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Trading Stocks in One-Billionth of a Second

Posted: June 14, 2011 at 6:09 pm

The pace at which the market trades stocks, bonds, currencies, and futures seems to have once again become faster than anyone could have ever imagined.  Forget a few hundred automated ...
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Value Stocks for Summer & Memorial Day Trends (COF, CHH, XOM, TAP, LUV, DPZ)

Posted: May 25, 2011 at 4:32 pm

Very few people consider the financial ramifications of Memorial Day Weekend as one of the top financial events of the year when it comes to the travel and hospitality industries.  ...
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Your Last Chance to Refinance Your House, Ever!

Posted: May 17, 2011 at 3:09 pm

Mortgage rates are back under 4.50%.  If you just read the headline economic data coming out right now, inflation is on the rise.  The good news is that oil, metals, ...
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Troubles With Verizon’s 4G Network, Again (VZ, T, S)

Posted: May 2, 2011 at 12:41 pm

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) had already suffered one outage of its new heavily marketed 4G network.  It appears that the data portion of that 4G network is suffering yet ...
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Severe Hack: Sony PlayStation Users Powned by Hack Attack (SNE)

Posted: April 26, 2011 at 5:54 pm

Things have gone from bad to worse at Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE).  Whether you spell "PWN" as "Powned" or not, Sony and its millions of PlayStation network users just got ...
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Johnson & Johnson FDA & Recall Scrutiny (JNJ)

Posted: March 11, 2011 at 9:54 am

The US Food and Drug Administration and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) have agreed to a consent decree under which the agency will monitor manufacturing processes at three plants operated ...
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iPad2… Killing ZAGG (ZAGG, AAPL)

Posted: March 2, 2011 at 2:03 pm

ZAGG Incorporated (NASDAQ: ZAGG) is getting crushed today due to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and a feature of its iPad2 that Steve Jobs himself debuted today.  ZAGG makes the invisibleSHIELD ...
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Ten Hidden Gems in the Netflix Annual Report (NFLX, TWC, CMCSA, DTV, SATS, T, VZ, AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, BBY, WMT, CSTR)

Posted: February 22, 2011 at 7:45 am

Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) recently joined the waves and waves of public companies which filed their 10-K annual reports with the SEC.  We often dig through these and other reports ...
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The 17 Most Important IPOs To Watch For In 2011

Posted: January 12, 2011 at 6:20 am

The market for Initial Public Offerings is booming.  After seeing so many IPOs trade exponentially higher than expected in 2010, the market should continue to be strong in 2011.  We ...
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Thanksgiving Gets More Expensive This Year All Around

Posted: November 23, 2010 at 1:06 pm

The cost of Thanksgiving is going to be higher for 2010.  There is often no better comparison than any fixed points in time around key memorable events, and Thanksgiving is ...
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New “Call of Duty” on Way to $1 Billion in Sales (ATVI, GME)

Posted: November 18, 2010 at 12:27 pm

To call the new mega-hit game "Call of Duty: Black Ops" a success would be the understatement of 2010 in video games.  Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) has set a ...
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Dollar Stores, Growth For Another Decade (DG, DLTR, FDO, WMT, SHLD, NDN)

Posted: November 3, 2010 at 1:59 pm

Dollar stores are still king... Unemployment is expected to remain high, or at least 'under-employment' will reign as a continued theme ahead.  This presents a challenge for many retailers out ...
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Gap’s Logo Change Adding Brand Damage (GPS)

Posted: October 8, 2010 at 7:42 am

Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) has a brand crisis in the works.  Yesterday it was no winner in the move for same store sales in September at a time when many ...
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GE’s Opportunity With New Mobile Fracking Solution (GE, CHK, SWN, APA, DVN, XOM)

Posted: September 30, 2010 at 12:14 pm

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has an announcement that could be a key development in solving the problem of water supply contamination caused by the fracking process.  The company has ...
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IRS Possibly Issues $1 Billion Worth Of Bogus Refunds

Posted: September 22, 2010 at 3:20 am

The sad state of the IRS's computer networks has been documented in government reports for years.  Now, as the federal government's deficit balloons past $1 trillion, the notion that the ...
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