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Daily Archives: March 12, 2007

Airbus Is Such A Poor Competitor For Boeing That China Steps In

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 6:00 pm

Airbus is not much competition for Boeing (BA). The new Dreamliners and 747-8 are flying off the shelves. Airbus cannot sell a A-380 super-jumbo to save its life. The company's ...
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Cramer Calls Hansen Medical the Next Intuitive Surgical

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 5:52 pm

On CNBC's MAD MONEY, Cramer said he is unveiling a medical delivery technology company and will be doing this as part of a new series.  He is reviewing Hansen Medical ...
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Cramer’s Oil Service & Drilling Picks

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 5:25 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said the decline in the oil service stocks because it was a nice day is wrong and he said you can't think ...
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S&P 500 Stocks Furthest Below 50-Day Moving Average

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 5:09 pm

From Ticker SenseBelow we provide historical 50-day moving average spread charts of the 10 stocks in the S&P 500 that are trading furthest below their 50-day moving average.  The 50-day ...
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Performance of the Sell Side’s Best Idea Lists

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 5:07 pm

From Ticker SenseThis weekend's issue of Barron's had an interesting story which recapped the performance of sell-side brokerage firms' "Best Idea" lists.  As the table below shows, the results were ...
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Should Companies Give Quarterly Guidance?

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 5:06 pm

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatEnd quarterly earnings guidance: business group - Mar. 12, 2007The U.S. Chamber of Commerce called Monday for an end to quarterly earnings guidance ...
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STLD: Steel Dynamics Raises Earnings Guidance

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 5:04 pm

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatSteel Dynamics (STLD) is just the right size to be one of the companies that qualifies for inclusion on our Small Cap Watch ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 4:38 pm

New Century Financial (NEW) Sub-prime lender my fill for Chapter 11. Dropped to $1.65 down from 52-week high of $51.97.Conseco (CNO) Still taking a pounding for weak numbers in last ...
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Texas Instruments Mid-Quarter Update

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 3:39 pm

Texas Instruments' (TXN-NYSE) mid-quarter update:  TXN expects EPS between $0.29 and $0.33, compared with the previous range of $0.28 to $0.34 on total revenue of between $3.07 billion and $3.22 ...
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Earnings Preview: Goldman Sachs (GS)

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 2:57 pm

Goldman Sachs (GS-NYSE) reports tomorrow morning on its earnings numbers for the quarter.  Estimates are for 3.5% revenue growth to $10.7 billion and EPS of $4.90, which compares to $5.09/share ...
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Cramer Changes His Mind

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 1:48 pm

On today's STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer changed his mind about a stock.  Morgans Hotels (MHGC) has gone up after Cramer thought it wouldn't.  The CIBC analyst on ...
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Schering’s Buy of Organon Should be a Win-Win for SGP, Akzo Nobel

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 1:45 pm

Schering-Plough made a move that looks to shore up their pharmaceutical business with one broad stroke, agreeing to acquire Dutch firm Akzo Nobel’s (ADR; AKZOY) Organon BioSciences drug segment for ...
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RadioShack Cut to Junk at Moody’s

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 11:57 am

Moody's has downgraded the Debt Rating of RadioShck from Baa3 to Ba1 and taken its short-term rating to "NOT PRIME" from a "PRIME3" rating.  Debt rating downgrades do not often ...
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The Humiliation Of Raymond James

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 11:42 am

Barron's rated the research efforts of some of the large national and regional brokerages. "As we do every six months, Barron's rates the stock-picking abilities of brokers that issue focus ...
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How The UAW Sent The Big Three’s Jobs Overseas

Posted: March 12, 2007 at 9:21 am

Very few businesses that are inflexible survive. And, the UAW may be called a union, but it is a business. And, for years it did well. The Reuther years. The ...
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