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Monthly Archives: October 2011

12 Stocks Expected To Outperform Apple Ahead (AAPL, CAT, DD, EMC, FDX, GE, GOOG, GMCR, QCOM, SNDK, SPLS, URBN, DIS, NFLX, OPEN, FSLR)

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 8:28 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is often considered the king of stocks.  Even after the death of Steve Jobs, Apple remains the most valuable company by market cap and shares recently ...
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Pepsi Gets Back on Track With Earnings (PEP, KO)

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 7:45 am

PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) has not been living up to its defensive stock nature like rival Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO).  The beverage snack food giant reported earnings this morning that ...
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HP May Keep PC Albatross

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 6:41 am

There are news reports that Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) may not spin off its large PC business. The business is a financial drag on the company’s prospects. HP will be hurt ...
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Why Are America’s Best Credit Scores in Wisconsin?

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 6:35 am

The people with the best credit scores live in Wisconsin. That may be because there are few pockets of poverty there. Any other explanation would be hard to prove. It ...
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An EU Disaster Relief Road Map No One Will Follow

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 6:32 am

Eurogroup Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker has as much right to offer possible solutions to the eurozone financial disaster as anyone, and better credentials than most. He laid out a ten-step plan, ...
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UK Unemployment Hits 15-Year High as Austerity Plans Falter

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 6:29 am

The principle but opposed beliefs about austerity are 1) that budget cuts balance national books and 2) that they kill the stimulation necessary to rekindle economic growth during and after ...
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What Will a China Trade War Cost?

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 6:26 am

The Senate passed a bill that would press China to allow the value of its currency to rise. It is time to take stock of what the action would cost ...
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Media Digest (10/12/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 6:21 am

Alcoa (NYSE: AA) earnings bring markets lower. (Reuters) Senate defeats the Obama jobs bill. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) says a third party tried to sign into 93,000 PlayStation accounts. (Reuters) ...
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America’s Biggest Airlines, Best To Worst

Posted: October 11, 2011 at 5:13 pm

Each year, Business Travel News publishes its Annual Airline Survey, ranking the five largest domestic airlines in the U.S. The results are based on a poll of 406 travel managers ...
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Alcoa Avoids Recession, But… (AA, CENX, KALU, ALUM)

Posted: October 11, 2011 at 5:04 pm

Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) is going to be a case study for how strange this new earnings season is going to be.  The company is not describing a recession.  It ...
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Expected Upside Gains for Leading Telecom Companies (T, VZ, S, FTR, CTL, LEAP, PCS)

Posted: October 11, 2011 at 2:38 pm

Telecommunications providers are among the most visible companies in the US today, likely because essentially everyone has either a landline phone or a cell phone or, more usually, at least ...
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The Frontlines in a US-China Trade War (WMT, TGT, BTU, ACI, FCX, RIO, WY, PCL, ADM, BG, CAT, DE, GM, F, GE)

Posted: October 11, 2011 at 1:32 pm

While the debate rages over whether or not the U.S. should enact legislation aimed to curb currency manipulation -- and specifically the Chinese peg to the U.S. dollar -- the ...
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Peer-to-Peer Lending: Opportunity for Investors & Borrowers Alike

Posted: October 11, 2011 at 1:01 pm

There are two financial issues in America that have been developing simultaneously: many borrowers have been locked out from the ability to access capital, and investors can no longer rely on bonds ...
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Rental Car M&A Crashes on the Interstate (DTG, HTZ, CAR, ZIP, GM)

Posted: October 11, 2011 at 10:46 am

In late August, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. (NYSE: DTG) demanded that its suitors, Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HTZ) and Avis Budget Group Inc. (NYSE: CAR), make an offer ...
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Value Conundrum: Dollar Store M&A Creates High Premium in Sector (NDN, APO, KKR, BRK-A, WMT, DG, FDO, DLTR, BIG, TUES, M, TGT)

Posted: October 11, 2011 at 10:25 am

99 Cents Only Stores (NYSE: NDN) was supposed to be acquired for somewhere between $22.00 and $24.00 per share according to reports in mid-September.  The company was supposed to have interest ...
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