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Monthly Archives: December 2011

What’s Important in the Financial World (12/28/2011) New Fed Members, New iPad

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 6:25 am

Crude oil prices have moved higher for a week, based on fear of a supply interruption threatened by Iran. The rogue nation said it may stop shipments through the ...
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Media Digest (12/28/2011) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 6:24 am

Obama nominates Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell to take seats at the Federal Reserve. (Reuters) New York Times (NYSE: NYT) sells its regional media group for $143 million. (Reuters) The ...
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For Those With Retail Trouble, the Problems Worsen Online

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 5:25 am

Research firm ForeSee released its customer satisfaction ratings for the shopping season -- its Holiday E-retail Satisfaction Index. The e-commerce ratings mirror, in most cases, the states of the parent companies’ ...
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Eastman Kodak Late in Board Resignation Announcement

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 8:29 pm

Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) has the right to delay the announcement of certain events under SEC regulations. It did so when it disclosed today that two of its board members ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (VMW, YHOO, SNE, EA, SRE, DLPH, CALM, DMAN, SHLD, CSC, PARL, WHR, MHR)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 4:04 pm

US equity markets rose rather steeply in the first hour of trading this morning, but weren’t able to sustain the momentum for long. Consumer confidence indexes rose this month, but ...
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The Good & Bad of 8.1% December New Car Sales Growth (GM, F, HMC, TM)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 1:06 pm

New car sales in the US for December are forecast to rise 8.1%, including fleet sales, to an annual seasonally adjusted sales rate of 13.5 million new vehicles. The annualized ...
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Peru Set To Win From Trade Pacts & Ratings Upgrades in 2012 (EPU, BAP, BVN, SCCO)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 12:21 pm

Peru was recently listed as one of the few nations which could actually face a ratings upgrade in 2012.  Not all nations are being downgraded.  Recent news of a new ...
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CES Looks to Strong Consumer Electronics Data To Kick Off 2012

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 11:01 am

Consumer confidence in the broad economy may have improved ahead of the holidays, but the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January has a good tailwind offering the expectation ...
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Sears Will Not Close Enough Stores

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 10:53 am

The numbers do not add up. Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) has over 4,000 full-line and specialty stores. Same-store sales for the eight weeks that ended December 25 were down 5.2%. ...
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Morning Movers (SHLD, PARL, MHR, CSC, END)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 10:52 am

There are several stocks trading more heavily than usual this morning, and also experiencing large gains or drops in share prices. These include Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD), Parlux Fragrances ...
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CSC Contract Woes… Is Dividend Now At Risk? (CSC)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 10:36 am

If you ever run a "value screen" in the world of stock strategies, Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) shows up all the time as a "cheap tech stock."  Unfortunately, this ...
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Case-Shiller Report… Housing Pain Remains (KBH, DHI, TOL, LEN, PHM)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 10:14 am

The monthly S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for the month of October were released this morning, and the results failed to meet already low expectation. The annual decline in home prices ...
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Enterprise Exits Energy Transfer Equity… Distribution Hike Machine To Continue (EPD, ETE, AMJ, AMLP, KYN)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 9:11 am

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) is cleaning out of its position in Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. (NYSE: ETE).  The MLP has announced that it has agreed to sell 22,762,636 ...
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Sears Cuts Outlook, Will Close Stores… Long Slow Death March (SHLD, WMT, TGT)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 9:05 am

Retailers were hoping to put a solid close to the holiday shopping season with plentiful day-after-Christmas sales aimed at wringing out shoppers’ last dollar. That was probably wishful thinking at ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CF, DLPH, EA, EL, MCK, RSH, SRE, SNE, TDC, VMW, YHOO)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 8:29 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning.  It is generally light in analyst coverage the week between ...
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