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This is a partial compilation of Douglas McIntyre (BloggingStocks)'s posts
and is not meant as a complete representation of the blogger's performance.
Douglas McIntyre (BloggingStocks)'s Blog Posts
Bank failures hit 106 for 2009
10/24/09
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Filed under: Industry, Financial CrisisSeven more banks failed late Friday, including institutions in Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Georgia, and three in Florida. The FDIC posted the liabilities it would assume and which banks would take on customers from the shutter institutions in detail on its w...
PFE
Closing Bell: Too much, too soon? (FSLR, YONG, ETRM, PFE & MGM)
10/02/09
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Filed under: After the bell, Major movement, Pfizer (PFE), S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQThe market opened sharply lower this morning anticipating, perhaps, unemployment data that was worse than the data turned out to be. The September unemployment rate rose to 9.8%, exactly what most observers had been e...
F
Just about everything weighs on markets today (F, PAG, ETP, ASTI, CHTP)
10/01/09
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Filed under: Major movement, Ford Motor (F), S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQThe markets opened lower this morning and have continued to slide all day, mostly due to poor reports on manufacturing and unemployment. Still, for the third quarter both the DJIA and the S&P 500 indexes gained about 15%. Now, ...
CIT
Closing Bell: Market Indices retreat on manufacturing, employment, petroleum data (CIT, DSCO, MU, PZE & AMSC)
09/30/09
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Filed under: Major movement, CIT Group (CIT), S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQThe Dow Jones Industrial average jumped about 125 points on Monday but has given back about two-thirds of that gain through trading so far today. The story with the S&P 500 index is similar, though not quite so severe: a giveb...
C
BAC
Closing bell: M&A gives market a boost; Coffee also provides stimulus (C, BAC, ACS, DDRX & GMCR)
09/28/09
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Filed under: Major movement, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), International Business Machines (IBM), Citigroup Inc. (C), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Bank of America (BAC), Xerox Corp (XRX), S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQTraders had on their rally caps today, and the DJIA moved as high as 9,823 as it renewed its asce...
RIMM
UAUA
Closing bell: no spark from consumer sentiment(RIM, AAPL, UAUA, AMR)
09/25/09
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Filed under: After the bell, Major movement, Apple Inc (AAPL), Research in Motion (RIMM), AMR Corp (AMR), UAL Corp (UAUA), S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQBad housing numbers did not do much to hurt the market yesterday and good consumer sentiment figures did not help today. The Reuters/University of Michig...
BAC
JPM
Closing bell: home sales don't help (AONE, BAC, WFC, GE, CHTP, JPM)
09/24/09
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Filed under: After the bell, Major movement, General Electric (GE), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQThe market seems to want to go up each day as it has relentlessly almost every trading session since April. But yesterday, it had a tiny setback...
CIT
AMR
Closing bell: no one cares about the Fed
09/23/09
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Filed under: After the bell, Ford Motor (F), CIT Group (CIT), AMR Corp (AMR), S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQThe market was remarkably bored about most of what the Fed had to say about the results of the FOMC. A close reading of the minutes shows nothing new. The economy is very modestly better. The turn f...
AMD
CIT
Closing bell: Wal-Mart and retail sales help upward trend despite increased foreclosure data (WMT, CIT, LVS, ETFC)
08/13/09
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Filed under: After the bell, Wal-Mart (WMT), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), CIT Group (CIT), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQToday's market news was dominated by two events. The first is that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) reported earnings a bit better than expected and had a forecast ...
EBAY
NFLX
Closing bell: the rally that goes on forever
08/03/09
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Filed under: After the bell, Earnings reports, Microsoft (MSFT), eBay (EBAY), Ford Motor (F), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQStocks surged again, setting up August to be another big month for investors. The S&P 500 cracked 1,000 for the first time this year. The Institute for Supp...
YHOO
MSFT
Complex Yahoo! deal with Microsoft finally set
07/29/09
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Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO)After months of speculation, several media reports say that a deal to create a joint venture on search between Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be announced as early as today.
Details of the transaction make the much-anticipated partne...
JNJ
Finding biotech's big winners
07/22/09
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Filed under: Industry, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ)During 2009, drug treatments for ten diseases in the U.S. will bring pharma companies nearly $170 billion in sales. Those include drugs for major killers like cardiovascular diseases and a number of cancers. Also among the most successful emerging treat...
ETFC
BAC
Market Close: confidence flat, gas up
06/12/09
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Filed under: After the bell, Bank of America (BAC), S and P 500, DJIA, NASDAQ, E*TRADE (ETFC)The market spent the day as it has many a Friday in the summer: slowing going no where.
The University of Michigan/Reuters consumer sentiment index showed a very modest increase in June up to 69, from 68.7 in...
DOW
Dow Chemical to raise money - but not enough
05/05/09
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Filed under: Dow Chemical (DOW)Dow Chemical (DOW) is raising $1.63 billion by selling common stock. But it really needs more money than that. Perhaps in the current credit market the interest rate it would have had to pay on debt was simply too much.
Reportedly, $1 billion will be used to reduce debt...
RIMM
CSCO
A RIM (RIMM) upgrade: Analyst swims against the Apple tide
05/01/09
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Filed under: Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Research in Motion (RIMM)Research-In-Motion's (NASDAQ: RIMM) earnings are going to get better soon. And it is not entirely because the Blackberry is standard issue for most mobile business people. ...
TM
GM
Volkswagen may be number one
04/17/09
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Filed under: General Motors (GM), Toyota Motor Corp. (TM)VW may have passed Toyota (NYSE: TM) as the world's No.1 car company just as Toyota passed GM (NYSE: GM) a year ago. Unfortunately, the companies all operate in an industry where being on the top of the pile does not matter much these days. It ...
DELL
HPQ
A Q2 recovery for consumer electronics, or just Apple?
04/10/09
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Filed under: Analyst reports, Forecasts, Apple Inc (AAPL), Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was up yesterday, but so was almost everything else. The company is getting special attention from investors because Credit Suisse upgraded its view of the firm's prospects for the second...
WFC
Closing bell: if banks keep this up, market will got to 14,000 (WFC)
04/09/09
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Filed under: Wells Fargo (WFC)Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) may end up being the stock of the year. In one brief announcement of a estimated $3 billion profit for the first quarter, it laid to rest most of the concerns about the financial industry. Hopefully, none of the other banks will scre...
BAC
Bank of America may need more capital
04/09/09
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Filed under: Analyst reports, Bank of America (BAC)Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) CEO Ken Lewis has based what is left of his reputation on the fact that the firm does not need another dime in government money. As a matter of fact, he regrets taking as much TARP cash as he did.
According to Bloomberg, O...
DELL
IBM
Is the market wrong about Dell?
04/08/09
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Filed under: Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), International Business Machines (IBM)Most investors consider Dell Computer (NASDAQ: DELL) a dog of a company. Since the firm's founder, Michael Dell, took over as CEO, his only real skill seems to be cutting costs. The firm has lost market share in the...
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