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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/6/2009) (CTIC)(DDRX)(BA)(XOM)(GOOG)(AIG)(BAC)(AAPL)

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 9:14 am

Updates throughout the day. Update 2.40 PM EST: Biotech Cell Therapeutics (CTIC) is getting crushed, down 13% to $.95 on over 46 million shares. Rumors of insider selling, troubles with OPAXIO ...
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DVD Sales Crushed By Rentals, As Apple (AAPL) And Amazon (AMZN) Rise

Posted: September 22, 2009 at 6:25 am

DVD sales are flagging and rentals are up, news which is likely to be unwelcome at the major movie studios. The Digital Entertainment Group announced that in the first half ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (FWLT, GNW, ITRI, NUE, SPR, SNCR, STI, SYNA, USB, VIA)

Posted: September 17, 2009 at 8:13 am

These are this Thursday morning's top analyst upgrades and positive research calls seen from Wall Street: Foster Wheeler (FWLT) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs. Genworth (GNW) Raised to Buy ...
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Media Digest 9/1/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 1, 2009 at 3:57 am

Reuters:   Ebay (EBAY) will sell Skype to private investors. Reuters:   China's manufacturing index gained. Reuters:   A  late Labor Day will hurt August retail sales. Reuters:   A US judge ruled against ...
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Americans Watch Nine Billion YouTube Videos In A Month

Posted: August 28, 2009 at 5:32 am

US internet users watched 8.9 billion videos on Google (GOOG) sites last month. Ninety-nine percent of those were from YouTube. According to comScore, Google had 42% of the online video ...
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Movie Unit Sinks Viacom (VIA)

Posted: July 28, 2009 at 7:16 am

Viacom (VIA) had a bad quarter, which was to be expected. Media companies are suffering from drops in advertising revenue and the number of consumers who subscribe to their content ...
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As Viacom’s (VIA) Paramount Looks For Partner It May Be Bought Out

Posted: July 1, 2009 at 5:07 am

The DVD business is bad. Video-on-demand, available on most cable systems, and internet streaming of premium content have cut into one of the largest profit centers in Hollywood. Viacom's (VIA) ...
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Media Digest 6/15/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 3:01 am

Reuters:   The heads of the emerging markets, the so-called BRICs, held their first global summit. Reuters:   Obama will be tested this week on financial reforms. Reuters:   Rich nations are working ...
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The Failure Of The Web 1.0 Giants And The Case That Facebook and MySpace Could Be Worthless

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 3:53 am

Facebook recently took in a new $200 million investment which puts the value of the company at $10 billion. That is down from a $15 billion valuation based on an ...
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Sony (SNE) Will Have To Sell Its Studio Business, Could Get $6 Billion

Posted: June 7, 2009 at 9:18 am

Sony (SNE) is in trouble, and it is very deep trouble. For the fiscal year ending March 31, the conglomerate lost more than $1 billion on $79 billion in revenue. ...
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Media Digest 6/5/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 5, 2009 at 3:02 am

Reuters:   Rio Tinto (RTP) has killed a deal with Chinalco for one with BHP (BHP). Reuters:   US regulators insisted JP Morgan (JPM) and Amex (AXP) raise money to exit the ...
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The Ten Ways Twitter Will Permanently Change American Business

Posted: May 26, 2009 at 8:11 pm

Micro-blogging platform Twitter has 32 million users, which is an increase from about 2 million a year ago, according to research mentioned in The Wall Street Journal. Some Internet measurement ...
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How Long Does Sony’s (SNE) CEO Stringer Keep His Job?

Posted: May 14, 2009 at 4:42 am

Sir Howard Stringer is the first non-Japanese to run Sony (SNE) and putting him into the job was probably a mistake. He was promoted to "re-invent" the company. Instead, he ...
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Media Digest 5/1/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 1, 2009 at 3:00 am

According to Reuters, lenders will object to the Chrysler Chapter 11 filing. Reuters reports that Switzerland  is asking US a court to halt a case against UBS (UBS). Reuters reports that SMFG ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (AMT, AXA, NILE, CA, FDS, IBM, IBKR, ICE, NOVL, SBAC, VIA)

Posted: April 6, 2009 at 7:33 am

These are the top analyst downgrades and cautious calls we have seen from Wall Street analysts this Monday morning: American Tower (AMT) Cut to Sector Perform at RBC. AXA (AXA) ...
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