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At Amazon (AMZN) You Can Get Kindle 2 for $159
Friday, November 27, 2009 - 1:20pm | 96Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is offering a $100 discount on Audible-ready devices for members of its $14.95 Audible audiobook club, which includes Kindle 2. This means that the Kindle 2 now has a reduced price of $159. While the Kindle 2 may not be the perfect 2-book reader, the price makes it...
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Black Friday Deals From Amazon (AMZN) on Dell (DELL), Panasonic ( PC), Canon (CAJ)
Friday, November 27, 2009 - 1:06pm | 142On Black Friday, the online retail giant Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) offered amazing discounts on electronic consumer durables. Panasonic (NYSE: PC) VIERA X1 series Plasma HDTV was offered for just $ 685.96, while Canon (NYSE: CAJ) Powershot camera with 12.1 MP capacity was offered at $179.99 only....
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ETFs To Watch November 27, 2009 (HHH, XLY, IAI, XLV)
Friday, November 27, 2009 - 4:37am | 231Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watchlist for Friday November 27, 2009. On speculation that Japan may intervene in the forex market to weaken the Yen, take a look at the CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (NYSE: FXY) and the bearish equivalent and the UltraShort Yen ProShares (NYSE: YCS). The Health...
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Ready, Set, Go!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 12:20pm | 5511 day and counting till Black Friday! Retailers like Walmart (WMT) , Kohls (KSS), Sears (SHLD) , Target(TGT) and Amazon (AMZN) wait all year long just for this one day. It is the day that they are supposed to turn profitable on the year, hence the term “Black Friday”. With the economy still...
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Company News for November 25, 2009 - Corporate Summary
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 10:24am | 254• J Crew Group (NYSE:JCG) wowed investors with sharply better-than-expected third quarter earnings of 67 cents a share, versus 30 cents a year ago, and ahead of Zacks estimates of 58 cents a share. Revenues of $414.1 million exceeded last year's $363.1 million and beat projections of $406.6...
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Bookkeeping: Looking to Take Some Profits Today
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 10:00am | 1745Speculation week is off to a roaring start, to wit please see Chinese seed company Origin Agritech (SEED) which always is a place daytraders congregate when agriculture stocks are in favor.... .... now yesterday's performance was somewhat news driven but basically it ran from mid $6s "on the news...
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Is Glyde The Next Big Thing In Online Retail?
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 7:36am | 232We mostly try to write about publicly held companies, but there are some times when a privately held company has the potential to seriously disrupt markets of existing companies. Glyde.com could be one such company. Glyde was founded in 2006 by Simon Rothman, a seven-year eBay veteran and sells...
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Jon Najarian Likes WMT, TGT And BBY
Monday, November 23, 2009 - 5:48pm | 121The OptionMonster.com co-founder Jon Najarian is bullish on retailers. He said in CNBC's Fast Money that he holds a long position on Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT), Target (NYSE: TGT) and Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), and believes that these stocks will go higher. Jon Najarian added that the price war between...
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Barron's Savitz Take On PC Sales, "Palm & Post Transaction Marketing"
Monday, November 23, 2009 - 1:42pm | 383In his recent column in Barron’s Technology Trader Eric J. Savitz writes that PC sales are yet to pick up the rush despite Microsoft Corporation's (NASDAQ: MSFT) recent launch of Windows 7. Microsoft claimed that Windows 7 was a runaway success. However, the rush does not seem to be visible in PC...
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Tech Stocks AAPL, AMZN, MSFT, GOOG, PCLN, BIDU, SMH Hot This Morning
Monday, November 23, 2009 - 11:40am | 145Most of the technology stocks are seeing buying interest as the broader market gained. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 43 points or 2.01% to $2189.20. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) rose 2.52% to $204.85 on 2.30 million shares. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) jumped 2.43% to $583.72 after hitting a new 52-...
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Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” is Amazon (AMZN) Music’s Largest Global CD Pre-Order
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 7:53am | 104Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Susan Boyle’s upcoming album, “I Dreamed a Dream,” has become the largest global CD pre-order in the history of Amazon. The album will be released from Sony Music Entertainment on Nov. 23. Boyle became a reality show and Internet star after her April...
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Goldman Tallies Holiday Retail Leaders (AMZN, WMT, TGT)
Monday, November 16, 2009 - 4:53pm | 140Goldman Sachs issued an update on the leading holiday retail stocks. The bank compared the pricing of holiday gifts and electronics for the largest on- and off-line U.S. retailers. The report said that Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has the lowest prices in both the toy and consumer electronics segments...
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Play Short-Term Bullishness With This ETF (PWB)
Monday, November 16, 2009 - 2:26pm | 108Here's an ETF for all you growth-stock lovers out there. The PowerShares Dynamic Large Cap Growth ETF (NYSE: PWB) tracks the Dynamic Large Cap Growth Intellidex and is home to familiar growth names as Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG). The ETF Professor thinks...
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Tech stocks lead the way on the way to 52 week high in morning trades
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 11:15am | 94As many as 230 stocks started the Friday session with a 52 weeks high in early morning trades, with technology sector leding the way. Stocks like Automatic Data Processing (NYSE: ADP), Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) and 3 Coms Corp (NASDAQ: COMS) were amongst the...
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Credit Suisse Downgraded Priceline.com Earlier This Week
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 9:18pm | 55Credit Suisse downgraded Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) earlier this week from Outperform to Neutral with a price target of $210 after it reported earnings. Credit Suisse said while Priceline's multi-year growth story is intact, diminished visibility owing to uncertain magnitude/sustainability of...