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Daily Archives: December 8, 2006

Old Media Goes After YouTube?

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 11:02 pm

Stocks:  (GOOG)(NWS)(VIA)(CBS)(GE)Late word is that News Corp's Fox, CBS, Viacom, and GE's NBC Universal are cooking up a plan to start a video website to compete with Google's YouTube. The ...
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Sony And Microsoft Sweat: Nintendo’s Wii Rocket

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 10:50 pm

Stocks: (MSFT)(SNE)Research firm NPD says that Nintendo sold over 476,000 units of its new Wii platform in the US in November. Sony Playstation 3 sold 197,000 in the same period. ...
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Ten Most Undervalued Stocks: Sprint

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 1:53 pm

Stocks:  (S)(INTC)(MOT)(MSFT)DELL)Sprint Nextel is out of favor, Way out. Wall St thinks its third place spot behind Cingular and Verizon Wireless ain't a good place to be. And intergating the ...
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Barclays: No B of A Bid (BAC)(BCS)

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 1:28 pm

The head of Barclays sold shares in the bank to prove that Bank of America had made no bid, nor was it likely to. He could not sell of he ...
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Wal-Mart: Do A Good Job And Get Fired (WMT)(IPG)

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 12:25 pm

Julie Roehm, the recently sacked head of advertising at Wal-Mart, may actually have been doing a good job. She did a good job and DaimlerChrysler, which landed her the Wal-Mart ...
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The Hamburger Economy: McDonald’s Sales Up, Again (MCD)(WMT)

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 12:13 pm

McDonald's cannot be stopped with an elephant gun. The huge food chain announced November same store sales rose 6.2%. Premium coffee and promotional games seemed to be big contributors. US ...
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Bank of America And Barclays: Bad News

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 12:00 pm

Stocks:  (BAC)(C)(BCS)Bank of America got a lot of press for passing Citigroup as the world's largest bank based on market cap. Now, it wants to make the same mistakes that ...
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Jobs Growth Still Looks Like its Weakening

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 11:51 am

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatThe jobs report is out, and receiving a fairly warm welcome. Economy adds 132,000 jobs - Yahoo! News:The U.S. economy added a stronger-than-forecast ...
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DivX Holders Can Breathe As the Google Pact Was Renewed

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 9:00 am

DivX (DIVX) shareholders can take a breather if they were worrying about the state of the Google (GOOG) search and bundling pact.  When DIVX came public and while it was ...
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All 3 IPO’s Price Well: Heelys, Aegean, Allegiant

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 8:26 am

Aegean Marine Petroleum (ANW) saw its 12.5 million share IPO price at $14.00, which was at the top of the $12 to $14 range. Bear Stearns was the lead underwriter; ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (DEC 8, 2006)

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 8:04 am

(ACOR) Acorda will conduct adfditional Phase III studies on its MS treatment for the FDA.(ALGT) Allegiant Travel 5M share IPo priced at $18.00, above the $15-17 range.(ANW) Aegean Marine 12.5M ...
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Select Analyst Calls (DEC 8, 2006)

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 7:51 am

AACC started as Underperform at KBW.AG started as Neutral at B of A.AMED raised to Outperform at Wachovia.AQNT reitr Buy at Jefferies.ARNA started as Buy at MerrillLynch.BBY started as Outperform ...
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Xbox Sales Fail To Impress (MSFT)(SNE)

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 6:20 am

The Xbox is supposed to be part of Microsoft's plan to diversify beyond Windows. Other initiative like its Zune multimedia player are off to a slow start. The company's online ...
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WiMax Nation: Intel Gears Up

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 6:12 am

Stocks:  (INTC)(MOT)(QCOM)(S)There has been a growing body of evidence that Intel is planning to base much of its future growth on WiMax. It investment in Clearwire, a WiMax service firm, ...
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Chevron Gains An Edge (COP)(CVX)

Posted: December 8, 2006 at 5:50 am

Chevron will increase capex 20% next year to almost $20 billion. Exploration of new fields in the Gulf of Mexico are expected to fuel much of this. Conoco, on the ...
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