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Monthly Archives: October 2011

Earnings Season Arrives, Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (NVLS, AA, ADTN, HST, PEP, GOOG, JBHT, JPM, SWY, MAT)

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 1:15 pm

They're Here!  Next week will launch the corporate earnings season for the third quarter.  The media is going to tell you that this is the most important earnings season in ...
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States With The Highest (and Lowest) Homeownership

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 12:38 pm

The dream of owning a home has become increasingly unattainable for many Americans, and the situation is not likely to improve soon, as the collapse of the housing market and ...
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Fitch Throws Downgrades For Italy & Spain (EWI, EWP)

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 12:35 pm

The ratings agencies are at it again.  We have noted that the PIIGS will continue to see downgrades and that is what we are seeing today.  Fitch downgraded both Italy and ...
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Coal Miners Win a Meaningless Battle over Mountaintop Removal Mining (ACI, ANR, BTU, CLF, CNX, PCX, KOL)

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Coal company stock prices hit a five-year high in the summer of 2008, just before the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy sent the entire global economy into a tailspin. Five-year lows hit ...
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Rethinking of E*TRADE as Buyout Bait (ETFC, SCHW, AMTD, GS, MS)

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 11:17 am

E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has been discussed by many market pundits as a takeover target since the recovery out of the recession.  The online brokerage giant has been doing ...
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Utilities Merger in Jeopardy (EXC, CEG, ETR, AEP)

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 11:02 am

When Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC) and Constellation Energy Group, Inc. (NYSE: CEG) agreed in April to an $8 billion dollar merger, the companies promised the state of Maryland, home to ...
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Samsung Propped Up by Smartphone Shipments (AAPL, NOK, RIMM, SSNLF, GOOG, MMI)

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 10:35 am

In the third quarter of 2011, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shipped about 20 million iPhones, a quarter-over-quarter increase of about 11%. Smartphone shipments from competitors Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and ...
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Sprint Debunks iPhone Losses, LTE Move To Open Network Plan (S, AAPL, QCOM, CLWR, T, VZ)

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 10:19 am

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) had been taking heat this week for what many have called an overpaying or losing money to carry the new iPhone from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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New Alaska Gold & Copper Mine Clears Major Hurdle (NAK, RIO, AAUKY, ABX, NG, GDX, GDXJ, GLD)

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 8:54 am

A state superior court judge in Alaska has ruled against an environmental group in a lawsuit aimed at stopping development of the Pebble gold and copper mine project in the ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ETFC, ILMN, NFLX)

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 8:53 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of E Trade Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC), Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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Magically, Unemployment & Payrolls Hold Up

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 8:36 am

Somehow, someway, the official employment data from the Labor Department managed to hold up in September.  The Labor Department reported that September's unemployment rate was flat from the months before at ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ATVI, AMR, AMD, AWK, CAH, DISCA, GME, HRBN, IVZ, JBLU, PHG, LM, MA, OXY, RCL, V, DIS, WWW, WYNN)

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 8:26 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Started as Outperform at ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/7/2011) Sony Ericsson, Yahoo! Japan

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 8:19 am

Updated throughout the day. Sberbank of Russia may make an offer for the  Turkish unit of troubled Belgian-French financial group Dexia (Les Echos) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is in the early ...
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Car Companies Overwhelm Zipcar’s Success

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 6:38 am

Zipcar (NASDAQ: ZIP) brought new convenience to the car rental market, but whatever moat it created has been damaged by the actions of America’s largest car companies and their car ...
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Poor Real Estate Markets Drive Home Ownership

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 6:34 am

The U.S. Census put out its analysis of home ownership recently and there was confusion about why certain cities had home ownership of more than 75%. The reason is obvious. ...
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