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Daily Archives: December 22, 2006

3 Scenarios- Homebuilders Hedging Through Lumber Futures

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 4:43 pm

By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment IdeasThese days I've been educating myself about futures thanks to CME's wicked educational platform for newbies and thought readers might be interested in ...
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Bentley Up on FDA Approval of Generic Zocor

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 4:40 pm

From BioHealth InvestorShares of Bentley Pharmaceuticals (BNT) are up more than 13% early Friday as the company announced that its U.S. marketing partner, Perrigo Company, has received marketing approval for ...
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Friday’s Top Biotech and Medical Stocks

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 4:39 pm

From BioHealth InvestorBiotechnologyREPROS THERAPEUTICS [RPRX] +30.18% INTERMUNE INC [ITMN] +29.03% EXACT SCIENCES COR [EXAS] +24.59% LA JOLLA PHARMA [LJPC] +10.32% IDM PHARMA INC [IDMI] +9.16% Diagnostic SubstancesREMOTEMDX INC [RMDX.OB] +12.95% ...
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Market Close 12/22/2006

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 4:35 pm

Much unpleasantness before the holidays. The Dow was off .63% to 12,343. The Nasdaq was down a similar percentage.News was light, but work leaked out the Chrysler will unveil another ...
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Bad Year For Big Tech

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 3:21 pm

Unless an investor owned Hewlett-Packard, the odds are that 2006 was not a good year to be in big chip and hardware stocks. IBM had a fair year, but PC ...
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Merck Paces Drug Stocks For Year

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 2:44 pm

With all of its Vioxx problems, investors would think that Merck would be unlikely to outperform rivals, especially by a wide margin. But, so far this year, that has happened, ...
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Old World Internet Giants And Google Underperform

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 1:30 pm

Without looking at a chart, many investors would think that old world internet stocks like Amazon and Yahoo! did poorly. Well, they did. But, even Google has underperformed the Nasdaq ...
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Oil Stocks: Bigger Is Better

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 12:42 pm

Big oil companies, except BP, have done extremely well this year, even with the price of oil coming down. But, Exxon has handily performed all of its competitors with a ...
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Ceradyne (CRDN) Gets Expected Follow-on Order

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 12:17 pm

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatCeradyne (CRDN) opened sharply higher this morning when they announced some good news. Ceradyne Gets $133 Million Army Contract - 12/22/2006 4:31:00 AM ...
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How Can LCD Revenue Be Down With Unit Sales Up 29 Percent?

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 12:16 pm

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatReaders surprised by our general bearish stance on LCD panel makers generally point out how much demand for the monitors (both as computer ...
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Is The Future Of Web Portals Good Or Bad

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 12:10 pm

Stocks:  (MSFT)(YHOO)(AAPL)(VZ)(TWX)Website A VC argues that being in the portal business is a losing game. More and more traffic will go to niche sites. Who needs a big site to ...
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JP Morgan Slaps Qualcomm (QCOM)

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 7:39 am

JP Morgan downgraded Qualcomm to "underweight" from "neutral". The primary reason was rising litigations costs are cutting operating margins. This may go one for some time.The move does not reflect ...
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The Markets Open Anew 12/22/2006

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 7:11 am

Stocks:  (PFE)(RHAT)(GM)(QCOM)News from everywhere on the day before the Christmas weekend.The Pfizer board got out of control, giving the departing CEO a pay package of nearly $200 milllion.Oil dropped to ...
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Europe Markets 12/22/2006 Reuters, Vodafone Off

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 6:45 am

Stocks:  (BP)(BT)(RTRSY)(VOD)(DB)(DT)(SI)(DCX)(ALU)(FTE)(V)Markets in Europe were off slightly at 6.45 AM New York timeThe FTSE was off a fraction to 6,182. BP was up .4% to 569.5. BT was down .8% ...
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Is Telecom Tech Moving Overseas?

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 6:31 am

Stocks:  (MOT)(QCOM)(BRCM)(NT)(MOT)(ALU)(INTC)(TXN)The egg heads at the Financial Times of London want readers to believe that the leadership in telecom technology is moving out of the US. With the old Bell ...
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