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Deutsche Bank Reiterates HOLD Rating For Blue Nile (NILE)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 9:16am | 90Analysts at Deutsche Bank maintain their HOLD rating and $45 price target on shares of Blue Nile (NILE). Expectations for earnings are for Nile to report results in-line to slightly lower versus DB estimates, stating that a "discount to its historical average is warranted as the business growth is...
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What's Hot On TheStreet
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 3:37pm | 282Here's what Benzinga's reading on our friend, TheStreet.com. What's Hot On TheStreet Netflix Builds an Empire Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) forced the closure of rival Movie Gallery, caused Blockbuster to implode and prompted retailers to streamline their approach to video sales en route to big-budget...
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Bookkeeping: Covering Amazon.com (AMZN) Short - Will Revisit after Intel
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 11:48am | 468I put on a very small short of Amazon.com (AMZN) last week (only a 1% allocation) because the market still could have potentially run to S&P 1100ish and (broken record) almost every stock is now hostage to the greater market in one massive correlation trade. With Intel reporting tonight it...
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Netflix Builds an Empire: Best in Class
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 7:28am | 185LOS GATOS, Calif. (TheStreet) -- Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) forced the closure of rival Movie Gallery, caused Blockbuster to implode and prompted retailers to streamline their approach to video sales en route to big-budget growth. Those were just the first items in the queue. Netflix is getting five-...
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Great Growth Stocks Sold Too Soon
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 5:50am | 320Today I would like to take a look at an investment mistake that I have made in the past. It is a common mistake of many investors,. The mistake is failing to stay invested in great growth stories that have the potential for multibagger status. Selling a stock too soon can rob you of the potential...
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Great Growth Stocks Sold Too Soon
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 5:50am | 320Today I would like to take a look at an investment mistake that I have made in the past. It is a common mistake of many investors,. The mistake is failing to stay invested in great growth stories that have the potential for multibagger status. Selling a stock too soon can rob you of the potential...
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Google Loses Market Share In June
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 1:20am | 159Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the largest U.S. provider of Internet search services, saw its share of the U.S. market slide to 62.6% in June, down from 63.7% in May, marking the fourth consecutive month of declines for the search giant. Google had 65.5% share in February, according to industry data group...
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Puts Sold on Expedia (EXPE)
Monday, July 12, 2010 - 4:55pm | 168Shares of Expedia Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) ended the session lower by 0.32%, trading at $18.82. The stock has been trading largely lower over the past six months and is in a technical downtrend. Options traders were selling puts on the name today, though. The July $17.50 put, which expires this week,...
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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) pre-earnings options strategies
Monday, July 12, 2010 - 8:42am | 1807Google Inc. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has been all over the news lately, so let’s briefly hit the highlights. Last Wednesday, JP Morgan cut its earnings estimates for the second quarter and lowered its 12-month price target on the shares to $566 from $639 (though keeping a bullish rating of “...
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Bookkeeping: Weekly Changes to Fund Positions Year 3, Week 49
Monday, July 12, 2010 - 7:45am | 3378Year 3, Week 49 Major Position Changes To see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of this entry entitled 'fund positions'. Cash: 70.6% (v 78.3% last week) 18 long bias: 27.8% (v 21.1% last week) 2 short bias: 1.5% (v 0.6% last week) 20 positions (vs 19 last week)...
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Bookkeeping: Covering Priceline.com (PCLN) Short
Friday, July 9, 2010 - 2:45pm | 498Priceline.com (PCLN) is showing some decent strength here, although the close is more important than the intraday price. This is a 50/50 ball at this point - so not my type of odds. Plus risk is "on" today as seen by the moves in commodity stocks; and Priceline is one of those hedge fund...
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The Daily Long & Short Setup
Friday, July 9, 2010 - 10:00am | 78Here's today's Long & Short Setups. I'll be posting another stock screen this morning or early afternoon, as well as some chart setups at various points throughout the day. LONG: NutriSystem (NTRI) Read more...
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Company News for July 9, 2010 - Corporate Summary
Friday, July 9, 2010 - 9:39am | 173• Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) added Visa (NYSE:V) to its Conviction Buy List, with a $93 price target • Air Products (NYSE:APD) said it raised its bid for Airgas (NYSE:ARG) to $63.50 from $60 • China renewed Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) search license • Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) took Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) off...
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Top Narrow Based Indexes for July 8 (YONG, CAR, DIET)
Thursday, July 8, 2010 - 3:27pm | 207By 2:08 pm, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 45.94 points, or 0.46%, to 10,064.22, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index had gained 1.84 points, or 0.17%. The NASDAQ composite index had lost 0.29 points, or 0.01%. Some of the narrow based indexes driving the markets are Chinese...
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Late Market Roundup
Thursday, July 8, 2010 - 3:25pm | 317According to a report by Moody's Investors Service, the European speculative-grade default rate has dropped to 5.8% in Q2, from 7.3% in Q1 and 7.4% in the year-ago period. The trailing-twelve-month global speculative-grade default rate has fallen to 6.1%, as compared to 10% in the last quarter....