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Caterpillar Still Shows Big Regional Sales Gains (CAT)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 9:44 am

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is out with its monthly sales figures for November.  The gains are very high on the surface.  Asia/Pacific and the EMEA (Euro, Africa, Miidle-East) saw an acceleration i...
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    • The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 12.16.2010 Twitter Value, Jobless Claims

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:59 am

    Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million Twit...
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    Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AEE, ADM, BAC, CHTR, CMA, PGN, GOLD, RTN, RF, JOE, HOT, TLB, TSN, VRSN, WYNN)

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:56 am

    These are some of this Wednesday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls.  This morning we have two key updates from late yesterday afternoon, followed ...
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    Rite Aid Earnings, Wrong Answer (RAD, WAG, CVS, WMT)

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:53 am

    Rite Aid Corp. (NYSE: RAD) is getting clipped this morning after its quarterly earnings report.  As you have grown accustomed to, the 'earnings report' is really a loss report.  The report starts ou...
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    Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/16/2010) Aro And Google M&A)

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:36 am

    Updated throughout the day. Aeropostale (NYSE: ARO) has hired bankers to defend it from a takeover (NYPost) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube will try to buy Next New Networks (NYT) Douglas A. M...
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    Jobless Claims Hold, Still Red-Line for Unemployment

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:35 am

    The U.S. Labor Department is out with its latest round of weekly jobless claims. Last week's figure came to a drop of 3,000 on a revised basis to 420,000 versus 423,000 a week earlier.  Last week had...
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    Higher Dividends in Garbage (WM, RSG)

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 8:24 am

    Waste Management Inc. (NYSE: WM) has announced an increase to its quarterly dividend rate by about 8% this morning.  The old $0.315 per quarter dividend will now come to $0.34 per quarter.  This new...
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    A Real Estate Silver Lining: Foreclosure Rates Plunge

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 6:15 am

    RealtyTrac, the mortgage research firm, reports that foreclosures fell sharply in November. It may be a sign that the housing market has hit bottom. The company said, "its U.S. Foreclosure Market Repo...
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    How Apple Will Become The Most Valuable Company In America

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 5:55 am

    Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the second largest company in America based on its market value after oil giant Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM). Apple is ahead of other public corporations with higher revenue, includ...
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    Bad Parents: Suing McDonald’s For Misleading Kids

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 5:18 am

    The siege towers have been moved to McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) headquarters. Some cities want the company to stop using toys to entice children to eat high-calorie fatty food. Others want the fast food ...
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    Obama The Jobs Salesmen Fails

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 4:47 am

    President Obama hosted 20 CEOs from major corporations in Washington. Many of the chief executives wanted to speak about trade policy and taxes. The president wanted to talk about jobs. He had no leve...
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    Media Digest 12.16.2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 4:17 am

    The Obama $858 billion tax plan moves to the House for a vote. (Reuters) Twitter raised money at a rate which valued that company at $3.7 billion. (Reuters) Eurozone debt problems pushed down th...
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    The Environmental State of The Union: A Survey of Pollution, Energy Use and Policy in all 50 States

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 3:33 am

    Although all the countries which attended the recent Climate Summit in Cancun, Mexico claimed to care about the environment, they have an odd way of showing it. The challenges are more profound in the...
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    Why Not Tax Diet Soda?

    Posted: December 16, 2010 at 3:25 am

    Sugary beverages such as soda became public enemy number one for public health activists (known to critics as the food police) in 2010.    That has led to a call to levy special taxes on the drinks...
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    Apple:King Of Tablets

    Posted: December 15, 2010 at 8:51 pm

    We published a story earlier on projections from Goldman Sachs that tablets are rapidly cannibalizing PC sales.  That story focused on the possible winners from such a shift in the market. More rese...
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