Morning Market Roundup (7/24/2012)

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By Stuart Stelzer Updated Published

Subject: The 10 Cheapest Tickets in Baseball

The Major League Baseball (MLB) season is in full swing, with the National League winning the All-Star game last week. We are now also in the middle of summer, when millions of Americans grab their friends, families, some ballpark food and the cheapest bleacher seats they can find to watch the national pastime. Of course, exactly how cheap these “cheap seats” are depends on where you live. Here are the 10 cheapest tickets in baseball.

As always, here are the top major media headline summaries from WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, and more. Today’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades were in shares of AKAM, AIG, AOL, AVGO, BKW, CMG, DV, FE, FOSL, GT, HSNI, ITMN, PCS, NRG, RA, RSH, TSO and WEC. Here are the top rumors of the day and the most important financial news affecting the markets today.

Warren Buffett says, “Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.” He may have been very premature on investing in Europe. The question is how much this has cost Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A). By the way, what exactly did he buy?

Get ready for THE earnings report everyone is watching … Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) reports today and we will have a preview at about 10:30 or 11:00 AM EST.

Insurance companies have decided that contracts for fracking are too risky.

Based on years of poor results, the chairman of AMD (NYSE: AMD) — Bruce L. Claflin — has been around too long.

Beer and hamburger sales are off — another bad economic indicator.

Weak PMI data has started to move to Germany.

Have a great day!

JON C. OGG

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