Posts Tagged health

Don McNay: Money and the Magic Pill

One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small. / And the one that mother give you, don’t do anything at all. ~ Jefferson Airplane I was talking to a person in the medical profession who said, “some patients are looking for a magic pill that will solve all their problems.” I said welcome to my business

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Top Day Trader Alerts (APL, BWLD, DJSP, DRYS, EK, HGRD, SIMG, S)

Day traders and active traders have many stocks on the move to choose from this Wednesday.  Some of the top percentage movers and standout stocks are Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P.

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (7/28/2010)

Updated throughout the day. Yahoo! (NYSE: YHOO) is building a competitor to Facebook (WSJ) Sallie Mae may be broken up and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) may handle the transaction (NY Post). Douglas A

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Restaurant Index "Softened" in May

This is one of several industry specific indexes I track each month.

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Fed Econ Letter: State budget crisis poses "modest risk to national recovery"

From Jeremy Gerst and Daniel Wilson at the SF Fed: Fiscal Crises of the States: Causes and Consequences .

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Bernanke on Stress Tests

From Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke: The Supervisory Capital Assessment Program–One Year Later Importantly, the concerns about banking institutions arose not only because market participants expected steep losses on banking assets, but also because the range of uncertainty surrounding estimated loss rates, and thus future earnings, was exceptionally wide.

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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMD, CAH, DMND, FDX, FLR, FWLT, GME, MA, MSFT, NVDA, RVBD, RIG, UPS, V)

There are many more significant calls than we expected in this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Maintained as Sell with $6 target at Auriga; Maintained Buy with $14 target at Broadpoint AmTech.

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Jason Alderman: Boomerang Kids? Get Ready for Boomerang Parents

Boomerang kids. You’ve probably read articles about them or may even have one yourself. That’s where parents reopen their formerly empty nests to adult children who are trying to pay off student loans or bills, save for a down payment or regroup after losing their job.

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Team Health IPO Scores Poorly on IPO Report Card (TMH)

Team Health Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TMH) did not drop out of the chute, but many are going to say that Team took one for the team.  The company priced 13.3 million shares in an IPO at $12.00 per share.  The problem with this one was that Team was supposed to originally sell 20 million shares [[ This is a content summary only

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Fed’s Beige Book: Economy "improved modestly"

From the Fed: Beige Book Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts indicate that economic conditions have generally improved modestly since the last report . Eight Districts indicated some pickup in activity or improvement in conditions, while the remaining four–Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, and Atlanta–reported that conditions were little changed and/or mixed

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