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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/13/2012) Kodak Funds, Bank Of America Plans

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 8:48 am

Updated throughout the day Kodak (NYSE:EK) has approached Citigroup (NYSE: C) for money to tide it through Chapter 11 (Bloomberg) Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was given a mandate by ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/12/2012) Opel Labor, Olympus M&A

Posted: January 12, 2012 at 8:28 am

Updated throughout the day Olympus may set a partial merger with Samsung (Reuters) GM (NYSE: GM) may shift more production to Europe to improve relationships with Germany unions which represent Opel ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/11/2012) NYSE Merger Off, Dell Tablet PC

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 8:45 am

Updated throughout the day Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) will offer a tablet PC by the end of the year (Reuters) Alibaba will reduce the size of a loan its was to ...
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Rumor Mill Moves Back To Brocade (BRCD, DELL, HPQ, IBM, CVLT, CSCO)

Posted: January 9, 2012 at 1:16 pm

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) is running higher on buyout speculation.  The move is only about 18 months too late if it is even true.  Reuters reported that Brocade ...
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True Convergence: Taking Speech To TV (NUAN, AAPL, MSFT, CMCSA, TWC, T, DTV, DISH)

Posted: January 9, 2012 at 12:54 pm

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is getting a much less of a reception than you might expect following on news that it is taking its Dragon speech recognition to the ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/5/2011) Nokia Chairman, Pepsi Layoffs

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 8:43 am

Updated throughout the day. Pepsico (NYSE: PEP) may cut 4,000 jobs (NY Post) Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) is close to a Chapter 11 filing (WSJ) Japan Air will raise $6.4 ...
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Private Equity Value for Best Buy (BBY, GME, WMT, AMZN)

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 7:35 am

After losing about a third of its value in the last year, Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) may start to be thrown around as a private equity takeover name.  A ...
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Netflix Shares Rise on Rumor, Report (NFLX, YHOO, AMZN, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 2:36 pm

Shares of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) have risen about 7% today and it’s hard to say whether the main cause is speculation that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) might buy the ...
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Is Sears A Bankruptcy Candidate? (SHLD, WMT, TGT, OSH)

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 12:09 pm

The long slow death march at Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is turning into a case study of what not do.  Putting a hedge fund manager in charge of a huge ...
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Todays’ Best Market Rumors (1/4/2012) Yahoo! CEO, RIM Chairmen

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 8:14 am

Updated throughout the day PayPal President Scott Thompson will become Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) next CEO (AllThingsD) MF Global sold some of its assets to Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) before it ...
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Eastman Kodak Faces NYSE Listing Notice… The Failure Clock Countdown (EK)

Posted: January 3, 2012 at 4:12 pm

Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) was recently named by us as a stock which is one of thirteen stocks unlikely to survive 2012 in its current form.  A very low ...
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Co-Chairs May Finally Lose Their RIM Jobs (RIMM)

Posted: January 3, 2012 at 12:12 pm

It was just on Friday that we named Research in Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) as being one of the thirteen worst big stock stories of 2011.  This case is one ...
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Ten Stocks Unlikely To Survive 2012 (ALIM, AMR, APP, EK, ENER, FFN, NRTLQ, PNCL, RDDY, YRCWD)

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 8:15 am

Calling on the death of a company is no fun task.  Some companies cannot get it right and it is amazing how some companies can hold on to a status ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/28/2011) Bernanke Briefings

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 8:28 am

Updated throughout the day Ben Bernanke may increase the number of Fed briefings he does for the public (Bloomberg) Aldar Properties will sell several billion in assets to the Abu ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/26/2011) Paulson Gold Fund, Yahoo! M&A

Posted: December 26, 2011 at 8:15 am

Updated througout the day. Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is close to a deal to sell most of its Asia assets (Reuters) The Paulson gold fund lost 10.5% of its value this ...
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