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Daily Archives: January 25, 2007

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Oil vs. Interest Rates

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 11:02 am

From Ticker SenseSome of our readers have asked us if there is any relationship between the price of oil and short term interest rates. Namely, do declines in the price ...
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PCAOB Report: What Auditors Miss

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 10:54 am

From AAO WeblogUpfront disclosure: the PCAOB is a subscriber to The Analyst’s Accounting Observer. (But that doesn’t mean I know any more about them than you.)The PCAOB issued an unusual ...
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Equity Office Bid Hike Makes Office Values Reach the Sky

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 10:00 am

Equity Office Property (EOP) is up another 3% at $54.35 on an even higher bid of $54.00 cash from the Blackstone Group.  Blackstone is raising its bid by 11% from ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (JAN 25, 2007)

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 8:44 am

AMD cut to underperform at Credit Suisse; maybe yesterday call, but that may have the worst value of any downgrade out there.ANF raised to Buy at B of A.BBY raised ...
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Pre-Market Stock Notes (JAN 25, 2007)

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 8:27 am

(ABI) Applied Bio $0.37 EPS vs $0.34e.(AGR/a) Agere $0.19 EPS vs $0.21e; sees same earnings in Q1.(BAX) Baxter $0.66 EPS vs $0.62e.(BMY) Bristol-Myers $0.19 EPS vs $0.16e.(COL) Rockwell-Collins $0.84 EPS ...
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Fort Apache Detroit

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 8:07 am

Edmunds, the car research firm, comes out with projections of US monthly vehicle sales a few days before the car companies announce. The numbers are usually pretty good.Domestic sales are ...
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Goldman Sachs Research Summary (JAN 25, 2007) (part 1)

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 8:00 am

Earnings estimates raised on AngloGold (AU), Newmont Mining (NEM), Paraxel (PRXL), Affiliated Managers (AMG), Unisys (UIS), Air Products (APD), Praxair (PX), Ethan Allen (ETH), ConocoPhillips (COP), Tidewater (TDW), AllianceBernstein (AB), ...
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Ford’s Awful Numbers: Getting Smaller Won’t Work

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 7:50 am

Ford's (F) fourth quarter report was nothing short of a disaster.The company lost $5.8 billion. Excluding restructuring costs, the number was $2.1 billion. Worldwide automotive revenue for the quarter were ...
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Europe Markets 1/25/2007 Vodafone, Simens Up, DaimlerChrysler Down

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 6:45 am

Stocks:  (BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UN)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(SAP)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(STM)(V)Markets in Europe were up a fraction at 6.45 AM New York time.The FTSE rose .1% to 6,321. Barclays was up .6% to 762.5. BP was up .1% to ...
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Ebay: Spin Off PayPal

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 6:30 am

Ebay's numbers in the latest quarter were good. Very good. The on line auction company even raised its estimates for 2007 for a revenue range of $7.05 billion to $7.3 ...
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Nokia Proves It Isn’t Motorola

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 6:09 am

Nokia (NOK) showed increases in revenue and profits for the last quarter of 2006. Sales rose 13% to 11.7 billion euros and net income was up 19% to 1.27 billion ...
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Netflix Still Needs Internet VOD

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 5:55 am

NetFlix (NFLX) has already announced that it will make movies available over the internet, for free. As long as you are a subscriber to the company's DVD-by-mail core business.The video ...
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Detroit Ostrich Farm: Welfare Lines For Workers, Bonuses For Bosses

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 5:39 am

Ford's (F) reputation for stupidity may not have been mitigated by Bill Ford stepping down as CEO and a senior executive's decision not use the company plane for free to ...
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Qualcomm Investors: The Beating Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 5:25 am

Wall St. would think that a company at the center of the global cell phone market would be growing, even if margins were hurt by falling handset prices. But, after ...
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Media Digest 1/25/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: January 25, 2007 at 5:05 am

According to Reuters, Nintendo's net for the last nine months rose over 43% on the strength of sales of its DS handheld device.Reuters reports that a press piece in Nikkei ...
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