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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Filed under: Earnings reports , Consumer experience , Amazon.com (AMZN) , Stocks to Buy The next all-American brand is the world's largest bookstore, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ). Actually, it's not quite correct to call Amazon just a bookstore anymore. Relentless expansion has propelled Amazon in countless directions in the quest of bigger sales and profits. The company's main website now offers everything...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Filed under: Walt Disney (DIS) , Viacom (VIA) , News Corp'B' (NWS) , Film News Corp. 's (NASDAQ: NWS ) new computer cartoon, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs , had a strong domestic debut this past Wednesday. It opened with $13.8 million on that day, which represents a record-breaking performance for an animated feature released in the middle of the week. Now, just recently, I mentioned how I hate it...
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AAPL - BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL) , Market matters , General Mills (GIS) , Yum Brands (YUM) , Cramer on BloggingStocks , Recession From TheStreet.com Network Unemployment Rate Climbs to 9.5% Today's Outrage: Companies Lack Courage TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says there's good in this market -- remember that. Does unemployment trump everything? Does it trump Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) ( Cramer's Take ) sales?...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (MARKET WIRE) Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has recently, through a wholly owned subsidiary, purchased shares in LHS AG (XETRA: LHS) that together with currently held shares represents more than 95 percent of the outstanding shares in LHS.
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bill Cara submits: [Excerpted from Bill Cara's Daily Report] Thursday’s Employment Report was a downer for US equities. Too many people had been hooked into the belief that the unemployment situation in the US, and Europe as well, was on the mend. The data shows otherwise. With final hour selling going into the long holiday weekend, Thursday’s session was particularly nasty. The S&P...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT) , Marketing and advertising , Target Corp. (TGT) , Best Buy (BBY) , Sears Holdings (SHLD) Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD ), a retailer whose competitive colleagues include Target (NYSE: TGT ), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY ), and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT ), wants to improve its brand equity and find a new path to growth. As such, it's willing to employ all kinds of initiatives, especially...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Filed under: Major movement , Rants and raves , Competitive strategy , General Electric (GE) , Indices , Diageo plc (DEO) , Anadarko Petroleum (APC) , Wells Fargo (WFC) , Chasing Value , Commodities , Anglo Amer ADR (AAUK) , S and P 500 , DJIA , Stocks to Buy , Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG) , NASDAQ , Annaly Capital Management (NLY) , Best Stocks for 2009 , American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) , EZCORP...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Filed under: Scandals Here's today's update from the irony department -- special thanks to Sam E. Antar for emailing it to me. From a FORM 12b-25 filed with the SEC on June 30th: "The Company recently discovered that it inadvertently issued more shares of the Company common stock in connection with its 401(k) Plan than were registered on the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-123540)...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Filed under: Amer Intl Group (AIG) Some days you know you have a winner, and some days you know you have a loser. Just like the loss of 473,000 jobs to 9.5% unemployment in June, today started as a losing day and ended up as a losing day. It feels as though the "lagging indicator" aspect of employment may lead us into a new leg-down in the recession . At least there was some bit of good...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks made a sharp retreat Thursday, with losses steepening after the New York Stock Exchange extended the trading session by 15 minutes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 registered their third straight weekly loss, the longest weekly losing streak since early March, when stocks began their roughly four-month rally. The Dow average closed down...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
(Adds details and background beginning in the 3rd paragraph.) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- NYSE Euronext officials said late Thursday the exchange will extend Thursday's close to 4:15 p.m. EDT due to a connectivity problem. The additional 15 minutes will allow the exchange to "execute customer orders impacted by system irregularities," according to spokesman Eric Ryan. Traders were made aware...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT) , Sony Corp ADR (SNE) , Electronic Arts (ERTS) , Activision Inc (ATVI) , Technology , Nintendo (NTDOY) Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI ), a software publisher which competes with Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS ) and distributes games for consoles from Sony (NYSE: SNE ), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ), and Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY ), is a stock I own in a long-term account. I've...
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iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Founded in 2004, LogMEIn provides small businesses and consumers with on-demand, remote-connection services and gets most of its revenue through subscriptions.The company sells software that helps businesses and consumers gain access to their computers r [More...]
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A broad sell-off in U.S. stocks deepened in the last hour of trading Thursday as investors wound up positions ahead of the three-day holiday weekend that starts Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped as much as 209.5 points and was recently trading off 206 points at 8,298, with all 30 components in the red. The S&P 500 slid below the key 900 mark and was...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Filed under: Major movement , Bad news , Law , Options , Technical Analysis TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO - option chain ) stock is falling today after the U.S. Court of Appeals granted the request of EchoStar (NASDAQ: SATS ) to stay the contempt order imposed by the U.S. District Court pending the outcome of SATS's appeal . TIVO says it is confident that it will win the appeal.. If you think this stock won't...
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