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ETFs To Watch November 12, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 5:42am | 246Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watchlist for Thursday November 11, 2009. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) reports earnings before and the world's largest retailer is the largest constituent in the Retailer HOLDRs ETF (NYSE: RTH). Wal-Mart accounts for more than 20% of RTH, so put RTH on your watch list. If...
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WMT May Post Robust Q3 Results
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 1:34pm | 127The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT), is scheduled to report its Q3 earnings before the market opens on November 12. With WMT in an excellent position to benefit from cash-strapped consumers, the company is expected to post robust results. Analysts surveyed by Thomson...
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Wal-Mart (WMT) Expects A Very Difficult Christmas Holiday Season
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 12:51pm | 15Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) expects a very difficult Christmas Holiday Season
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Top 5 Leading Stocks in Dow Jones Industrial Average (MCD, CAT, WMT, HD, AXP)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 11:45am | 155McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) shares have risen by 1.11% to 62.97 within 25 minutes of trade. According to the Chicago Tribune, MCD plans to take its breakfast dollar menu offerings, comprising of sausage McMuffin, sausage biscuit and two hotcakes, across the nation in January. Caterpillar...
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COST Insulated from Internet threat: Morgan Stanley
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 11:30am | 87According to Morgan Stanley, Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) has efficient last-mile distribution costs, insulating it from the Internet threat. COST, which enhances its customer loyalty through value and development of high quality differentiated brand, can expand its business online...
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Laszlo Birinyi's Top Stock Pick Is Goldman Sachs
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 9:40am | 79Laszlo Birinyi says his favorite stock pick is Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS). Additionally, Birinyi said he favors the retail sector excluding Walmart (NYSE: WMT), which reports earnings on Thursday. Goldman Sachs has risen 109% this year while the S&P Retailing Index has spiked 44.34%. Birinyi says...
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Bookkeeping: Covering Costco (COST) Short
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 11:20am | 319Costco (COST) has been a trooper and certainly many other stocks fared much worse during the downdraft in the week before last. I am going to cover my short with a 4.6% loss... luckily this is a slow mover and it was a 1.4% allocation for much of the past 3-4 weeks. That massive gap will have to...
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US Stocks Report Earnings: IGT, BX, AIG, ATVI, PSMT, HANS
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 7:21pm | 309It is a busy Friday as 147 companies report earnings today. These companies span a wide spectrum of industries, from insurance companies like AIG, to healthcare companies like Par Pharmaceuticals, and even retail companies like Price Smart. Among the companies releasing their earnings today, AIG (...
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Dollar General: A Boost to Investors and the IPO Market (DG)
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 7:12pm | 442Several high profile initial public offerings are scheduled for the next few weeks. One we’re watching with particular interest is Dollar General. A discount retailer, Dollar General is expected to sell 34 million shares between $21-$23 next Friday, November 13th. The stock will trade on the New...
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Costco (COST) to Roll Out Food Stamps Nationwide; Unemployment Falls at State Level - as People Drop Out of Workforce
Friday, October 30, 2009 - 12:56pm | 2832A couple of items from the "real economy" - we have not had much time to focus on that this week as we lather ourselves in Kool Aid of federal government/central bank fiat money and all the good it does for us chosen folk in the speculator class. First, yesterday we spoke about the nonsense that is...
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GDP Growth Rally Stocks In Wall Street (BA, CVX, CAT, JPM, MMM, TRV, WMT, PG, XOM, BP, RDS.A)
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 3:06pm | 216Investors Sold off shares on Wednesday with expectation of poor GDP numbers. They pleasantly surprised to find that the GDP grew at an annualized rate of 3.5%, better than the 3.2% that analysts expected. These numbers show that recovery is on track and will continue to heal. As a result of the...
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Wal-Mart's Tough New Global Rival: AUCHAN; Everyday Low Prices Backfire in China
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 2:58pm | 346BusinessWeek -- Quick, what's France's answer to Wal-Mart? Until now, it has been Paris-based Carrefour, the global No. 2 retail chain. But increasingly, another French retailer, Auchan, is giving both Carrefour (CARR.PA) and Wal-Mart (WMT) a run for their money. Auchan now has 132 big-box...
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Growth Stocks To Look Forward To (AAPL, AMZN, BBY, WMT, PCLN, GOOG, INTC, BIDU, BHP, EBIX)
Monday, October 26, 2009 - 2:07pm | 268Though there are definite signs that the economy is getting better, some people would have plenty of proof that this growth could possibly stall or even fail due to rising oil prices, increasing unemployment or even threat of the falling dollar. What they cannot discount is the value of a growing...
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Bookkeeping: Weekly Changes to Fund Positions Year 3, Week 12
Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 9:41pm | 2194Year 3, Week 12 Major Position Changes To see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of this entry entitled 'fund positions'. Cash: 86.5% (v 81.0% last week) 20 long bias: 10.5% (v 13.0% last week) 3 short bias: 3.5% (v 6.0% last week) 23 positions (vs 27 last week)...
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If You Think The Market Is Topping, Buy These 3 Stocks Now (WMT, JNJ, MCD)
Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:45pm | 280If you believe the market is topping, at least in the short term around the 10,000 mark, there is one strategy that should work out well for your portfolio. Playing a little blue chip defense. The following 3 companies are great defensive plays for a down market and should soundly outperform the...