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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — August 7, 2012: Markets Do Instant Replay of Yesterday

Posted: August 7, 2012 at 4:04 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning on a report from Europe that German chancellor Angela Merkel now backs bond buying by the European Central Bank.Even a ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — August 6, 2012: Market Rises on Low Volume, Lack of News

Posted: August 6, 2012 at 4:02 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning most likely due to the lack of bad news on the Eurozone’s financial troubles (more coverage here). Asian markets got ...
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Sotheby’s Finds Out That Research Analysts Matter, Maybe Too Much

Posted: July 16, 2012 at 2:00 pm

Sometimes analyst upgrades and downgrades matter, and sometimes they do not.  Sotheby's (NYSE: BID) is finding that they sure matter this Monday.  We might usually skip an analyst upgrade or ...
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What ‘The Scream’ Record Sale Means For Art & Collectibles (BID, AMZN, EBAY)

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 11:06 am

Sotheby's (NYSE: BID) is almost magically trading lower this morning on a sell-the-news reaction after the auction house (and oldest listed company on the NYSE) posted a record auction price of ...
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Extreme Alternative Investing: Edvard Munch’s The Scream, at $80 Million or So (BID)

Posted: April 25, 2012 at 7:45 am

If something can rise in value, investors and speculators may be involved. The world of art is one of the true alternative investing venues as investors often compete head-to-head with ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (FSLR, MA, WAG, WEN, SD, DVR, EIX, NKTR, SSW, BID, DRC, JRCC, KR, MSO, ARCT, PEGA, CVO, TUDO, FFN)

Posted: March 1, 2012 at 4:08 pm

The three major US equities indexes opened higher this morning after another (small) drop in new unemployment benefits claims and a good, but smaller-than-expected, rise in personal income and spending ...
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Potential Upside for Specialty Retailers (SPLS, OMX, BKS, BID, PETM)

Posted: December 5, 2011 at 7:30 am

With the focus on holiday shopping, now is a good time to have a look at potential upside gains in specialty retail stocks. We’ve looked at five stocks that we’ve ...
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Expected Gains in Specialty Retail Stocks (ODP, OMX, SPLS, BKS, CSTR, BID, TSCO, TITN, PETM, LUX)

Posted: November 4, 2011 at 2:26 pm

The universe of specialty retail stocks is not terribly large, measured either by number of companies or market cap. The entire sector has a market cap of about $310 billion, ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CRL, CSCO, GLW, EXPE, PPDI, RL, PCLN, REGN, RIMM, RPM, BID, TSO, TIVO, URI)

Posted: September 9, 2011 at 8:06 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL) Started as ...
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52-Week High Club (COMS, AMD, PLA, BID)

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 4:31 pm

3Com Corp (NASDAQ: COMS) rose over 30% to a yearly high of $7.52 after Hewlett-Packard, the PC maker, announced plans to buy 3Com for $2.7 billion. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. ...
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The 52-Week Low Club (BID)(AVR)(MNKD)(GRMN)(SSCC)

Posted: April 9, 2008 at 2:40 pm

Sotheby's Holdings (BID) Market is turning against companies with rick customers are they become poor. Fallst to $24.37 from 52-week high of $61.40. Aventine Renewable Energy (AVR) Crop prices go ...
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52-Week Lows, Massive List (ALU, BGP, CELL, BBW, CVO, DENN, GCI, INFY, INTU, KLAC, NT, NWA, NXTM, PDLI, PFE, Q, SVVS, SNE, BID, TWX)

Posted: March 14, 2008 at 3:04 pm

This was a massive list of lows today.  Not all closed on lows, but the list was chopped down greatly just to accommodate the size of it.  If you look ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (A, BBBY, BBY, DTV, ECL, EP, IBM, NTAP, LRCX, MOT, CRM)

Posted: February 28, 2008 at 8:08 am

These are not all of the calls affecting stocks, but these are the top analyst calls that 247WallSt.com is looking at this Thursday morning:Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) raised to Overweight at ...
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Sotheby’s: No Auction Flippers Please (BID)

Posted: November 8, 2007 at 10:37 am

Just when you think the rich are immune and just when you think the super-wealthy Chinese and Russians will pay anything for any super-luxury good, the reminder is coming home ...
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Cramer’s Stealthy Uranium & Inflation Plays

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 5:25 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer had a stock that is leveraged to inflation: you buy Gold, Art, Collectibles.  He says you can buy Sotheby's (BID-NYSE) because it ...
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