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Daily Archives: November 21, 2006

Pre-Market Stock News (Nov. 21, 2006)

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 8:31 am

(AER) AerCap Holdings 26.1M share IPO priced at $23.00.(AMLN/LLY) Amylin & Lilly won approval for Byetta for diabetes in Europe.(AIQ) Alliance Imaging has an 8M share secondary.(AFN) Alesco has a ...
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Select Analyst Calls (Nov. 21, 2006)

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 8:19 am

by JON C. OGGADBE raised to Outperform at Wachovia.ADTN cut to Hold at Jefferies.AIG started as Buy at B of A.AMZN tgt raised to $45 at Bear Stearns.APOL cut to ...
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Fifteen Most Overvalued Stocks: Sun Micro

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 6:32 am

Stocks: (SUNW)(HPQ)(DELL)(IBM)Sun Microsystems has had a resurrection of sorts. But, it still has a long, long way to go.The company's stock has popped from $3.64 last November to $5.50, right ...
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Europe Market Report 11/21/2006 DeutscheBank Up Sharply

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 6:01 am

Stocks: (BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(UL)(RTRSY)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(SI)(ALA)(AXA)(FTE)(V)Markets in Europe were modestly higher at 6 AM New York time.The FTSE was up .3% to 6,224. Barclays was was up .4% to 710. BP was up .9% ...
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Microsoft’s Plan To Kill Linux

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 5:47 am

Stocks:  (MSFT)(NOVL)(RHAT)Microsoft looked like a benign partner when it struck a deal with Novell recently to sell the open source Linux operating system side-by-side with the Suse version of Linux. ...
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Does Google Want To Put Interpublic Out Of Business

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 5:33 am

Stocks:  (WPPGY)(EBAY)(YHOO)(GOOG)(IPG)(OMC)If Google has its way, its program for buying newspaper and radio time will automate a process that is now handled by ad agencies. The process is fairly labor ...
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Media Digest 11/21/2006 NYT, WSJ, Reuters

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 5:12 am

Stocks: (MSFT)(NOVL)(BA)(CMCSA)(GOOG)(DIS)According to Reuters, mergers and acquistions are surging worldwide with a focus on real estate, mining and media companies.Reuters writes that supporters of the open source operating system Linux ...
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Asia Markets 11/21/2006 Yahoo Japan Up, China Netcom Down

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 4:50 am

Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HIPNY)(HMC)(NTT)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CN)(PCW)(HBC)Markets  is Asia posted modest gains.The Nikkei was up .1% to 15,734. Bridgestone was down 1.3% to 2405. Canon was down .2% to 6110. Daiwa Securities was down .1% ...
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Red Mountain Capital Discloses a 6.3% Stake in ABX Air (ABXA)

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 4:28 am

From 13D TrackerIn a 13D filing on ABX Air, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABXA), Red Mountain Capital Partners LLC disclosed a 6.3% stake (3.66 million shares) in the company. There is no ...
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Blue Harbour Makes Good on Reader’s Digest (RDA) Investment

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 4:26 am

From 13D TrackerIn an amended 13D filing on Reader's Digest Association Inc. (NYSE: RDA) after the close Friday, Blue Harbour Group, LP disclosed they sold their entire 6.6 million share ...
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UBS AG Raises Stake in ADVO (AD) to 5.6%

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 4:23 am

From 13D TrackerIn a 13D filing on ADVO Inc. (NYSE: AD) after the close Friday, UBS AG disclosed a 5.57% stake (1.77 million shares) in the company. This is up ...
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Analyzing Whole Foods (WFMI)

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 4:20 am

By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment IdeasWFMI is to organic food market what SBUX is to the coffee market. Both portray, if I may say, a high end ambiance ...
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Comprehensive Nordstorm (JWN) Analysis- Earnings To SSS & Growth In 07

Posted: November 21, 2006 at 4:17 am

By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment IdeasNordstrom's 3Q earnings of $0.52 were two cents above consensus. Results were driven by solid topline growth and significantly better-than-expected gross margin improvement, ...
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