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Daily Archives: December 3, 2006

Barron’s Digest December 4, 2006 Issue

Posted: December 3, 2006 at 8:32 pm

Stocks:  (NTDOY)(MSFT)(SNE)(IBM)(DUK)(SE)(IMCL)(APC)(TWX)(BBI)((AZO)(AN)(HSP)(AXP)(ABT)(GOOG)(AAPL)(QCOM)(TXN)(AMR)(CSCO)(MU)(AMAT)(AMP)(SHLD)(BAM)(RL)(DTV)((ALL)(AHL)(AXS)(ENH)(IPCR)(MXRE)(MRH)(PTP)(RNR)(XL)A number of property and casualty insurers will do well this year as they rebound from last year's hurricane season. Some of the shares are already up, but there ...
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New Holiday figures, Good For Amazon

Posted: December 3, 2006 at 6:34 pm

Stocks:  (AMZN)(MSFT)(AAPL)New Comscore figures on holiday e-commerce spending show that spending from Nov 1 to Dec 1 2006 is up 24% to $11.75 billion.Perhaps more important, visitors to retailing sites ...
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Fifteen Moat Overvalued Companies: Manulife

Posted: December 3, 2006 at 12:10 pm

Manulife (MFC) is the second largest life insurance firm in North America. It recently bought John Hancock Financial Services. Four years ago, the stock traded for $9. It now changes ...
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So Why is Intel (INTC) Cutting Prices?

Posted: December 3, 2006 at 11:45 am

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatWhen we heard that Intel (INTC) was cutting prices on its new quad-core chips, we said “Since AMD has no direct competitor to ...
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Pfizer Death Drug (PFE)

Posted: December 3, 2006 at 7:15 am

Those who read this column regularly know our doubts about Prizer's new blockbuster drugs. These are the ones the are to replace all of those going off patent and into ...
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