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Daily Archives: December 5, 2006

Cramer Backs Away from Sirius

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 10:14 am

Cramer keys in on Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) in "Merger Watch for Sirius" at TheStreet.com.Jim Cramer noted that this warning out of Sirius is at a bad time, because it ...
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Drumbeat Gets Louder At Nintendo

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 9:53 am

Stocks:  (MSFT)(SNE)Nintendo says it will do better than Wall St. expects. And, Wall St. expects a great deal. The company said that profit for the March fiscal will rise 60% ...
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Penn Virginia, Round 3, Sophistcated IPO

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 9:45 am

PENN VIRGINIA GP HOLDINGS LP (PVG-NYSE) priced its 6.3 million share IPO at $18.50 per share.  This is toward the lower-part of its price range estimated.  This is a complicated ...
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Broadcast International Secondary Offering (BCST-OTC)

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 9:27 am

Investors are always on the lookout for little tiny unknown companies either raising cash or with news.  There is a video compression company that is actually surprising it has received ...
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GM Europe’s Tow Truck (GM)

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 9:20 am

GM Europe is going to make money this year, and, so they say, more money next. Its earnings for the first three quarters of 2006 are $196 million. Sales in ...
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Gambling Drug Fails Trials; Somaxon Shares Lower

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 8:50 am

Somaxon Pharmaceuticals (SOMX-NASDAQ) has announced essentially failed results from the company's Phase 2/3 clinical trial evaluating 20 mg and 40 mg of oral nalmefene hydrochloride, an opiate antagonist, in patients ...
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Vista On Steroids (MSFT)

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 8:43 am

Late word is out the Microsoft's CFO sees great things ahead. Revenue growth for fiscal 2007 will be as high as 15%. And, the new Vista OS. He also said ...
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Pre-Market Stock Notes (DEC 5, 2006)

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 8:19 am

(AZO) Auton Zone $1.73 EPS vs $1.68e.(BA) Boeing may have new orders from Kuwait Airlines.(BEAS) BEA Systems said it will have material non-cash charges against priior earnings because of stock ...
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Select Analyst Calls (DEC 5, 2006)

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 8:16 am

AAPL reitr Outperform at Piper Jaffray; reitr Buy at UBS.ACI & BTU started as Overweight at HSBC.ASH cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.AXP cut to Hold at AGEdwards.CFR started as Overweight ...
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Japan Launch Of Nintendo Wii Puts It In The Xbox, Playstation Mix

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 6:15 am

IStocks:  (SNE)(MSFT)f there was any question about whether the Nintendo Wii would be a worthy competitor to the Microsoft Xbox 360 or Sony Playstation 3, the Japanese launch of the ...
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Asian IPTV Points The Way For Verizon And AT&T

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 6:04 am

Stocks:  (FTE)(VZ)(T)Several internet TV initiatives in Asia and Europe plot a difficult path for telecom IPTV. That being said, some of the initial installations do hold out the promise of ...
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As Airbus Falls Apart, Boeing’s Future Brightens (BA)

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 5:43 am

Even after a stong run-up that began in 2003 and several product delays and run-ins with the Federal government, Boeing's shares have risen from $70 at the beginning of the ...
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As Sirius Warns, Satellite Radio Continues Spiral Down

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 5:26 am

Stocks:  (SIRI)(XMSR)After months of indicating that it was growing rapidly and its rival XM was not, Sirius has revised its year-end subscriber projections down from 6.3 million to a range ...
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Europe Markets 12/5/2006 Vodafone, SAP Up

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 5:15 am

Stocks:  (BCS)(BP)(BAB)(BT)(PUK)(GSK)(RTRSY)(UL)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(SAP)(SI)(ALA)(AXA)(FTE)(V)Markets in Europe are up modestly at 5.15 AM New York time.The FTSE is up .4% to 6,076. Barclays is up .4% to 679. BP is up 1.1% to ...
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Media Digest: FT, Reuters, WSJ, NY Times

Posted: December 5, 2006 at 5:02 am

Stocks:  (SNE)(DIS)(SIRI)(PFE)According to Reuters, US arms sales overseas will total about $20 billion for the year ending October 1, 2006, about even with last year's record total.Reuters writes that, based ...
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