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Retail
Wall St. Pessimism About Holiday Sales
Wall St. has voted on how strong holiday sales will be this year. Shares of Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) and Target (NYSE: TGT) are down year to date. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and…
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Retail
Sharp Discounts Hit Consumer Electronics Markets
Amazon.com (NYSE: AMZN) has set the price of the Kindle Fire so low that many analysts believe each unit sold will lose money for the e-commerce company. Amazon will offer free shipping…
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Media
Media Digest (11/3/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve cuts its forecast for employment and GDP growth. (Reuters) The expanding Greek debt problem will trouble the G20 summit. (Reuters) Groupon’s IPO may be a dollar higher than its…
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Media
Time Warner Leads Off Media Earnings (TWX, SNE, DIS, CBS, CMCSA, NFLX, AMZN)
Media producer Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) this morning posted adjusted EPS of $0.79 on $7.07 billion in revenues. Consensus estimates called for EPS of $0.76 on revenues of $6.97 billion. The…
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Media
Watching Movies at Home Beats Going to Theaters (NFLX, CSTR, AMZN, DISH, WMT, SNE)
In 1999, about 92% of $13.2 billion in home entertainment spending went to VHS tapes.That percentage fell to zero in 2009. In 2010, spending on DVDs, Blu-Ray discs, and streaming video totaled…
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Investing
Media Digest (11/1/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, Bloomberg
Greeks will vote on planned austerity, which could wreck the chances of a conclusion to the bailout. (Reuters) China’s PMI falls to the lowest level since early 2009. (Reuters) Chemical and defense…
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Media
The Financial World Today: What’s Important (10/30/2011) Walmart Cuts Hours, Nook Trouble
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) will begin to cut hours at some of its 24-hour stores, a sign of flagging traffic as the holiday retail period begins. Walmart has been in the process of…
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Investing
Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/28/2011) Amazon In China, RIM In India
Updated throughout the day. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may launch the Kindle in China (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) will set up a surveillance network to track Blackberry messages in India (Reuters)…
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24/7 Closing Bell (BA, GLW, AMZN, FSLR, MMM, BBBY, NYT, AEP, COP, EXC, CPX, LNG, FFCH, RTK, HGSI, DV, RSH)
Markets opened higher this morning on renewed hope for a deal on Europe’s debt debacle. At a meeting of EU leaders, the group approved a 9% capital buffer to go into effect…
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Investing
Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AMZN, CLWR, FSLR, HGSI)
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR), First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:…
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Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALB, AMZN, BBBY, BP, CELG, CHRW, FSLR, HAIN, HGSI, MMM, MIND, NYT, SKS, TLM, YGE, YOKU)
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this morning. Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) Raised to Neutral at BofA/ML. Amazon.com Inc.…
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Investing
What’s Important Today (10/26/2011) Nokia’s New Phone, Berlusconi’s Trouble, Luxury Cars
Nokia’s new Microsoft smartphone: Today will be remembered as the day that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) began an historic turnaround, or when it lost its bet on new smartphones that run the Microsoft…
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Investing
Amazon’s Bezos Gambles on Long-Term
Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Jeff Bezos has gambled on his company’s long-term prospects before. He did so again last quarter, and it cost his shareholders, at least for a while. Bezos has run…
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Investing
Media Digest (10/26/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
A deal to rescue the EU’s weak nations has stalled over political differences and objections by banks. (Reuters) IBM (NYSE: IBM) appoints Virginia Rometty as its new CEO. (Reuters) Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)…
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Retail
Valuation, Timing & Margins Catch Up To Amazon.com (AMZN)
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has turned in earnings for its third quarter, and we will be paying extra attention to its fourth quarter. The seller of everything online reported earnings of $0.14…
Jon C. Ogg