Jueves 01/09/2011 ISM, gasto en construccion

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Au down 1,823.90

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Todo fluctuando mucho, esperemos termine el dia en azul.

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August’s New Massive Stock Buybacks… Over $30 Billion (LOW, CVS, CELG, COV, INTU, DISCA, HRS, LMT, RSG, LOW, ABC, MXIM, ANR, AVT, JAH, LUV, STJ, ECL, IPG, FRX, ACE, CLF, CTSH, KBR, NWL, VRX, AKAM, AOL, DLB, URBN, ACM, CHTR, MYGN, PFG, HSIC)
Posted: August 31, 2011 at 3:00 pm

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The pace of stock buyback announcements in the month of August was almost unbelievable. The pace was stronger at the start of the month when earnings were still coming in droves, but the number of newly announced buyback plans and the extended or expanded buyback plans remained high throughout the entire month. Many companies announce share buybacks and never spend much on the actual plan. Today, these companies are by and large actually living up to their promises. These are The August Buyback Kings….

We would normally group these alphabetically, but not today. We grouped these in order of size and then we used an alphabetic order when it came to the same size of a buyback announcement. The first group is the billions of dollars.

We then grouped the stocks by size again from the under $1 billion down to $500 million, and then we grouped the buybacks of under $500 million down to $200 million. Usually we would cut the list off at buybacks of the $100 million and higher but the list was already too big so we cut the Buyback Kings off at $200 million for August. Lastly, we have a chart at the very end tallying it all up…. Some $28.7 billion for just the $200 million and higher in new or expanded buyback announcements. There were literally dozens of other buybacks that were closer to the $100 million mark and many more that were less than that.

The $1 billion and higher alone which were announced in August were as follows: Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW); CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS); Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG); Covidien plc (NYSE: COV); Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU); Discovery Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: DISCA); Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS); and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT).

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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ACPW, AMAT, ACI, BCS, CELL, COG, DUK, HCA, MDT, OMG, PT)
Posted: September 1, 2011 at 8:11 am

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These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls.

Active Power Inc. (NASDAQ: ACPW) Started as Buy at Merriman.
Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) Cut to Underperform as Bear of the Day at Zacks.
Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) Raised to Outperform at BMO.
Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) Raised to Buy at UBS.
Brightpoint Inc. (NASDAQ: CELL) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.
Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG) named Bull of the Day at Zacks.
Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE: DUK) Raised to Sector Perform at RBC.
HCA Inc. (NYSE: HCA) Started as Buy at Auriga.
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) Raised to Hold at Argus.
OM Group, Inc. (NYSE: OMG) named Value stock of the day at Zacks.
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA (NYSE: PT) Started as Neutral at Credit Suisse.

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Media Digest (9/1/2011) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg
Posted: September 1, 2011 at 6:29 am

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IMF head Lagarde shows independence from Europe in many of her decisions. (Reuters)

The Justice Department sues to block AT&T (NYSE: T) buyout of T-Mobile. (Reuters)

Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) tablet PCs to be priced at $499 and $599, making it harder for them to challenge sales of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. (Reuters)

A new lawsuit says Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) tracks customer behavior without consent. (Reuters)

Japan regulators back merger of the LCD businesses of Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi (NYSE: HIT). (Reuters)

In an agreement with New York State, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) to end robo-signing. (WSJ)

New data shows the rebound of the German economy continues. (WSJ)

Bank of New York’s (NYSE: BK) board pushes out CEO Robert P. Kelly. (WSJ)

Brazil’s central bank makes an unexpected rate cut. (WSJ)

Facebook adds new music services. (WSJ)

Apple criticized for its environmental practices in China. (WSJ)

The U.S. wastes as much as $60 billion on contracts during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (WSJ)

Banks working on T-Mobile deal buyout could lose $150 million in fees. (WSJ)

Switzerland greatly cuts the size of its stimulus package. (WSJ)

Eurozone inflation flat in August. (WSJ)

UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH) buys a partnership of 2,300 doctors in California. (WSJ)

SEC seeks comments about the use of derivatives by mutual funds. (WSJ)

IMF and eurozone economists fight over bank balance sheet projections. (FT)

August junk bond deals at their lowest since 1995. (FT)

Sony says access to content will make its tablet PCs more attractive to consumers. (Bloomberg)

Douglas A. McIntyre

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11:11 a.m. EDT 09/01/11Treasurys
    Price Chg Yield %
2-Year Note   1/32 0.192
10-Year Note   11/32 2.193
* at close
11:16 a.m. EDT 09/01/11Futures
  Last Change Settle
Crude Oil 88.74 -0.08 88.81
Gold 1826.1 -5.6 1831.7
E-mini Dow 11588 -15 11603
E-mini S&P 500 1215.00 -2.75 1217.75
11:26 a.m. EDT 09/01/11Currencies
  Last (bid) Prior Day †
Japanese Yen (USD/JPY) 76.93 76.66
Euro (EUR/USD) 1.4257 1.4372
† Late Wednesday in New York.

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Las ventas de tiendas subieron 4.6%

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redicorp Ltd. BAP DIVERSAS 98.87 31/08/2011 99.00 102.50 102.50 103.00 27,033 76 3.67 US$ 2,738,942

Qué hago? por fin estoy en azul despues de tiempo