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Oppenheimer Notes Positive Results for Amgen's Xgeva
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 9:07am | 127Oppenheimer is out with a report on Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), following Amgen's Xgeva results. In a note to clients, Oppenheimer writes, "AMGN announced Xgeva (denosumab) delayed bone mets in patients with advanced prostate cancer (PC) in the ph.III '147 trial. We view these results as clearly...
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Oppenheimer Has Outperform Rating On Amgen
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 8:46am | 169Oppenheimer & Co. has an Outperform rating and a $69 price target on shares of Amgen, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN). In the research note, Oppenheimer writes, "On 12/13, AMGN announced Xgeva (denosumab) delayed bone mets in patients with advanced prostate cancer (PC) in the ph.III '147 trial. We view...
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MIPS Technologies Climbs 10% To 52-Week High (MIPS, SNE, CSCO, HPQ)
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 3:46pm | 216Shares of MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS) are currently up 10.1% at $16.59 per share during Monday afternoon trading. The stock has been climbing higher since receiving positive mention last week on Jim Cramer's Mad Money. Today's trading range for shares of MIPS Technologies, Inc has been...
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Splatterhouse: The “Saw” Of Video Games
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 12:39pm | 521Before Saw captivated (or should I say decapitated?) moviegoers with its grotesque brand of gut-spilling storytelling, there was a video game that aimed to maim: Splatterhouse. Arriving years ahead of the Mortal Kombat controversy that inspired the game-rating system we have today, Splatterhouse...
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A Great Combo: Debt Free, High Cash, High Yield
Friday, December 10, 2010 - 5:05pm | 386When investors look for stocks, they often run screeners, which extract stocks that meet certain criteria. Conservative investors always look for high yields; but beyond that, there are screens that narrow the list to more quality companies. This additional criteria can include low or no debt and a...
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Watch Relationships 12-09-2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 7:23pm | 882Cusick's Corner There are relationships that you watch -- bonds & equities, strength in offensive sectors, XLF, that help traders and investors position. While these relationships often change, faster than my wife's mind about whether she still likes me or not, they are important to watch....
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Options Brief: Garmin Ltd. (GRMN)
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 4:24pm | 80Shares of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) are lower on the session by 1.02%, trading at $30.04. Overall put volume is now running at 5.32x the daily average, with 63% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 5,545 contracts have traded on the session so far. Garmin Ltd. is a provider of...
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Stocks for a Comfortable Retirement - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 6:33pm | 952One of the true joys of long-term investing is that eventually you can end up with a yield on your original investment that is well into the double digits. For someone aged 45, for instance, a portfolio of stocks bought with solid dividends (and dividends that rise year after year) could provide...
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Stocks for a Comfortable Retirement - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 5:59pm | 952One of the true joys of long-term investing is that eventually you can end up with a yield on your original investment that is well into the double digits. For someone aged 45, for instance, a portfolio of stocks bought with solid dividends (and dividends that rise year after year) could provide...
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Burnout + ATV Offroad Fury = Nail'd
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 4:01pm | 469If Electronic Arts Inc.'s (NASDAQ: ERTS) Burnout series and Sony's (NYSE: SNE) ATV Offroad Fury series got together for some saucy, rubber-burning, mud-slinging love, they might have produced some beautiful offspring. But the resulting kids would never be as cool, as exciting, or as entertaining as...
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A New Chapter in Google Books - Analyst Blog
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 2:33pm | 786Google Inc's (GOOG) online bookstore is likely to hasten the digitization of paperbacks and hard covers, dramatically increasing the availability of online books. In addition to the 200,000 odd titles from leading publishers, such as Random House, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster and Pearson...
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A New Chapter in Google Books - Analyst Blog
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 2:03pm | 786Google Inc's (GOOG) online bookstore is likely to hasten the digitization of paperbacks and hard covers, dramatically increasing the availability of online books. In addition to the 200,000 odd titles from leading publishers, such as Random House, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster and Pearson...
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ETFs For Biotech M&A Mania
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 3:05pm | 545Lost in the whirlwind of economic data and bailout news last week was a noticeable uptick in mergers and acquisitions activity in the biotech sector, a group that is seemingly always home to a good trade-worthy rumor or two. According to Minyanville, in a two-day span last week, roughly $3.1...
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GNTX, HAR Could Benefit From NHTSA Camera Proposal, J.P. Morgan Reports
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 9:23am | 125On Dec 3rd, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced its proposal to expand the current rear visibility requirements in all vehicles in the U.S. that are 10,000lbs and under, J.P. Morgan reports. “Most auto manufacturers would comply with the new proposed standards by...
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How to Invest in the Beatles
Sunday, December 5, 2010 - 2:58am | 1131If you never saw the PBS program 'How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin,' you have to watch it; it has been appearing fairly regularly on the network. It shows how the Beatles had a major influence on the fall of communism in the USSR during the early sixties, and how Beatlemania lead to...