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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Food Processing Stocks With Most Upside (ADM, BG, TSN, SFD, CPO, CAG, KFT, SLE, GIS, K)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 3:01 pm

The companies we’re looking at today run the gamut from large farm and food products producers to the packaged goods makers that make the products on store shelves. It’s a ...
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Diamond Foods Through the Eyes of Value Investors (DMND, PG)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 2:45 pm

Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) is finally getting back to a decent value that investors might be more interested in.  This has been a rough week for the nut-making food ...
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The Mob Turns on Jefferies, Despite Refuting News & Rumors (JEF)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 1:32 pm

The markets have a "shoot first and ask questions later" mentality that is not really working too well for Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) right now.  After the MF Global ...
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The U.S.’s Growing Income Gap, by the Numbers

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 12:58 pm

by Braden Goyette ProPublica, Nov. 3, 2011, 11:08 a.m. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office recently released a much-discussed study  showing that over the past three decades the income of ...
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Refiners Thriving on Crude Price Differential (WNR, TSO, VLO, MPC, BP, XOM, CVX, COP, MUR)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 11:22 am

Two major oil refiners have reported third-quarter earnings since the market closed last night. Both posted better-than-expected earnings primarily due to sharply higher refining margins. Western Refining Corp. (NYSE: WNR) ...
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Medivation, A Pain in the Rear for Dendreon (MDVN, DNDN)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 10:59 am

Medivation, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDVN) is today's darling in biotech and emerging pharmaceuticals.  It and partner Astellas in Japan showed very positive data on its prostate cancer drug candidate. Its shares ...
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A Retail Bankruptcy and October Same-Store Sales (SYMS, COST, TGT, M, JWN, JCP, KSS, LTD, AEO, ZUMZ, BKE, WTSLA)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 9:22 am

October is not usually a strong month for retailers because shoppers take a break between the back-to-school buying and the coming holiday season. In October 2010, same-store retail sales rose ...
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The Endless Unwinding of Eastman Kodak (EK)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 9:02 am

Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK) is doomed.  It has already been rumored in prior weeks that the company was going to restructure.  Now its earnings could make a rumor a ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ARO, DNDN, MDVN, PCG, QCOM, TSLA)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 8:51 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Aeropostale, Inc. (NYSE: ARO), Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN), Medivation, Inc. ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (11/3/2011) Weekly Jobless, Kodak Hammered

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 8:46 am

Yahoo! Finance: Slightly fewer people likely applied for unemployment benefits last week, economists forecast MSNBC: Jobless claims drop for third straight week WSJ: Kodak Posts Wider Loss MarketWatch: U.S. first-time ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/3/2011) Groupon IPO Grows

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 8:39 am

Updated throughout the day Groupon may increase the price range of its IPO (Reuters) The SEC will file to allow more regulation of CDOs (FT) Lufthansa may sell BMI to ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (NLY, BSX, CECO, CLX, CNH, DNDN, FCX, HXL, HSP, MDT, COL, SWIR, STJ, SLF, TEVA, TDW, WYN)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 8:34 am

These are some of Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) Raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo. Boston Scientific ...
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Where Was Career Education Corporation’s Board?

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 6:37 am

Career Education Corporation (NASDAQ: CECO) posted poor earnings, fired its CEO, and its board announced that an investigation by law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf had “confirmed the existence of improper placement ...
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What’s Critical Today in the Financial World (11/3/2011) Greece Falls Apart, Syms Chapter 11

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 6:35 am

Will Greece be kicked out of Eurozone? Greece is on the brink of expulsion from the eurozone. That would cause an immediate default of the nation’s sovereign debt, as well as trigger a ...
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Big Companies Pay Little in Taxes

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 6:28 am

Yet another study shows that the largest U.S. companies pay very little in taxes. The problem, if it is one, has gone without a solution for years. There is nothing ...
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