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Top Stocks of Pennsylvania
Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 2:04pm | 871Pennsylvania is a state that offers affordable living costs and top schools. It provides affordable health care and medical assistance. No wonder so many large corporations are headquartered in Pennsylvania! These are some facts about the state: 1. Pennsylvania is the third largest exporter of...
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A Look At Glenview Capital's Portfolio (ESRX, ORCL, FIS, MCK)
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 7:42pm | 273Glenview Capital is a $7 billion hedge fund run by Larry Robbins. Prior to forming Glenview, Mr. Robbins was a trader at Leon Cooperman's Omega Advisors. Glenview is known for taking concentrated positions in large cap stocks. The fund also employs an activist approach from time to time when they...
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Benzinga’s Top Upgrades (KSWS, GRT, AUTC, MWIV, NOK)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 10:26am | 160K-Swiss Inc (NASDAQ: KSWS) was upgraded by Sterne Agee from “sell” to “buy.” KSWS’ shares gained 2.47% to $10.78. KSWS’ shares have gained 8.45% so far this year. Hilliard Lyons upgraded Glimcher Realty Trust (NYSE: GRT) from “neutral” to “buy.” GRT’s stock has risen by 5.58% over the past week....
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CareFusion Acquires Medegen (CFN, CAH)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 4:23pm | 109CareFusion Corp. (NYSE: CFN) has announced its acquisition of privately held firm Medegen. According to the Reuters, the offer is worth $225 million. The deal will help CareFusion in expanding its reach in the disposable intravenous drug delivery set segment. CareFusion was spun off from Cardinal...
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Publishing Industry Stock Review - April 2010 - Industry Outlook
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 8:01am | 1440The publishing industry has long been grappling with sinking advertising revenue, and the recent global economic meltdown has worsened the situation. This comes in the wake of a longer-term secular decline as more readers choose to get news free online, thereby making the print-advertising model...
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Publishing Industry Stock Review - April 2010 - Zacks Analyst Interviews
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 2:46pm | 1440The publishing industry has long been grappling with sinking advertising revenue, and the recent global economic meltdown has worsened the situation. This comes in the wake of a longer-term secular decline as more readers choose to get news free online, thereby making the print-advertising model...
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Publishing Industry Stock Review - April 2010 - Industry Outlook
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 2:31pm | 1440The publishing industry has long been grappling with sinking advertising revenue, and the recent global economic meltdown has worsened the situation. This comes in the wake of a longer-term secular decline as more readers choose to get news free online, thereby making the print-advertising model...
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Before Jumping Into A Single Health Care Stock Consider This ETF
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 11:22pm | 1667“The healthcare sector has never seen anything like this and neither has the American public. After months of political wrangling, the Affordable Health Care for America Act was signed into law by the President. The Act will extend health insurance coverage to roughly 30 million Americans without...
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Investors Flock To Healthcare ETFs On Historic Reform
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 4:13pm | 1662“Wall street was glued to the weekend vote on health-care reform and scrambled to figure out which areas, if any, might benefit from its passage. Technically, however, the fortunes of the sector relative to the broad market changed for the better a month ago. In other words, nothing historic...
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How Will Obama-Care Play Into The Markets And ETFs?
Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 9:50pm | 4460“It is our opinion, along with that of many other market professionals, that this current market is overbought. An overbought market often searches for a place, or more to the point, a reason to pull back. This Sunday’s possible vote on Health Care Reform could very well be that catalyst. This...
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Anticipating Major Wall Street Ratings and Estimate Actions
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 3:40pm | 421For new readers, please see our recent report where we anticipated recent Wall Street ratings and estimate actions via focus lists and deeper fundamental research reports. For example, on March 8 we noted that Domtar Corp. (UFS) was worth special attention as a long idea. A week later, Goldman...
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Morgan Stanley Upgrades McKesson Corp, Six Weeks After Our Report
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 2:35pm | 321Morgan Stanley upgraded McKesson Corp. (MCK) today, raised target to $75 from $68. Glad they agree with the $75 target we set in January: http://bit.ly/cl1amR
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U.S. Equity Market Preview (CAH, CLC, GES, MLHR, NKE)
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 8:02am | 291Shares of the following companies may see unusual movements in trading on Thursday, according to Bloomberg. Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH), which is the second biggest drug distributor in U.S., won a $206.4 million contract from U.S. defense department, according to a statement posted by the...
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Goldman Sachs and Nostradamus versus Simple Quantitative Models and Common Sense
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 3:03am | 2485For a pdf of this report, follow this link. If Al Gore invented the Internet, and if an estimated 4,000,000+ very close and personal Facebook fans bought Citigroup (C) at $0.97 and Bank of America (BAC) at $3.12 last March, well -- we have some of our own pronouncements to make. Specifically,...
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Exploring New Strategy Ideas and Potential New Long and Short Ideas for the Week
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 10:33am | 1653Follow this link for a pdf of this report: Ascendere Equity Strategy, Long and Short Ideas, March 12, 2010. Track weekly long/short focus list ideas here. Time permitting, we have decided on a weekly basis to share some general equity strategy themes we are working on and updated long and short...