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Elan: Actionable Buy Call

If by actionable you mean in a trading, not legal, sense, then I agree and this article is an oasis of sanity in an otherwise media frenzy.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Myriad's Alzheimer's drug, Florizan, fails pIII trial; will be discontinued.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Cool. Thanks Eli. Appreciate your service here.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Eli - how'd you miss the news on ELN? Absolutely Huge! Maybe because it was issued overnight.

LDK Solar: Material Discrepancies in Analyst Coverage/Media Reporting

Another great article by the LDK Investors Group. Puts some of the superficial innuendo-based competition to shame.

RhodeIslandRed, I agree wholeheartedly with your comments. But it's not just LDK, or Chinese companies that the SEC allows to be abused by the likes of Barrons. This crap goes on all the time. Think of it - there wasn't enough corruption in the market, the hedge funds didn't have enough advantage, so the SEC felt it wise to kill the uptick rule for shorting. Sad to say the markets are corrupt to the core, beginning with our government's refusal to create a fair and level playing field, and are stacked against the little guy. May God have mercy on this nation.

p.

LDK Solar: Not Worth the Risk

Not one of SA's more illuminating pieces. Maybe there should be some minimum standards. I've read better on message boards.

Buy LDK Solar's Panic Selling Drop

Thanks for this article. I went on to take a modest stake, and held through the storm for some rewards. Be well. - paul

Seeking Alpha Stock Market Email Alerts FAQ

How do I get the WS Breakfast sent in full text, as it used to be? Or is that no longer available?

Seeking Alpha Stock Market Email Alerts FAQ

Looks like the FF comment went through, though there was no sign of life whatsoever from the Submit button. And the IE7 comment posted though it had brought up a login popup, though I was already logged in, which hung and I finally aborted. I'm not understanding how this site works.

Seeking Alpha Stock Market Email Alerts FAQ

I received a reply to my comment; evidently someone reads and responds. But the response merely told me to go to my preferences page, which I've done several times. See details above. Something is not working.

Also, at several locations, including right here, the Submit button doesn't work. I'm now trying a resend using IE7 rather than FF.
p.

Seeking Alpha Stock Market Email Alerts FAQ

I received a reply to my comment; evidently someone reads and responds. But the response merely told me to go to my preferences page, which I've done several times. See details above. Something is not working.
p.

Seeking Alpha Stock Market Email Alerts FAQ

Hi, I seem to be stuck in Seeking Alpha limbo.

On my email alerts page the My Tags list does not correspond to the the bottom table which lists the alerts I am receiving as they happen, and I am not receiving alerts for the names in the My Tags list that are not in the lower table.

Then, I can't seem to get to my account. I used the forgotten password form but nothing has been sent to my mailbox. So I'm stuck.

Seeking Alpha Stock Market Email Alerts FAQ

Hi. You guys are really doing a great job.

One question - I consistently receive the "Premarket Snapshot" at least two hours after the market opens. This is not true of the WS Breakfast mailing. Something seems wrong there.

Thanks,
paul

Amylin Pharmaceuticals: Not Worth $6.22 Billion

Relentlessly negative, and Byetta and Januvia are not very similar at all.

Nonetheless, Amylin has been badly mismanaged. A tremendous market opportunity for Byetta was squandered. Marketing has been beyond inept. Yet while income has been thus hampered, growth plans have good ahead full tilt. Secondaries and convertibles abound, eclipsed only by the lavish perennial incentive options.

In short, the intermediate term has been mortgaged in hopes of future greatness. That could still come about, but management demonstrated a bad inability to sell the wonderful drugs they already have. The only thing I can say good about the co at this juncture is the R&D, top-class in the metabolic space. Hopefully the science will prevail, but it will take time.

Whole Foods' Mackey: Eat Meat, But Don't Go

Yeah, who cares? After all, we're all making money, right?

The difference between a Mackey and a Bezos is one of morality. Mackey was using his knowledge to push down OATS price by belittling it, until such time he could buy the co himself. That's a violation of ethics for someone running a public company. On good news about two years ago, I took a position in OATS. But when I read Mackey's very convincing incognito screeds, I quickly abandoned it. OATS went on to make more gains.

Yes, I should rely on my own research, but it's naive to think someone with Mackey's articulation cannot influence investors to their harm.

It was only sex in the oval office, eh?
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