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Daily Archives: January 15, 2007

Steve Jobs’ Leave Of Absence

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 8:05 pm

Steve Jobs has finished what he needs to do for Apple (AAPL) in 2007. The iPhone and iTV initiatives are launched. The new MacBooks are out. iPod sales will undoubtedly ...
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Microsoft And Ask.com Go Searching For Users

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 7:23 pm

The rich get richer. According to Comscore, December online search query volume rose 30% from a year earlier. Google (GOOG) and Yahoo! (YHOO) picked up tiny bits of share. A ...
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BP Gets An “F”

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 6:51 pm

James Baker, the former US Secretary of State has been busy writing recently. He was involved in the Iraq report, written for the President. And, in just the last two ...
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Sony Management Files For Unemployment

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 6:16 pm

Nomura, the largest brokerage firm in Japan, has reported that the Playstation3 will only hit 75% of its sales goal for the period ending March 31, 2007. Their financial forecast ...
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Google’s Headache: Why YouTube Can’t Make Money

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 3:17 pm

One of the criticisms of Google (GOOG) is that it still gets 99.99% of it revenue from text advertising using its search technology. Google spreadsheets, Google finance, Google earth, Google ...
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Citigroup At $55: A Break-Up Analyst Hits The Number

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 2:20 pm

In September 2005, the chief analyst at BankStocks ran a break-up model on Citigroup (C).Based on the work, Citi would be broken into four companies and each would be a ...
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Is Sprint Worth 60% More Than Its Current Value? Break-Up Analysis (Revision 1)

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 12:09 pm

Private equity firms and M&A operations are constantly trying to find dislocations between where the stock market values a company and how it might be valued if it were broken ...
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Skype TV

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 9:14 am

Wall St. has to wonder what the fine print looks like in the sales documents from the Ebay (EBAY) purchase of Skype. It must read that, after we buy your ...
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Europe Markets 1/15/2007 Smith’s Group Up, Alcatel-Lucent Down

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 9:00 am

Stocks:  (BEA)(BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UN)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(SAP)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(V)Markets in Europe were up at 9 AM New York time.The FTSE rose .5% to 6,270. BEA Systems was up 2.2% to 426.5. Barclays was up 1.6% to 772. ...
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GE Fights Mediocrity

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 8:46 am

GE must be getting sick of a stock price which still sits below where it was five years ago. The company is talking about selling its underperforming plastics unit.And, now ...
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Media Digest 1/15/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, Barron’s, FT

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 5:30 am

According to Reuters, GE (GE) is buying the aerospace unit of Britain's Smith Group. The price is $4.8 billion. GE hopes to use the business to take advantage of the ...
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Asia Markets 1/15/2007 China Unicom, Sony Rise

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 5:14 am

Stocks:  (CAJ)(FUJ)(NIPNY)HIT)(HMC)(NTT)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CHU)(PCW)(HBC)Asia markets ralliedThe Nikkei was up .9% to 17,210. Bridgestone was down 1.1% to 2590. Canon was down .9% to 6480. Fuji Film was up 1.1% to 4770. Hitatch ...
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The Monday Edition- US, China & Japan Relationships – India & FDI

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 4:55 am

By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment IdeasIt is my belief that to profit in financial markets, whether you're a trader &/or investor, one needs to understand the implications of ...
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Will NCR’s Teradata Make it to the Public Markets?

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 4:52 am

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatNCR recently announced plans to spin out its Teradata data warehousing business. Already some are speculating it will be taken over - possibly ...
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Legacy Reserves (LGCY)

Posted: January 15, 2007 at 4:48 am

Posted by Bill in General 2007-01-06LGCY - Legacy ReservesLGCY - Legacy Reserves plans on offering 4.3 million units at a price of $18.50 - $20.50. Note that LGCY filed an ...
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