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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (CHK, LVLT, TJX, HPQ, JNPR, ANGI, SAM, CBOU, DRYS, FLS, FLR, GDP, KBR, AMT, BBG, CTHR, DDS, DISH, FWLT, OMX, TGT, VVUS, ONVI, SHLD, PVA, GTI)

Posted: February 23, 2012 at 4:06 pm

After a flat opening this morning, markets turned down before reversing course in mid-morning to return to positive territory, where they spent the rest of the day. A good report ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (COP, SIRI, GOOG, PG, AMGN, HAL, TWIN, PETS, MFN, GDP, CBRX, SR, RIMG)

Posted: January 23, 2012 at 4:08 pm

Equity markets opened slightly higher this morning but trailed off to negative territory in the late morning. By late afternoon, the NASDAQ composite and the S&P 500 were flirting with ...
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Calls For 50% to 100% Upside in Energy Stocks (AREX, MHR, NOG, OAS, REXX, SFY, VOG, GDP)

Posted: September 16, 2011 at 8:44 am

It is not too often that analysts call for stocks to rise 50%, let alone call for them to rise 100%.  That is happening as Canaccord Genuity has initiated coverage ...
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Marcellus Shale Gas Estimate Falls (CHK, RRC, COG, GDP)

Posted: August 24, 2011 at 4:45 pm

The US Geological Survey has released a new estimate of the amount of undiscovered natural gas in the Marcellus shale deposit. The original USGS estimate, made in 2002, projected a ...
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The Ten Greatest Stock Market Years Of The Last Century

Posted: December 29, 2010 at 9:13 pm

There have been 10 calendar years during the last one hundred in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by more than 30%. The reason for the sharp increases were, ...
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The Haynesville Shale: Major Opportunity & Risk (CHK, ECA, HK, EOG, XOM, DVN, XCO, FST, PXP, EP, COG, SM, GDP, CRK, CLR, DCP, KMP, ETP)

Posted: November 23, 2010 at 8:53 am

US shale gas deposits were known to have existed for decades. The problem was how to turn them into flowing wells. The natural gas was tightly compressed into small pockets ...
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Euro Area Unemployment Stays At 10%

Posted: August 31, 2010 at 6:07 am

There is no economic recovery underway in Europe, which is not much of a surprise to anyone who has watched attempts to restart growth there. The unemployment level in the ...
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A Developed World With Only 1% GDP

Posted: August 16, 2010 at 5:18 am

The US, EU, UK, and Japan were supposed to emerge from a great recession this year. The experience of past recessions would indicate that GDP should pick up to 3% ...
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In Bernanke We Trust?

Posted: July 22, 2010 at 5:31 am

Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve, is credited by many people for lifting America and much of the rest of the world out of the financial crisis of 2008 ...
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China And The US, Economies Move In Different Directions

Posted: July 15, 2010 at 4:58 am

China reported that its economy expanded by 11.1% in the first half and "only" 10.2% in the second quarter. That was viewed by most analysts as a "slowing' although it ...
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Concerns Of Global Recession Rise And China Slows

Posted: July 1, 2010 at 4:50 am

The list of reasons that show the global economic recovery is slowing grows longer by the day. The US employment and real estate troubles have extended into June after hopeful ...
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Moody’s May Downgrade Spain’s Aaa Rating, Contagion Rules

Posted: June 30, 2010 at 6:41 pm

There is another reason for the embattled euro to sell off. Moody's says it may downgrade Spain's debt which currently has an Aaa rating. The agency said, "Moody's decision to ...
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Net Public Debt To GDP Nearly Doubles 1990-2015

Posted: June 9, 2010 at 1:58 pm

Encouraging news from the Treasury Department. The ratio of net debt-to-GDP is forecast to go from 41.5% in 1990 to 73.1% in 2015 provided that the economy meets extremely aggressive ...
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Has GDP Growth Disappeared? Leading Economic Indicator Stalls

Posted: May 20, 2010 at 12:16 pm

High unemployment, lack of credit availability for small businesses and consumers, and slow wage growth may have caught up to an American economy which has been on the mend since ...
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China GDP Surges 11.9% In Q1, US Trade Issues Lurk

Posted: April 15, 2010 at 4:55 am

China's first quarter GDP growth rate was a sizzling 11.9%. The improvement was the best in three years and shows that the economy in the People's Republic has returned to ...
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