May 31, 2011 Consumer Confidence Slides 5.2 Points in May to Index Reading of 60.8 Debt Limit Vote Takes Aim at Democrats Chicago PMI Drops Sharply in May S&P Case Shiller Home Price Index Falls Further Euro Advances on Greek Aid Deal Optimism Lagarde Tops IMF Options Oxfam Sees Food Inflation and Hunger Ahead Oil Prices Slip Investor Confidence Gained in May Debt Limit Vote Takes Aim at Democrats Egypt Dips into IMF Coffer for $3 Billion Nokia Issues Earnings Warning (NYSE: NOK) Wal-Mart’s South African Deal Approved (NYSE: WMT) Wal-Mart Replaces China Bosses VW Eyes MAN Acquisition Yongye (Nasdaq: YONG) Soars 46% on CEO’s Interest Canadian Industrial Prices Rise 0.5% Palin Bus Tour Leaves DC Bachmann Says Palin Not a Competitor Karzai Warns NATO Against Bombings Extradition for Mladic Likely E. Coli Killing Europeans Fortis Buys Central Vermont Public Service (NYSE: CV) Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 27, 2011 Personal Income & Outlays Report for April G-8 Concerned About Rising Commodity Prices Pending Home Sales Sunk in April Google Wallet, the Automatic Cell Phone Payment System (Nasdaq: GOOG) German Inflation Eased in May Consumer Sentiment Lifted in May Wheat Called Lower on Demand Drop Clean Diesel Technologies Jumps 27% (Nasdaq: CDTI) Skyworks Buys Advanced Analog (Nasdaq: SWKS, Nasdaq: AATI) Dexia Takes Big Charge (Nasdaq: DEXB) Gordman’s Stores Shares Drop 22% on Outlook (Nasdaq: GMAN) Oil Prices, Energy Stocks Up Failure to Act on Debt Could Spell Trouble for Economy Patriot Act Passed and Signed U.S. Pakistan Relations at Turning Point, Says Clinton 80K Displaced In South Sudan New Jersey Quits Cap and Trade Kim Concludes China Tour Obama Visits Poland Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 26, 2011 GDP Q1 2011 at 1.8%, Short of Consensus Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Increase to 424K in May 26 Period Greece Needs 40% of Debt Forgiven Asian Demand for Bailout Bonds Lifts Euro SocGen Sees Crude Reaching $106 Foreclosures 28% of Q1 Sales EPA and DOT Unveil New Fuel Economy Labels ECB May Have Leeway with Greece Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index Improves Weekly Natural Gas Report Signet Jewelers (NYSE: SIG) Profit Shines 50% Brighter Big Lots Cuts Profit View (NYSE: BIG) Lenovo Profit More than Triples (OTC: LNVGY.PK) Tiffany (NYSE: TIF) Up 6% on Blowout Results Yahoo, Break Up or Not? (Nasdaq: YHOO) UBS to Spin-Off Investment Banking Unit (NYSE: UBS) Serbian War Crimes Fugitive Mladic Arrested Obama Meets Medvedev, Pushes for Russian WTO Entry Few Joplin Survivors Found Judge Rules Jared Incompetent Romney, Palin Lead GOP Field Obama in France for G-8 Summit Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 25, 2011 Durable Goods Orders Fell in April Oil Prices Fall as Gasoline Stockpiles Surge Gas Prices Falling Into Memorial Day Weekend Lagarde Vies for IMF Top Spot FHFA House Price Index Falls 2.5% in First Quarter Mortgage Applications Inch Higher in Latest Period Oil and Gasoline Inventory Increase Elizabeth Warren Fields Assault from Hill Gold and Silver Inch Higher Dollar Gains, Euro Falls Zynga, the Next Big IPO AIG Shares Fall as Treasury Seeks Additional Capital on Share Sale Yandex (Nasdaq: YNDX) Giving Back Ground Today Despite Ambitions Barnes & Noble Unveils New Nook (NYSE: BKS) Costco Profit Grows 5.9% (Nasdaq: COST) Plug Power Down 16% While Raising Capital (Nasdaq: PLUG) Obama, Cameron have Gaddafi on Their Minds Deadly Tornadoes Churn Across Midwest Guiliani Considering Another White House Bid Yemen Explodes with Gunbattles in the Streets Ash Cloud Screws Up Holiday Travel Obama’s Jewish Backers on Edge Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 24, 2011 Times Up for Greek Premier Papandreou New Home Sales Accelerate to 323K Annual Rate in April Corporate Tax Deadbeats Pocketing Billions Oil Futures Higher on Weaker Dollar Yandex IPO Hits the Gates Oversubscribed FDIC Bank Review Shows Rising Profits as Number of Troubled Institutions Increased Retailers Weekly Sales Gain 3.1% in Latest Survey EU Factory Orders Slide Worse than Forecasts ECB Helping or Hurting Matters? The European View of Obama J.M. Smucker Raising Coffee Prices (NYSE: SJM) Chrysler Paying Off $7.5 Billion in Government Debts Autozone Beats Street, Shares Gain 6% (NYSE: AZO) Disney Plans 40 New Concept Stores (NYSE: DIS) El Paso to Split Company in Two (NYSE: EP) Fed Governor Duke Discusses Financial Education Doomsday Prophet Turns Out to be Snake Oil Salesman European Flights Ashed by Volcano and New Rules Libyan Rebels Find DC Home Away from Home Netanyahu to Address US Congress Picking Up the Pieces as New Storms Arrive in Plains Pawlenty’s First Day on Presidential Trail Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 23, 2011 Slowing China Weighs on European Growth China’s Manufacturing Growth Cools EU Smaller Fish Under Pressure Crude Oil Falls on EU and China Concerns Greece Scrambles to Prepare New Measures to Reassure Markets Gas Prices Falling Nationally Scott Brown Divides from GOP on Medicare The Latest Congressional Budget Bumbling Why the Debt Ceiling Doubters are Wrong US is Worse Off than Euro Nations Italy’s Ratings Affirmed S&P Cuts Italy Outlook Sony’s Catastrophic Quarter (NYSE: SNE) Is Yandex the Next Big Internet IPO Krispy Kreme (NYSE: KKD) Profit Doubles Campbell’s Beats Analysts’ Views (NYSE: CPB) Identive Climbs 21% After Signing Reseller Agreement (Nasdaq: INVE) Elbit Imaging (Nasdaq: EMITF) Drops 20% Tornadoes Rip Through Missouri Obama: Ireland Punches Above its Weight Icelandic Volcano Erupts, Air Traffic Concerns Erupt Taliban Attack Pakistani Naval Base Sudan Town Lit Ablaze as Conflict Erupts Again Spanish Socialists Hammered in Elections May 18, 2011 Geithner Warns Congress to Get it Together Regarding the Debt Issue Geithner Calls on IMF to Replace DSK Gingrich Tamps Down Furor Over Medicare Comments Gold and Silver Rise Treasuries Snap 3-Day Rally After Deep Yield Dive Oil Prices Firm EIA Petroleum Status Report IMF Chief Pressured to Quit Low Rates Lift Weekly Mortgage Activity BP Rosneft Flop Good for Russia (NYSE: BP) Dell Gets Up on HP Thanks to Corporate Spending (Nasdaq: DELL) Target Beats the Street (NYSE: TGT) Deere Q2 Lifted by Price Hikes (NYSE: DE) United Continental (NYSE: UAL) Rebranding Itself Allstate (NYSE: ALL) Buying Esurance Nobel Learning to be Taken Private (Nasdaq: NLCI) Mother of Arnold’s Love Child Named Shriver Showed Up at Oprah’s Farewell Gig Tanks Shell Syrian Town Libyan Battle Takes to Mountain Refuge Queen Visits Irish Massacre Site Gingrich Showered with Glitter Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 17, 2011 Housing Starts Slipped in April to 523K Industrial Production Flattens in April, Capacity Utilization Deteriorates Oil Reverses Gains on Dollar Softness, Growth Outlook NY Attorney General’s Office Seeks Bank Records ICSC Weekly Sales Show 3.2% Yearly Gain, 2.0% Weekly Decline in May 14 Period Gold Firms Against Dollar Greece IMF EU Meeting Business as Usual LinkedIn Lifts IPO Price Exploding Watermelons Shed Light on Suspect Chinese Farming Practices Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) Cuts Forecasts as Consumers Hold Back (NYSE: HPQ) Wal-Mart Shares Suffer on Soft US Sales, While International Biz Up (NYSE: WMT) Home Depot (NYSE: HD) Sales Slip eLong (Nasdaq: LONG) Jumps 15% on Tercent Stake Pernix Therapeutics (AMEX: PTX) Drops 21% on Results Airline Shares Gaining as Oil Prices Slide Discovered Irish Bomb Awaited Queen French Anger at US Lynching of Strauss-Kahn Trump, Huckabee Out, then Who’s in at the GOP? New Orleans Trembles at Power of Mississippi Pakistan Alleges NATO Fires on Border Post Syria Denies Existence of Mass Grave Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 16, 2011 IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn Caught Sex-Handed What Happens if the Debt Ceiling is NOT Raised? Empire State Manufacturing Survey Shows NY Area Manufacturing Expands at Slower Pace in May 11.88 IMF Arrest Can’t Distract EU from Greece Tens of Thousands Show Up for Spanish Austerity Protest China Sells US Treasuries Again in March Geithner Implements More Debt Measures TIC Data Shows Less Interest in Long-Term US Securities Bernanke Discusses Government Promotion of R&D NAHB Housing Market Index Shows Builder Confidence Lacking in May – Index 16 Oil Price Update Gold and Silver Prices Stabilize Economists Surveyed Discount Inflation NASDAQ Drops NYSE Bid (Nasdaq: NDAQ, NYSE: NYX) Sandisk Enters Enterprise Storage Market with Pliant Acquisition (Nasdaq: SNDK) Primedia (NYSE: PRM) Acquired by TPG Capital CNinsure (Nasdaq: CSIG) Up 30% on Offer DuPont (NYSE: DD) Gets Danisco J.C. Penney Raises Outlook (NYSE: JCP) Endeavor Hunts Anti-Matter in Final Mission al-Qaeda Kills Saudi Diplomat in Karachi Floodgates of Hell Opened Nakba Protests Threaten Israel Arrest Warrant Wanted for Gaddafi Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 13, 2011 Core CPI Index Heats in April: Headline CPI +0.4%, Core CPI +0.2% EU Sees Growth Mixed with Inflation EU Spring Economic Forecasts Weaker Dollar Pushes Oil Up Greece Debt Default Expected by 85% Globally Greece Opposition Leader Announces a Recovery Plan One Year Post Bailout, Greece Still Hurting Gold and Silver Prices Drop Bernanke Remarks Social Security Changes Off the Table 47% of Americans Oppose Debt Increase Yahoo Down on Alibaba Misstep (Nasdaq: YHOO) Nvidia Down on EPS Results (Nasdaq: NVDA) Agilent Technologies Beats Estimates (NYSE: A) Astea Up 30% on Results (Nasdaq: ATEA) Dillard’s Profit and Shares Soar (NYSE: DDS) Ron Paul Announces His Run for the Presidency Suicide Bombers Blast Pakistan Friday Protests in Syria Obama Visits Flood Victims Mubarak’s Wife Detained in Corruption Probe Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 12, 2011 Producer Price Index Hot in April: Headline +0.8%, Core +0.3% Retail Sales Rise 0.5% in April Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Still Elevated at 434K China Raises Reserve Bank Ratios Again Foreclosure Activity at 40-Month Low Oil CEOs on the Hot Seat EIA Oil Market Report Oil Prices Curbing Demand Euro Steadies Against Dollar Euro Steadies Against Dollar Chinese Seek to Cool Growth and Inflation Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) Slides on Results DynaVox (Nasdaq: DVOX) Climbs 16% on Results Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) Up on Results LGL Group (AMEX: LGL) Down 15% on Results Kohl’s Raises Outlook (NYSE: KSS) Natural Gas Inventory Rises by 70 Bcf Business Trade Report for March Shows Sales Exceed Inventories Bloomberg’s Consumer Comfort Index Slips Osama Bin Laden’s Diary Louisiana Readies for River Mitt Romney Tackles Obamacare Spain’s Devastating Earthquake Syrian Death’s Rise Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 11, 2011 U.S. Selling 300 Million AIG Shares (NYSE: AIG) U.S. China Reach Milestone Agreement Top Oil Execs to Appear Before Congress to Defend Tax Breaks Trade Deficit Expanded in March to $48.2 Billion Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest Release Greece Will Need More Aid Greece Will Not be Let Out of the Eurozone Gold and Silver Prices Rising Detroit Gains on Toyota’s Woes (NYSE: TM) Rovi Shares Up 21% as Raises Outlook (Nasdaq: ROVI) Macy’s Beats and Raises (NYSE: M) Intel Raises Dividend 16% (Nasdaq: INTC) IntraLinks Down 33% on Results (NYSE: IL) Dollar Mixed Against Global Currencies Oil Extends Decline Oil Inventory Up 3.8 Mln. Barrels, Gasoline Up 1.3 Mln. Treasury Budget Release at 2:00 PM India Puts Pakistani Army Officers on Most Wanted List Iranian Lip Service in Nuclear Letter Libyan Rebels Capture Misrata Airport Mississippi Targets Louisiana Now Romney Plans Big Health Care Speech NAFSA Issues Report on Immigration Reform and Undocumented Students Assad Shells Homs Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 10, 2011 Geithner on US China Policy Import and Export Prices Rose Sharply in April: Exports +1.1% M/M, Imports +2.2% M/M China Trade Gap Widens Sharply Greece Denies New Bailout Talks, Borrowing Costs Rise European Shares Harmed by Greek Concerns NFIB Small Business Optimism Index Slips in April to 91.2, from 91.9 Oil Drops from 3-Day High Gold Rises for 3rd Day Straight Obama Fights to Save Health Care Dollar Commodity Analysis Pew Research: Credit Card Review ICSC Weekly Same-Store Sales Flat Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion (Nasdaq: MSFT) Sears Considers Skipping Out on Chi-Town (Nasdaq: SHLD) Dean Foods Produces Bitter Sweet Quarter (NYSE: DF) BioMimetic Therapeutics Drops 30% on EPS Results Pro-Dex (Nasdaq: PDEX) Up 54% on Results DealerTrack (Nasdaq: TRAK) Up 14% on Results Christian Persecution in Egypt Mississippi River Cresting Near Memphis, Concerns Shift to South River Rising Highlights Bailout Costs Navy SEALS Readied to Battle Pakistani Forces as Well NATO Bombs Tripoli Assad May Retain Power in Syria Medvedev Wants to Talk About Castrating Pedophiles Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 9, 2011 U.S. China Talks Aim to Keep Irritants in Check Standard & Poor’s Downgrades Greece Rating Oil Marches Back to $100 Gold and Silver Prices Recovering EU Eyes Lower Rates for Greece, Ireland Amid Chaos Are Gas Prices About to Drop? Democrats Aim to End Oil Company Tax Breaks to Balance Budget Economic Optimism Down in U.S. and EU Hatzler Defends GOP and Ryan’s Plan Wall Street’s Unethical Bias The Week Ahead on the Hill Dollar Thrifty (NYSE: DTG) in Hertz (NYSE: HTZ), Avis (NYSE: CAR) Bidding War Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) Reports Flat Profits McDonald’s Sales Top Estimates in April +6% (NYSE: MCD) IPO Weekly Schedule Ahead Volkswagen Bids on MAN SE Iran Sets Oil Expectation at $81.50 per Barrel China U.S. Strategic Talks Get Started Monday Euro Fears Weigh on EU Shares Nuclear Fears Nix Nikkei High Radiation Levels Detected Near Fukishima Plant Egypt Tense After Attacks on Christians Kill 12 Syria Arrests Hundreds More in Fresh Raids Mississippi Rising al-Qaeda’s Plots Exposed Bin Laden’s Pathetic Life Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 6, 2011 Employment Situation Report for April Shows +244K Nonfarm Payrolls, 9.0% Unemployment Rate Commodity Bubble Continues to Burst Debt Deal Closer Europe’s Telecom Stocks Taking Economic Hit Spanish Recovery Still Too Modest for Comfort Flash Crash, Then and Now Consumer Credit Report for March Will Gasoline Prices Follow Crude Lower? China Yuan Steady Ahead of US Meeting Gold and Copper Rebound, Silver Set for Worst Week in 30 Years Tourism Threatened Along the Big Muddy River Canadian Unemployment Rate Improves to 7.6% President Hypes Energy Policy Alcatel-Lucent Trims Loss, but Shares Off on U.S. Concern Kraft Overcame Commodity Costs in Q1 Echelon Up 16% on Strong Results (Nasdaq: ELON) Obagi Medical Shares Plunge 27% on Weak Results (Nasdaq: OMPI) LSB Industries (NYSE: LXU) Up 16% on EPS Gaddafi Accused of War Crimes al-Qaeda Confirms Bin Laden Death, Threatens Attacks on U.S. Osama’s Little Lady Says She Hadn’t Left Compound in 5 Years First GOP Presidential Debate Focuses on Pawlenty Syria’s Protests Stalwart France Expels Libyan Diplomats The Flooding Mississippi Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 5, 2011 Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Soar GM Beats Q1 Views on US Sales Growth, Shares Drop (NYSE: GM) ECB Holds and Signals No Hike in June ECB Monetary Policy and Webcast Monster Reports Increase in Online Job Demand Portugal Needs National Effort to Restore Economy Retailers Post Strong April Chain Store Sales Productivity and Costs Report Shows 1.6% Gain in Q1 Consumer Comfort Falls in Early May Take a Stand on the Debt Ceiling? Polypore (NYSE: PPO) Beats Street, Shares Climb 20% Timberland (NYSE: TBL) Disappoints, Stock Drops 25% Aeropostale Sinks on Revised Guidance (NYSE: ARO) INC Snags Kendle and Shares Up 57% (Nasdaq: KNDL) Poland Drafts Deficit Plan EIA Reports Seasonal Increase in Natural Gas Storage Bernanke Discusses Macroprudential Approach to Regulation and Supervision Yen Jumps Broadly After Noda’s Comments Syria Claims Withdrawal from Daraa Daraa Residents Say Assad Still Assaulting Them Pakistan Says No Resistance in “Cold Blooded US Raid” Osama Bin Laden is No Geronimo Clinton Opens Door to Palestine Clinton Shows No Mercy to Gaddafi Nuclear Workers Enter Japanese Reactor Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 4, 2011 ADP Shows Less Private Nonfarm Payroll Growth than Forecast in April Challenger Shows Less Layoffs in April New Deadline No Excuse not to Raise the Debt Limit Now Portuguese Yields on Rise Despite Bailout Deal Weekly Mortgage Activity Lifted by Refinance Action EIA Petroleum Status Shows 3.4 Million Barrel Growth in Oil Inventory, 1.0 Million Barrel Drop in Gasoline RenRen, China’s Facebook, Joins High Flying Internets (Nasdaq: RENN) Oil Prices and Energy Stocks Slide Applied Materials Acquiring Varian Semiconductor (Nasdaq: AMAT, VSEA) Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Nasdaq: GMCR) Jumps 21% on Strong Results BTU International Guidance Starts Stock in Down Spiral (Nasdaq: BTUI) Glencore IPO Values Co. at $60 Billion ConAgra (NYSE: CAG) Bids on Ralcorp (NYSE: RAH) Juror Replaced in Insider Trading Trial of Raj Silver at 3-Week Low Massive Arrests in Syria WikiLeaks Shows Shaky US Pakistan Alliance Planned Parenthood Plucked at State Level Government Blasting Levees to Stop Flooding NATO Chief Says Gaddafi Weakened Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 3, 2011 Geithner Eases the Budget Heat, til August to Raise Debt Ceiling Factory Orders Rise 3.0% in March, Ahead of 2% Expectation Euro Rising Ahead of ECB Silver and Gold Continue Slide April Auto Sales Expected to Jump 19% Retailers Weekly Sales Rise 2.8% Oil Prices Slip as Dollar Rises RBI Raises Interest Rates RBI Hike Pulls Down SENSEX US Has High Corporate Tax But Few Pay It Sirius XM Posts Growth in Q1 (Nasdaq: SIRI) Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) Profit Disappoints Archer Daniels Midland Posts Strong Growth (NYSE: ADM) Sears (Nasdaq: SHLD) Sinks on EPS Warning Computer Sciences (NYSE: CSC) Drops 12% on Warning Kulicke & Soffa (Nasdaq: KLIC) Beats Guidance and Soars Cognex (Nasdaq: CGNX) Shares Surge on EPS and Forecast US Believes al-Qaeda Destruction Now Within Reach Zardari Defends Pakistan After its Absentee Ally Status What’s Next for al-Qaeda? Is it Okay to Feel Happy About OBL’s Death? Syria Steps Up Intimidation Yahoo! Earnings Calendar May 2, 2011 U.S. Special Forces Take Out Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan World Leaders Worry About Revenge Attacks Bin Laden Backers Warn of 7/7 Style Revenge Attack Markets Revved Up by Death of Osama Bin Laden Global Markets Celebrate Death of Evil Silver Prices Plunge on OBL’s Killing Greece Targets Tax Evasion Dollar Rallies on US Victory US Economic Slowdown Set to Sink Job Market Again European and Indian Factories Heat Up Arch Coal Buys ICG (NYSE: ACI) ECB Urged to Stop Stimulus Measures Teva Buys Cephalon (Nasdaq: TEVA, Nasdaq: CEPH) Chrysler Posts First Profit Since Bankruptcy Buffet Positive on State of U.S. Economy and Markets Teens Face Jobless Summer Dish Network (Nasdaq: DISH) Makes Plan to Avoid Bankruptcy April ISM Manufacturing Data Shows Better than Expected at 60.4 March Construction Spending Up 1.4% Taliban Commander Vows Vengeance Palestine Split on Bin Laden Death Gaddafi’s Son Killed by NATO Missile Pope John Paul II Beatified Before 1.5 Million Yahoo! 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