American Airlines Parts With Expedia And Orbitz
Tickets for American Airlines flights are no longer sold at Expedia or Orbitz. American (NYSE: AMR) will have to rely on its own site AA.com and smaller travel sites. Orbitz and Expedia have such…
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Apple iPhone Alarm System Broken
The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be a technology marvel, but is has an Achille’s Heel. At the change of the year, its alarm feature does not work in several parts of the world. According…
China Growth Slows, For A Month
China’s central government said its PMI growth slowed in December, which confirmed similar data released last week by HSBC. China may use the data to show that it does not need to allow the…
Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (BGP, BSQR, IMAX, MCP, XING)
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Border’s Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP), BSQUARE Corporation (NASDAQ: BSQR), IMAX Corporation (NASDAQ: IMAX), Molycorp, Inc.…
China Internet Users Soar To 450 Million, But Search Remains Low
China now has 450 million people online, a number nearly 50% greater than the population of the US. The Xinhua news agency reports that Wang Chen, head of China’s State Council Information Office, released figures…
Android Gains On Apple App Store With 200,000 Applications
It has been generally assumed that one of the advantages Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has in the smartphone business is its App Store. That may be much less true than it was a year ago.…
Crude Oil Problem May Not Be As Bad As Its Seems
The media and some Wall St. analysts have pressed the point that $90 crude could derail the recovery. The argument seems to make sense unless experts look to the beginning of 2010. The price…
Media Digest 12.31.2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Jobless data and factory PMI raised hope about the recovery (Reuters) Facebook move past Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) as the most visited site in the US (Reuters) Crude is up 12% this year (Reuters) A…
Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ENDP, OSN, VISN, XING, XOMA)
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Endo Pharmaceutical Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ENDP), Ossen Innovation Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: OSN), VisionChina…
Can the Boom in Silver Last? (SLV, SIL, SLW, PAAS, HL)
Silver prices have risen more than 80% in 2010, far more than either gold, at about 26%, and copper, at around 28%. Aside from speculation, there are a couple of reasons for the enormous…
Two-Thirds Of Internet Users Have Paid For Content
Sixty-five percent of American internet users have paid for content, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The figure does not mean much if theses will not pay for content again and…
A Chance To Admit Defeat Early In The Tablet PC War
Tens of thousands of new products are released at the annual Consumer Electronics Show held once a year in Las Vegas. Technology company executives party late into the night and rise early to manage…
China PMI: One Month Does Not A Trend Make
The HSBC study of China’s purchasing manufacturing index, which closely parallels the official numbers from the People’s Republic, dropped to 54.4 from 55.3 in November. Analysts seized on the data to say that monetary…
Media Digest 12.30.2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
China’s PMI growth slowed and the current monetary policy may be sufficient to curb inflation (Reuters) The use of solar power by China is rapidly expanding (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) sued to stop shipments…
The Ten Greatest Stock Market Years Of The Last Century
There have been 10 calendar years during the last one hundred in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by more than 30%. The reason for the sharp increases were, in some cases, due…
Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AIXG, CRME, CRNT, RNOW, XOMA)
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), Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:…
The Wealthy Drove Holiday Spending
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…
Does China Have The Right To Block Rare Earth Exports?
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.…
New Year’s Test: Shanghai Composite Vs. S&P 500
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 Perils Of Ignoring Inflation
The Federal Reserve says it has inflation under control. More and more economic data says that is not true. Wheat, copper, and gold prices are at or near all-time highs. The head of huge…