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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Mortgage Applications Fall Again (KBH, LEN, PHM, DHI, BZH, XHB)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 9:45 am

Mortgage interest rates remain historically low, but buyers are either unwilling or unable to take advantage of the low rates. After three straight weeks of increases in mortgage applications, borrowers ...
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Dendreon: Not Running Out Of Cash

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 9:36 am

In the last four months, Dendreon Corp. (DNDN) has shed almost 84 percent in market value as disgruntled investors washed hands due to disappointing sales of prostate-cancer drug Provenge. Contrary ...
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The Return of $100 Crude… Gas Prices at the Pump Going Up (USO, OIL, OIH, XOP, BNO)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 9:28 am

Europe is on the verge of suffering a debt crisis, economic data remains very choppy, and the argument is still going on over whether the U.S. will fall into a ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ANF, DELL, RIMM)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 9:16 am

Crude oil is at $100.13, up 0.77% Gold is at $1,771, down 0.63%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng closed up 0.91% to 19,137. Japan’s Nikkei closed lower by 0.92% to 8,436. The U.S. 10-year is at 2.02%, down 0.o2%. ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/16/2011) Citi Lay-Offs,Olympus Fraud

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 8:50 am

Updated throughout the day Olympus will take legal action against several executives involved in a frauds discovered recently (Reuters) The securities division of Citigroup (NYSE: C) will cut 900 people. ...
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Corning Shares Remain A Bargain (GLW)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 8:40 am

Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) has been recovering since we added to our portfolio of oversold stocks for our free newsletter subscribers, but the stock still has room to the upside ...
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Cablevision Remains Too Oversold and a Bargain (CVC, TWC, CMCSA, DTV, CHTR, MSG, AMCX)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 8:11 am

Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC) is still trading just above the $15.00 mark and its 52-week range is $14.18 to $38.08.  The long-term stock chart is a bit misleading because of ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ATVI, APD, CIM, DELL, DKS, GTIV, GERN, PAA, RIMM, SXL, TIBX)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 8:01 am

These are some of Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Reiterated Buy with $18 target at Argus. Air ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (11/16/2011) Dell’s Problems, BMW Sales

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 6:32 am

BMW said its expects double-digit percentage growth in the U.S. in 2012. And Cadillac says it will launch two new models to compete with BMW next year. Both brands have ...
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Income Segregation: Stay Out of Bridgeport

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 6:27 am

A research group from Stanford has just issued a new study called “Residential Segregation of Families by Income: 1970 - 2009.” The cities with the highest level of income segregation are ...
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America’s Psychiatric Drug Addition

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 6:24 am

“Sell crazy someplace else; we’re all stocked up here,” says Jack Nicholson in 1997’s As Good as It Gets. There was a point, not so many years ago, when Prozac ...
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Investment Firm Wants Kodak’s Poison Pill Killed

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 6:15 am

So little is left of Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK), at least in terms of common equity value, that the board should let shareholders do what they can to salvage what ...
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Media Digest (11/16/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, Bloomberg

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 6:11 am

Facebook hit by a bug that put porn and graphic violence images onto many pages. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) names Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Robert Iger to its board. ...
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The Cities Where People Finally Want to Buy Homes

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 3:47 am

Many Americans are planning to buy homes in the areas that have been hardest-hit by the real estate crisis, according to housing data released today. Real estate research agency Trulia ...
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Dell Delivers on Earnings, Partly (DELL)

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 4:16 pm

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has reported earnings and the reception is getting a "sell the news" even though there are some positive and less negative undercurrents here.  Dell turned in ...
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