Year: <span>2010</span>
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2010 is ending and 2011 is about to begin. It has been a very interesting year for major biotech stocks, albeit with lower rewards than seen in 2009 as there have been far fewer ten-baggers with...
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After spending most of 2009 fighting passage of the health care reform act, insurers have gone quiet on efforts to repeal the legislation and have instead gotten busy figuring out how to turn a...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the stock market darling that almost no one wants to hate. Finding negative analyst reports is a difficult task. The company over-delivers on most products and...
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The price for a barrel of crude has risen about 17% since the beginning of 2010, to near $92/barrel. Positive forecasts for global economic growth, combined with a weaker US dollar are responsible,...
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Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEIX) is trading higher this morning on reports that NASDAQ sent it a letter dated December 28, 2010 notifying the company that it has met all of the requirements to be...
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China displaced the US in 2009 as the world’s largest car market, and the number of Chinese auto buyers went up in 2010. Chinese buyers purchased 13.6 million vehicles in 2009 and that number is...
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Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Aixtron AG (NASDAQ: AIXG), Cardiome Pharma Corp. (NASDAQ: CRME),...
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Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) is trading higher this morning due to the announcement of “a significant natural gas discovery” at the Leviathan exploration prospect offshore Israel. Leviathan-1...
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The rumors and thought of private equity in retail is going on and on, oddly enough with the same player. BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. (NYSE: BJ) is the newest target according to many web reports,...
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Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million...
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The week between Christmas and New Years is often a quiet week for research. That is the case here. These are some of this Wednesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in...
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Updated throughout the day.Leonard Green will try to take over BJ Wholesale (NYPost)China will continue curbs on commercial property purchases (Caijing)NetFlix (NASDAQ: NFLX) may try to expand...
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The well to do drove Christmas week spending this year. Perhaps the prospect of extended tax cuts was part of the fuel. According to Gallup, “An upper-income spending splurge led the way to strong...
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OPEC can set export and production quotas. China cannot set very tight limits on the export of its rare earth metals. The US says China does not have the right. Japan says the same. Each nation has...
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The Chinese economy is supposed to be much stronger than America’s. GDP growth in the People’s Republic hovers near 10%. The GDP improvement in the US this year may be no better than 2.5%.The...
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