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The Best And Worst Stocks For The First Half Of 2011

Posted: July 1, 2011 at 6:37 am

Most of the financial media stops at mid-year to reflect on how the market performed since January 1. The effort is often fruitless. The fact that a stock, or any ...
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TI Comes Clean With Guidance, Harms Chip Rivals Too (TXN, NSM, NOK, INTC, BRCM, SMH)

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 5:05 pm

Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) may be buying National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM) and the tech demand may still be strong for chips.  Unfortunately, the company just warned investors that ...
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Key Earnings to Watch This Coming Week (FCEL, PBY, THO, HOV, CIEN, LULU, NSM, TXN, FNSR)

Posted: June 3, 2011 at 2:31 pm

Earnings season has all but ended as far as the great market-movers.  That does not mean that there are not some interesting companies reporting earnings that need to be watched.  ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (APC, CFN, CBI, COLM, DRYS, ENR, HMC, IDIX, JACK, MGLN, MON, NSM, NVO, SPW, TM, VFC)

Posted: April 11, 2011 at 8:22 am

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC) Reiterated Hold at Argus. Carefusion Corporation (NYSE: CFN) ...
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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: April 5 The Companies With The Most Bad News

Posted: April 5, 2011 at 10:00 am

Note: The Flame Index scans thousands of news sites 24 hours per day and ranks companies getting the most negative press right now. The Flame Index Media Analysis Algorithm crunches ...
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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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Giant Chip Mergers Underway (TXN, NSM, ADI, SMH, ALTR, XLNX, MU, FCS, LLTC)

Posted: April 4, 2011 at 4:38 pm

If you have wondered why there have been so few legacy chip companies announcing mergers, you have to wonder no more.  After the close of trading came word that Texas ...
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Unusual After-Hours Stocks on the Move (ARO, CLNE, CLWR, ENER, GNVC, LIME, NSM, ZUMZ)

Posted: March 10, 2011 at 5:14 pm

We are tracking after-hours movers on news this evening.  The largest moves on after-hours volume are being seen in Aeropostale, Inc. (NYSE: ARO), Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (NASDAQ: CLNE), Clearwire ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ANF, ALTR, AIG, APA, CIEN, EXPE, LAZ, LDK, MDC, NSM, NVDA, QCOM, URBN, VRTX)

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 8:12 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) Raised to Buy at ...
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Next Week’s Top Earnings on Deck (CIEN, URBN, AIB, DMND, DYN, FNSR, AEO, MCP, CWTR, FMCN, ARO, CLNE, NSM)

Posted: March 5, 2011 at 9:06 am

Earnings season has mostly come to a close but we still have many companies trickling out earnings which could easily move the needle on shares.  This coming week we will ...
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New Chip Set Maximizes Efficiency of Solar Arrays (NSM, WFR, GE, FSLR)

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 11:13 am

The issue of intermittency is well-known in alternative energy circles. Solar panels don't work when the sun doesn't shine, nor do wind turbines when the wind doesn't blow. But there ...
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Top Active Trader Alerts (COCO, CMO, SOLR, LULU, WFR, NSM, NOK, IRE, AIB, SWHC)

Posted: September 10, 2010 at 8:58 am

Many stocks are on the move this Friday morning.  Active traders and day traders are likely to be watching the moves seen in Capstead Mortgage Corp. (NYSE: CMO), GT Solar ...
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Ten Women Who Should Be Big Company CEOs

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 8:46 pm

Twelve of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Just twelve. Over the next year, that number is likely to go up considerably because of a confluence of economic and financial ...
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Buyout for More Efficient Solar Panels from National Semi (NSM)

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 3:50 pm

National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) is making a push into solar via an acquisition.  The company has acquired Act Solar, Inc. to expand its portfolio of power optimization technologies along ...
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When Lower Guidance Is Good (BRCM, TXN, NSM)

Posted: December 9, 2008 at 10:27 am

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) followed the path of other chip stocks and came out with lower guidance last night.  This was on the heels of atrocious guidance from Texas Instruments ...
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