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When BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE: BHP) made its $38.6 billion offer for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT), the size of the deal put a spotlight on the fertilizer makers, especially those that produce potash. Fertilizer makers like Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS), Intrepid Potash, Inc. (NYSE: IPI), Terra Nitrogen Co. L.P. (NYSE: TNH), and Compass [...]

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Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million Twitter users. It raises the question of whether there is wisdom in crowds. 24/7 Wall St. will look at the Twitter [...]

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By John Tamny of Forbes A recent story in the New York Post revealed that if Wal-Wart were allowed to open in the five boroughs, that New Yorkers would save 33% on a common basket of goods.  If allowed to expand where it wants, Wal-Mart’s growth will give an increasing number of Americans a raise, [...]

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Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX), Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PGNX), and Yongye International, Inc. Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX) is up 5% premarket to $3.77 on heavy volume, relative to a 52-week range of [...]

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Updated throughout the day. FCC will spend $8 billion from a special fund to extend broadband to areas with low popularity (NYT) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will launch vertical mobile sites (NYT) Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) will increase its purchases of fairly high risk assets (Bloomberg) Douglas A. McIntyre Filed under: Rumors Tagged: GS, YHOO

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They call it “Merger Monday” for a reason.  Today’s news is not dominated by football hangovers.  It is dominated by a slew of headlines over mergers, mergers, and more mergers.  We compiled a brief summary of each deal this morning. AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) is paying $315 million to acquire privately-held Huffington Post to revamp [...]

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The jobs that might have been created in 2010 but were not are largely due to small businesses which could not afford to add the workers they needed to. According to a new Gallup poll, :Half of small-business owners (51%) who employ people other than themselves hired new workers in 2010, according to the Wells [...]

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Earnings season may still be in force, but we are looking for the coming week’s top coming events that could have a large impact on shares on Monday and throughout the week.  What has been known as “The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead” is having a possible identity change in name but not in [...]

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Apple (AAPL) may make significantly more money from its new iPad that it has on any other product it has launched since 2001 when the iPod came to market. Research firm iSuppli expects tablet sales to rise 12x by 2015. Apple is likely to keep a large portion of its market share even if it [...]

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President Obama said in his weekly address that American businesses should increase their hiring and spending but did not say that the government would do anything meaningful to either stimulate the economy or cut the huge federal deficit which will almost certainly cause government spending reductions or higher taxes over the next decade–(kicking  the can [...]

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Analyst calls are sometimes great and sometimes not.  Each week we review the major analyst calls for those standout research calls that were above the grain or are outside of the pack.  Some calls are praise, some are critical.  The goal is not to just find bullish calls, but calls which have a longer duration [...]

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S&P 500 WEEK: BOTTOM 10 (28 JAN-03 FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 03Feb11 Close Price 28Jan11 PACCAR Inc PCAR -7.9 50.50 54.82 Genworth Financial Inc GNW -7.4 12.83 13.85 GameStop Corp. GME -7.1 19.50 20.98 PulteGroup Inc PHM -6.7 7.54 8.08 Avery Dennison Corp AVY -5.4 39.15 41.39 CVS Caremark Corp CVS [...]

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S&P 500 WEEK TOP 10 (28 JAN -03 FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 03Feb11 Close Price 28Jan11 Market Cap($Mil) MEMC Electronic Materials Inc WFR 21.9 13.41 11.00 3049.8 Electronic Arts Inc. ERTS 20.7 18.11 15.00 6009.5 Estee Lauder Companies Inc. EL 14.8 91.94 80.08 10945.2 Harman International Industries Inc. HAR 14.2 48.79 [...]

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Earnings season is actually close to winding down for the December quarter.  We still have many late reports coming out for the December quarter and year-end.  We have identified 11 of the top earnings for investors and traders to watch in the week ahead.  These are NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (NASDAQ: [...]

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The method of using capital from the corporate treasury to return capital to shareholders via share repurchase programs has long been under question.  Most buybacks never are fully utilized, and many simply offset dilution from employee stock options.  It doesn’t matter.  The buyback announcements are continuing at a feverish pace into 2011 and there is [...]

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Video game retailer GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) today authorized a boost of $500 million in its share buyback program, replacing a $300 million authorization made in September 2010, and about half of which remains. The September authorization didn’t push the stock much higher — the trend in GameStop’s shares has been essentially flat since September. GameStop [...]

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Not only does The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) have problems delivering its new 787 Dreamliner and 747-8 passenger planes, now the company is getting cancellations on orders for its sturdy 737. Bloomberg is reporting that Dubai Aerospace has canceled an order for 32 of Boeing’s 737s, which could cost the airplane maker some $2.3 billion.  [...]

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Updated throughout the day. New pension finance treatment could change earnings at AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE VZ). (Bloomberg) Ally picked Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM), and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) for its IPO (NYT) Beckman Coulter (NYSE: BEC) has received two buy out offers, one from Blackstone (NYSE: [...]

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The Labor Department is out with its unemployment rate and the change in non-farm payrolls.  If you like to challenge the government’s math or accuse the government of fudging numbers, today’s data will add more fuel to your fire.  Personally, I come from the camp that the government cannot adequately organize a parade rather than [...]

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Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Coinstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR), Power-One, Inc. (NASDAQ: PWER), and JDS Uniphase Corporation (NASDAQ: JDSU). Coinstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR) is down more than 10% premarket on heavy volume after the company released their Q1 sales forecast [...]

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