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Jul 10th, 2009 |
By Money Morning Staff |
Category: Financial News
Jobless Claims Fall; China Detains Four Rio Tinto Employees for Alleged Espionage; Retail Roughed Up in June; China Auto Sales Skyrocket; Broadcom Drops Acquisition Attempt; Mortgage Rates Fall; Madoff Won’t Appeal Sentence
Tags: ACH, Bernie Madoff, BJ, BRCM, China Auto, ELX, FRE, GMGMQ, Jobless Claims, Mortgage Rates, Retail Sales, RTP, TGT, WMT
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May 21st, 2009 |
By Money Morning Staff |
Category: Financial News
Crude Rises Above $62/Barrel; Opel Courtship Down to Three; Unibanco CEO: 4% Second-Half GDP for Brazil; Target and BJ’s Beat Expectations; Obama To Sign Credit Card “Bill of Rights”; California Could Go Broke After Voters Reject Plan; Wall Street Won’t Rehire Many Workers; Indiana Pension Funds File to Block Chrysler Bankruptcy Sale
Tags: BJ, California debt, Crude Oil, FIATY, Global Financial Crisis, Gm, ITU, MGA, President Barack Obama, TGT, US pension funds, US stocks
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May 14th, 2009 |
By Don Miller |
Category: Financial News
Those elusive “green shoots” that economic optimists had been digging up lately were buried under disappointing data from the Commerce Department in Washington yesterday (Wednesday) when it was revealed that retail sales in the unexpectedly dropped in April.
Tags: BJ, Bond Prices, Commerce Department, consumer spending, credit crisis, Don Miller, Holiday Sales, Jobless Rate, KSS, NMR, Stock Index Futures, Unemployed Workers, WMT
Posted in Financial News |
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Jan 5th, 2009 |
By Martin Denholm |
Category: Featured
It’s clear that 2009 is going to be grim in economic terms. Martin Denholm says investors should stick to sectors that fare better during recessions. The healthcare sector, discount retailers and utilities companies provide essential products and generate repeat business. Martin picks the strongest companies in these “safe haven” sectors.
Tags: 2009 stock picks, AEP, BJ, COST, dividend paying stocks, DNA, ED, EXC, GILD, Jnj, Martin Denholm, MT, PG, Safe Haven, SO, US stocks, WMT
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Nov 20th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: Financial News
BASF Halts 80 Factories; Oil Prices Slide to $53 a Barrel; Chinese Automakers Ask for Gov’t Aid; October Housing Starts Hit 49-Year Low; Honeywell Lands Engine Deal; Fed Sees Year-long Recession; Holiday Sales and Traffic to Plummet; BJ’s Profit Jumps 24%
Tags: Auto Construction, Basfy, BJ, Chinese Automakers, Crude Oil Prices, holiday retail, Holiday Sales, HON, housing starts, Textile Industries, US recession, William Patalon III
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Aug 21st, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: Financial News, International Investing
eBay’s Copy Cat Move; Mortgage Applications at New Low; FDIC Extends Help to IndyMac Customers; Oil’s Wild Ride; Suntech Stock Shines; BJ’s Stock Slump; HP Beats Expectations; TVA Hikes Rates 20%
Tags: AMZN, BJ, Crude Oil Prices, EBAY, Fuel Prices, HPQ, IDMC, STP, William Patalon III
Posted in Financial News, International Investing |
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Jul 16th, 2008 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Featured, Financial News
In a rare press conference yesterday President Bush tried to assure Americans that their banking system was “sound.”
Bush’s comments didn’t do much for investors confidence. Shares in troubled mortgage outfits Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tumbled, along with most other financial stocks.
The bottom line is the U.S. financial system is now beyond credibility, as James Howard Kunstler puts it. And Dubya and his Republican party will be remembered as the party that broke America.
Tags: , BJ, FNM, FRE, HMPR, IMB, James Howard Kunstler
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Jul 11th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: International Investing
Retailers Report 4.3% Bump in Sales; Toyota Changes Direction; Whirlpool Closes Two Factories; Brazil and Vietnam Come Together; GE Spin-Off; New Wachovia CEO; IAM Wants Fair Bidding; Oil Jumps Over $5 on Political Tension
Tags: BA, BJ, COST, Crude Oil Prices, GE, TM, US jobless rates, WB, WHR, William Patalon III, WMT
Posted in International Investing |
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May 26th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
When U.S. Department of Energy analysts told you more than a month ago that gasoline prices would peak at about $4 a gallon around Memorial Day, we told you they were wrong. Gas prices, we said, were destined to head much, much higher.
Tags: Bernanke, BJ, Consumer Confidence, COST, Costco Wholesale Corp, energy prices, fed, Ford, gas prices, HD, home prices, HPQ, inflation, Obama, Oil Prices, recession, Sears Holdings, Sears Holdings Corp, SHLD, TGT, TIF, Weak Dollar
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Apr 11th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: International Investing
Takeda Acquires Millennium for $8.8 Billion; Gas Prices Driven to Another Record High; Jobless Claims Drop; Car Sales in India Up Again; China’s Trade Deficit Narrows; 100,000 Angry Airline Passengers; Favorable Amgen Ruling; BJ’s Wholesale Club Gains on Sales Increase.
Tags: AAA, AMGN, AMR, BJ, gas prices, International Investing, Labor Department, MLNM, Oil Price Information Service, Pharmaceutical Co, RHHBY
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