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Abercrombie & Fitch bid higher after Q2 report — why?

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Filed under: Earnings reports , Gap Inc (GPS) , Abercrombie and Fitch (ANF) , American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF ) is such a funny stock story. The company reports what I thought was a quarter full of dire results, and the market still sends shares higher. They closed almost 4% higher, in fact, on Friday

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Abercrombie & Fitch bid higher after Q2 report — why?

Dole files for an IPO … again

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Filed under: Initial public offerings At the age of 86, David Murdock has a storied career in Corporate America.

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Dole files for an IPO … again

Solar stock #2: Evergreen Solar (ESLR)

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Filed under: Earnings reports , Stocks to Sell , Green Stocks After the closing bell on July 30, Massachusetts-based Evergreen Solar Inc.

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Solar stock #2: Evergreen Solar (ESLR)

Earnings highlights: Blockbuster, Walmart, Applied Materials, ING, Priceline …

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Filed under: Earnings reports , Wal-Mart (WMT) , Blockbuster Inc ‘A’ (BBI) , Applied Materials (AMAT) , CIT Group (CIT) , Sara Lee Corp (SLE) , Kohl’s Corp (KSS) , Hormel Foods (HRL) , Liz Claiborne (LIZ) , Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF) Here are some highlights from last week’s earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT ) posted better-than-expected Q3 results , sending shares higher

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Earnings highlights: Blockbuster, Walmart, Applied Materials, ING, Priceline …

Solar stock #1: Akeena Solar (AKNS)

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

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Filed under: Earnings reports , Stocks to Buy , Green Stocks Before the opening bell on July 30, Northern California-based Akeena Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: AKNS ) reported a 17% decline in second-quarter revenue year over year. However, like we’ve seen so often this earnings season , the company’s cost-savings efforts resulted in a better-than-expected bottom-line earnings numbers

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Solar stock #1: Akeena Solar (AKNS)

Comfort Zone Investing: Beware pretty promises when buying biotechs

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Filed under: Amgen Inc (AMGN) , Comfort Zone Investing Biotechs are fascinating. They have such great promise, yet very few of them actually turn those promises into money.

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Comfort Zone Investing: Beware pretty promises when buying biotechs

Oil prices close out the week lower

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Filed under: Forecasts , Middle East , Market matters , Economic data , Oil , Recession Oil took a beating tyesterday , as investors sold off the precious crude in the wake of a weak consumer confidence report that renewed pessimism towards economic recovery. The University of Michigan reported that its consumer confidence index dipped to 63.2, down from 66 in July

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Oil prices close out the week lower

What’s hot and what’s not in solar stocks

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Filed under: Suntech Power Hldgs ADS (STP) , Green Stocks Several high-profile solar companies recently reported earnings, and although these companies posted mixed results for the most recent quarter, there’s no denying that Wall Street has been turning its face toward the sun and bidding up the shares of solar stocks. So, what’s the latest earnings front from stocks in the solar space, and why do the shares of some of the hottest solar stocks continue to shine?

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What’s hot and what’s not in solar stocks


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