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Daily Archives: February 12, 2007

How Close Is An Alcoa Buyout? Times Thinks Very

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 7:30 pm

Is Alcoa (AA-NYSE) really going to be acquired?  BHP Billiton (BHP-NYSE/ADR) and Rio Tinto (RTP-NYSE/ADR) are each preparing their own $40 Billion bids according to the Tuesday edition of the ...
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Cramer Talks Up National Oilwell Varco (NOV)

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 6:53 pm

Cramer thinks oil isn't going back to $40.00, but Wall Street has abandoned the sector and Main Street is embracing it.  National Oilwell Varco (NOV-NYSE) is on Cramer has liked ...
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Cramer’s Case on Marvell Tech (MRVL)

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 6:33 pm

Cramer started MAD MONEY on CNBC discussing why he doesn't like chip stocks yet, but he discussed Marvell Tech (MRVL-NASDAQ), and he thinks it is one thatyou can start nibbling ...
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Cramer Talks on Friday’s Semiconductor Upgrades

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 6:14 pm

Cramer started MAD MONEY on CNBC tonight saying that the semiconductor upgrades from J.P.Morgan and Deutsche Bank from Friday mean to Buy later in the year after corrections in inventories.  ...
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S&P Equity Research Raised American Express to Buy

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 5:54 pm

Standard & Poor's Equity Research raised its rating on American Express (AXP) today to a Buy and $65.00 target.  Normally this wouldn't matter except that S&P tends to be deemed ...
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Sector Beats vs Misses

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 5:34 pm

From Ticker Sense66.4% of S&P 500 companies have beaten their fourth quarter eps estimates while 19.2% have missed.  Below we break up the S&P 500 by sector.  As shown, energy, ...
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Blue Nile Gets Trader Scrutiny After Earnings

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 4:28 pm

Blue Nile (NILE-NASDAQ) is taking a bit of a haircut in after-hours trading because of its earnings report.  It posted $0.35 EPS and $90.7 million revenues, compared to $0.31 and ...
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Spring Training with Church & Dwight Company Inc. (CHD)

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 4:20 pm

From The Stock MastersIt is only a week until pitchers and catchers report to spring training boys and girls. This is great news, as it means winter will soon be ...
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Southwest Air: The Low Cost Carrier That Isn’t

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 4:00 pm

Today Southwest Air (LUV-NYSE) has raised its prices by up to $10.00 each way.  Sure the other airlines either have (or will have) followed the fare hike, but this further ...
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Cramer’s Worst Earnings Report of the Season

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 2:49 pm

On today's STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer noted Onyx Pharma (ONXX-NASDAQ) is going up on hopes Bayer will buy it on top of the good news. Home Depot's ...
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Cramer on Momentum Ending

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 2:01 pm

Cramer said that a lot of momentum is ending on his Wall Street Confidential video on TheStreet.com today.  The profit taking is coming out of the REIT's after the EOP/Zell ...
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AT&T And Qualcomm: The Glass Is Half Empty (At Least)

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 1:14 pm

AT&T (T) announced that it will adopt the Qualcomm (QCOM) MediaFlow system for delivery of wireless video to its customers. Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) has already signed up for the system. ...
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Tech Press Digest 2/12/2007 TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Inquirer

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 12:37 pm

The Inquirer writes that Dell (DELL) cannot ship its XPS line of computers with Vista because the Nvidia (NVDA) drivers are not compatible with the new Microsoft (MSFT) OS. The ...
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Sector and Group Overbought/Oversold

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 11:50 am

From Ticker SenseAlthough the US equity markets cooled slightly last week, most areas remain overbought.  The overbought/oversold charts below highlight key sectors and groups that make up the markets.  ETFs ...
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New Blodget Book Out: Wall Street Self-Defense Manual

Posted: February 12, 2007 at 11:42 am

Henry Blodget's new book, published as a joint venture between Atlas Books and Slate Magazine (part of The Washington Post Company) launched last week in NY. The book was introduced ...
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