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UBS Likes Specialty Retail: Time to Sell Department Stores

Posted: May 16, 2013 at 8:10 am

The American consumer has remained pretty consistent in 2013, helping to push along a still very slow economic recovery. One place they have spent money is the department stores around ...
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Apple, Foxconn Drifting Apart

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 8:50 am

The tight relationship between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Hon Hai Precision Technologies, better known as Foxconn, appears to be fraying. The Taiwanese-based manufacturing giant is being pressured by another ...
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Airbus Parent EADS Earnings Dimmed by Cash Flow Issues

Posted: May 14, 2013 at 8:25 am

The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) reported first-quarter earnings before markets opened this morning. Airbus, the company’s largest division, competes with U.S. aircraft maker Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) ...
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Dollar Blows Out Parity Against Yen in Currency Market

Posted: May 10, 2013 at 7:50 am

The U.S. dollar has not just met parity at 100/1 with the Japanese yen. It broke it, and now the yen is above 101 yen per dollar. This event has ...
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Google European Patent Claim Against Apple in Jeopardy

Posted: May 6, 2013 at 2:38 pm

The European Commission’s (EC) competition committee today issued a statement setting for its view that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) engages in anti-competitive behavior by seeking an injunction against Apple Inc. ...
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Avon Chairman Hassan Departs Suddenly

Posted: April 29, 2013 at 7:00 am

In another sign that the nonexistent turnaround at Avon Products Inc. (NYSE: AVP) may be in even more trouble, its non-executive chairman, in office for only a few months, is ...
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True Currency Parody: The Return of Dollar-Yen Parity

Posted: April 10, 2013 at 3:33 pm

Endless printing of money to purchase assets and bonds in Japan is a real game-changing initiative. It devalues what had become a very overvalued Yen but creates problems for the ...
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TrimTabs Jobs Data Not as Rosy as Labor Department Nor as ADP

Posted: April 3, 2013 at 7:55 am

Each and every month the markets get to digest new unemployment and payrolls data. While the U.S. Labor Department's formal report called the Employment Situation is out at 8:30 a.m. ...
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Top Retail and Apparel Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ANF, ARO, AEO, GPS, GNC, GRPN, HBI, LTD, ROST, UA, URBN)

Posted: April 2, 2013 at 8:30 am

This week should bring a lot of news from same-store sales for the retail and apparel sector. That makes it interesting that there are so many analyst calls in the ...
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Walgreen’s Names New Distribution Partner

Posted: March 19, 2013 at 1:15 pm

The nation’s largest drugstore chain, Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) this morning announced that it and its European partner Alliance Boots have entered into a 10-year contract with drug distributor AmeriSourceBergen ...
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Cypriot Parliament to Weigh In on Bank Account Tax

Posted: March 19, 2013 at 6:50 am

The parliament in Cyprus may block the government's attempt to seize money from the savings accounts of its citizens as a way to raise money to get access to bailout ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMZN, DOX, AAPL, MT, CINF, ETFC, EBAY, GILD, HTWR, IPAR, SNDK, VMW, WFC)

Posted: March 14, 2013 at 8:35 am

These are some of this Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from select Wall St. research calls. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) cut to Neutral from Overweight at J.P. ...
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Treasury Department Sells More Shares of GM

Posted: March 12, 2013 at 7:05 am

The Treasury Department continues to dump massive numbers of shares in General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM), either because it wants to show it can get some taxpayer money back from ...
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Artisan Partners Asset Management Debuts in Strong IPO

Posted: March 7, 2013 at 10:05 am

Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. (NYSE: APAM) is coming public today. The asset management firm had a premium deal priced for 11.054 million shares of its Class A stock at ...
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Dell’s Future: A Sell-Off of Its Parts

Posted: March 7, 2013 at 6:30 am

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is besieged by investors who want an alternative future to Michael Dell's plans to take the company private. Although Dell's board recently issued a report in ...
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