Monthly Archives: December 2011

Morning Movers (MSHL, CSIQ, TRGT,PGNX, CIE)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 10:20 am

There are several stocks trading more heavily than usual this morning, and also experiencing large gains or drops in share prices. These include Marshall Edwards Inc. (NASDAQ: MSHL), Canadian Solar ...
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Markets Rally On Housing

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 9:58 am

Markets moved up at the open with the DJIA higher by over 200 points. Market leaders included Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S), up nearly 5% as the AT&T (NYSE: T) deal with ...
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Executive Suite: No Women Allowed

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 9:52 am

Women in mid-life who have chosen to be part of corporate America continue to face unprecedented challenges, with a daunting economic environment that puts not only their opportunity for moving ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMGN, T, BAX, BHP, FFIV, AWAY, M, MAA, NVLS, OPEN, SFD, URBN, WWWW)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 8:35 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage research calls this Tuesday morning. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Added to Strong Buy List at ...
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Todays’ Best Market Rumors (12/20/2011) Apple And Anobit

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 8:24 am

Updated throughout the day Olympus will get $1.28 billion in financial help from Sony (NYSE: SNE) (Nikkei) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) bought Anobit (Calcalist) Apple and KKR will invest in a ...
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Vindication for Jefferies After Earnings (JEF)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 8:20 am

Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) should finally get some vindication showing that it is truly not the next MF Global like so many rumors and short seller attacks may were ...
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Even More DJIA Dividend Hikes Coming Soon (BA, GE, DIS, T, PFE, CSCO, KO, XOM, IBM, JNJ, JPM, MMM, WMT, DVY, VIG, PFM, HDV)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 8:01 am

Throughout December we have been giving updates on dividends that will rise in the coming days and weeks from the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks. Many have already come ...
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Red Hat Earnings: Great Outfit, Valuation Still Too High (RHT)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 7:01 am

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) is the old king of Linux but is now more of a virtualization and cloud solutions open source player for enterprises. The company is almost ...
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FBI: Crime Drops in First Half of 2011

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 6:24 am

The U.S. may have run out of criminals, and crimes of passion must have nearly disappeared. The FBI reports that violent crime dropped again in the first half of 2011. The ...
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Germans, Confident About the Future, Distance Themselves From Neighbors

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 6:23 am

Consumer confidence has climbed in Germany as the year ends. It is an extraordinary development because the balance of Europe is in such a depressed state. But the numbers reinforce how ...
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UK Effectively Leaves EU

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 6:22 am

The UK has finally, unofficially left the EU. The departure began when it would not agree to modifications to restructure the region’s financial mechanism enforcement. Provisions in the plan would have affected ...
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America’s 10 Highest Paid CEOs (Which Are Worth It?)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 6:22 am

Several lists of the highest paid CEOs in America are published each year mostly by the business media and shareholder groups. All are based on proxy statements. Long before the ...
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New York Times Abandons Local Media

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 6:21 am

It is strange that the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) would want to sell its local media group. Local papers are, in most cases, doing better than large metropolitan ones. ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (12/20/2011) UK and EU, HTC and Apple

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 6:20 am

The UK says it will not contribute to a new IMF-based 150 billion euro package for use in bailing out regional economies. The UK government senses that as it pushes it ...
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Media Digest (12/20/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT