Filed under: Market matters , Scandals Why does Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE GS ) earn so much money trading equities? The answer lies in a proprietary set of secret codes that Goldman uses when making their trades. In the first quarter of this year Goldman raked in $2 billion dollars from its equity trading and is the leading trader on Wall Street.

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Who is the Russian accused of stealing Goldman’s top secret trading codes?

Filed under: Stocks to Buy I’m issuing a Buy recommendation for FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM ), but with a tight stop. Here’s why: FORM’s revenue for FY2009 will probably decline another 30-40%, following a 55% revenue plunge in FY2008, but institutional investors are looking past current conditions, to likely corporate increases in tech spending in FY2010, driven by the transition to DDR3 technology in the memory segment.

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A FormFactor play is possible, but it’s not for the squeamish

Filed under: Industry , Competitive strategy , Google (GOOG) , Apple Inc (AAPL) , AT and T (T) , Sprint Nextel Corp (S) , Verizon Communications (VZ) The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice has begun a preliminary review of potential anti-competitive practices among large telecom companies such as Verizon Communications, Inc. (NYSE: VZ ) and AT&T Inc.

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U.S. Justice Department turns an eye on the telecoms

Filed under: ETF Investing , Commodities For U.S. drivers fed up with the volatility and seemingly annual spring/early summer surge in gasoline prices, there is a way to hedge most of that risk via an exchange-traded fund: the U.S.

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US Gasoline Fund: A gasoline price hedge

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Filed under: Diageo plc (DEO) , Chevron Corp (CVX) , General Mills (GIS) , Serious Money , S and P 500 , Stocks to Buy , Best Stocks for 2009 Despite what you here from almost all quarters about the market dropping ten percent or so, in what is deemed a bear market correction of our recent bear market rally, I will continue to buy into this market. Of course I will be selective, and as always be thinking long term.

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Serious Money: Three stocks that beat the market

Filed under: Google (GOOG) , Microsoft (MSFT) , Cisco Systems (CSCO) , Technology Over the weekend, I saw an interesting item over at CNET about Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO ) wanting to up the competitive ante against Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ). Cisco is investing in its WebEx conferencing technology to make it more valuable.

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Does Microsoft need to be concerned about Cisco’s recent plans?

Filed under: Analyst reports , Analyst upgrades and downgrades , QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM) , Analyst initiations , Rio Tinto plc ADS (RTP) Analyst upgrades: JPMorgan upgraded Franklin Resources (NYSE: BEN ) to Overweight from Underweight to reflect performance and sales improvements, as well as benefits from the weakening U.S. dollar

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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: LLY, NVLS, OSK, QCOM, RDS.A, RTP …

Filed under: PepsiCo (PEP) , General Motors (GM) , BP p.l.c. ADS (BP) , Rio Tinto plc ADS (RTP) When oil lost almost $3 a barrel, stock futures indicated a lower opening for today . Just shy of 5 AM, S&P 500, Down Jones, and Nasdaq 100 futures were all off 0.9%

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Oil down, futures down following holiday weekend