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Airlines Hit By UBS & Swine Flu (CAL, AMR, LCC, UAUA, XJT, CPA)

Airlines are getting hit hard this morning before the open on two issues: swine flu and an analyst downgrade.  UBS…

GM (GM) Shares Jump On Plans To Hammer Bondholders

GM (GM) has decided to go for all or nothing with its bondholders. They can swap their debt of stock,…

Crocs Tries To Lure Athletes; New Line, Same Look (CROX)

Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CROX) is one of the brands that has come at-risk over its future.  The company is also…

Forget Inflation Targets, Go for Dollar-Price Stability

John Tamny of RealClearMarkets Recently, Nashville’s Vanderbilt University staged an economic conference at which past and present heavy hitters in…

Top Analyst Upgrades (AZN, BMR, ETR, MMM, NFLX, NVO, SWK)

These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades we have seen from Wall Street early this Monday morning: AstraZeneca…

Verizon’s (VZ) Mediocre Results

Verizon (VZ) posted modest results for the first quarter of the year. Taking out the effects of its buy-out of…

Top Analyst Downgrades (BJS, BUCY, BNI, INTU, JOYG,PBR, TKC, WFMI)

These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades we have seen early this Monday morning from Wall Street: BJ…

Swine Flu Lessons from SARS, Mad Cow & Bird Flu of Past (GILD, BCRX, NVAX, GNBT, VICL, AVII, CRXL, RHHBY, GSK, SFD, EWW, MXF)

Monday is looking like a SWINE FLU speculative flu stock stock bonanza, and we want to caution about some of…

Verizon (VZ) May Be Getting Closer To Apple (AAPL) iPhone Deal

AT&T (T) has made it clear, very clear that the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is critical to its strategy to increase…

Will The Fed Finally Move Interest Rates Below Zero

Over the last year, there has been speculation that the Fed would drop interest rates below zero, paying its borrowers…

Qualcomm (QCOM) Finally Wises Up

Qualcomm’s (QCOM) management has not done its investors any favors by fighting wars with its largest customer, Nokia (NOK), and…

When Does GM (GM) Get Too Small To Survive

Media Digest 4/28/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

According to Reuters, a new generation of netbooks may reshape the PC industry. Reuters reports that concerns about swine flu…

Asia Markets And Europe Open 4/28/2009

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .2% to 8,728. The Hang Seng fell 2.3% to 14,907. The Shanghai…

Anatomy Of Economic Rumors: Swine Flu Unlikely To Have Impact On Economy

The media has been hyper-focused this weekend on the news that more than 1,000 people in Mexico have become infected…