Filed under: Stocks to Buy The first play with First Solar ( FSLR ) did not work out, to say the least: stopped out at $115 after an initial buy recommendation at $184.50 on June 2, 2009 . Talk about haircuts. Well, the calculation here is that FSLR is now slightly undervalued at $116, but the qualifiers abound for this play, so attention is advised
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First Solar: For High-Risk Investors Only
Filed under: Private Equity Software giant Oracle ( ORCL ) finally completed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems on January 26, for $9.50 per share in cash and debt deal, setting up an opportunity for the company to dominate its competition in the database software and enterprise computing systems markets. Sun has been delisted from the Nasdaq and all Sun stock holders were to have cash payouts mailed to them within a week.
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Oracle Completes Sun Merger
Filed under: International Markets , Forecasts Thinking about diversifying a portion of your portfolio out of the dollar, and in to, perhaps, other hard currencies, such as the euro? About six months ago, selling dollars and to buy euros appeared to be such a slam-dunk, no-risk investment move. After all, the United States was and will continue to record $1 trillion-plus deficits that are destined to result in further weakening in the dollar in 2010
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Buying Euros, Selling Dollars A Slam-Dunk Winning Strategy? Not Quite
Filed under: Consumer Experience , Money and Finance Today , Personal Finance , Headline News , Financial Crisis Congress is patting itself on the bank for making a few minor changes in credit card costs , including: Starting in February, card statements will include the amount of interest and fees paid for the year to date. The statement will include the size of monthly payments needed to become debt free in 36 month. Card companies will give cardholders 45 days before changing the interest rate
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Some Minor Changes Are Made in Reporting Credit Card Costs
Filed under: Options , Technical Analysis Last Friday, MGM Mirage ( MGM ) was heavily targeted by put players, with bearishly oriented option volume rising to more than twice the usual level. About 30,000 puts crossed the tape during the course of the session, compared to MGM’s typical put volume of just 13,000 contracts. The International Securities Exchange (ISE) reports that traders on Friday bought to open 5,064 puts on MGM, compared to just 1,009 calls.
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Filed under: International Markets , Analyst Reports , Market Matters , Economic Data , Headline News Here’s some real good news! The Institute of Supply Management’s Index stands at 58.4, higher than economists had predicted, up from 54.9 in December. A number above 50 signals expansion. The ISM’s production index rose to 66.2 from 59.7, the highest level since 2004.
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US Manufacturing Index is Higher Than Forecast
Filed under: Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) , eBay (EBAY) , Pfizer (PFE) , Wal-Mart (WMT) , International Business Machines (IBM) , Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) , JPMorgan Chase (JPM) , Abbott Laboratories (ABT) , AFLAC Inc (AFL) , Altria Group (MO) , Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) , AutoZone Inc (AZO) , Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) , Campbell Soup (CPB) , Chevron Corp (CVX) , Chubb Corp (CB) , ConocoPhillips (COP) , CVS Corp (CVS) , Darden Restaurants (DRI) , Goldman Sachs Group (GS) , General Mills (GIS) , Verizon Communications (VZ) , duPont(E.I.)deNemours (DD) , Kimberly-Clark (KMB) , Merck and Co (MRK) , Lockheed Martin (LMT) , Hasbro Inc (HAS) , Serious Money , Stock Screen , Stocks to Buy , Raytheon Company (RTN) , EZCORP (EZPW) , Travelers Companies Inc. (TRV) Let’s try and reduce the gambling by examining the facts and ignoring what the bulls and bears are chatting up at the moment. We started the process by screening for lower than market average P/E ratios, see: Serious Money: Market Looks Cheap to Me — 35 Stocks .
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Serious Money: Still Cheap Market — 35 Stocks + Yields & Growth
Filed under: Bad News , Law , Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) , Boston Scientific (BSX) , Options , Technical Analysis Boston Scientific ( BSX – option chain ) stock is trading lower today the company reached an agreement with Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ ) to settle three patent disputes . Under the deal, BSX will pay JNJ $1.725 billion.
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Boston Scientific to Pay Johnson & Johnson $1.7B Settlement
Filed under: Products and Services , Consumer Experience , Television , General Electric (GE) , Walt Disney (DIS) , News Corp’B’ (NWS) , Videos , Technology Ahhh, Hulu. That wonderful destination where I can re-acquaint myself with my favorite Justin-Timberlake-on-SNL moments, catch up on episodes of Greek , and search for those old Silver Spoons clips I remember so fondly.
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Is the Free Ride Over at Hulu?
Filed under: International Markets , Newsletters , Stocks to Buy “It is estimated that countries around the world are set to spend between $25 and $30 trillion of fresh infrastructure investment over the next two decades,” says Keith Fitz-Gerald . In his The Money Map Report , he explains, “As the de facto global leader providing all things related to power and automation technology, ABB Ltd
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ABB (ABB): Decades of Growth for Infrastructure Leader
Filed under: Kohl’s Corp (KSS) , Stocks to Buy Retailer Kohl’s Corp’s ( KSS ) stock has dipped in the past two months, and typically that would be a concern with a retailer, but not this solid retail sector performer, which is a major reason I’m reiterating my buy rating for the company’s shares, first recommended on April 26, 2009 , at a price of $43.862.
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Kohl’s: Pull-Back Is a Buy Opportunity
Filed under: Products and Services , Best Buy (BBY) Best Buy ( BBY ) will be bringing a whopping 1,000 jobs to its UK operations in the next five years as it unleashes and builds the Geek Squad services brand outside the U.S. Citing an increased demand for consumer support after technology purchases, this is a great move for the leading U.S.
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Best Buy to Create 1,000 Geek Squad Jobs in the UK
Filed under: Analyst Reports , Forecasts , Commodities For those of you who use technical analysis, BusinesWeek brings an interesting one of the gold market by Aaron Smith of Superfund Finance Singapore. In technical analysis, investors and analysts study charts of trading patterns and prices to predict changes in a security, commodity, currency or index
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Gold Is Still in an Uptrend: Analyst Aaron Smith Says
HI there I am new here and just finding my way around anyway i have a problem with Ubook 2010. I recently reset my IPAQ 2490 PPC and have now installed Ubook 2010 (registered licence) and when i try and open a book (either using Open OR Browse) the machine hangs when i try and change the directory to the storage card or go back (i.e
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Ubook Opening Problem
Filed under: Newsletters , Oil , Stocks to Buy , Green Stocks , Obama Picks , best stocks for 2010 This post is part of a special report, Top Picks for 2010, the 27th annual survey in which TheStockAdvisors.com asks the nation’s leading advisors for their single favorite stock for the new year. See all 80 stocks listed here
could the fact that orange are now selling tg01 at a huge loss,(i was told by an orange employee that orange paid over £300 each for tg01’s) be useful in our cases for orange to cancel our contracts ?. this must be a record in uk for premier grade handset to be punted out as payg fodder. it could be argued as admission of phone being usless and was therefore unfit for purpose in the first place.
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Filed under: India , China , Newsletters , Commodities , Oil , Stocks to Buy , best stocks for 2010 This post is part of a special report, Top Picks for 2010, the 27th annual survey in which TheStockAdvisors.com asks the nation’s leading advisors for their single favorite stock for the new year. See all 80 stocks listed here .
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Top Picks for 2010: Peabody Energy (BTU)
Filed under: Earnings reports , Forecasts , Intel (INTC) , JPMorgan Chase (JPM) , Alcoa Inc (AA) , KB HOME (KBH) , Economic data , Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve’s first Beige Book report of the year is due out this week. The report is a compilation of anecdotal information on current economic conditions from each of the 12 Federal Reserve Bank districts. The data comes from interviews with business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources
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The Week in Preview: Fed’s Beige Book; Alcoa, JPMorgan and Intel Earnings
Filed under: Law The former CEO of Internet gaming outfit BetOnSports has been sentenced to 33 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy. David Carruthers’ London-based business was shut down after federal investigators linked to illegal online gambling in the United States. BetOnSports took in $1.25 billion in bets in 2004, 98% of which came from the United States
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BetOnSports CEO David Carruthers Sent to Prison for 33 Months
Filed under: International markets , China , Newsletters , Stocks to Buy , best stocks for 2010 This post is part of a special report, Top Picks for 2010, the 27th annual survey in which TheStockAdvisors.com asks the nation’s leading advisors for their single favorite stock for the new year. See all 80 stocks listed here
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Top Picks for 2010: AsiaInfo Holdings (ASIA)