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Media Digest (7/19/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 19, 2011 at 6:23 am

Parliament will question Rupert Murdoch of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) today (Reuters) IBM's (NYSE: IBM) service business rose, driving earnings up (Reuters) Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will fire 15% of its ...
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Despite Chip Warnings, Value Lurks in Chip Stocks Ahead of Earnings Season (ADI, AMAT, AMD, CRUS, INTC, SNDK, TXN, XLNX, MCHP, NVLS, SMH)

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 8:16 am

Disappointing earnings and poor guidance from the likes of Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP) and Novellus Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVLS) this week have cast a very dark shadow on semiconductor ...
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Short Sellers Savage Market Laggards

Posted: July 13, 2011 at 6:31 am

Short sellers often invest in stocks that have had sharp short-term gains and may have reached peak valuations. That would put Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) on most of those lists, along ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMD, HD, INTC, IBM, LOW, LULU, MGM, MAN, SCHN, SPLS, X, YOKU)

Posted: June 16, 2011 at 8:28 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Outperform at ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/15/2011) AMD CEO, Obama Tax Cuts

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 8:27 am

Updated throughout the day The Administration will try to get business leaders to support concerns that failure to raise the debt cap could be dangerous for the economy (Reuters) Obama ...
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Media Digest (6/14/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 14, 2011 at 6:26 am

Hackers broke into Senate computers. (Reuters) Chinese inflation hit a 34-month high last month. (Reuters) A slow economy could affect debt talks between the Republicans and Democrats. (Reuters) Oil moved ...
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Short Bets Against Retail Disappear

Posted: June 10, 2011 at 6:37 am

Short sellers must not agree with the conventional wisdom that high gas prices and unemployment will keep Americans out of stores and malls this summer. These investors decreased their negative ...
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Short Sellers Bet Against Tech And Apple

Posted: May 11, 2011 at 6:37 am

Most technology company first quarter earnings have been relatively good. Businesses and consumers have begun to return to the market for servers, PCs, and software. The demand for smartphones and ...
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Media Digest (5/4/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 4, 2011 at 4:12 am

Glencore's IPO will be for about $11 billion. (Reuters) The slide of the dollar has caused concerns about how it may hurt the stability of the credit markets. (Reuters) Portugal ...
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Media Digest (4/8/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 8, 2011 at 3:32 am

The members of the Federal Reserve are more divided about what steps the central bank should take next to mute inflation and help the expansion. (Reuters) Americans are telling the ...
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Will Intel Warn on Earnings? (INTC, SMH, AMD)

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 3:23 pm

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has been the beneficiary of the great  NASDAQ 100 rebalancing act, but things have been a bit rough for holders of late.  Last Friday we noted ...
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Texas Instruments Pays Too Much For National Semi

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 5:46 am

Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) will buy National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM) for $25 a share in cash. The total value of the transaction is $6.5 billion. That price is 78% above ...
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The New Generation Of American Monopolies

Posted: March 22, 2011 at 4:53 am

A monopoly is either what the government says it is or what a dominant company’s competitors claim. The government’s opinion is the only one that counts, however, as Sprint will ...
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A New Age Of Antitrust Activity

Posted: March 21, 2011 at 5:07 am

Antitrust regulators will get a great deal of exercise this spring. AT&T (NYSE: T) has announced it will buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom. Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S), the struggling wireless company, ...
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The Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades of the Week (CIEN, GMCR, MCP, NFLX, NVDA, SBUX, AMD, BRCM, MU, NVDA, SMH)

Posted: March 12, 2011 at 7:31 am

This last week had several key analyst research calls which stood out from the pack and went against the grain.  The top research calls we tracked after going through the ...
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