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4 Earnings Season Option Strategies For Monday November 9

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:31:43 GMT

In my latest three blog posts, I listed some stocks which I would be willing to go long by selling the puts right before the stock reported earnings. Keep in mind these are companies which I believed would have a positive reaction to the earnings, however if the stock moved sideways on the number this strategy would still likely return a gain the following day.[More...]

Biostar Raises $3.6 Million

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:26:18 GMT

Biostar Pharmaceuticals has completed a private placement that raised $3.6 million in new capital. Biostar will use the proceeds to complete its new raw materials processing facility. By taking its raw material production in house, Biostar will lower costs and ensure its product quality. Biostar plans to sell excess raw materials to other pharmaceutical companies in the Shaanxi province.[More...]

Google’s Android Takes A Bite Out Of Apple

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:34:54 GMT

Even during the worldwide recession it seems consumers continue to abandon ‘dumb’ phones when, for just a little bit more money, they can get a pocket-sized computer – a smartphone – instead. According to research firm Gartner, overall handset sales are expected to shrink by 4 percent this year compared to last year. Meanwhile, smartphone sales are forecast to grow by more than 20 percent.[More...]

Bulls Back On Track?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:21:18 GMT

Good morning. With chants of "Dow 10K… Dow 10K" once again rising from the streets at the corner of Broad and Wall yesterday, it is easy to believe that the bulls are back on track and that we'll soon be looking at new highs for the stock market. And when reviewing the data inputs to yesterday's 204 point romp, it is also easy to don the Dow10K hat once again and join in on the celebration.[More...]

Ford's Main Problem: The UAW's Crippling Job Classifications And Work Rules

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:52:50 GMT

Ford's 2,215 page 2007 master contract with the UAW 1941 UAW-Ford contract[More...]

Wall Street Surges On Strong Economic Data, Boeing (NYSE: BA) Rallies

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:29:19 GMT

US stocks rallied on Thursday as upbeat economic data and better-than-expected revenue forecast from Cisco bolstered investor confidence.[More...]

Closing Update: Bulls Take Charge, Sending DJIA Back Above 10,000

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:35:00 GMT

Wall Street looked past the previous session's mixed reaction to a murky Federal Reserve release and relished in upbeat economic data and earnings news Thursday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 200 points and back above 10,000. It's the biggest one-day jump for the blue-chip index since July 15.[More...]

Your Kind of Day?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:06:48 GMT

As a rule, I try not to read too terribly much into a "Fed Day" as there is usually a big batch of volatility that may or may not mean much of anything come the dawn of the next day. Maybe, it's just me. Or maybe there are others that find themselves inclined to simply stand aside and watch the nuttiness from the sidelines on "Fed Days." But in any event, the volatility after a Fed announcement, while fun to watch, may not be telling as to what to expect in the future.[More...]

Mercury News Interview: Kevin Johnson, CEO, Juniper Networks

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:50:00 GMT

Nov. 7--When Kevin Johnson was hired as CEO of Juniper Networks last year, analysts said the veteran Microsoft executive could help the Sunnyvale networking equipment company find new growth and ramp up competition with the much-larger market leader, Cisco Systems.
Last week, Johnson and other Juniper executives flew east for what the company billed as a major event, inaugurating their listing on the New York Stock Exchange and announcing new hardware and software for an audience of tech analysts and reporters.
Johnson, who ran sales and marketing at Microsoft before he was promoted to oversee Windows software and online services, described the Juniper announcements as a "stake in the ground for our vision for the next decade."

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4 Earnings Season Option Strategies For Monday November 9

Biostar Raises $3.6 Million

Google’s Android Takes A Bite Out Of Apple

Bulls Back On Track?

Ford's Main Problem: The UAW's Crippling Job Classifications And Work Rules

Wall Street Surges On Strong Economic Data, Boeing (NYSE: BA) Rallies

Closing Update: Bulls Take Charge, Sending DJIA Back Above 10,000

Your Kind of Day?

Mercury News Interview: Kevin Johnson, CEO, Juniper Networks

Software cos. eye key patent case in Supreme Court

Smart and powerful: New Droid offers replaceable battery, removable memory, free GPS

Supervisors will open bids for county liability insurance on Nov. 16

Stocks post modest gains as job losses slow

Stocks zigzag as dollar slides on jobs report

Business events scheduled for the coming week

Unemployment nears 10 pct. as rebound remains slow

Droid: Verizon Gets Next Best Thing To An iPhone

Adobe Debuts Photoshop.com Mobile for Android

ePlus Achieves Cisco Master Managed Services Certification; Company Recognized as Having Highest Level of Expertise in Developing and Delivering Managed Services

Amper, Politziner & Mattia Deploys WinMagic's SecureDoc Full-Disk Encryption to Protect All Data on Over 500 Company Laptops

THQ Reports Fiscal Second Quarter Results

Invensys Announces Wonderware Intelligence 1.0

IneoQuest Develops the First and Only Solutions for Monitoring, Analyzing and Reporting the Quality of Streaming Video to the iPhone(TM)

Stratus Program Offers SQL Server 2008 With Continuously Available ftServer Line

Cisco and EMC, Together With VMware, Form Coalition to Accelerate Pervasive Virtualization and Private Cloud Infrastructures

Cisco and EMC Together With VMware to Host News Webcast

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