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Monthly Archives: November 2011

What’s Important in the Financial World (11/23/2011) Bank Stress Tests, Walmart’s 10,000th Store

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 6:25 am

The purchasing managers indices of China, German and France all signaled slow growth or contraction in November. It is a sign that demand for exports and consumer expenditures are in free fall. ...
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Black Friday Shoppers to Surge, But Will They Buy?

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 6:10 am

A new study by the National Federation of Retailers makes a prediction that runs counter to almost every other forecast of holiday shopping activity. The data shows that the number of people ...
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The Fed’s Stress Tests: Too Little, Too Late

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 6:07 am

The Federal Reserve has set the rules for its Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review for 2012. The stress test will be based on extremely harsh economic conditions. For America’s largest ...
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China Passes U.S. as Largest Smartphone Market

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 6:02 am

Last quarter, China passed the U.S. as the world’s largest smartphone market. That means the fortunes of companies like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will be decided as much in China as in the ...
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IMF Rescue Fund and Bailout of Eurozone

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 5:58 am

The IMF says it has created a new facility for “responsible” countries to use for short-term capital needs. That probably means Greece will not qualify, but maybe Italy will. Or, ...
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Media Digest (11/23/2011) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 5:53 am

China’s factory activity reaches a 32-month low. (Reuters) Merck (NYSE: MRK) pays $950 million to settle Vioxx charges brought by the government. (Reuters) FCC head wants more examination of the ...
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New 2012 Bank Stress Tests Get Drachonian (BAC, C)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 4:49 pm

A drop of 8% in GDP, 13% unemployment, and another period of interrupted access to the capital markets... Those are just some of the new Federal Reserve stress test scenarios which ...
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Amazon Unloads Smartphones For $0.01… Literally (AMZN, VZ, T, S, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 4:20 pm

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is back with some dirt cheap offers in smartphones, and some of these may seem to be good to be true.  While this may include Verizon ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (MSFT, GILD, NFLX, AMGN, WYNN, CREE, LDK, CPB, HRL, STP, BRCD, FRO, ALU, GRPN, FMCN, ROYL)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Stocks opened a bit lower this morning, but almost immediately turned around without being able to break through the opening numbers. Revised third-quarter US GDP numbers were worse than expected, ...
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Cities Where Violent Crime Is Plummeting

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 3:03 pm

For years, experts have maintained that crime rates increase with rising unemployment and poverty rates. Yet data released earlier this year from the FBI show a marked decrease in the ...
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Expected Sales Growth Drives Upside in Retail Stocks (COST, WMT, TGT, M, JWN, KSS, BBY)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 2:27 pm

An unexpected gain in October retail sales has boosted prospects for a better-than-forecast holiday retail sales season. Some of the sales gains will come from lower pricing, which can’t always ...
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Rare 52-Week Highs During Weak Market (FUN, LNG, HITK, MGAM, SPPI, TASR)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Outside of those crazy inverse and negative-inverse ETFs, it is odd when you see non-M&A stocks hitting 52-week highs during a multi-day broad market sell-off.  This is a time when ...
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LDK Solar, Mathematically Bankrupt Without China (LDK, YGE, STP, TSL, JASO)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 12:05 pm

Following the terrible earnings reports just out from a half-dozen of China’s largest solar PV makers, it is mathematically possible that at least one of these companies is at the ...
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Solar Reality… The Sun Just Does Not Shine (STP, LDK, CSIQ, TSL, JASO, JKS)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 9:16 am

The solar PV sector has been struggling for the last two or three quarters as manufacturing over-capacity has driven down module pricing by around 40% since the beginning of the ...
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Top Active Trader & Day Trader Alerts (BAC, CPB, CHS, FMCN, EGPT, HAR, HPQ, JACK, MDT, NFLX, SNDA)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 8:44 am

This may be a short and choppy week, but we have many bits of news for active traders and day traders this Tuesday morning.  We have included news and given ...
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