12:53 pm

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is due to report earnings after the close of trading today.  The consensus Thomson Reuters estimates are $7.28 EPS and $29.45 billion in revenues.  Keep in ...
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Solar Adding More Jobs (FSLR, SPWRA, STP)

Posted: October 18, 2011 at 11:55 am

The number of jobs in the US solar industry has risen by 6.8% year-over-year from August 2010 to August 2011. Over 100,000 people are now employed in making, selling, and ...
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