Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMD, ACI, CTXS, EQIX, JDSU, NVDA, FTO, SO, SYMC)

These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Cut to Market Perform at FBR. Arch Coal Inc.

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (7/29/2010)

Updated throughout the day. Reuters: BP plc (NYSE: BP) plans to sell its assets in Venezuela. (Reuters) Monitronics is on the block represented by Moelis & Company.

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The 10 Biggest Dividend Stories of 2010 (GE, SBUX, UNH, MSFT, INTC, JPM, VZ, T, WMT, WY, BP, CSCO, AAPL)

2009 was the year that dividends were cut or went on hold.  2010 is becoming the greatest year of increases and initiations of dividends that the markets have ever seen.  There are dividend hikes galore, dividend initiations, and there are a few companies which are still trying to act as dividend holdouts. 24/7 Wall Street [[ This is a content summary only

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Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims: Eight Months of Moving Sideways

The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims : In the week ending July 24, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 457,000, a decrease of 11,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 468,000. The 4-week moving average was 452,500, a decrease of 4,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 457,000.

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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (7/29/2010)–Exxon Earnings, Kindle Price Cut

Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million Twitter users. It raises the question of whether there is wisdom in crowds.

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The Wealthy Will Save Troubled Social Security

Many financial experts and analysts believe that the national debt and high deficits will mean that the federal government will have to make tremendous cuts in spending before the end of the decade. Former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and Sen. Alan Simpson are co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and [[ This is a content summary only

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Irrefutable Data That Global Warming Is Real?

Those who worked to refute the huge IPCC 2007 study on global warming were wrong, perhaps. They had accused scientists of hyping their data, claims which have only recently been refuted

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Foreclosures Worsen In 75% Of Major Metro Areas In First Half

RealtyTrac, a leading real estate research firm, reports that foreclosures in 75% of metro areas rose in the first half, another sign that the housing market never recovered from the tough it hit 18 months ago. RealtyTrac’s  Midyear 2010 Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report shows 154 of the 206 U.S. metropolitan areas with a population of [[ This is a content summary only.

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Facebook Dominates New Online Rankings As World Cup Lifts ESPN

The June audience of ESPN.com soared to 30.6 million unique visitors as people checked out the World Cup online, according to research firm comScore. That moved it ahead of well-known sites including Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE), and Target (NYSE: TGT) It shows how one event, or one new product from a company [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Media Digest (7/29/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   The Fed Beige Book says some regions see economic slowing.

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