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This Is The Headline Ben Bernanke Is Terrified About Seeing
The buzz these days is that the Fed is probably going to launch another round of "quantitative easing" stimulus, QE3, thanks to weakness in the economy and markets. But there's always a chance that...
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Influential Energy Analyst Upgrades Chesapeake But Calls For CEO McClendon's...
Last month, we profiled money energy analyst Phil Weiss and his dead-on call about Chesapeake Energy's cash shortfall. So, when he comes out with a new take on the company, we sit up. Today, Weiss...
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Supreme Court Ruling On Obamacare Will Impact Moody's Ratings (MRK, PFE)
Ratings agency Moody's says for-profit hospitals, drug companies, and medical-device manufacturers would all take negative credit hits if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act....
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EUROPE SOARS, DOW UP 200
Markets across the world are soaring. The Dow is up 200 points, and the NASDAQ is 2% higher. The Italian FTSE MIB is led that charge in Europe, up 3.5 percent at the close of trading. Gold is also...
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The Media Is Now Distorting The Words Of Obama Supporters Left And Right
In the last 24 hours, there's been a rash of glaringly bad media distortions of Obama surrogates. It started yesterday on CNBC, when Maria Bartiromo interviewed Bill Clinton about his take on the...
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These 5 Stocks Are Going Nuts As The Dow Rallies (IRM, FSLR, BAC, CHK, PHM, TPX)
The Dow rallied some 200 points this morning and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are both up over 1.7 percent. Nearly across the big board, equities are up. However Tempur-Pedic is lagging the gain after...
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The Norway Threshold: The Most Dangerous Statistic In The World
On Christmas Eve, 1969, the history of Norway changed forever. That day, the country announced that Phillips, the American oil company, had discovered the largest oil and gas discovery in the history...
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Your Big Quantitative Valuation Model Makes You A Bad Financial Analyst
This is the fourth in our series of lessons from Aswath Damodaran's three day course on valuation for executives at the Stern School of Business at NYU. One of Professor Damodaran's three biggest myths...
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Look At All The Giant Military Contracts Signed In The Past Week (RTN, LMT, URS)
Every week, we go through each of the juiciest Department of Defense contracts and pick out the largest, most expensive, and most interesting of the orders. The biggest single contract awarded this...
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Here Are Today's 6 Hottest Stocks (STT, ANR, X, GWW, PGN, NVDA)
Here are today's winners and losers. Winners: NVIDIA (NVDA): Up 3.4 percent — Apple unveiled its newest MacBook Pro, which will include a graphics chip from NVIDIA, causing the stock's price to shoot...
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German Newspaper Handelsblatt Has A Brilliant Rebuttal To The Latest Classic...
German newspaper Handelsblatt has done its own version of the recent Economist cover demanding that Merkel save the world economy. It's obvious the Germans are getting increasingly annoyed at the...
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DEJA VU: Forget 1995 And 2011, The Stock Market Looks Exactly Like 2006
For some reason, some pundits found it useful to compare the early 2012 performance of the stock market to performance in previous years. Laszlo Birinyi was the first to compare the market's...
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Deutsche Bank's Top Strategist Is Waiting Until July To Call A Bottom In Stocks
Binky Chadha, the reputedly and repeatedly bullish Deutsche Bank chief global strategist, says we're headed lower for three persisting reasons: bad economic data out of the United States, the ongoing...
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Meet Alexis Tsipras, The Youthful Greek Leader Who Terrifies The European...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Alexis Tsipras has rarely been on good terms with Greece's establishment. During high school, he was a leader in a student protest against education reform that shook the...
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Markets Are DIVING In The Last Hour To The Closing Bell
Markets are taking a beating with less than an hour until the closing bell. The Dow is down 90 points and the NASDAQ is off 1.35 percent. While markets have remained less volatile since the European...
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Fleckenstein: The Stock Market Is A Farce And The Spanish Bailout Was An...
King World News interviewed Bill Fleckenstein, president of Fleckenstein Capital, on the markets after the Spanish bailout, which he called a "complete airball of an idea." The stock market is kind of...
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Now Argentinean Protestors Are Burning British Flags Outside...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A small group of leftist protesters have burned a British flag outside the headquarters of Argentina's oil company, saying YPF should stop using oil tankers that fly...
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STOCKS CRUMBLE AFTER SPANISH BAILOUT GOES BAD IN RECORD TIME: Here's What You...
The rally this morning was wiped out as the market trended sharply into negative territory. First the scoreboard: Dow: 12,411.2, -1.1% S&P 500: 1308.9, -1.3% NASDAQ: 2809.7, -1.7% And now the top...
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Morgan Stanley: There Is 'No Sign Of Capitulation' In US Stocks
This year's selloff in stocks during the month of May looked a lot like last year's May selloff, and it was driven by a lot of the same macro concerns. However, Adam Parker, Morgan Stanley's chief U.S....
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A Major US Grocery Chain Has Bad News For Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (KR,...
This fall, Green Mountain Coffee Roaster's Keurig-cup patents fall, and The Kroger Company will be sure to capitalize. Earlier today, Kroger announced that it will start selling store-branded coffee...
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