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<title><![CDATA[Stock Downgrades: Rue21 Exits Easy Street]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/Stock-Downgrades253A-Rue21-Exits-Easy-Street/5/24/2013/id/50005</link>
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			Fri, 24 May 2013 09:29:00EST
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<![CDATA[A recently surging stock market suddenly backtracked, taking it below 15,000. For the moment, that sentence describes only the Nikkei and not the Dow (^DJI) but equities everywhere seem to be suffering from an acute attack of The Vapors, so before long Wall Street may also start Turning Japanese. On the bright side, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) surged 17.10% to top the entire S&P 500 (^GSPC) thanks to the turnaround efforts of Cold Spring Harbor native Meg Whitman. If my trusty HP 12c calculator is accurate, that was its best showing since 2001, the year Lindsay Lohan was a freshman at the ]]>
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	<![CDATA[A recently surging stock market suddenly backtracked, taking it below 15,000. For the moment, that sentence describes only the Nikkei and not the Dow (^DJI) but equities everywhere seem to be suffering from an acute attack of The Vapors, so before long Wall Street may also start Turning Japanese. On the bright side, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) surged 17.10% to top the entire S&P 500 (^GSPC) thanks to the turnaround efforts of Cold Spring Harbor native Meg Whitman. If my trusty HP 12c calculator is accurate, that was its best showing since 2001, the year Lindsay Lohan was a freshman at the ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Upgrades: Changing Tides Makes Procter & Gamble a Better Bet]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/Stock-Upgrades253A-Changing-Tides-Makes-Procter/5/24/2013/id/50006</link>
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			Fri, 24 May 2013 09:20:00EST
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<![CDATA[A week that began with Tumblr is ending with I'll Tumble For Ya. Stocks slid for a second straight session amid Tokyo troubles and fears here of a hard landing for quantitative easing. Bucking a bad day for blue chips, an upgraded Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) surged some 17.10%. Its $3.63 advance took it above $24, the price paid for the entire isle of Manhattan on this very date in 1626. (Sorry Meg, but Mr. Minuit may have you beat there, especially adjusted for inflation.) Hot dog heavyweight Nathan's Famous (NATH) franks fell 3.40% even as it reopened in Coney Island. Thus ]]>
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	<![CDATA[A week that began with Tumblr is ending with I'll Tumble For Ya. Stocks slid for a second straight session amid Tokyo troubles and fears here of a hard landing for quantitative easing. Bucking a bad day for blue chips, an upgraded Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) surged some 17.10%. Its $3.63 advance took it above $24, the price paid for the entire isle of Manhattan on this very date in 1626. (Sorry Meg, but Mr. Minuit may have you beat there, especially adjusted for inflation.) Hot dog heavyweight Nathan's Famous (NATH) franks fell 3.40% even as it reopened in Coney Island. Thus ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[New Stock Coverage: Look at LeapFrog Jump]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/New-Stock-Coverage253A-Look-at-LeapFrog/5/24/2013/id/50004</link>
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			Fri, 24 May 2013 09:19:00EST
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<![CDATA[When not one but two serene white doves popped up on the homepage of CNBC earlier in the week, you just knew a scary black swan would suddenly appear out of nowhere. Sure enough, it came in the shape of a 7.5% swan dive in Japan's main market, which spooked investors worldwide and sent the Dow (^DJI) down for a second straight day. Just as Mr. Market nursed his first serious Hangover in ages, Tylenol maker Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Aspirin outfit Bayer (OTCMKTS:BAYRY) each scored analyst initiations. Still, brewing behemoth SABMiller (OTCMKTS:SBMRY) slumped after announcing earnings; clearly, we ]]>
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	<![CDATA[When not one but two serene white doves popped up on the homepage of CNBC earlier in the week, you just knew a scary black swan would suddenly appear out of nowhere. Sure enough, it came in the shape of a 7.5% swan dive in Japan's main market, which spooked investors worldwide and sent the Dow (^DJI) down for a second straight day. Just as Mr. Market nursed his first serious Hangover in ages, Tylenol maker Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and Aspirin outfit Bayer (OTCMKTS:BAYRY) each scored analyst initiations. Still, brewing behemoth SABMiller (OTCMKTS:SBMRY) slumped after announcing earnings; clearly, we ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Upgrades: Mystic Meg Predicts Profits at Hewlett-Packard]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/Stock-Upgrades253A-Mystic-Meg-Predicts-Profits/5/23/2013/id/49982</link>
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			Thu, 23 May 2013 09:29:00EST
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<![CDATA[Ben Bernanke, long seen as much more stiff than many of his fun-loving baby boomer contemporaries, yesterday demonstrated a hitherto unknown interest in the music of Johnny Nash. What a pity though, that it was the singer's "There are more questions than answers/ And the more I find out the less I know" that took his fancy. For "I Can See Clearly Now" would have been much more to the market's liking. A clear-as-mud message from the Fed head during his Q&A session in DC sent stocks on a wild ride, eventually ending deeply in the red. At least Apple ]]>
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	<![CDATA[Ben Bernanke, long seen as much more stiff than many of his fun-loving baby boomer contemporaries, yesterday demonstrated a hitherto unknown interest in the music of Johnny Nash. What a pity though, that it was the singer's "There are more questions than answers/ And the more I find out the less I know" that took his fancy. For "I Can See Clearly Now" would have been much more to the market's liking. A clear-as-mud message from the Fed head during his Q&A session in DC sent stocks on a wild ride, eventually ending deeply in the red. At least Apple ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[New Stock Coverage: Can Johnson & Johnson Be Market's Band-Aid?]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/New-Stock-Coverage253A-Can-Johnson-2526/5/23/2013/id/49980</link>
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			Thu, 23 May 2013 09:25:00EST
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<![CDATA[Ben Bernanke, clearly no Keynesian, recently delivered a speech entitled "Economic Prospects for the Long Run." What, then, would he make of the extremely short-term stock gyrations caused by his every muttering? The Dow (^DJI), up over 150 at its peak, subsequently tumbled by triple digits in its wildest high-to-close gyration since the March 2009 market bottom. This after the Fed head took his chrome dome to the Capitol dome and confused everyone, perhaps even including himself. (The follicularly-challenged central banker must truly be tearing his hair out right about now, for Rogaine maker Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has just ]]>
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	<![CDATA[Ben Bernanke, clearly no Keynesian, recently delivered a speech entitled "Economic Prospects for the Long Run." What, then, would he make of the extremely short-term stock gyrations caused by his every muttering? The Dow (^DJI), up over 150 at its peak, subsequently tumbled by triple digits in its wildest high-to-close gyration since the March 2009 market bottom. This after the Fed head took his chrome dome to the Capitol dome and confused everyone, perhaps even including himself. (The follicularly-challenged central banker must truly be tearing his hair out right about now, for Rogaine maker Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has just ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Downgrades: A Farewell to ARM Holdings]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/Stock-Downgrades253A-A-Farewell-to-ARM/5/23/2013/id/49981</link>
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			Thu, 23 May 2013 09:22:00EST
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<![CDATA[Jawboning may be part of the FOMC's mandate, yet "Don't Speak! Don't speak!" - the wise words of Dianne Wiest - would have been better advice for Ben Bernanke yesterday. Stocks slumped after oscillating wildly on confusing comments from the Fed head. Ms. Wiest uttered the immortal words in Bullets Over Broadway but the knives were also out for Caesars Entertainment (CZR), which tumbled 2.17% on a ratings reduction. Elsewhere, phone stocks fell 1.2%, so little wonder that Mr. Madoff was forced to call collect.

Today in economics, analysts expect April new home sales to improve on the prior month's ]]>
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	<![CDATA[Jawboning may be part of the FOMC's mandate, yet "Don't Speak! Don't speak!" - the wise words of Dianne Wiest - would have been better advice for Ben Bernanke yesterday. Stocks slumped after oscillating wildly on confusing comments from the Fed head. Ms. Wiest uttered the immortal words in Bullets Over Broadway but the knives were also out for Caesars Entertainment (CZR), which tumbled 2.17% on a ratings reduction. Elsewhere, phone stocks fell 1.2%, so little wonder that Mr. Madoff was forced to call collect.

Today in economics, analysts expect April new home sales to improve on the prior month's ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[New Stock Coverage: Pepsi Poised to Pop]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/New-Stock-Coverage253A-Pepsi-Poised-to/5/22/2013/id/49942</link>
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			Wed, 22 May 2013 09:29:00EST
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<![CDATA[Sachs (GS) and Saks (SKS) helped send stocks higher, with Goldman upgrading its stock index forecast and the bling king surging some 11.32%. With stocks smoking, China's SinoCoking Coal And Coke Chemical Industries (SCOK) - based in a country whose air-breathing is equivalent to a several cigarette pack a day habit - jumped 25.40%. This as Marlboro man Philip Morris (PM) assumed full control of its unit in Mexico. (Where the birds ingeniously build nest eggs out of its butts.)

Elsewhere an unloved Carnival Corp (CCL), the only stock to be dual listed by both Britain's FTSE 100 Index (INDEXFTSE:UKX) ]]>
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	<![CDATA[Sachs (GS) and Saks (SKS) helped send stocks higher, with Goldman upgrading its stock index forecast and the bling king surging some 11.32%. With stocks smoking, China's SinoCoking Coal And Coke Chemical Industries (SCOK) - based in a country whose air-breathing is equivalent to a several cigarette pack a day habit - jumped 25.40%. This as Marlboro man Philip Morris (PM) assumed full control of its unit in Mexico. (Where the birds ingeniously build nest eggs out of its butts.)

Elsewhere an unloved Carnival Corp (CCL), the only stock to be dual listed by both Britain's FTSE 100 Index (INDEXFTSE:UKX) ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Downgrades: Caesars Entertainment Stabbed in the Back]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/Stock-Downgrades253A-Caesars-Entertainment-Stabbed-in/5/22/2013/id/49944</link>
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			Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:00EST
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<![CDATA[The squid and the whale kept equities above water, with "Great vampire squid" Goldman Sachs (GS) raising its S&P 500 (^GSPC) target and the "London Whale" debacle proving insufficient to oust JPMorgan's (JPM) Jamie Dimon from his job. (At the latter's contentious annual meeting, its director Ellen Futter received a scant 53.1% backing, comfortably the lowest of all 11 directors. Since Ellen also moonlights as president of the American Museum of Natural History, she really should have seen whales-London or otherwise-coming.) 

Similarly sinking to the murky depths was cruise company Carnival Corp (CCL), which fell 4.28% in its worst day ]]>
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	<![CDATA[The squid and the whale kept equities above water, with "Great vampire squid" Goldman Sachs (GS) raising its S&P 500 (^GSPC) target and the "London Whale" debacle proving insufficient to oust JPMorgan's (JPM) Jamie Dimon from his job. (At the latter's contentious annual meeting, its director Ellen Futter received a scant 53.1% backing, comfortably the lowest of all 11 directors. Since Ellen also moonlights as president of the American Museum of Natural History, she really should have seen whales-London or otherwise-coming.) 

Similarly sinking to the murky depths was cruise company Carnival Corp (CCL), which fell 4.28% in its worst day ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Upgrades: Dice Holdings Is on a Roll]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/Stock-Upgrades253A-Dice-Holdings-Is-on/5/22/2013/id/49943</link>
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			Wed, 22 May 2013 09:19:00EST
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<![CDATA[When the Dow (^DJI) opened the week with a bad case of the Mondays, little orphan Annie was right to remind us, "The sun'll come out tomorrow." (Except, perhaps, for SolarCity (SCTY), which slumped 13.72% in posting the Nasdaq's (^IXIC) poorest performance.) Blue chips gained for an astonishing 19th successive Tuesday, reaching new records in the process. Tuesday lived down to its reputation as being exceptionally unlucky in Athens, where hometown hero National Bank of Greece (NBG) nose-dived 10.13%.

On this side of the Atlantic, however, it has become a license to make money. Generation X likely won't ever retire, ]]>
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	<![CDATA[When the Dow (^DJI) opened the week with a bad case of the Mondays, little orphan Annie was right to remind us, "The sun'll come out tomorrow." (Except, perhaps, for SolarCity (SCTY), which slumped 13.72% in posting the Nasdaq's (^IXIC) poorest performance.) Blue chips gained for an astonishing 19th successive Tuesday, reaching new records in the process. Tuesday lived down to its reputation as being exceptionally unlucky in Athens, where hometown hero National Bank of Greece (NBG) nose-dived 10.13%.

On this side of the Atlantic, however, it has become a license to make money. Generation X likely won't ever retire, ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[New Stock Coverage: Future Sunny for Sony]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/New-Stock-Coverage253A-Future-Sunny-for/5/21/2013/id/49921</link>
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			Tue, 21 May 2013 09:23:00EST
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<![CDATA[It was anything but a Manic Monday on Wall Street, with markets moving nowhere fast in desultory trading action, but for David Karp, born the year The Bangles released their best-selling song, Merger Monday was music to his ears. Tumblr's 20-something boy wonder is laughing all the way to the bank after being bought by Yahoo (YHOO) for $1.1 billion. "F*%k yeah!" was his considered reaction to the deal, the air being turned as blue as Marissa Mayer's hair. Ryanair's (OTCMKTS:RYAAY) CEO turned the air blue long ago and his stock just surged 5.33% to the highest level in its ]]>
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	<![CDATA[It was anything but a Manic Monday on Wall Street, with markets moving nowhere fast in desultory trading action, but for David Karp, born the year The Bangles released their best-selling song, Merger Monday was music to his ears. Tumblr's 20-something boy wonder is laughing all the way to the bank after being bought by Yahoo (YHOO) for $1.1 billion. "F*%k yeah!" was his considered reaction to the deal, the air being turned as blue as Marissa Mayer's hair. Ryanair's (OTCMKTS:RYAAY) CEO turned the air blue long ago and his stock just surged 5.33% to the highest level in its ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Upgrades: American Tower Stands Tall]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/Stock-Upgrades253A-American-Tower-Stands-Tall/5/21/2013/id/49922</link>
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			Tue, 21 May 2013 09:18:00EST
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<![CDATA[Wall Street's gravy train, much like many of its unfortunate Connecticut-based worker bees, was suddenly derailed. Not quite a crash, but the Dow's (^DJI) hitherto very merry month of May did hit a speed bump on Monday. Yahoo (YHOO), whose previous social networking purchase didn't exactly exude a sixth sense, rose six cents after paying $1.1 billion for a firm with revenue of $13 million.

Shanghai's JA Solar (JASO) surged 70.37% after record first quarter sales to Tokyo; hard to believe that China and Japan are currently at daggers drawn. Sunlight, if not daggers, can kill off Dracula, but Priceline ]]>
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	<![CDATA[Wall Street's gravy train, much like many of its unfortunate Connecticut-based worker bees, was suddenly derailed. Not quite a crash, but the Dow's (^DJI) hitherto very merry month of May did hit a speed bump on Monday. Yahoo (YHOO), whose previous social networking purchase didn't exactly exude a sixth sense, rose six cents after paying $1.1 billion for a firm with revenue of $13 million.

Shanghai's JA Solar (JASO) surged 70.37% after record first quarter sales to Tokyo; hard to believe that China and Japan are currently at daggers drawn. Sunlight, if not daggers, can kill off Dracula, but Priceline ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Downgrades: Carnival Set to Sink]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/Stock-Downgrades253A-Carnival-Set-to-Sink/5/21/2013/id/49923</link>
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			Tue, 21 May 2013 09:17:00EST
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<![CDATA[After setting 21 straight records this year, the Dow (^DJI) encountered a classic catch-22. Blue chips, beset by listless trading all day, dropped 19.12. (A number sequence that carries uneasy echoes of the year the Titanic sank; Carnival Corporation (CCL) appears to be imitating the ill-fated ocean liner a little too literally this morning.)

With Yahoo's (YHOO) $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Wall Street in 2013 finally awoke to what Avenue Q told us in 2003: "The Internet Is for Porn." National Bank of Greece (NBG), fresh from its best week in two decades, dropped 33.89% to lead all NYSE ]]>
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	<![CDATA[After setting 21 straight records this year, the Dow (^DJI) encountered a classic catch-22. Blue chips, beset by listless trading all day, dropped 19.12. (A number sequence that carries uneasy echoes of the year the Titanic sank; Carnival Corporation (CCL) appears to be imitating the ill-fated ocean liner a little too literally this morning.)

With Yahoo's (YHOO) $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Wall Street in 2013 finally awoke to what Avenue Q told us in 2003: "The Internet Is for Porn." National Bank of Greece (NBG), fresh from its best week in two decades, dropped 33.89% to lead all NYSE ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[New Stock Coverage: MusclePharm Can Bulk Up Your Portfolio]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/MusclePharm-Can-Bulk-Up-Your-Portfolio/5/20/2013/id/49895</link>
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			Mon, 20 May 2013 09:32:00EST
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<![CDATA[One day, the music will finally stop on Wall Street, but it was never going to happen in a week when Gordon Gekko officially turned into Liberace. The pianist, famous for saying "Too much of a good thing is wonderful," would certainly relate to the current over-the-top ebullience in equities. Dow Industrials (^DJI), now up four straight weeks, rose a further 1.56% to finish at fresh peaks. When Omaha's Oracle is downgraded even as Athens, of all places, is upgraded, that may eventually come to be seen as the moment Mr. Market lost his mind. For now, however, let's just ]]>
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	<![CDATA[One day, the music will finally stop on Wall Street, but it was never going to happen in a week when Gordon Gekko officially turned into Liberace. The pianist, famous for saying "Too much of a good thing is wonderful," would certainly relate to the current over-the-top ebullience in equities. Dow Industrials (^DJI), now up four straight weeks, rose a further 1.56% to finish at fresh peaks. When Omaha's Oracle is downgraded even as Athens, of all places, is upgraded, that may eventually come to be seen as the moment Mr. Market lost his mind. For now, however, let's just ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Upgrades: Priceline Is Going Places]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/Stock-Upgrades253A-Priceline-Is-Going-Places/5/20/2013/id/49897</link>
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			Mon, 20 May 2013 09:25:00EST
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<![CDATA[With equities going to Pluto, how appropriate that Star Trek topped the box office. Especially as Priceline.com (PCLN) - upgraded this morning after surging some 6.3% last week - has had as its spokesman Captain Kirk. William Shatner, of course, used to split infinitives ("to boldly go&hellip;") as effortlessly as his company was once - hard as it may be to believe now - compelled to reverse split its stock to stay alive. The S&P 500 Index (^GSPC) advanced another 2.07% to a new record, with Google (GOOG) jumping $28.95 to finish above $900 for the first time. No wonder ]]>
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	<![CDATA[With equities going to Pluto, how appropriate that Star Trek topped the box office. Especially as Priceline.com (PCLN) - upgraded this morning after surging some 6.3% last week - has had as its spokesman Captain Kirk. William Shatner, of course, used to split infinitives ("to boldly go&hellip;") as effortlessly as his company was once - hard as it may be to believe now - compelled to reverse split its stock to stay alive. The S&P 500 Index (^GSPC) advanced another 2.07% to a new record, with Google (GOOG) jumping $28.95 to finish above $900 for the first time. No wonder ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Downgrades: Dunkin' Bull Run Done?]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/stocks/articles/Stock-Downgrades253A-Dunkin2527-Bull-Run-Done253F/5/20/2013/id/49896</link>
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			Mon, 20 May 2013 09:24:00EST
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<![CDATA[Five short months into 2013, the planet's best performing stock market of 2012 literally can't afford to wipe its backside. So investors may eventually give our own bull run the bum's rush. For now, however, let's just marvel at how far - 146%, to be precise - we have come from the Haines bottom. (Not to be confused with Hanesbrands (HBI), an underwear stock that is now up 102.82% in the past year, having finished at a fresh historic high on Friday.) A new iPad commode will be scant consolation for both Caracas and Cupertino, especially after Apple Inc. (AAPL) ]]>
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	<![CDATA[Five short months into 2013, the planet's best performing stock market of 2012 literally can't afford to wipe its backside. So investors may eventually give our own bull run the bum's rush. For now, however, let's just marvel at how far - 146%, to be precise - we have come from the Haines bottom. (Not to be confused with Hanesbrands (HBI), an underwear stock that is now up 102.82% in the past year, having finished at a fresh historic high on Friday.) A new iPad commode will be scant consolation for both Caracas and Cupertino, especially after Apple Inc. (AAPL) ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Upgrades: General Motors on Road to Riches]]></title>
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			Fri, 17 May 2013 09:29:00EST
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<![CDATA[In the tug-of-war between Cisco (CSCO) and Frisco, the latter had the final word. Dow Industrials (^DJI) fell from records despite the best efforts of its networking component, which surged 12.62% to finish at a fresh 52-week peak. This after comments from San Francisco Fed head John Williams seemed to suggest that the end is finally in sight for fiscal stimulus. 
 
Washington was just named the politest place in America. Not DC, where our currently beleaguered president had extra reason to curse the drizzle, but its Rain City namesake. Still, with Amazon (AMZN) ending off 0.92% despite a broker boost, ]]>
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	<![CDATA[In the tug-of-war between Cisco (CSCO) and Frisco, the latter had the final word. Dow Industrials (^DJI) fell from records despite the best efforts of its networking component, which surged 12.62% to finish at a fresh 52-week peak. This after comments from San Francisco Fed head John Williams seemed to suggest that the end is finally in sight for fiscal stimulus. 
 
Washington was just named the politest place in America. Not DC, where our currently beleaguered president had extra reason to curse the drizzle, but its Rain City namesake. Still, with Amazon (AMZN) ending off 0.92% despite a broker boost, ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Downgrades: Pottery Barn Owner Williams-Sonoma Needs to Take a Break]]></title>
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			Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:00EST
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<![CDATA[Stocks for once failed to break records, thanks to a broken record. John Williams of the San Francisco Fed sent stocks slumping on April 3 by suggesting quantitative easing will end. That essentially the same speech could exert an identical impact on May 16 speaks volumes about an Attention Deficit Syndrome which inflicts modern equity markets. As American Idol ended its season and The Office its series, an unexpected increased in idle office workers as evidenced in weekly unemployment claims spooked investors.
 
An art auction pulled in almost half a billion bucks and life imitated art in advertising, where Don ]]>
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	<![CDATA[Stocks for once failed to break records, thanks to a broken record. John Williams of the San Francisco Fed sent stocks slumping on April 3 by suggesting quantitative easing will end. That essentially the same speech could exert an identical impact on May 16 speaks volumes about an Attention Deficit Syndrome which inflicts modern equity markets. As American Idol ended its season and The Office its series, an unexpected increased in idle office workers as evidenced in weekly unemployment claims spooked investors.
 
An art auction pulled in almost half a billion bucks and life imitated art in advertising, where Don ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[New Stock Coverage: Analyst Has Hang-Ups About AT&T]]></title>
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			Fri, 17 May 2013 09:23:00EST
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<![CDATA[Wall Street's money tree was always destined to stopped growing eventually, but what a pity it occurred just ahead of this morning's buttonwood birthday. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) snapped a four-session record run amid iffy economic data on either side of the Atlantic. Athens beverage behemoth Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling (OCCH) is slumping 5.6% in London today, just as Greece prepares to sing a song called "Alcohol Is Free" at tomorrow's Eurovision Song Contest. (Just as well, as its economy is enough to drive even teetotalers to drink.)
 
On a day of slim pickings in the stock market, Microsoft's (MSFT) Bill ]]>
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	<![CDATA[Wall Street's money tree was always destined to stopped growing eventually, but what a pity it occurred just ahead of this morning's buttonwood birthday. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) snapped a four-session record run amid iffy economic data on either side of the Atlantic. Athens beverage behemoth Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling (OCCH) is slumping 5.6% in London today, just as Greece prepares to sing a song called "Alcohol Is Free" at tomorrow's Eurovision Song Contest. (Just as well, as its economy is enough to drive even teetotalers to drink.)
 
On a day of slim pickings in the stock market, Microsoft's (MSFT) Bill ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Downgrades: SodaStream Up Creek Without Paddle?]]></title>
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			Thu, 16 May 2013 09:27:00EST
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<![CDATA[The Dow (^DJI) hit its 20th record of 2013, and if many now think this rally is a little long in the tooth, these days it apparently pays to be Methuselah. 
 
Cisco Systems (CSCO), just described as "positively geriatric" by the Wall Street Journal, is surging 10.80% before the bell, and an Old Navy-related upgrade propelled Gap Inc. (GPS) to levels last seen at the turn of the Millennium. Back then its blue dress almost impeached a president but Bill Clinton managed to survive. He was once asked "boxers or briefs?" in a cringe-worthy moment on MTV. To judge from ]]>
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	<![CDATA[The Dow (^DJI) hit its 20th record of 2013, and if many now think this rally is a little long in the tooth, these days it apparently pays to be Methuselah. 
 
Cisco Systems (CSCO), just described as "positively geriatric" by the Wall Street Journal, is surging 10.80% before the bell, and an Old Navy-related upgrade propelled Gap Inc. (GPS) to levels last seen at the turn of the Millennium. Back then its blue dress almost impeached a president but Bill Clinton managed to survive. He was once asked "boxers or briefs?" in a cringe-worthy moment on MTV. To judge from ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock Upgrades: Bet the Mortgage on Beazer Homes]]></title>
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			Thu, 16 May 2013 09:23:00EST
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<![CDATA[Until someone finally wins that elusive $475 million jackpot, Wall Street will do just fine. Another day, another new record for the Dow (^DJI), though there were still some losers amid the inexorably rising tide in equities. The hedge fund honcho who just called this a "My Cousin Vinny market" must have had Marisa Tomei's memorable Deere (DE) monologue in mind, for the tractor titan suffered a similarly gruesome fate in falling 4.40%.
 
Trading was also murder on Orient-Express (OEH), which imploded 1.47% even after being boosted by Barron's. It owns the 21 Club, which opened as a speakeasy in ]]>
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	<![CDATA[Until someone finally wins that elusive $475 million jackpot, Wall Street will do just fine. Another day, another new record for the Dow (^DJI), though there were still some losers amid the inexorably rising tide in equities. The hedge fund honcho who just called this a "My Cousin Vinny market" must have had Marisa Tomei's memorable Deere (DE) monologue in mind, for the tractor titan suffered a similarly gruesome fate in falling 4.40%.
 
Trading was also murder on Orient-Express (OEH), which imploded 1.47% even after being boosted by Barron's. It owns the 21 Club, which opened as a speakeasy in ]]>
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