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Existing Home Sales Up 10% in Oct.; IMF: Dollar Not at Risk; Cadbury Stock Gains On Rumors of Competing Bid; Microsoft and News Corp. in Discussing Possible Pact; Tyson Earnings Beats Street; Campbell Soup Raises Forecast; Holiday Shoppers Preparing to Pare Spending; Twitter IPO a Possibility

Buy, Sell or Hold: Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Is Winning the Race for Cloud-Computing Dominance

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) reported a strong quarter at the end of October on the back of resurgent demand in the PC market. But the key issue to watch is the important transition in the company’s major technologies.

Microsoft just launched its very successful Windows 7 operating system, which has produced a major new upgrade cycle in the industry. In England, for example, Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) had more success selling Windows 7 packages than it did Harry Potter books.  Windows 7 has major advantages over Vista, including speed, simplicity and booting time.  This is prompting Vista users, as well as those who skipped Vista, to upgrade.

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AOL to Cut One-Third of Workforce; Geithner Rebuffs Calls for Resignation; Oil Follows Equities' Decline; Leading Indicators Hit Two-Year High; U.S. Making Plans for New Iran Sanctions; DirecTV Won't Rule Out Possible Takeover;

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U.S. Rep: Give Regulators Power to Break Up Financial Giants; GM IPO Could Come in Q4 2010, Official Says; Fed May Not Increase Interest Rates Until 2012; Wells Fargo to Buy Back $1.3 Billion in Auction Debt; GE Says Appliance and Lighting Businesses Improving; October Housing Starts Miss Estimates; DirecTV Hires Pepsi Exec as New CEO; AMD to Pay Off $1 Billion in Debt;

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Hu Silent on Yuan; Troubled U.S. Banks May Get Chinese Bailout; SEC Sanctions Doubled in Last Fiscal Year; October PPI Gains; Playboy CFO Quits Amid Talk of Buyout; U.S. Home Builders Still Discouraged; GM Could Lay Off Up to 10,000 European Workers; Costco Stops Coke Product Orders Over Price Dispute

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"New" GM to Begin Bailout Repayment; Dollar Drops to 15-Month Low, Gold Continues Record Highs; SEC to Investigate Trading Prior to 3Com/HP Deal; Sprint Pays Down Loan, Stock is Upgraded; Canon to Buy Europe's Largest Printer Maker; Hitachi to Raise $4.6 Billion in Stock and Bond Sale; Cisco Ups Bid for Video Conference Equipment Maker; Millions of U.S. Taxpayers May Unexpectedly Owe, Treasury Says

Buy, Sell or Hold: Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) Has Been a Boon to Investors, but Now It's Time to Take Profits

We have been front-running many very positive catalysts since I first recommended buying Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) on Feb. 5.

First, that put us ahead of the bull-market rebound in U.S. stocks that started in early March. My recommendation also predated the launch of Kindle 2, as well as stimulus measures deployed by the United States and China in April.

Just as predicted, the U.S. economic recovery has gathered momentum and Amazon has benefited greatly by offering a compelling value proposition to a cash-strapped consumer. 

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Intel Pays AMD $1.25 Billion to Settle Multi-Year Lawsuit; WalMart Forecasts Bleak Holiday Sales on Surging Unemployment News; FHA Capital Reserves Lowest in History; Commercial Paper Market Falls For Second Week in Row; Better Ad Market Helps Disney Profit, Sales Grow; British Airways, Iberia to Merge; Barofsky: TARP Will Be a Loss For Taxpayers; Activision Sees Sales of $310 Million on First Day of Game’s Release

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WSJ: Motorola to Sell Network Business; Macy's Shares Fall After Forecast Misses Estimates; China's Prices Fall, Trade Surplus Grows; Gold Price Records Continue; iPhone Posts Strong Sales After Debut on Second U.K. Carrier; Britain's Central Bank Open to More Asset Purchases; Geithner: U.S. Wants Strong Dollar, Lower Deficit; AIG CEO Threatens to Leave Amid Pay Frustration; H-P Buys 3Com for $2.7 Billion in Cash

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Dodd Introduces Financial Overhaul Bill; Ex-Bear Stearns Managers Innocent of Fraud; Job Openings Still Scarce; AMEX: Credit Card Spending Up in Oct.; EU Objects to Oracle; Oil Falls As Hurricane Ida is Downgraded; Apple Cell Phone Profits Pass Nokia's; JPMorgan to Hire 1,200 Mortgage Salespeople

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