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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Top ETFs for the Market (FAS, RSX, RUSL, JNK, GLD)

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 11:49 am

The market is surging on European hopes of the beginning of the end to the financial crisis, despite credit rating bantering out of credit ratings agencies.  Now we just have ...
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Victory in Uranium Miner Acquisition (RIO, CCJ, HTHXF, DNN, URZ, URRE, ARVCY)

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 11:33 am

Rio Tinto plc (NYSE: RIO) stands to complete its offer a junior uranium miner with the withdrawal of Cameco Corp. (NYSE: CCJ) from the bidding for Hathor Exploration Ltd. (OTC: ...
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Unusual Short Interest Trends In Key Stocks (AMZN, AAPL, DMND, FMCN, GMCR, GRPN, INTC, NFLX, RIMM)

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 10:46 am

The mid-November NASDAQ short interest may have been lost in the Thanksgiving and Black Friday shuffle, but there were some very interesting and in some cases startling short interest factoids ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AAPL, AMZN, ERIC, NFLX)

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 9:06 am

Crude oil is at $99.55, up 2.90% Gold is at $1,723, up 2.03%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng closed up 1.97% to 18,038. Japan’s Nikkei closed higher by 1.51% to 8,283. The U.S. 10-year is at 2.08%, up ...
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Air Cargo Traffic Continues to Slide

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 8:51 am

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reports that air freight volume fell by 4.7% in October, compared with the same month a year ago. Passenger traffic increased by 3.6% ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AEM, AVL, BRCD, CSTR, EV, ERTS, FINL, GILD, GOOG, GDOT, MRH, RIMM, SLXP, WEN, WYNN)

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 8:21 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this morning. Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (NYSE: AEM) Cut to Hold at Canaccord Genuity. Avalon ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/28/2011) Microsoft And Yahoo!

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 8:15 am

Updated throughout the day. AT&T (NYSE: T) will sell more assets to get government approval of the buyout of T-Mobile (WSJ) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may participate in a bid for ...
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Best and Worst Run States in America — An Analysis Of All 50

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 6:49 am

How well run are America’s 50 states? The answer depends a lot on where you live. For the second year, 24/7 Wall St. has reviewed data on financial health, standard ...
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One Last Warning for Europe

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 6:19 am

Moody’s and other credit rating companies are sometimes accused of announcing changes in their opinions after the fact. Its new warning on European sovereign debt comes right on time. The ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (11/28/2011) Robust Holiday Sales, Bank Stock Turnarounds

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 6:18 am

The Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend yielded much better retail figures that expected. This signals that retail sales could return to the robust level of the mid-2000s, before the recession began. That, ...
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American Consumers Shrug Off the World’s Problems

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 6:17 am

The holiday shopping period has begun with a level of success that few experts expected. U.S. consumers apparently have ignored the threat of a financial catastrophe in Europe, ongoing unemployment, a ...
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Media Digest (11/28/2011) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 6:15 am

Moody’s says the EU debt crisis threatens the sovereign ratings of all nations in the region. (Reuters) Three large BSkyB shareholders will vote against James Murdoch staying on as chairman. ...
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The Chevy Volt Could Ruin the Electric Car Business

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 6:07 am

It takes little bad news to ruin a new product’s launch, particularly if the product is revolutionary enough to be strange to the public. According to the National Highway Traffic ...
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Will Deutsche Telekom Buy Sprint-Nextel (S)?

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 6:05 am

Deutsche Telekom will receive a $4 billion break-up fee if AT&T (NYSE: T) cannot engineer a buyout of the Germany company’s T-Mobile unit. That would create a large war chest. ...
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OECD Warns on Threat of EU and U.S. Recession

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 5:28 am

The OECD has warned in its latest Economic Outlook that both the euro area and U.S. could quickly move into recession. The organization says that only a sharp change in ...
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