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Mitigating Some Currency Volatility 04-18-2011
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 6:06pm | 819Cusick's Corner Currency markets have been put on notice -- what markets to consider? Look at Gold -- GCM11 or GLD could be a way to play some of this currency uncertainty/volatility. People often look at Gold as an inflation fighter but it also can be very important when currencies come under...
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Downside a Worry? 04-18-2011
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 4:42pm | 854Cusick's Corner The EU and S&P strike, the market reacts pulling back on the open and trying to bounce into the Midday. This is the red flag that I saw coming but just didn't know what was going to be the catalyst, now we have some. If the downside is a worry, consider bear put spreads on a...
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CA Technologies Names Greg Valdez Chief Information Officer
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 9:02am | 63CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that Greg Valdez has been named chief information officer, effective May 2, 2011. Valdez replaces Stephen Savage, who has accepted a new position leading the company's Global Government Relations program as chief government relations officer. Both...
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Citi Downgrades BMC To Hold
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 9:02am | 105Citi has issued a report downgrading BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) from a Buy Rating to Hold. Citi writes, “While we expect that March will be a strong quarter, we see a variety of factors that lead us to believe the share multiple will have difficult moving higher and the chance of meaningful upside...
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Citigroup Downgrades BMC Software To Hold, Maintains $52 PT
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 7:08am | 24Citigroup has downgraded BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) from Buy to Hold and maintains its $52 price target.
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Goldman Ups CA To Neutral
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 6:37am | 40Analysts at Goldman upgrade CA Inc (NASDAQ: CA) from “sell” to “neutral.” CA shares gained 0.92% to close at $24.18 on Friday. More Analyst Ratings here
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Citigroup Downgrades BMC To Hold
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 6:24am | 41Analysts at Citigroup downgrade BMC Software Inc (NASDAQ: BMC) from “buy” to “hold.” BMC shares gained 0.37% to close at $50.86 on Friday. More Analyst Ratings here
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Green Cloud Stocks
Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 1:25pm | 932If you watch much television, you have probably seen several commercials relating to Microsoft's (MSFT) Cloud service. So what is this 'cloud' that all these techies are talking about? An easy way to explain cloud computing is having your programs and data stored remotely on a server far away,...
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CEOWORLD Daily Business Roundup- JNJ, CHK, AMD, T, AXP, AAPL, INTC, JPM, GOOG, LLY, CSCO…
Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 7:47am | 1985Johnson & Johnson Inc. (JNJ) is in talks to buy Swiss medical-device maker Synthes Inc. $20 billion. Charles Schwab (SCHW) a discount broker, declared boosted profit for the first quarter as earnings reached $243.00 million, or $0.20 per share, from a year earlier $6.00 million, or a lesser...
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Mythbusting: Are small cap stocks as risky as they appear?
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 5:11pm | 1149Mythbusters With episodes like, cannonball of cheese, boomerang bullet, and exploding turkey, Mythbusters is definitely one of the craziest shows on TV. Crashing vehicles, falling dummies, and lots (and lots) of things blowing up - it's no wonder this show is extremely popular...
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Radiant Systems Ticks Lower After Article Reporting Accounting Problems (RADS)
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 11:20am | 82Hearing Radiant Systems Might Have Accounting Problems, Reported By Fool.com (NASDAQ: RADS) Article can be found here. This article may include mentions of rumors, chatter, or unconfirmed information. Readers should beware that while unconfirmed information may be correlated with increased...
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Oracle Announces Its Intention to Move OpenOffice.org to a Community-Based Project (ORCL)
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 10:03am | 123Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) today is announcing its intention to move OpenOffice.org to a purely community-based open source project and to no longer offer a commercial version of Open Office. "Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid...
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What's Really Going On At Google? (GOOG)
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 8:32am | 396Mashable has an article discussing Google's earnings report and gives some suggestions for what is really going on over at the search giant. Expenses were way up this quarter, some significantly over a year ago, as the company tries to compete for talent, spends significantly on R&D, and has...
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Bank of America Overweight On Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP)
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 7:55am | 178Bank of America Merrill Lynch has a Neutral rating and a $55 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP). In a note to clients, Bank of America writes, "CHKP delivered an overall strong quarter with revs of $281.3m (+15%) ahead of our/cons $277m estimate and non-GAAP...
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Top 4 Large-Cap Stocks In The Application Software Industry With The Highest EPS (MSFT, SAP, ADBE, INTU)
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 1:06am | 130Below are the top large-cap application software stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of earnings per share. The trailing-twelve-month earnings per share at Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is $2.34. MSFT's PEG ratio is 0.97. The trailing-twelve-month earnings per share at SAP AG (NYSE...