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Top Ten Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AGU, BLX, GNW, HBC, JEF, MU, NSC, POT, SKS, VVUS)

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 8:27 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) Cut to Sector Perform from Outperform at ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/22/2011) Yahoo! Deal, IMF Greek Deal

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 8:27 am

Updated throughout the day. Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) may sell part of its stake in Alibaba (Reuters) Creditors who own Greek bonds have pushed back at IMF requests that they take ...
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Morning Wire — US Stock-Index Futures Continue Rising

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 7:53 am

Stock-index futures are up this morning as US markets prepare for a veritable blizzard of economic data scheduled for release today. First-time unemployment claims, GDP revisions, consumer confidence rating, housing ...
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Housing Markets That Rose and Fell the Most This Year

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 6:06 am

It is no secret that the national housing market has gotten even worse this year. With each passing month, it seems that most measures pointed to further weakening. Although there ...
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4G Service Falters as 3G Did Before It

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 6:06 am

Verizon Wireless’s 4G superfast wireless network has been down intermittently. That could drive off customers. And the network is at the heart of Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) campaign to gain customers from ...
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People in U.S. Dissatisfied With Nation’s Direction

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 6:05 am

The reaction to recent economic data may be a false positive. Americans largely are dissatisfied with the way that things are going in the U.S. This is despite an apparent upturn ...
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Toyota (TM) Expects a Record Year — Maybe

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 6:05 am

It is amazing how large multinational car companies can see into the future and predict their sales with certainty. Toyota (NYSE: TM) says it will sell 8.48 million cars and ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (12/22/2011) Nokia Europe Sales, Toyota Record Prediction

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 6:04 am

Toyota (NYSE: TM) forecasts that it will sell 8.48 million cars and light trucks worldwide next year -- up 20% from 2011. The prediction is based on two factors. The first ...
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Media Digest (12/22/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 5:47 am

http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is working on a deal with Alibaba to sell part of its stake in the Chinese company. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) expects record sales next year ...
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Top Med-Tech Stock Picks for 2012 (BSX, ISRG, STJ)

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 5:06 pm

Many research firms have been coming up with their best ideas lists for 2012.  Today brought a list of top picks in the medical technology and medical devices sector from ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (F, GS, RIMM, HON, ORCL, NKE, ATU, KMX, KBH, SHAW, WAG, DFG, CMFB, WWAY, AMPE, VMW, CVLT)

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 4:11 pm

Markets opened lower this morning on mixed reaction to the $641 billion borrowing spree from the European Central Bank. Technology stocks were weighed down by poor earnings report and uninspired ...
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Fitch Warns Again on ‘Negative Outlook’ of U.S. Triple-A Rating

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 3:45 pm

Fitch Ratings is out with an updated report on the future finances of the United States.  Today's special report is titled 'U.S. Public Finances - An Update' and it shows ...
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Huge 52-Week High Surprise: Garmin (GRMN, GOOG, AAPL, TRMB)

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 3:23 pm

If you took the developments of the last couple of years with the explosion of smartphones, Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) might have been easy to consider road kill.  Yet here ...
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Did Potash & Fertilizer Stocks Just Become Value Stocks? (MOS, POT, IPI)

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm

Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings may have given agriculture, potash, and fertilizer investors an early, yet so far unnoticed, Christmas gift.  The Singapore fund has taken roughly a 6.5% stake ...
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Investors Risk Chasing Yield Too Much In Tobacco Dividends (MO, T, RAI, LO, PM)

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 2:01 pm

The continued rise in tobacco stocks is certainly cheered by tobacco stock investors who own the stocks for the high dividends.  The problem is that there seems to be a phantom ...
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