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Daily Archives: January 17, 2007

Analyst Calls (JAN 17, 2007)

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 8:18 am

AAPL reiterated Outperform at Piper Jaffray.ADTN cut to Equal Weight at Lehman.ALGT started as Buy at Merrill Lynch; started as Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.ALSK cut to Underweight at Lehman.APPB ...
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Are Sirius And XM Worth Less Than Their Stock Prices?

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 7:45 am

JP Morgan upgraded both Sirius (SIRI) and XM (XMSR) saying that both could have close to 15 million subscribers by 2010. The research note also indicated that most cars may ...
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Europe Markets 1/17/2007 GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer Up, Reuters Down

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 6:47 am

Stocks:  (BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UN)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(V)Markets in Europe were narrowly mixed at 6.45 AM New York time.The FTSE was down .1% to 6,211. Barclays was down .8% to 749. BP was down 1% to ...
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If You Can’t Beat Them, Pay Them

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 5:40 am

Google (GOOG) CheckOut does not seem to have taken much business from Ebay's (EBAY) PayPal. At least not according to a look at the Ebay 10-Q.But, Google, always one to ...
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New Search Engine Could Take Share

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 5:21 am

The latest search engine, WikiSeek, may actually have a chance to take some small amount of share from Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, and Ask.com. The product searches data from the ...
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Yahoo! Finance Beats The Competition (YHOO)(TWX)(MSFT)(RTRSY)(DJ)(TSCM)(NYT)

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 5:12 am

Yahoo Finance kept its hure lead in pageviews compared to competion. December numbers from NetRatings show the financial section of the Yahoo! portal with over 606 million pageviews. The next ...
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Media Digest 1/17/2007 NYTimes, Reuters, WSJ, Barron’s, FT

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 5:07 am

According to Reutes, GM (GM) is close to a deal with Delphi for wage and benefit concessions at the parts maker as it comes out of bankruptcy. The move would ...
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Asia Markets 1/17/2007 Japan Up, Yahoo Japan Down

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 4:47 am

Stocks:  (CAJ)(FUJ)(NIPNY)(HMC)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CN)(PCW)(HBC)(NTT)Markets in Asia were narrowly mixed.The Nikkei was up .3% to 17,262. Bridgestone was up 1% to 2640. Canon was down .3% to 6420. Fuji Film was flat at ...
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Something’s Gotta Give

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 4:30 am

From Ticker SenseThe chart below shows the ratio between the price of the S&P 500 Energy stock sector and the price of crude oil per barrel.  The ratio is clearly ...
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Verizon Shareholders Get FairPoint, But is it a Fair Shake?

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 4:28 am

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatNot long ago we wrote that the Verizon’s (VZ) spinoff of its directory business seemed to be fortuitously timed to get $9 billion ...
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Sorting Symantec’s Mess

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 4:26 am

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatSymantec (SYMC) this morning paid investors the joint disservice of issuing disappointing guidance and doing so in a difficult to understand press release. ...
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Intel Earnings What We’ve Been Expecting

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 4:24 am

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatIntel (INTC) shares dropped after market hours when the company reported strong revenue but weak margins, and guided for more of the same. ...
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Linear Sends Another Signal

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 4:21 am

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatAlong with Intel (INTC), Linear Technology (LLTC) reported lower than expected earnings and guided for sales to drop in the coming quarter, compared ...
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Zacks Likes Rockwell Too

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 4:19 am

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatGiven our concerns over some of the leading tech markets, we have tended to favor names like Rockwell Automation (ROK). By helping make ...
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Trade Opportunity In Oil (OIH)?

Posted: January 17, 2007 at 4:18 am

By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment IdeasToday Oil dropped to twenty month lows. Is it just me or do you see a short-term bounce in it?Below I've tried to ...
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