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Daily Archives: March 14, 2007

Cramer Wants Prince Out at Citigroup, We Do Too (again)

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 5:17 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer is going to replace Bank of America (BAC) with CITIGROUP (C) as his favorite banking stock because of Chuck Prince.  This is ...
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Investors Choosing Growth & Risk Over Value & Defensive Stocks

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 4:34 pm

DJIA                    12,133.40; Up 57.44 (0.48%)NASDAQ            2,371.74; Up 21.17 (0.90%)S&P500              1,387.17; Up 9.22 (0.67%)10YR-Bond        4.522%; Up ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 3:02 pm

The number of mortgage companies making the list is becoming unfair, but one of the most widely traded stocks in America also made the list.Sirius (SIRI) Maybe it's the merger. ...
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An IPO To Profit From Outsourcing & OffShoring (ETEL)

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 2:25 pm

If you think that offshoring and outsourcing may be slowing, think again.  We have already seen waves and waves of IT-outsourcing to India, Romania, Ukraine, and elsewhere.  We have seen ...
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Yahoo! Tops All Competition In “Average Visits Per User”

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 2:10 pm

In a new measurement of how people use the internet, comScore has come out with a new metric, "average visites per unique visitor". In February, Yahoo! sites (YHOO) topped this ...
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Cramer’s Dirty Dozen

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 1:51 pm

On today's STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer issued what he calls a "Dirty Dozen" of stocks to avoid.  He made some of these in sub-prime liar-loan companies as ...
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Skype

SkypeFind + SkypePrime = Skype Desperate

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 1:49 pm

From Internet Outsider In a move that says more about the revenue potential of its core business than any numbers reported to date, Skype announced the launch of two new ...
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Cuban Shreds GooTube; I Respectfully Differ

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 1:46 pm

From Internet OutsiderMark Cuban's cheers on Viacom in the GooTube war with a lengthy diatribe on the naive idiocy of all-content-should-be-free idealists, GooTube's arrogance, and how Viacom has "already won."  ...
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Cramer on Viacom Suing Google

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 1:23 pm

On today's Wall Street Confidential video on TheStreet.com, Cramer keyed in on Viacom (VIA) versus Google (GOOG): Cramer thinks Viacom has the wrong approach here in suing Google.  He thinks ...
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Why Wall St. Hates Viacom

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 1:07 pm

It does not seem to matter who Viacom (VIA-B) fires or who they sue. The stock goes nowhere. Over the last year, it is up by about 1%. Other media ...
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Legislation to Repeal Online Gambling Ban May Be Coming

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 11:02 am

The Financial Times online edition (subscription required for full article) has noted from an interview that Barney Frank, the democratic House Financial Services Committee chairman, is working on legislation to ...
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Run_away

Advertisers Fleeing TV, Radio for Internet, etc.

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 10:04 am

From Internet Outsider Emily Steel of the WSJ reported startling numbers from TNS Media Intelligence showing just how fast major advertisers are pulling money out of traditional media and throwing ...
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Crystal_ball

Are We Already in A Recession?

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 10:01 am

From Investment Intelligencer Recessions are not only hard to predict, they're also sometimes hard to identify until after-the-fact.  For example, as Dan Gross describes in this NYT piece, back 2000, ...
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IPO Filing: Polypore International (PPO)

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 9:58 am

This morning we have an IPO filing from Polypore International, Inc., which has indicated an NYSE listing under the "PPO" stock ticker.  It lists $362.25 million as the amount to ...
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Ford: Bring Back Bill Ford

Posted: March 14, 2007 at 9:45 am

GM (GM) came out with good results today, vindicating its CEO Richard Wagoner. Investors are still waiting at Ford. Alan Mullaly joined as CEO early in September of last year. ...
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