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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Another Blank Check IPO, With A Good Story

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 10:19 pm

Victory Acquisition Corp is filing for an IPO for 25 million units at the normal $10 price per unit.    So they are raising $250 million for the purposes of ...
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2007 TOP PICKS: Cramer Versus Other Pundits

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 6:52 pm

by Jon C. OggMany market pundits made 2007 Stock picks and there are some more we have been compiling, but these are the ones you may have most easily found.  ...
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Cramer on Diet Stocks: NutriSystems (NTRI) is Done; Likes Weight Watchers (WTW)

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 6:26 pm

On CNBC's MAD MONEY tonight, Cramer first picked Life Time Fitness (LTM) for his way to profit off of weight loss.  But he has others, and some to avoid.He wants ...
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Cramer Gets Fit With Life Time Fitness (LTM)

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 6:14 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY show on CNBC, Cramer said he is expecting a rate cut rather than that tightening bias after the MAY FOMC meeting.  He is reviewing ways to ...
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Dell Back In FULL Control; Rollins is Out!

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 4:44 pm

Dell Inc. (DELL-NASDAQ) announced today that MICHAEL DELL will assume the duties of Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Dell, who will retain his duties as Chairman of the Board, ...
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Starbucks Serves Hot Ones

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 4:33 pm

Starbucks (SBUX-NASDAQ): $2.4 Billion revenues and EPS $0.26; estimates were $0.26 & $2.35 Billion. SBUX is up 1.6% at $35.50 in after-hours.  Starbucks reaffirmed its fiscal 2007 targets: Will open ...
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Google Beats

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 4:14 pm

Google (GOOG) beat Wall St. estimates. EPS was $3.18 compared with expectations of $2.91. Revenue hit $3.21 billion versus a consensus of $3.14 billion. Well, Cramer said it would. It ...
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JDSU Mixed Signals

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 4:12 pm

JDSU (JDSU-NASDAQ) gave earnings today, but remember that it had already guided higher.It posted revenues at $366.3M and GAAP net income $0.10 EPS, non-GAAP EPS $0.13 versus $0.10 estimates.  On ...
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Positive Market Reaction to the Fed

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 3:47 pm

From Ticker SenseAs of 2:55 PM, the 70 basis point gain in the S&P 500 ranks as the third most positive market performance on a Fed day since the tightening ...
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GOOG Earnings

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 3:45 pm

From Ticker SenseWe realize investors have quite a bit of data to digest today -- GDP, oil inventories, Fed decision -- but after the close, we also have Google (GOOG) ...
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Cramer Flied Boeing and Ignores the Fed

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 2:58 pm

On STOP TRADING on CNBC today, Cramer said the FED is actually listening to the guidance conference calls of the major companies and seeing the slowdown.  The tape is not ...
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FOMC “Inflation Bias” Seems More of a Neutral Than Hawkish

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 2:20 pm

As expected, NO CHANGE in rates.  Core inflation readings have moderated but risks remain to the upside.  This doesn't really sound HAWKISH today, and the market was worried the fed ...
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Cramer Still Down on Whole Foods and AMD (WFMI, AMD)

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 1:39 pm

Stock Tickers: WFMI, SBUX, CAT, AMD, BJS, SLBCramer was discussing 52-week highs and lows earlier today on TheStreet.com's Wall Street Confidential and he likes buying 52-week high stocks, but everything ...
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Insights from the GDP Report

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 1:19 pm

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatAccording to the Bureau of Economic Analysis:Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located ...
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CRDN: Ceradyne Makes More Sales We Already Knew About

Posted: January 31, 2007 at 1:17 pm

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatThe way the defense spending process works, companies selling to the military generally receive a blanket order covering multiple years, but the actual ...
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