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Daily Archives: November 30, 2006

Cramer sys print buyers should really be buying McGraw Hill (MHP)

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 6:21 pm

Cramer on MAD MONEY also said McGraw Hill (MHP) may be the only print media company to own.  The other media decline in newspapers is Secular and will be ongoing ...
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Cramer Says Denny’s is a Grand Slam

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 6:08 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer discussed Denny's (DENN) as a Buy.  He said it is a name you want to own.  He said they have made a ...
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Motorola Doubles Down On WiMax

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 4:16 pm

Stocks:  (CMCSA)(VZ)(INTC)(MOT)Late word is that Motorola's investment arm will put substantial money into WiMax chip maker Sequans Communications. The chips are used in the wireless network structure.The investment is another ...
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US Stock market Wrap (NOV 30, 2006)

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 4:13 pm

DJIA    12,221.93; Down 4.80 (0.04%)NASDAQ    2,431.77; Down 0.46 (0.02%)S&P500    1,400.65; Up 1.17 (0.08%)10YR-Bond    4.458%     Down 0.063NYSE Volume    3,287,570,000NASD Volume    1,999,605,000The market digested a ...
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Cramer Says the Healthcare Rally Has Begun

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 2:47 pm

On today's STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer went over a trade for a lesser-known name.He said the big wide bottom in healthcare is here.  Wellpoint (WLP) and Cardinal ...
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NYSE Braces for a Post-Nortel and Post-Lucent Trading World

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 2:33 pm

Stock Tickers: NYX, ALA, LU, NT, CIEN, JDSUThe NYSE (NYX-NYSE) is gearing up for a reverse split on Nortel Networks (NT) and gearing up for a combined merger of Alcatel ...
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Detroit Ostrich Farm: Ford Sales To Drop

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 12:39 pm

One of Ford's (F) senior executives told the press that its share of the US market would drop from its current 17% to as low as 14% next year. Ford ...
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Bear Stearns Takes Media Names Down; A Silver Lining for Digital Media

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 11:16 am

Stock Tickers: NWS, DIS, VIA, TWX, GOOG, YHOO, AQNT, DRIV, DTAS, TFSM, CNETThis morning we are seeing weakness in media stocks as Bear Stearns lowered its sector rating from MARKET ...
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Simple Cross-Market Momentum

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 11:13 am

From Mebane Faber of World BetaBelow I will present a simple quantitative method that exploits momentum in relative returns across a wide set of asset classes. The strategy is examined ...
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Central Fund of Canada Sells Shares to Buy Gold & Silver

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 10:20 am

Stock Tickers: CEF, GLDCentral Fund of Canada Limited (CEF-AMEX; CEF-A/TSX) of Calgary, Alberta announced today that it plans to offer Class A Shares to the public in Canada and the ...
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Maybe Google’S Free Stuff Ain’t So Great

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 9:51 am

Stocks: (GOOG)(YHOO)Google shut down its Google Answers service. Yahoo! still has its competing service which has provided 160 million answer since last December. Google's product charged a nominal fee, which ...
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Is Wal-Mart Setting Themselves Up For a Break-up?

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 9:49 am

Wal-Mart (WMT) is trading down almost another 1% after forecasting December same-store-sales as Flat to +1%.  This is better than the -0.1% now forecast in November, but at the same ...
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Wal-Mart’s No Win

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 9:30 am

Stocks:  (WMT)(BBY)(TGT)Retail sales for Wal-Mart may be flat on a same-store basis in December. So says the company. Other chains had mixed results in November. Target beat Wall St.'s target ...
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XM Gets An Edge

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 8:57 am

Stocks:  (XMSR)(SIRI)Honda will install 650,000 XM Satellite radios in its American Honda 2007 cars. The company installed 550,000 last year.While it is hard to say how many of these will ...
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Could Reuters Go Private?

Posted: November 30, 2006 at 8:34 am

Stocks:  (RTRSY)(DJ)(NYT)(MS)(TRB)There has been a good deal of speculation lately that The New York Times or Dow Jones could go private. Former AIG chief, Hank Greenberg, may be vying to ...
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