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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BKC, PSS, DROOY, GFI, KSP, MFE, MITL, MELI)

These are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes this morning: Burger King Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BKC) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray. Collective Brands, Inc

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Today’s Best Market Rumors 8/24/2010

Updated throughout the day. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) will up its bid for 3Par (NYSE: PAR) (various) Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) will offer a research application at the Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) App store. Douglas A.

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The Housing ‘Solution’ Is No Solution At All

By John Tamny of Forbes Worse than efforts to prop us housing are the suggestions from money managers and economists that we need to help more Americans achieve homeownership altogether.  That the English-speaking world has a storied obsession with property doesn’t seem to concern those who want to subsidize ownership even more.

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/9/2010)

Updated throughout the day Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) deal with Saudi Arabia over Blackberry use is said to undermine use by younger subscribers. (Bloomberg) Whitehaven Coal rose in Sydney trading after The Australian Finance Review said First Reserve Corp would take over the company. A sales of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) shares by China [[ This is a content summary only

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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Watch (8/9/2010): HP Girl, McDonald’s Sales, BP Costs

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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Nonsense Rumor on Fannie and Freddie

Several people have sent me a political blog post on Reuters: An August Surprise from Obama? Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (7/21/2010)

Updated throughout the day.

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (7/1/2010)

Updated throughout the day. Robert Benmosche, CEO of American International Group (NYSE: AIG) threatened to resign, again.

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Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims at 453,000

The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims : In the week ending May 29, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 453,000, a decrease of 10,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 463,000. The 4-week moving average was 459,000, an increase of 1,750 from the previous week’s revised average of 457,250. …

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/21/2010)

Update throughout the day. The head of global markets for UBS in Asia is leaving.

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