February 28, 2011 ”All My People Love Me” Says Gaddafi Obama Says He’ll Support Letting States Opt Out of Health Care Early Congress Works to Avert Government Shutdown Oil Down Today as Mideast Producers Pledge Supply Increase Personal Income and Outlays Report for January Shows Spending Slows but Prices Tame Chicago PMI Picks Up in February Pending Home Sales Sank in January, Revised into Red in December Tokyo Market Rises Shrugging Off Lower China Growth Target Interbank Rates Edge Higher Ahead of ECB Meeting REIT Merger as Ventas (NYSE: VTR) Buys Nationwide Health (NYSE: NHP) Buffet Looks to Buy Something New Kenneth Cole (NYSE: KCP) Q4 Loss Narrows Hutchinson Whampoa Plans Ports Spinoff J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) Angles for Twitter and Zynga Stake The Terrorist Inside British Airways Libya Criticizes UN Sanctions Oman Protestors Reject Sultan’s Offer Ivory Coast Violence Escalates How Long Can Wisconsin Protestors Occupy State Capitol Oscar Ratings Down from Last Year Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 25, 2011 Q4 GDP Revised Lower, to 2.8% Growth Consumer Confidence Jumps in February Wisconsin Bill Advances and then Fails Libya’s Power Struggle Oil Marking Biggest Gain in Two Years on Libya Lacker: Stress Tests Should Not Dismiss Extreme Scenarios US Warns Banks on Libyan Transfers IRS Easing Debt Lien Rules ECB May Relax on Hawkishness Putin Questions EU Policies on Energy and Foreign Affairs German Inflation at 2% It Could be Time to Buy that Bigger House J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) Misses Estimates Boeing Lifted by $35 Billion Air Force Contract Tenet (NYSE: TNT) Q4 Profit Soars Interpublic (NYSE: IPG) Highlights Strong Advertising Recovery Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) Sees $2 Billion in Sales Tripoli Protestors Resist as Fired Upon Angry Irish Set to Overhaul Government Organizers Call for Second Round of Demonstrations Across China Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 24, 2011 Jobless Claims Drop to 391K in February 19 Period January Durable Goods Orders Fell Excluding Transportation (-3.6%) New Home Sales Drop to 284K Pace in January FHFA House Price Index Down 0.3% in December 2010 EIA Crude Oil Inventory Rose 0.8 Million Barrels in February 18 Period Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 23, 2011 Benghazi Condemns Gaddafi Oil Prices Surging for Third Day on Libyan Unrest Gold in Longest Rally in Six Months Existing Home Sales Pace Picked up in January to 5.36 Million Mortgage Applications Increased in Latest Survey ICSC Same-Store Sales Sped to 2.6% Week-to-Week in February 19 Period (+3% Yearly) Madoff Trustee Sues SEC Attorney FDIC Insured Banks Earned $21.7 Billion in Q4 Euro, Pound Rise on Hopes of Higher Rates Greece’s Paralyzing General Strike Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) Shares Slump on Poor Sales Outlook Saks (NYSE: SKS) Benefits from Economic Gains Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Takes a Hit on Newspaper Softness KKR Boosted by Recovering Equity Markets (NYSE: KKR) Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Shareholders Vote on Succession Plan Global Community Isolates Gaddafi Minister Says Gaddafi Ordered Lockerbie Emanuel Celebrates Decisive Mayoral Victory Bahrain King Visits Saudi Allies New Zealand’s Death Toll Rising Indiana Dems Leave State to Avoid Union Vote Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 22, 2011 Libyan Chaos as Gaddafi’s Rule Ruined Wisconsin Governor Warns of Layoffs Consumer Confidence Jumps in February to 70.4 Investor Confidence Drops 9.2 Points in February S&P Case Shiller Home Price Index Drops 3.9% in Q4 to Near 2009 Lows Expect Higher Gas Prices at the Pump on Libya Credit Card Regulation Offers Hits and Misses Senator Aims to Curb Predatory Lenders ECB Rate Rise Seen in August Can the Saudis Save Us? Google Faces New European Antitrust Suit Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) Slips as US Sales Drop Holly (NYSE: HOC) Merges with Frontier (NYSE: FTO) Home Depot (NYSE: HD) Beats Views Barnes and Noble (NYSE: BKS) Misses and Slides Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) Trims View and Cuts Jobs Macy’s (NYSE: M) Sees Good Times Defiant Gaddafi Refuses to Quit Four Americans Killed by Somali Pirates Earthquake Strikes Kiwis Chicago Votes for its Mayor Is a US Government Shutdown on the Horizon? Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 18, 2011 Bernanke Addresses Global Imbalances at Paris Conference House Nears Passage of Budget Cut Plan G-20: Meeting Begins Wisconsin Governor Calls Union Bill Proposal Modest Request Sarkozy to Warn G-20 on Global Imbalances Flash Crash Panel Says Markets Still Fragile Oil Lifted by Mid-East Turmoil Spain Gives its Banks More Time to Raise Reserves Dollar Moves Lower on ECB Member Comments Deficit Could Reshape Retirement Funding Silver Reaches Highs Not Seen Since 1980 Falling Middle Class Incomes Ford (NYSE: F) Moves Into Russia with Sollers Deal Sony Projects its India TV Sales will Grow 70% Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) Says its January Sales Were Strong Chicago’s Giordano’s Pizza Maker Files for Bankruptcy BP Knew of Halliburton’s Woes (NYSE: BP, NYSE: HAL) Bahrain Forces Go Too Fire, Firing on Journalists and Mourners at Funeral Hard Lines Drawn in Middle East Egyptian Celebrate One Week After Mubarak’s Departure Libyans Rally as Humanitarian Group Issues Complaint Against Government Yemen’s Day of Rage Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 17, 2011 Consumer Price Index Concerns in January, Core CPI Up 0.2% Jobless Claims Jump Back Up Above 400K China Says US is Refusing Its Investments Boehner Says Obama’s Budget Dead on Arrival Bernanke Testifies on Dodd-Frank Leading Indicators Edge Up Just 0.1% in January Philly Fed Data Surges Gold Runs Some More on Fear and Indian Demand Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) Profits Rise 23%, but Misses Street Duke’s EPS Release (NYSE: DUK) Smuckers (NYSE: SJM) Profit Falls Samsung Expects Big Drive for 3D in 2011 Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) Net Jumps 31% Honda (NYSE: HMC) Recalls 97K Vehicles Cowen Buying LeBranche (Nasdaq: COWN) A Run on the Banks in the Ivory Coast Europe Ratifies Free Trade Deal with South Korea Security Forces Move in on Bahrain Protesters Scott Brown Shares His Abuse Story Pakistan Delays on Davis Ghadafi Thugs Face Day of Rage EIA Natural Gas Report Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 16, 2011 Housing Starts Surge in January January Producer Price Index Gets Hot at the Core Industrial Production Fell in January FOMC Meeting Minutes for Late January Mortgage Applications Lag Again Crude Rises on Iran Scare EIA Petroleum Status Report Gold Gains on Global Chaos Treasuries Get Safety Bid on Israel Belgian King Extends Term of Coalition Mediator Dell Jumps as Profit Tops Estimates (Nasdaq: DELL) Deere (NYSE: DE) Doubles Profit and Raises Outlook Peltz Buys Family Dollar (NYSE: FDO) Borders Goes Bankrupt (NYSE: BGP) Comcast (Nasdaq: CMSCA) Posts EPS Dean Foods Beats and Stabilizes (NYSE: DF) Iranian Government Calls for Hatred Expression this Friday Iranian Ships Moving Toward Suez Canal Protests Reach Libya North Korea Celebrates Kim’s Birthday Bahrain Protests Enter Third Day Yemen Enters Day 6 of Protests Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 15, 2011 January Retail Sales Fall Short, +0.3% vs. Consensus +0.5% Import and Export Prices Hotter than Forecast for January Empire State Manufacturing Survey Comes in About In Line Crude Oil Advances on Mid-East Unrest BOE Defends its Position as Inflation Comes in Twice the Expected Pace Bank of Japan Keeps Rates in Place BOJ Upgrades Economic Assessment Gold Rises on Global Uncertainty Survey Says Investor Confidence Tops in a Decade Treasury International Capital (TIC) Shows December Net Foreign Purchases of $65.9 Billion EU Growth Slowed in Q4 ICSC Weekly Same Store Sales in Feb 12 period: Weekly -1.4%, Yearly +2.7% Business Trade Report for December is Healthy: Inv +0.8%, Sales +1.1% February’s Housing Market Index Shows Cautious Builders – HMI 16 FedEx (NYSE: FDX) Fumbles its EPS on Weather and Rising Fuel Costs Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) Inks a Hotel Deal Home Depot (NYSE: HD) to Hire 60K Seasonal Workers C.B. Richard Ellis (NYSE: CBG) Buys ING Real Estate Unit Sirius Posts Loss as Costs Rise (Nasdaq: SIRI) Iranian Lawmakers Condemn Protests and Call for Execution of Leaders Yemeni Clashes Intensify Bahrain Protestors Gain Control of Square Thailand and Cambodia Clash Anew Along Border Muslim Brotherhood Forms a Political Party Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 14, 2011 The President’s Budget Proposal OMB Director Discusses the Budget Inflation Alert – Next is Clothing NY Fed’s Dudley Talks Up Economy NY Fed Updates Economic Outlook China Overtakes Japan to Become World’s Largest Economy Bailout Watchdog Resigns IRS Begins Accepting Itemized Returns Oil Wavers on Middle East Play Another Way to Go Long China Euro Slides Versus Dollar for Third Day EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) to Buy Hughes (Nasdaq: HUGH) MGM (NYSE: MGM) Signals Slow Vegas Recovery Trump Entertainment Selling Trump Marina Groupon Fumbles FTD Deal Casey’s Sues Subway Over Footlong Deal Iran Uses Tear Gas and Arrests to Break Up Protests Street Battles Rage in Yemeni Capitol Bieber Disappointed About Losing Best New Artist Grammy Bahrain Protests Spark Egypt’s Military Urges End to Strikes Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 11, 2011 Mubarak Steps Down, Police State Ended Mubarak Makes Exodus From Cairo Egyptians Converge After Mubarak’s Mistep Big Change in US Mortgage System Sought The President’s Housing Finance Reform Plan Dollar Strengthens as Egypt Freaks Out the World Trade Gap Expands in December but in Line at $40.6 Billion Consumer Sentiment Hits Eight Month High America’s Hottest Export is Weapons Republicans Aim at Deep Budget Cuts Chipotle (NYSE: CMG) Surges on Results Silver May Outshine Gold China Vows More Economic Support for Zimbabwe ECB, EC and IMF Issue Review of Greece US Out, Bonuses Back at GM (NYSE: GM) Blockbuster Heads Toward Sales Block Pilgrim’s Pride (NYSE: PPC) Profits Kinder Morgan Spikes Post IPO Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP) May Increase Buyback Pakistan Jails US Diplomat Ruling on Assange Case by February 24 Ahmadinejad Takes Credit for Egypt and Tunisia United Nations Takes Up Thai Cambodia Quarrel Scores Killed in South Sudan Fighting Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 10, 2011 Mubarak to Address Egypt this Evening as Military Signals Protesters’ Demands to be Met Jobless Claims Drop to 383K Fed Governor Warsh, Bernanke Confidante Leaving – He Opposed Stimulus Wheat Prices Grim Reaping OPEC’s Oil Report Shows Planned Cut in Production Pound Gains on Euro as BOE Holds Rates Steady Wholesale Trade Report for December Shows Inventory Increase Seizure of Two Tankers Pressures Oil Prices Natural Gas Inventory Drops 45 Bcf Below Five Year Average Foreclosure Exposure Splits Nation Treasury Budget Report at 2PM Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) Disappoints the Street Verizon (NYSE: VZ) iPhones on Sale, Looking for a Million Boerse NYSE Deal Global End Game (NYSE: NYX) Google and Facebook Eye Twitter (Nasdaq: GOOG) Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) Loss Narrows Encana (NYSE: ECA) May Sell Stake to Petrochina (NYSE: PTR) US Treasury Cuts Off Lebanese Banks Pakistan and India Agree to Restart Peace Talks Clashes Shatter South Sudan Truce Thailand, Cambodian Temple Trouble French Judges Protest Sarkozy Medvedev Vows to Deploy Sufficient Weapons to Secure Islands Disputed with Japan Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 9, 2011 Bernanke Testifies on Economy and Fed Policy Corn Surplus Cut on Ethanol, and a Smaller Global Crop is Projected Yuan Rises to 17-Year High Post Rate Hike 30% of Mortgages are Under Water Geithner Says Economy is Gaining Mortgage Applications Decrease as Rates Jump Crude and Gasoline Inventory Rose in February 4 Period Home Prices to Bottom this Year IMF Comments on Irish Efforts Coca-Cola Beats Estimates (NYSE: KO) Probe Clears Toyota (NYSE: TM) of Electronics Fault Claims Blogger: Homebuilder Shares a Prospective Buy Here AIG (NYSE: AIG) Taking $4.1 Billion Charge J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) Seeks to Move Madoff Trustee’s Case St. Joe (NYSE: JOE) Explores Strategic Alternatives LSE Bids for TMX Exchange, Raises Debate Tensions Rise as Protests Expand in Egypt Talks Between Koreas Collapse House Rejects Extension of the Patriot Act Berlusconi Underage Sex Scandal on Fast Track South Sudan Minister Shot Dead Thailand and Cambodia Step Up Diplomatic Effort Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 8, 2011 Parsing the President’s Message to the Chamber of Commerce Insider Trading Charges Asserted on “Expert Network” White House Sees Job Openings Dip in December Lacker Says Fed Should Pull Back Stimulus Brazil Battles Inflation Egypt’s Sells Most of Treasury Offering, as Yields Rise to High China Raises Rates for Third Time in Four Months A Chinese Drought Threatens Wheat Prices ICSC Sales Recover on Better Weather: Weekly +2.2%, Yearly +2.5% Toyota (NYSE: TM) Sees 39% EPS Slide, but Raises Forecast Food Prices Hurt Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE) McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) Finds Strength Overseas Kindred Health (NYSE: KND) to Acquire Rehabcare (NYSE: RHB) Teva’s (Nasdaq: TEVA) Outlook Disappoints While Profit Doubles Beazer Misses Street’s View as Orders Tumble (NYSE: BZH) Mubarak’s Concessions Rejected Assange Hearing: Her Text Messages Show She Wanted It Sudan to Accept South’s Secession Chechen Rebel Leader Accepts Responsibility for Attack on Moscow Airport Koreas Hold First Military Talks Since Island Attacks Cable Shows Israeli Support for Egyptian VP Fed Looks at Too Big Non-Bank Companies Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 7, 2011 AOL (NYSE: AOL) Buys Huffington Post Cairo Protestors Try to Keep Up the Pressure Greek Says Unemployment is Closer to 10% Groupon’s Ad Offends Everyone Euro Drops on Weak German Manufacturing Data Egypt Reduces Treasury Offering German Industry Orders Sink Obama Makes Nice with Business Layoffs Rarer Even Amid High Unemployment Consumer Credit Report Sugar Shortage Looms Due to Mess in Australia Danaher (NYSE: DHR) to Buy Beckman Coulter (NYSE: BEC) for $6.8 Bln. Santander (NYSE: STD) Offers $5.8 Bln. For Polish Bank Humana (NYSE: HUM) Net Falls 57% Loews (NYSE: L) Profit Increases Ensco (NYSE: ESV) Buying Pride (NYSE: PDE) for $7 Billion Property Market Gets Chinese New Year’s Blues Egypt Talks Damp Protests as VP Offers Free Vote US Desertion of Mubarak Dismays Israel Assange Extradition Hearing Opens in London Army Mutiny Leaves Dozens Dead in Sudan Aaron Rogers Overcomes to Win Superbowl for Packers Conservative Democrats Switch to GOP Across Deep South Hackers at the NASDAQ Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 4, 2011 SHOCKING Jobs Data Stuns Market: 9.0% Unemployment on Only 36K Addition in Jobs Egypt’s Day of Departure Egypt Driving Oil Prices Higher Monster Employment Index Drops from December to 122 in January 2011 Rating the Superbowl Ads SEC Examines High Frequency Trading Student Default Rate Surges 30-Year Fixed Rates Continue to Rise Germany and France Call EU Economic Summit Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) Gains on Higher Meat Prices Ally Financial Prepares for its IPO Apple’s Succession Plan (Nasdaq: AAPL) Clorox (NYSE: CLX) Profit Stung by Burt’s Bees Toyota’s Prius Passed by Honda’s Fit (NYSE: TM, NYSE: HMC) EU Doesn’t Need More Germany Mass Protests in Alexandria Egypt Khamenei Praises “Islamic Awakening” Clashes Break Out on Thailand Cambodia Border An Opening for Islam? Gold Prices Fall Madoff Victim Says Mets Ignored the Signs Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 3, 2011 Egypt’s Prime Minister Apologizes for Any Government Sided Violence Egypt’s Oil Impact Weekly Jobless Claims Fall Back to 415K in January 29 Period ISM Non-Manufacturing Survey Shows Service Sector Surge (59.4) UN Index Shows Global Food Costs at Record ECB Sees Short-Term Inflation Pressure Q4 Productivity Gains 2.6%, Against Expectations for 2.4% December Factory Orders Gain 0.2% Retailers Report Surprisingly Solid Sales Merck Misses and Pulls View (NYSE: MRK) New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Ad Revenue Slips and Profit Falls Autonation (NYSE: AN) Results Big Ford (NYSE: F) Recall CVS (NYSE: CVS) Plunges After EPS Results Energy Stocks Fall as Royal Dutch Shell Reports Bernanke Addresses the National Press Club at Lunch Yemeni Protests Intensify What Egypt’s Unrest Means for Hamas Mubarak’s Brutal Plan to Retain Power US Interests in Peril in Mideast McCain Says US Must Do Better Job of Promoting Democracy Winter Drawing on Natural Gas Stocks Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 2, 2011 Oil Prices Hold High as Egypt Catches Fire China to Raise Rates Again Soon ADP Report Shows Increase of 187K Private Payrolls in January Challenger Report Shows Corporate Layoffs at 38,519 in January Mortgage Applications Recover Lost Ground in Latest Check SEC Proposes SWAP Trading Rules EU to Produce New Bailout Package Oil Inventories Increased by 2.6 Million Barrels During January 28 Period AOL Profit Surges Despite Subscriber Attrition (NYSE: AOL) Time Warner Profit Beats Estimates (NYSE: TWX) Mattel (NYSE: MAT) Profit Slips Absent of Prior Year Gain Borders (NYSE: BGP) Falls on Report Won’t Make Payments Growing an American Car Industry – Tale of 2 Companies News Corp Launches iPad Only Publication Treasury Sells $72 Billion in Long-Term Debt Mubarak Supporters Clash with Protestors on Cairo Streets The Difference Between Egypt and Iran Tunisia Reopens for Business Powerful Cyclone Slams Australia Oil Spill Czar Says Gulf Recovery to Take 3 Years Storm Paralyzes Midwest Yahoo! Earnings Calendar February 1, 2011 Mass Rally Across Egypt for Ouster of Mubarak Threat to US Economy from Egypt Oil Rally Ends, but Brent Remains Above $100 ISM Manufacturing Index Gains in January to 60.8, Above Views Construction Spending Fell in December Bonds Dip as Investors Unwind Safehavens ICSC Weekly Same-Store Sales Slide in Latest Check, Down 1.0% Week-to-Week in January 29 Period DeGette Says Fracturing Damages Water Supplies Eurozone Manufacturing Picks Up Cuomo Presents a Tough NY Budget Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM) Profit Tops Street View UPS Profit Beats Analysts Views (NYSE: UPS) BP’s Oil Spill Costs Outlined (NYSE: BP) Dish Network (Nasdaq: DISH) Makes a $1 Billion Buy Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) Profit Beats Lexmark (NYSE: LXK) Beats Street Jordan’s King Tries to Trick His People Into Buying Superficial Change Root of the Egyptian Movement Saudi Arabia has Three Political Threats 7400+ Flights Cancelled Across the US on Weather Wall Street Warned of Al-Qaeda Threat Yahoo! 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