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Patent Wars Cost Society $500 Billion (AAPL, GOOG, RIMM, SSNLF, SNE, ERIC, NOK, MMI, EK, RMBS, ACTG, IDCC, TSRA, WILN)

Posted: September 21, 2011 at 10:23 am

When news hits the street of another patent lawsuit, the characteristic reaction of some investors is to dump the defendant's stock as quickly as possible. Those sales inevitably depress the ...
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Stamps.com Becomes An Unlikely Winner (STMP, UPS, FDX)

Posted: September 19, 2011 at 2:41 pm

Stamps.com Inc. (NASDAQ: STMP) is not just up in the double-digit percentage gains today.  The company hit a 52-week high.  Actually, this is a high going back to 2006.  The ...
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Postal Service ‘Timing’ Changes, The Allure of FedEx & UPS (FDX, UPS)

Posted: September 15, 2011 at 10:57 am

The U.S. Postal Service is proposing "sweeping changes" to how the mail system works in America.  Some is good, and some is not enough.  The aim is to save up ...
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The BofA Split-Up? Up to 600 Branch Closings (BAC)

Posted: September 8, 2011 at 9:06 am

To say that Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is under pressure remains the understatement of 2011.  The DJIA industrial average component is under attack from every angle.  It is ...
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Is IBM’s Growth Dying? (IBM, HPQ, DELL)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 1:20 pm

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) might have been raised to "Buy" by Goldman Sachs in the middle of August, but the ongoing slowness in the economy may be taking ...
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Counter-Intuitive: Insurance Stocks Rising After Hurricane (ALL, TRV, CB, HIG, BRK-B, RE, PRE, CRD-B)

Posted: August 29, 2011 at 9:56 am

Any time a hurricane hits, it can cause billions of dollars in damage to homes, cars, businesses, and other properties.  The estimates for Hurricane Irene were growing higher and higher ...
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Jive Software Files for IPO, Helping Business in Social Media (JIVE)

Posted: August 25, 2011 at 12:41 pm

Jive Software, Inc. is the next social media oriented business filing to come public via an initial public offering.  The company did not list terms other than that the sale ...
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Staples Sends Message To Short Sellers on Earnings (SPLS, ODP, OMX)

Posted: August 17, 2011 at 11:13 am

Staples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) was a down and out retailer... Keyword: WAS.  This morning's earnings report has done two things.  First, it has shown that even the world of office ...
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The 25 Companies Spending Billions On Buybacks (ACE, AKAM, ABC, AOL, AVT, CBOE, CHTR, CSCO, COV, DISCA, DLB, XOM, CVX, HRS, HUN, JASO, JAH, NWSA, RDC, LUV, STJ, BSX, MSI, V, HPQ)

Posted: August 11, 2011 at 12:56 pm

It is no secret that the market volatility has many investors rattled.  What is very counter-intuitive is that many companies are continuing with most or all of their investor friendly ...
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Carbonite Slashes IPO Price (CARB)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 9:52 am

Carbonite, Inc. has filed its eighth amendment to its S-1 filing to come public.  It was just on August 1 that we had financial terms set at 5.4 million shares ...
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The 2011 Layoff Kings (BSX, CSCO, DAL, GCI, GS, HBC, LMT, MRK, RIMM, SHLD, CS, UBS, MS, ESRX, MHS)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 5:39 am

Financial markets have been reeling as investors grow more concerned about the economy: An S&P downgrade of the full faith and credit of the United States, dismal GDP data, and ...
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More Evidence of Pre-IPO Valuation Shell Games (LNKD, RENN, GSVC, P)

Posted: July 12, 2011 at 1:26 pm

We have said it before... Some of the current initial public offerings with very low share floats and some of the valuations of these private (semi-public) companies are in ...
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Small Business Survey Offers More Stagnation… Or Is It Stagflation?

Posted: July 12, 2011 at 7:51 am

The National Federation of Independent Business has just released its survey for June, and the overall trend has now dropped for four months in a row.  Some of the conditions ...
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ReachLocal Raising Capital For Company & Holders (RLOC)

Posted: July 8, 2011 at 7:11 am

ReachLocal, Inc. (NASDAQ: RLOC) is raising a small amount of capital in a possible secondary offering, but the bulk of the shares registered are from selling shareholders.  The filing is ...
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The 15 Corporate Earnings That Will Rule The Markets This Summer (AA, YUM, JPM, GOOG, C, AMZN, AMR, AN, MSFT, AAPL, KO, JNJ, UNH, INTC, EMC)

Posted: July 7, 2011 at 6:31 am

24/7 Wall St. is probably not alone in noticing that there were very few earnings warnings issued by the major companies that dictate market trends going into the end of ...
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