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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Are Homebuilders, Home Improvement Stores Coming Back? (NVR, TOL, PHM, HOV, DHI, BZH, HD, LOW)

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 12:31 pm

Stocks in homebuilders have been down so low for so long that almost anything look like up. Recent earnings releases have indicated that new orders are improving, but much of ...
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J.C. Penney’s Ron Johnson Transformation… With Martha Stewart (JCP, MSO, AAPL, M, SHLD, HD)

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 10:00 am

J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) is a company which many investors and outsiders expect to be in a transformation.  The first such addition under new management is a ...
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Airline Profit Forecast Cut in Half for 2012 (DAL, UAL, LUV, LCC)

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 9:31 am

Cost increases and flat cargo traffic are expected to cut airline profits in half in 2012, from $6.9 billion in 2011 to $3.5 billion in 2012. Profit margin is expected ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALL, AMZN, BX, CTL, CB, DRI, FSL, GEOI, GOOG, JDSU, LNKD, BTU, PEG, DGX, TLB, TRV, UIS, UNH, URBN, WSH)

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 8:25 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) Started as Outperform at Credit Suisse. ...
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The Biggest Corporate Layoffs of All Time

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 6:50 am

Eleven American companies have laid off a total of nearly 600,000 people in the past two decades. Each also fired a large number of employees at one time to earn ...
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Fashion and Financial Failures at Chico’s

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 6:50 am

Chico’s FAS (NYSE: CHS) said its growth story remains intact, even though consumer spending is expected to remain soft. Additionally, despite falling margins at its flagship stores and rising inventories, ...
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Home Price Improvement Is Geographically Diverse

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 6:47 am

The housing crisis has been the worse in five states -- Nevada, California, Florida, Michigan and Arizona. A recovery has begun in states that have almost nothing in common geographically ...
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Job Creation Falters

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 6:46 am

There has been plenty of evidence in the past month that job creation is the U.S. has restarted for the first time since the 2007 to 2009 recession. Now, it ...
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Media Digest (12/7/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 6:45 am

The board of Olympus may resign by late February. (Reuters) China says its annual rate of growth slowed between October and November. (Reuters) Congress pressures the CFTC for stronger regulation ...
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Bank of America Improves — Compared to What?

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 6:45 am

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) CEO Brian Moynihan has no credibility left on Wall St. That makes his comments that the financial firm’s balance sheet has improved hard to believe. Skepticism ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (12/7/2011) Citigroup Job Cuts, China’s Economy Slows

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 6:45 am

A New Bailout Fund. Rumors suggest that leading eurozone nations, particularly France and Germany, may have begun the process to create a large bailout fund for the financially weak nations in ...
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Citigroup (C) Fires 4,500

Posted: December 6, 2011 at 6:12 pm

According to media reports, Citigroup (NYSE: C) will fire 4,500 people MarketWatch reports The bank will make the cuts which are less than 2% of its workforce, in an effort ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (MO, VZ, TSO, LNKD, GE, CHKR, BTH, PBY, UEC, AZO, DRI, TOL, LQDT, DMND, SAI, VRA, FRO, CTIC, CRK, VG, HL)

Posted: December 6, 2011 at 4:11 pm

Equities opened a little weaker this morning, but by 10:00 a.m. markets had turned slightly positive and have remained in positive territory for the rest of the day. The gain ...
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Expected Gains in For-Profit College Stocks (APOL, WPO, STRA, DV, CECO)

Posted: December 6, 2011 at 1:29 pm

After a shaky start to the year, the for-profit college sector has pulled itself back up. With one exception, however, four of five stocks we looked at are still down ...
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Dendreon Raising $125 Million Via I.P. Sale (DNDN, MRK)

Posted: December 6, 2011 at 12:45 pm

Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) is supposed to be the king of prostate cancer with its PROVENGE treatment.  Unfortunately, PROVENGE sales ran slower than expected after the FDA took forever to ...
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