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Daily Archives: December 12, 2006

Hallucinations About Yahoo!

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 10:07 am

Stocks:  (YHOO)(GOOG)(NWS)Bill Miller, one of the world's greatest money managers, had his worst year in over a decade. His investments in EBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! killed his performance in 2006. ...
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Best Buy: Wal-Mart Collateral Damage

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 9:54 am

Stocks:  (BBY)(WMT)(TGT)(COST)Best Buy reported earnings and Wall St. was disappointed. Revenue came in fine, up over 15% to almost $8.5 billion. But, EPS was $.31 and investors wanted $.35. The ...
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Red Hat Completes its Transition to the NYSE….Why?

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 9:51 am

Stock Tickers: RHT, RHAT, MSFT, ORCL, NOVLRed Hat, the leader of a standalone Linux O/S and Office Suite for in-store boxed software suites, has completed its transition from a NASDAQ ...
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Hewlett Packard & Analysts: Who Is in Charge?

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 9:14 am

Stock Tickers: HPQ, DELL, SYMCI am not questioning who is running Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) at all.  That is quite clear, and we all know it is effectively Hurdlett-Packard.What is not clear ...
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Goldman Sachs Indicating Lower After Earnings

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 8:42 am

Goldman Sachs (GS) posted earnings this morning at $6.59 on a diluted basis, but the number before items is a tad higher at $6.77 EPS,  The street was looking for ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (DEC 12, 2006)

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 8:25 am

(AGN) Allergan noted as Buy by Cramer on MAD MONEY after he interviewed the CEO on TV.(ALNY) Alnylam Pharma filed to sell 4.7M shares.(AQNT) aQuantive is acquiring privately-held Accipiter for ...
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Select Analyst Calls (DEC 12, 2006)

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 8:00 am

AA cut to Underperform at RBC.ALO raised to Neutral at Cowen.ALU started as Ooutperform at Morgan Keegan.ALLT started as Outperform at Piper Jaffray.APPB raised to Mkt Perform at Raymond James.CCJ ...
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Yahoo! Panama, Finally

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 5:32 am

Stocks:  (YHOO)(MSFT)(GOOG)Yahoo! is opening it advertising search marketing system, Panama, to new customers in the hopes of getting business from its major rival in the industry, Google. Like Google's CheckOut ...
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Microsoft Goes After The Phone Company

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 5:25 am

Stocks:   (MSFT)(ORCL)(IBM)(VZ)(T)(BT)(DT)Microsoft has begun trials of a new VoIP system that will work on its server software and be intergrated into its Office suite of business software. It is probably ...
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Europe Markets December 12, 2006 BP, Reuters Down

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 5:17 am

Markets in Europe are narrowly mixed at 5.15 AM New York time.The FTSE is down .2% to 6,148. Barclays is down .9% to 716.5. BP is down 1.2% to 577.5  ...
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Media Digest Decmber 12, 2006 Reuters, NYTimes, WSJ, FT

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 5:06 am

Stocks:  (MSFT)(YHOO)(TXN)(BRCOM)(QCOM)(C)According to Reuters, the Nasdaq has launched a $5.3 billion hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange. Reuters writes that Microsoft has begun tests of its new voice over ...
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Top 20 Financial Sites

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 4:50 am

According to NetRatings, Yahoo! Finance remained in first place of November with 12.8 million unique visitors compared to 10.7 million for MSN Money and 10.6 million for AOL Finance. Yahoo! ...
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Double Digit Returns in ’07?

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 4:44 am

From Ticker SenseThis week’s issue of Barron’s highlights the 2007 outlook for the stock market based on the observations of Wall Street strategists. Collectively, the group is looking for stocks ...
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Analyzing Chevron (CVX)

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 4:42 am

By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment IdeasFor 3rd Q Chevron earnings of US$5.0 billion. Upstream earnings were US$3.5 billion, up US$200 million over the same period last year. CVX's ...
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Asia Markets December 12, 2006 Sharp Up, Cathay Pacific Down

Posted: December 12, 2006 at 4:41 am

Stocks:  (CAJ)(FUJ)(HMC)(NTT)(NIPNY)(TM)(NEC)(CHL)(CHU)(PCW)(HBC)Markets in Asia were mixed.The Nikkei rose .7% to 16,638. Biidgestone was down .2% to 2835. Canon was .5% to 6470. Daiwa Securities was up .2% to 1321. Fuji ...
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