June 30, 2011 S&P to Cut Ratings Deeply if US Misses Ceiling Deadline Weekly Jobless Claims Still High Obama’s Jobs Plan Targeting Voters? Greek Drama May Recur Greece Voting on Austerity Details German Banks Rollover Greek Debt Senate to Stay on Through July 4th Holiday Chicago PMI Business Barometer Busts Out in June Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index Hits 10-Week High Natural Gas Inventory Report MySpace Sold for a Tenth of What News Corp Paid Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) Taxed by California Leading Brands Rockets After Release (Nasdaq: LBIX) RIT Technologies Biz Win Drives Stock Higher (Nasdaq: RITT) USANA Health Gains on Outlook (Nasdaq: USNA) Britain Arming Libyan Rebels France Admits to Arming the Libyans Nigerian Discovered on Flight from NYC to LA Without Proper Ticketing NATO Kills Senior Afghan Militant USDA Farm Report Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 29, 2011 Greek Parliament Okays Austerity Program Despite Protests Greek Protests Continue Post Vote Markets Gain On Greece Vote Pending Home Sales Gain in May Mortgage Applications Decrease IMF Urges U.S. on Debt Ceiling Sarah Bloom Raskin Speaks Today EIA Petroleum Status Report Shows Drawn Oil and Gasoline Inventory General Mills Lowballs 2012 Outlook (NYSE: GIS) Global Central Banks Keep Dollar Swaps Open Bank of America Settles MBS Dispute for $14 Billion (NYSE: BAC) BJ Wholesale (NYSE: BJ) Taken Private in $2.8 Billion Deal Monsanto Raises Full Year Forecast (NYSE: MON) Twitter Co-Founders Take Obvious Next Step K.B. Home (NYSE: KBH) Loss Widens Kabul Hotel Attack Avenges Bin Laden Death Obama and McConnell Hold Competing Press Conferences Egyptians Take to Streets Once More Hague Concerned About Iranian Missile Tests Hugo Chavez in Critical Condition Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 28, 2011 Greek Riots Intensify Ahead of Vote Global Markets Ignore Greek Riots Consumers in Even Worse Mood in June Home Prices Level Off Month-to-Month in April, Says Case Shiller Geithner Backs Lagarde for IMF Lead Obama’s Tax Plan Investor Confidence Drops in Latest Check Obama Got the Oil Issue Right Euro Rallies Ahead of Greek Vote Debt Ceiling – Just Do It! Microsoft Introducing Web-Based Office to Fend Off Google (Nasdaq: MSFT, Nasdaq: GOOG) LinkedIn Gets Hooked Up (Nasdaq: LNKD) Buy Analysts of IPO Assisting Firms Billionaire’s Stake Sends Kraft Foods Higher (NYSE: KFT) Denbury (NYSE: DNR) Buys Riley Ridge from Cimarex Sony CEO Takes Pay Cut as Profit Drops (NYSE: SNE) Fire Surrounds Los Alamos Iran Test Fires Missiles Capable of Reaching Israel Aubry to Challenge Sarkozy Sending a Message with the Blago Verdict Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 27, 2011 French Banks Agree on Greek Debt Personal Income and Outlays Data Shows Higher Prices in May, Lighter Spending Obama Meeting Senators on the Debt Ceiling Crude Oil Extends Losses China Confident in its European Investments Euro Rallies on Comfort with Greece Gasoline Prices are Getting Good Kocherlakota on Leverage and Taxes Minneapolis Fed Midyear Outlook QE2a? Fed May Make More Purchases Nissan Targets Larger U.S. Stake Icagen Doubles on Rumored Pfizer Deal (NYSE: PFE, Nasdaq: ICGN) NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) Hit by Glitch GSV Capital Gets Facebook Stake Stanley Black and Decker Makes Bid for Swedish Rival LA Dodgers File for Bankruptcy Flotilla Approaches Israel China Warns NATO on Libya France Investment Planned in Nuclear Bachmann Touts Iowa Roots Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 24, 2011 Q1 GDP Revised Higher by a Tenth of a Point Sharp Slowdown in Eurozone Durable Goods Orders Stronger than Expected in May Obama Steps into Debt Talks King Warns U.K. Not Immune to Eurozone Woes JD Powers Sees June Auto Sales Up 2.6% Luxury Brands Follow Money to Asia Euro Falls on Greek Debt Crisis City Dwellers Got $394 Million in Farm Credits Obama Favors High Tech Manufacturing Williams Cos. Makes Offer to Buy Southern Union (NYSE: SUG, NYSE: WMB) Meta Financial (Nasdaq: CASH) Soars 26% on Investor Comments Google Confirms FTC Probe (Nasdaq: GOOG) Alcoa (NYSE: AA) Wins Billion Dollar Airbus Business GoDaddy Going for $2 Billion U.S. House Votes Down Libyan War Authorization North Dakota Waits on Massive Flooding Genocide Court Jails Female Rwandan for Life NATO Too Weak to Take Out Gaddafi Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 23, 2011 Debt Negotiations Come to Halt on GOP Walk Out IEA Strategic Reserve Release Irks OPEC EU Warns Banks on Greek Debt Holdings Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Rose 9K to 429K in Latest Check New Home Sales Sink to 319K in May Weekly Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index Slips Chicago Fed National Activity Index Slips but Still in the Red Natural Gas Inventory Rose in Latest, but Still Short of Historical J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) Settles Up with Lehman Clients for $800 Million Mobile Ad Spending to Quadruple by 2015 Viacom Sues Cablevision Over iPad Streaming Video App (NYSE: CVC, NYSE: VIA) Oil Stocks Take Hit on Reserve News Lennar Beats and Rises (NYSE: LEN) Oil Prices Falling on Reserve News Joint Chiefs Chair Says Obama’s Afghan Plan is Risky President Obama Declares Beginning of Drawdown in Afghanistan Turkey Syria Border Tension Builds Pakistan Eyes US Drawdown Gay Marriage Issue in NY Puts Obama on the Spot Dutch Anti-Islam Lawmaker Acquitted Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 22, 2011 Greek PM Gets Confidence Vote While Waiting on the Fed, Don’t Expect Too Much Fed Website for Policy Statement Mortgage Activity Declined in Latest Tally FHFA House Price Index Rise of 0.8% in April Dollar Up Ahead of the Fed FTC Sees Possible Oil Manipulation SEC Sticks Stubborn on Reform Forty Groups Unite to Stop Debt Ceiling Hike Ash Cloud Cripples Australia and New Zealand FedEx (NYSE: FDX) is Rolling Forward on Earnings Philips Dims on Lighting and Electronics Outlook (NYSE: PHG) AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV) Takes Flight on EPS, Outlook and Analyst Report Hulu May be for Sale National Bank of Greece (NYSE: NBG) Not Worth Risk President Obama Prepares to Face Nation on Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal Tonight Here Comes Huntsman Belfast Ablaze Pressure Intensifying on Libya Storms Handcuff Midwest Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 17, 2011 Merkel Shifts on Greek Aid Euro Recovers After Merkel Switch IMF Notes Global Speedbump Consumer Sentiment Slips in June Leading Indicators Increased 0.8% in May State Unemployment Data for May SEC Look at Ratings Firms Adds Up Gasoline Prices Drop a Nickel Oil Boom Set to Bust? Republicans Stand to Gain from Poor Economy Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) Tanks on Results ING Sells Online Business to Capital One (NYSE: COF) Transports Flash Caution Signs Bidding Begins on BJ Wholesale (NYSE: BJ) Carrefour Warns Suspicious Suspect Picked Up Near Pentagon Syria’s Friday Killings Catholics Rally Against Same-Sex Marriage Notorious Saudi Women Drivers DSK Claims to be Above the Law Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 16, 2011 Embattled Greek Prime Minister Calls Emergency Meeting Thursday Greek Finance Minister Says Must Maintain Stability Philly Fed Index Follows NY Area Manufacturing Activity Into Contraction Housing Starts Surge in May Euro Falls on Contagion Fears Jobless Claims Eased in Latest Check Demand for Oil Will Outpace Supply Natural Gas Supply Increased India’s Central Bank Raises Key Rate Current Account Deficit in Q1 Kroger Rises as it Raises its Outlook (NYSE: KR) Samsonite Drops 8% on Debut Energy Transfer Equity (NYSE: ETE) Acquires Southern Union (NYSE: SUG) Smithfield Foods Swings to Profit (NYSE: SFD) Consumer Expectations Fall to Lowest in Two Years Ayman al-Zawahiri – al-Qaeda’s New Boss Weiner Shrivels Syrian Humanitarian Crisis Intensifies Boehner Blasts Obama’s Claims on Libya Floodwaters have Reached the Levee Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 15, 2011 Greek Debt Costs Climb as Protestors Encircle Parliament Greeks Walk Off Job in Austerity Protest World Markets Choke on Greek Stalemate May Consumer Prices Come in Hot at the Core New York Area Manufacturing Collapses into Negative Territory Industrial Production Inches Ahead in May by 0.1% Bernanke Warns Congress on Debt Ceiling S&P Cuts Chinese Real Estate Outlook Mortgage Applications Spike in Latest Period Builder Confidence Drops 3 Points in June Weekly Oil Inventory Data Union Tries New Tack at Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) TIC Report for April Some See Pandora IPO Rich Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Wins Rocket Work Dish Networks (Nasdaq: DISH) Bids $1.37 Billion on TerreStar Tuesday Morning (Nasdaq: TUES) Cuts Its Full Year Outlook Britain Raises Bank Rules General Strike Turns to Violent Clashes in Athens Comparing Sarah Palin to Michele Bachmann Boston Getting Riot Proof Ahead of Stanley Cup Game Europeans Determine East Jerusalem Should be Palestinian Capitol Missouri River Threatens Embattled Levee Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 14, 2011 Small Business Optimism Index Slips Further in June Retail Sales Fall 0.2% in May GOP Candidates Look to Build on Debate Performances Producer Prices Climb More than Expected in May +0.2% Business Inventory Growth Far Exceeds Sales in April Weekly Chain Store Sales Slide in Latest Greek Yields Top After S&P Downgrade China Food Costs Pushes Inflation Up 5.5% in May Tidal Wave of Gold Demand Coming from India and China OPEC Head Sees Oil Shortage Threatening Price Best Buy Up 5% on EPS Results (NYSE: BBY) J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) Nixes its Mortgage Man Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Invests $280 Mln. In SolarCity Solar Roof RiT Technologies (Nasdaq: RITT) Rises 147% on Samsung Deal Dollar Thrifty Sinks After Avis Buys Avis Europe (NYSE: DTG) Bachmann Announces Presidential Bid China Pushes Iran to Return to Talks Israeli American Spy Apprehension in Egypt Lebanon Forms Government, May Spark Confrontation Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 13, 2011 Trichet Sees Need to Prevent Oil-Fed Inflation Spiral Oil Price Spread Widens Roubini Sees China Trouble Obama Meets with Corporate America to Find a Clue Gas Prices Sliding on Weak Economic News Lacker Disappointed in US Recovery Bernanke Speaks at 2:30 ET Summers Calls on US to Expand Stimulus VF Corp. (NYSE: VFC) Buys Timberland (NYSE: TBL) Allied World Assurance (NYSE: AWH) Buying Transatlantic (NYSE: TRH) Toyota Forecasts Profit Dive (NYSE: TM) Wendy’s Selling Off Arby’s Chain (NYSE: WEN) Honeywell to Buy EMS (NYSE: HON, Nasdaq: ELMG) GOP Presidential Debate Tonight Christ’s Church Shakes Again Under Earthquake Erdogan Re-Elected in Turkey Jordanian King’s Motorcade Attacked U.S. Turns Back North Korean Ship Bound for Burma Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 8, 2011 OPEC Leaves Meeting Without Raising Production Obama Asks for Patience on Economy Does Pawlenty Have Economic Answers? China Warns U.S. on Debt Ceiling U.S. Debt Showdown EIA Petroleum Status Report Shows Big Oil Draw Last Week Quarterly Services Survey Shows Deceleration in Q1 2011 Fed Beige Book Bernanke Expresses “Frustration” with Economic Recovery British Pound Weakens on Moody’s UK Rating Concern ONGC, GAIL Eye ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Stake in $5 Billion Kazakhstan Oil Field McDonald’s May Sales Miss Street View (NYSE: MCD) Ciena Warns on Quarter (Nasdaq: CIEN) Boeing Facing Challenges in Narrow Body Market (NYSE: BA) QuinStreet (Nasdaq: QNST) Craters on Revised Financial Outlook Mortgage Applications Slipped Last Week Insane Assad Prepares Armed Assault on Own Town UN Security Council to Convene Regarding Syria A Twitter Group Reportedly Warned Girls About Weiner, but it Went Unnoticed in Press More Dead from E. Coli NATO Eyes Libya End Game Frightening Arizona Wildfire Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 7, 2011 Obama’s Ratings Collapse on Economic Woes China Set to Rise as Tightening Ends Waiting on Bernanke Speech at 3:45 PM IMF’s Traa Sees Greece at Critical Point Oil Softens Ahead of OPEC Meeting Geithner Pushes on Big Banks to Accept New Rules Wall Street Likes Apple’s Cloud Solution (Nasdaq: AAPL) Temple-Inland (NYSE: TIN) Up 41% on International Paper (NYSE: IP) Hostile Bid Talbots’ (NYSE: TLB) Q2 View Sends Shares Down 30% Pep Boys Lost Pep in Q2 (NYSE: PBY) Ford Looks to Step Up Expansion in Asia (NYSE: F) Weekly Retail Sales Rise 2.5% Lagarde on IMF Candidacy Tour DSK Pleads Not Guilty How Weiner Can Get Out of This Mess Obama Economic Advisor Abandons Ship Strikes Land Around Gaddafi Yemeni President Severely Burned Palin Says Geithner Crying Wolf Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 3, 2011 Employment Situation Report for May Shows Unemployment Reaches 9.1%, Nonfarm Payroll Rise of Just 54K Monster Employment Index Down Slightly in May to 143 ISM’s Non-Manufacturing Index Rose Slightly in May to 54.6% June 2, 2011 Factory Orders Fell 1.2% in April, More than Expected Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Ease Slightly to 422K Moody’s Gives Greece 50% Chance as Downgrades Sovereign Productivity & Costs Report Shows Better Than Expected Gain in Q1 OPEC Delegate Sees Need for More Production Spanish Bond Sale Boosts Euro Trichet Calls for Tougher Debt Intervention Consumer Comfort Index Gains as Gasoline Drops Target’s May Sales Miss (NYSE: TGT) Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) Gets Served Subpoena Re Financial Crisis For Profit Colleges Get More Time to Meet Aid Rules Moody’s Eyes Big Banks for Credit Downgrades Mixed May for Retailer Chain Store Sales Mitt Romney Enters 2012 Presidential Race Weiner Still Struggling to Explain the Twitter Scandal E. Coli Outbreak is a New Strain of Bacteria Yemeni Fighting Intensifies Japan PM Survives No Confidence Motion Natural Gas Inventory Builds but Sits Short of Historical Watermarks Oil and Gas Stocks Both Increased Last Week GOP’s Risky Debt Ceiling Ultimatum Yahoo! Earnings Calendar June 1, 2011 GOP Hardballs White House on Debt Ceiling Private Payrolls Pace Slips in May to +38K ISM Report Shows Pace of US Manufacturing Slips in May China Manufacturing Growth Slows Manufacturing Gloom Pushing U.K. Toward Recession Indian Manufacturing Growth Slows Germany Sees IMF and EU Sticking with Greece Pace of Layoffs Unchanged in May Construction Spending Gains in April 0.4% ICSC Weekly Same-Store Sales Up 2.8% Year-to-Year Macy’s Sales Rise Offers No Lift to Shares (NYSE: M) US Auto Sales Expected to Drop in May on Japan American Superconductor Shares Drop on Sales Review (Nasdaq: AMSC) Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO) Makes $3.5 Billion Buy Noble Energy (NYSE: NBL) Makes Deep Water Oil Find in Gulf Sealed Air (NYSE: SEE) Makes Big Buy Yemen Civil War Erupts Palin Tour Reaches Ellis Island Space Shuttle Endeavor Concludes 19-Year Mission Downing Street Denies Deployment of Troops to Libya NJ Governor Chris Christie Flies State Helicopter to Son’s Baseball Game Yahoo! 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