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Daily Archives: March 16, 2007

Barington Suggests Spin-Off or Sale of Griffon (GFF) Telephonics Subsidiary and Buyback

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 12:37 pm

From 13D TrackerIn an amended 13D filing on Griffon Corporation (NYSE: GFF), 5.24% holder Barington Capital disclosed a letter sent to the company's Chairman and CEO Harvey R. Blau outlining ...
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Viacom’s Redstone Just Hedging Google/YouTube Bets?

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 12:35 pm

From Internet OursiderOne massive old media conglomerate, Viacom, is so outraged about Google's "willful copyright infringement" that it is suing Google for $1 billion.  Another massive old media conglomerate, CBS, ...
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Vidmeter: Big Media Clips Not So Popular

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 12:33 pm

From Internet Outsider Following up on yesterday's post about Vidmeter's "Top 200" video rankings, a reader suggested I look at "daily" numbers instead of "all-time" numbers, because most of the ...
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Cramer Pans Newspapers

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 11:59 am

On today's WALL STREET CONFIDENTIAL video on TheStreet.com, Cramer talked Gannett's (GCI) story about advertising not being that great.  Cramer noted the circulation is actually not going down that much, ...
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Wal-Mart the Ex-Banker; They Still Don’t Get It

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 10:40 am

Wal-Mart (WMT) has withdrawn its Industrial loan charter application, in what is an obvious throwing in of the towel.  This will generate a sigh of relief among community bankers and ...
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IPO Alert: Gafisa S.A., Sam Zell’s Brazilian Play

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 9:25 am

Gafisa S.A. (GFA-NYSE/ADR) has begun trading on the NYSE.  Its initial public offering of 39,676,600 common shares in the US (represents two common shares in Brazil) priced at US$24.88 per ...
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IPO’s For Private Equity & More Hedge Funds Coming

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 9:08 am

More and more discussions of IPO's for hedge funds and private equity firms are more forthcoming today.  Blackstone, one of the largest private equity players in the US, may be ...
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Hollis Eden: What Else They Have Under the Hood

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 8:01 am

Hollis Eden (HEPH), a micro-cap drug development company, is up roughly 7% at $2.68 pre-market after the company announced it was officially shelving its Neumune radiation treatment development because of ...
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Goldman Sachs Full Research Summary (MAR 16, 2007)

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 7:38 am

GOLDMAN SACHS has made several updates on its Americas Conviction Buy List this morning:Federated Investors (FII) is added to CONVICTION BUY LIST to replace AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (AB).  Deere (DE) ...
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Goldman Sachs Raised Starbucks & Cut McDonalds

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 7:27 am

Starbucks was ADDED to CONVICTION BUY LIST at Goldman Sachs.   Goldman sees 3 trewnds that can stem recent weakness and take it toward the $43 target. 1) trading reversal on ...
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Full Research Notes (MAR 16, 2007)

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 7:15 am

ALLI cut to Neutral at First Albany.BBEP cut to Hold at AGEdwards.BEN cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.BKD cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.BOT cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.BRL ...
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Pre-Market Stock Notes (MAR 16, 2007)

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 7:14 am

(ANN) Ann Taylor $0.31 vs $0.29e.(CBMX) CombiMatrix was awarded US Air Force contract to advance influenza-detection system for some $800,000+.(CVS) CVS Shareholders voted in favor of the Caremark deal with ...
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Analyst Calls (MAR 16, 2007)

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 6:47 am

ALLI cut to Neutral at First Albany.BBEP cut to Hold at AGEdwards.BOT cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.BRL raised to Buy at Merrill Lynch.BUD raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.CAB ...
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Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn: Hero No More

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 5:30 am

Carlos Ghosn was the global car industry's rock star. He turned around Nissan and then went to Europe and fixed Renault. He teamed with Kirk Kerkorian in an attempt to ...
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Nintendo Wii Starts to Lose Steam

Posted: March 16, 2007 at 5:19 am

February figures from research firm NPD show that the Nintendo Wii is still selling well in the US, but Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox is picking up its pace. The Wii sold ...
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