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Daily Archives: December 22, 2006

Wal-Mart And Communism (WMT)

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 6:20 am

The Wall Street Journal does not like the Chinese Communist party setting up a branch for Wal-Mart employees, especially after putting a union in place for the big retailers "associates" ...
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ConAgra’s Victory Lap (CAG)

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 6:11 am

This column has been critical of ConAgra. Most of its brands are not first-tier market leaders. Its restructuring plans have been in doubt.But, ConAgra answered the bell. The company has ...
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Pre-Market Stock Notes (DEC 22, 2006)

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 6:00 am

(AIRN) Airspan CFO is leaving in 2007 and will be replaced in early 2007.(APN) Applica's tender by Nacco was hiked from $6.50 to $7.00.(AQNT) Acquantive started as Buy/$30 target at ...
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Qualcomm, The Death Of Growth?

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 5:58 am

Stocks:  (QCOM)(BRCM)(TXN)(NOK)(S)Qualcomm's stock is down, again. The company, which likes to fight with customers like Nokia, and litigate with competitors like Broadcom, said the earnings for the first quarter would ...
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At Ford, Cut, Cut, Cut

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 5:46 am

Stocks:  (F)(TM)(HMC)The Wall Street Journal ran a cover story about Ford CEO Alan Mulally's new "war room". The walls are covered with charts and photos, Projects are color coded based ...
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Toyota In The Passing Lane (F)(GM)(TM)

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 5:33 am

Ford recently said that Toyota would pass it to become the second largest car marketer in North America. Ford's share in the US may slip as low as 14% and ...
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RadHat Was Supposed To Be Dead

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 5:22 am

Stocks:  (MSFT)(NOVL)(RHAT)RedHat was supposed to be on its way out. The largest supplier of Linux open source products to corporations was going to be crushed by rival Novell after its ...
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Media Digest 12/22/2006 Reuters, NYTime, WSJ, FT, Barron’s

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 5:13 am

Stocks:  (VOD)(RHAT)(QCOM)(GM)(TM)(F)(PFE)(MRK)(LLC)(RIMM)According to Reuters, Toyota plans to product 9.42 million cars in 2007, which should take it past GM as the world's largest car maker.Reuters writes that Qualcomm has lowered ...
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Asian Markets 12/22/2006 Honda, China Netcom Up, Yahoo Japan Down

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 5:01 am

Markets in Asia were up slightly.The Nikkei rose .3% to 17,105. Canon was up .5% to 6690. Fuji Film was down 1% to 4870/ Hitachi was up .3% to 722. ...
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Thursday’s Top Biotech and Medical Stocks

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 4:48 am

From BioHealth InvestorBiotechnologyPRAECIS PHARMA [PRCS] +144.51% FERMAVIR PHARMACEUTL [FMVR.OB] +28.00% POLYMEDIX INC [PYMX.OB] +23.08% ACCENTIA BIOPHARMACE [ABPI] +17.59% REXAHN PHARMACEUTICL [RXHN.OB] +17.39% Diagnostic SubstancesIMMUNOMEDICS INC [IMMU] +13.59% AVALON PHARMACEUTIC [AVRX] ...
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FedEx (FDX) Trouble Probably Not Yet Over

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 4:46 am

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatAfter FedEx (FDX) missed earnings yesterday, the responses ranged fairly widely. The bullish case is perhaps best presented by Motley Fool at FedEx ...
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Analyzing Coke (KO)- A Warren Buffet Portfolio Holding

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 4:44 am

By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment IdeasI've recently agreed to be a guest author for the excellent Stock Pickr as I believe it has added value to my investing ...
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Country P/E Ratios: US, UK, France, Japan, India, Russia, Brazil

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 4:42 am

From Ticker SenseWe always get plenty of requests for country p/e ratios, so as somewhat of a holiday gift, we are providing price and p/e charts of the seven countries ...
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Make Your Predictions & Ideas Known

Posted: December 22, 2006 at 4:00 am

Do you want to get a shot at making your own 2007 forecats,predictions, and a even get a shot at making your own suggestions orsharing ideas?  The shot is yours ...
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