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| 10 Yr. % | 3.799 | -0.043 |
- August 20, 2:50 pm: High-end beauty products are outperforming - confounding assumptions prestige products would be among the first to fall. Plays include Bare Escentuals (BARE), Estee Lauder (EL), and Alberto-Culver's (ACV) Nexxus.
- August 20, 2:39 pm: Not to be left out, Bernstein's Brad Hintz lowers EPS estimates for Goldman (GS -1.05%), Morgan Stanley (MS -3.5%) and Lehman (LEH +2.2%). He agrees with Goldman's Tanona that MS is the best of the bunch.
- August 20, 2:33 pm: Monsanto's (MON) up 4.6% after it milks Eli Lilly (LLY) for $300M to buy its controversial milk-boosting Posilac dairy-cow drug business.
- August 20, 2:21 pm: After years of playing second fiddle to social networking, content is making a comeback. Comcast (CMCSA) just picked up Daily Candy for $125M. Now Pocket Change is being courted by an ad agency.
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- 9:58 am: Ross Stores Logs Solid Sales Gains
- 1:42 pm: Nasdaq OMX Pauses After Mergers
- 1:32 pm: FTC Clears EA Bid for Take-Two
- 12:22 pm: Asset Sales for Macquarie Airports
- 9:09 am: Lilly to Buy Dairy-Hormone Business
- 3:12 pm: Tech Winners & Losers: AT&T
- 3:12 pm: Health Winners & Losers: Medtronic
- 2:59 pm: Financial Winners & Losers: Lehman
- 3:26 pm: Health Winners & Losers: Amylin
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Over the last month and a half commodities have had a sell-off so severe that it is safe we to say we haven’t seen anything like this in a very long time, you would probably have to go more than 20 years backwards to find a downward move this sharp. It is understandbale that investors become paralyzed by fear during downswings of 40%+ in such a short period of time but when looking through market history you can see that the greatest investors made their fortunes when everyone else was busy feeling sorry for themselves. Whenever this happens I find it extremely comical that CNBC’s anchors are yelling about how the ‘commodity play is now over.’ It seems to me that they are very good at buying high Read more » |
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