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Daily Archives: January 3, 2007

Cramer’s Way to play Nardelli

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 11:02 am

Cramer said it is a good thing that Nardelli is gone from Home Depot (HD).  He says Hallelujah.  I couldn't agree more personally.  Cramer says you should Sell HD here ...
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Alcatel-Lucent’s Quiet Rise (ALU)(NOK)(SI)(ERIC)(MOT)

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 10:40 am

When Alcatel and Lucent announced that they would merge, there seemed to be nothing but skeptics on Wall St. So, odd that the stock has gone from $11.75 on October ...
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Why XM Is Up On Sirius News? (SIRI)(XMSR)

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 10:22 am

Strange as it may seem, shares of XM Radio are up 6% on news that rival Sirius increased it year end subscription figure to 6.1 million from 3.3 million last ...
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B of A’s Rating Change On GM: A Little Late (GM)

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 10:10 am

Bank of America dropped GM's shares from a "hold" to a "sell". They moved their price target from $30 to $25. The stock trades at about $30 now. B of ...
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Sirius Up 6% on 6.02 Million Subscribers and Free Cash Flow

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 9:02 am

Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) said that it finished 2006 with 82% more subscribers than in the previous year, in-line with the company's recently lowered projection.  It grew from 3.3 million ...
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Nardelli Leaves Home Depot & The Stock Rises

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 8:10 am

Home Depot (HD) announced that Bob Nardelli has mutually agreed with the company to step down as Chairman and CEO of Home Depot.  If you will recall, Mr. Nardelli was ...
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Select Analyst Calls (JAN 3, 2007)

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 7:53 am

by Jon C. OggAER started as Outperform at Wachovia.AMAT cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.AMD cut to Sell at ThinkEquity; AMD cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.AMZN cut to Sell ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (JAN 3, 2007)

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 7:51 am

by Jon C. Ogg(AGYS) Agilysys selling unit for almost $500M to Arrow Electronics.(AMLN) Amylin received FDA Approval with Lilly on Byetta.(ALVR) Alvarion CFO is leaving in Q2. (CANI) Carreker gets ...
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Qualcomm Takes On More Water

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 6:26 am

If it were not enough that Qualcomm (QCOM) is fighting with its largest customer Nokia (NOK) and it is in litigation with its rival Broadcom (BRCM) and Texas Instuments (TXN) ...
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Europe Markets 1/3/2007 Prudential Up, Reuters Down

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 6:14 am

Stocks:  (BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UN)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DT)(DB)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(V)Markets in Europe were narrowly mixed at 6.10 AM New York time.The FTSE was down .1% to 8,303. Barclays was up .7% to 781. BP was down .3% to ...
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Wal-Mart Hammers Its Workers (WMT)

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 5:43 am

Wal-Mart has decided that it will use computers to match store traffic to the number of workers it has in its stores. The idea is novel, but its puts the ...
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Media Digest 1/3/2007 NYTimes, WSJ, Reuters, FT, Barron’s

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 5:29 am

According to Reuters, The Washington Research foundation has sued several companies including Nokia and Samsung for infringing on a Bluetooth patent.  (NOK)The Wall Street Journal writes that Wal-Mart will schedule ...
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Asia Markets 1/3/2007 PCCW Up, Cathy Pacific Off

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 5:08 am

Several Asian markets were closed, but the Hang Seng rose sharply again.The Hang Seng was up .5% to 20,413. Cathay Pacific fell 4% to 18.84. China Moble rose 1.3% to ...
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Vertex Hepititis C Candidate May Be a Success Story

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 4:59 am

From BioHealth InvestorIt seems like Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) is the subject of the majority of my articles (link one, two, three to past articles) and for good reasons. VRTX is ...
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Mean Reversion

Posted: January 3, 2007 at 4:57 am

From World BetaIn 2003, investors in global equities had just experienced 3 brutal years of negative returns. While many were too shell shocked to commit new (or in many cases, ...
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