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Daily Archives: December 7, 2006

Select Analyst Calls (DEC 7, 2006)

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 8:08 am

AAP raised to Buy at Citigroup.ALU put on Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs.AOC cut to Neutral at Merrill Lynch.ATVI started as Buy at Oppenheimer.BEAS cut to Sector Perform at ...
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Wal-Mart’s PR Brain Trust (WMT)

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 6:00 am

Wal-Mart has retained PR operation Edelman in another sign that the retailer is focusing on form over substance. The public relations firm is using employees who have helped in political ...
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Europe Market 12/7/2006 Gallaher Up 19%

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 5:47 am

Stocks:  (BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)VOD)(UL)(BAY)(DCX)(BT)(DB)(SI)(AXA)(ALA)(V)(FTE)Markets in Europe were higher at 5.45 AM New York time.The FTSE was up .5% to 8,122. Barclays was up 4.2% to 715.5. BP was down .3% to 577.5. ...
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Google Turns On The Telly (GOOG)

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 5:28 am

Google has cut a deal with British broadcaster BSkyB to provide video programming and services like e-mail for the television firm's website. More important, Google video content will appear on ...
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Media Digest 12/7/2006 Reuters, NYTimes, WSJ, FT

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 5:16 am

Stocks:  (GOOG)(BSX)(JNJ)(RIMM)(MSFT)(NWS)(F)(HD)(BA)Reuters writes that British tobacco company Gallaher has been approached about a buy-out, probably by Japan Tobacco.Reuters also writes that drug coated stents face a safety review in the ...
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Asia Markets 12/7/2006 Canon, Sharp Up Sharply, China Mobile Down

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 4:56 am

Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NTT)(DCM)(SNE)(TM)(CHK)(CN)(PCW)(HBC)Asian markets were mixed.The Nikkei was up .6% to 16,473. Bridgestone was up 2.9% to 2625. Canon was up 3.1% to 6340. Daiwa Securities was down .1% to 1334. ...
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Homebuilders Are The Last To Know

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 4:39 am

After the National Association of Realtors and almost every economic forecaster in the world has said the housing in is a slump and will stay there, the home building industry ...
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Dell Turns To Banking Exec To Save Company (DELL)(HPQ)

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 4:24 am

Dell announced, with great fanfare, that it had hired the head of Wells Fargo's online operations to run its global online business. The public relations push might have made sense ...
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Ford: Just Say “No”

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 4:16 am

Frod's shares took another beating yesterday, down over 4%, because the company said it would take on $5 billion in debt on top of the $18 billion it announced last ...
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The XM/Sirius Merger, Again (XMSR)(SIRI)

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 4:06 am

After months of speculations, the CFO of Sirius has simply come out and said that putting the two satellite radion companies together would be good for shareholders and consumers. It ...
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Halozyme Signs Deal with Roche, Continues to Impress

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 3:57 am

From BioHealth InvestorI recommended Halozyme Therapeutics (HTI) in August (and mentioned it again last week that I was holding it in my biotech portfolio) as a nano-cap biotech. What I ...
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Does 1MO Work on Foreign Indices?

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 3:55 am

From World BetaI take a look at the top 5 countries in the MSCI EAFE Index - UK, Japan, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Cash.Much better return with similar volatility (resulting ...
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Suntech Suntech Everywhere

Posted: December 7, 2006 at 3:53 am

From The Average Joe InvestorWelcome back to The Average Joe Investor, your home for Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP) data! Just kidding...I'm sure right now holders of Suntech stock are ...
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