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Monthly Archives: October 2011

Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CVX, CMG, COST, DE, XOM, DFS, LEAP, NWS.A, NEM, ORCL, RL, PLCM, PCG, RYAAY, SNE, WAG)

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 8:23 am

These are some of this Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. ...
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European Central Bank Sticks Its Head In The Sand

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 8:02 am

We, and many others, have noted over and over how the European Central Bank is failing to recognize and failing to remedy the notion that its ship is sinking.  It ...
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Steve Jobs and the Freedom of the American Business System

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 6:29 am

Steve Jobs was the greatest genius of the American technical age, which started with the launch of the PC and the operating systems that ran it. He was uniquely American, ...
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How to Make a Profit on Global Warming

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 6:25 am

The enterprising can find a way to make money on almost anything. Scandinavian shipowners claim that the melted Arctic ice cap has created shipping lanes that will make ocean transport ...
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Tim Geithner Still Behind the Curve on EU Trouble

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 6:23 am

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told the House Financial Services Committee what almost every educated person in America and Europe knows. The EU sovereign debt and bank balance sheet crises will ...
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Consumer Spending Craters in September

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 6:21 am

Consumer spending moved down fairly sharply in September. It is not just a sign of slowing. If a new Gallup tracking poll is right, improvements in consumer activity that ...
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Media Digest (10/6/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 6:17 am

Steve Jobs, the cofounder of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), dead at 56. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may make a bid for Yahoo! (Reuters) Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) to sell the iPhone with an ...
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When Scums List ‘Steve Jobs’ Domains For Sale

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 1:01 am

The death of Steve Jobs is a loss for the world of technology and innovation. How many guys could make a computing device or a piece of consumer electronics a ...
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Steve Jobs Dead At 56

Posted: October 5, 2011 at 7:50 pm

The man who will be remembered by many as the greatest American CEO, Steve Jobs, is dead at 56. He was the founder, and until recently chief executive of Apple ...
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The Ten States With The Cheapest Gas

Posted: October 5, 2011 at 5:50 pm

Gas prices are falling. In fact, they’ve declined to lows not seen in months. Concerns of yet another global recession have caused oil prices to drop, and with them, gas ...
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Corning Gets Very Shareholder-Friendly During Hard Times (GLW)

Posted: October 5, 2011 at 5:41 pm

Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) is a true technology value stock if there ever was one. It has an extremely low earnings multiple and trades cheap to its asset value. The ...
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Can AMR Possibly Be In Trouble With Better Traffic Metrics? (AMR)

Posted: October 5, 2011 at 5:18 pm

AMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR) is a company we noted earlier this week which might have been the victim of overly aggressive reporting that turned into bankruptcy rumors.  It is rare that ...
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Yahoo! Could Still Slip Into The Arms of Microsoft? (YHOO, MSFT, AOL, GOOG)

Posted: October 5, 2011 at 3:56 pm

Reading news stories about the next possible buyer for Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) resembles nothing so much as a game of Whack-a-Mole. First there was Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) back ...
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Facebook/LinkedIn IPOs: Is the Value of Social Networking on the Decline? (LNKD, WBSN)

Posted: October 5, 2011 at 3:51 pm

There are a couple of issues affecting social networking values today, although they certainly are not in the breaking news categories. Nonetheless, these are critical ongoing issues and the valuation ...
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Top Debt and Ratings Agency Actions (PKX, HOV, PENN, DRI)

Posted: October 5, 2011 at 3:19 pm

Today's top debt rating story has to be the downgrade by Moody's of Italian bonds by three notches, from 'Aa2' to 'A2', while keeping a negative outlook on the country's ...
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