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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/22/2011) Bank Of America Sanctions

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 8:42 am

Updated throughout the day Itochu may join KKR (NYSE: KKR) in Samson Investment bid of $7 billion (Reuters Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) will face regulator action if efforts to ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMGN, AN, BXP, CREE, DOLE, GRMN, GILD, HIG, HAR, MSFT, NFLX, VRUS, TSN, WYNN, YUM)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 8:29 am

These are some of Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Cut to Market Perform at BMO. AutoNation Inc. (NYSE: AN) ...
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Southwest, Oversold & Poised For Recovery Against Legacy Carriers (LUV, UAL, LCC, DAL, AMR, JBLU)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 8:20 am

Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) is now sometimes considered a discount carrier and sometimes considered a legacy carrier, but it still has among the most loyal customer base and it ...
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Egyptian Unrest Takes Headlines All Over Again (EGPT)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 7:05 am

If the news reports are accurate out of Cairo, things are going from bad all over again to far worse all over again in Egypt.  It turns out that the interim ...
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Cities Where Violent Crime Is Soaring

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 6:14 am

For years, experts have maintained that increases in unemployment and poverty result in rising crime rates. Data released earlier this year from the FBI show a marked decrease in the ...
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The U.S. Postal Service vs. Congress

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 6:12 am

Congress continues to look for cuts to lower the U.S. budget deficit. The Postmaster General wants Congress to allow him to shave expenses from the Postal Service cost base to ...
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Gas Prices Mysteriously Dip Ahead of Holiday

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 6:11 am

Demand is supposed to push gasoline prices higher as a holiday season approaches. The opposite is true this Thanksgiving week, and there is no ready explanation. The AAA Fuel Gauge ...
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Media Digest (11/22/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 6:11 am

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) posts mediocre earnings but says it hopes to steady its businesses over the balance of the year. (Reuters) Store chains will have to offer large discounts to ...
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Stock Market Votes for Walmart Over Amazon as Holidays Start

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 6:10 am

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is supposed to thrash Walmart (NYSE: WMT) in sales increases this holiday season. That should make Amazon the better investment. Wall St. believes otherwise, though. Over the past month, shares in Walmart ...
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What’s Important Today in the Financial World (11/22/2011) Super Failure In DC

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 6:10 am

Yields on what Spain had to pay for $4 billion in debt reached record levels. That is similar to what happened to paper issued recently by France and Italy. Rising ...
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S&P Backs Away From U.S. Downgrade Over Supercommittee Failure

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 5:39 pm

Make this as good as official now that S&P has chimed in: NO RESOLUTION FROM SUPERCOMMITTEE!!!  You already knew that the Supercommittee was really just the "stuper-committee"... Impasse, again impasse.  The big ...
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Stealth Capital Raise By Netflix (NFLX)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 5:20 pm

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is showing that it is nowhere at all close to representing a "value stock" today as many investors have been hoping.  The company has filed a ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AAPL, DV, MS, QCOM, TGT, WDC, HAST, TECD, TSN, HPQ, TSL, CSIQ, JKS, JASO, LDK, STP, LNKD, VRUS, GILD, FMCN, GEDU, REGN, Z)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 4:08 pm

Stock prices plunged this morning and spent most of the day trading way down. The DJIA hovered around -300 points for most of the day, while the NASDAQ was off ...
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Should Jefferies Be Able to Sue Over Malicious Attacks? (JEF)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm

The attack on Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) is unfortunately reminiscent of larger implosions of firms formerly named Lehman and Bear Stearns.  It almost does not seem to matter what Jefferies ...
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Probing for Value in Big Pharmaceutical Stocks (JNJ, PFE, AZN, BMY, MRK)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 1:47 pm

It now costs about $1 billion to get a new drug to market, or, if a company is unlucky, $1 billion to fail to get the drug to market. Like ...
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