Monthly Archives: December 2011

What’s Important In The Financial World (12/30/2011) Google+, AMR Delisted

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 5:52 am

China's PMI, Slowing Economy The country's PMI was below 50 again in December. A PMI above 50 is considered a mark of expansion. The China Purchasing Managers’ Index for this month was 48.7. ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (LNKD, CSTR, NWS.A, BDL, LIVE, ARL, CYAN, DMND, CSKI)

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 4:05 pm

Stocks opened higher this morning and settled in around noon with positive readings on all three major indexes. The Chicago PMI report was down slightly from a month ago, but ...
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Which Dogs of the Dow Are Best in 2012? (T, VZ, MRK, PFE, GE, DD, JNJ, INTC, PG, MSFT, CVX, JPM, KFT, MCD)

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 1:02 pm

The lineup of the Dogs of the Dow, simply the ten highest dividend yield stocks of the thirty Dow Jones Industrial Average components, appears to be undergoing a bit of ...
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Upside in Top Semiconductor Stocks for 2012 (INTC, AMD, MU, BRCM, QCOM, ARMH, SNDK, ALTR, AMAT, TXN)

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 12:30 pm

Shares in semiconductor stocks have gained and lost value in about equal number during 2011. The run-up in share prices may be over for some and sustainable for others. For ...
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More Caution For Netflix (NFLX, AAPL, AMZN)

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 10:53 am

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) went from Wall Street's darling in 2011 to being Wall Street's whipping boy. The company's efforts under Reed Hastings could easily become the classic case study ...
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Morning Movers (LIVE, CTIC, ADGE, CSKI, BONE)

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 10:30 am

There are several stocks trading more heavily than usual this morning, and also experiencing large gains or drops in share prices. These include LiveDeal Inc. (NASDAQ: LIVE), Cell Therapeutics Inc. ...
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Chesapeake Sells Marcellus Pipeline System to Subsidiary (CHK, CHKM)

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 8:59 am

As part of its efforts to raise cash and pay down debt, Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) has sold its Appalachia Midstream Services subsidiary to Chesapeake Midstream Partners L.P. (NYSE: ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Move Back In Wrong Direction

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 8:37 am

The U.S. Labor Department is out with its reading on weekly jobless claims. After some improvements in the weeks before, the tally of claims rose by 15,000 to 381,000. Bloomberg ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CTRN, CSTR, FNFG, IBKR, LNKD, MFRM, NWS.A, UTX)

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 8:28 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. The number of research calls is dropping significantly and this ...
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Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Higher

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 7:46 am

US stock-index futures are higher this morning following a mixed reaction to this morning’s sale of Italian debt. Yields on the 3-year and 10-year debt were lower than the November ...
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The Best and Worst Online Stores This Holiday

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 6:30 am

Customer service surveys cannot entirely distinguish between true, direct customer service on the one hand and brand perception and reputation of the company providing the service on the other. A ...
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Verizon’s 4G Falls Apart

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 6:30 am

It is usually good to be first to market with a popular new technology. That is assuming, however, a company’s version of the new technology works. In the case of Verizon ...
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Another Sign of Job Uptick in 2012, Less the Public Sector

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 6:29 am

Companies large and small are expected to increase hiring next year. Careerbuilder reports in its annual survey that, “Employers expect to add new jobs in the New Year, but are waiting to ...
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Could Sears Be Broken Up?

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 6:28 am

What Eddie Lampert put together in 2005 could be broken into pieces again, and that might be the only realistic way to “fix” Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD). Lampert engineered a ...
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Media Digest (12/29/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg