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Daily Archives: March 21, 2007

Cramer Almost Changed His Wal-Mart Stance

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 6:06 pm

Cramer on CNBC's MAD MONEY tonight, actually came out and reviewed Wal-Mart (WMT) as one of his segment stocks.  He is taking a contrarian view on it to see the ...
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Cramer’s Play on Diabetes

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 5:28 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said the action of the Defensive Stocks makes you need to watch the drug stocks in case the Fed doesn't actually cut ...
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Cramer’s Unusual Specialty Metals Play

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 5:14 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said the bulls got what they wanted as the Federal Reserve removing the "firming" bias from their statement today. The market is ...
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Motorola Tries to Offset Falling Margins

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 3:48 pm

Motorola (MOT-NYSE) shares were halted for trading after the close.  Its stock had closed down 0.4% at $18.74 on 36 million shares (10% above average volume) and the speculation was ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 3:01 pm

US Auto Parts (PRTS) Poor Q1 forecast for online auto parts company. Down to $5.46. The 52-week high is $12.61.FSI Intl (FSII) Microelectronics fabrication firm releases negative news on Q1. ...
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Companies That Need A Headcount Reduction: Wal-Mart

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 2:56 pm

Wal-Mart (WMT-NYSE) may find itself with little choice, although there are ways it can accomplish the same end-result without the negative publicity that would come from a headline of “Layoffs!”.  ...
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Cramer Sticks With a May Rate Cut Prediction

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 1:56 pm

On today's STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer did note that this was a loosening of the bias out of the Fed today even though there was no rate ...
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Conflicts of Interest Statement for FDA Advisory Committees

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 1:47 pm

Did you ever think the FDA or other industry-government regulatory and advisory boards were free from a conflict of interest?  If so, guess again.  Today the FDA is issuing some ...
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FOMC Leaves Rates Unchanged on Different Language in Statement

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 1:21 pm

As expected, the FOMC left rates unchanged today at 5 1/4%.At the last meeting, the DJIA closed at 12,621.69 on the January 31, 2007 date and right before today's announcement ...
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Starbucks Keeps Coming Up With Big Claims

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 1:03 pm

Starbucks (SBUX) keeps talking about where it will be in several years. With the number of unknowns involved, it might want to play that down, but the company won't listen.The ...
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Google Gains Search Share, Ask.com Loses

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 12:35 pm

The comScore February data, Google (GOOG) gain search share in February, going from 47.5 % of the US market in January to 48.1%. The largest drop was Ask.com (IACI) which ...
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ORCL: Oracle Earnings

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 12:02 pm

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatOver the weekend our forecast for Large Cap Watch List member Oracle’s (ORCL - Annual Report) earnings report was that “We think acquisitions ...
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FDX: FedEx Earnings Disappointing, As We Expected

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 12:00 pm

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market BeatOver the weekend we made our forecast for the FedEx earnings report, saying “We think the risks lie to the downside due to ...
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S&P 500 Performance Leading Up to the Start of Bear Markets

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 11:58 am

From Ticker SenseLast week we compared sector performance now versus their performance leading up to bear markets.  Today we compare how the S&P 500 has performed over the last eighteen ...
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Market Action and the Fed

Posted: March 21, 2007 at 11:56 am

From Ticker SenseWith the Fed rate decision coming today at 2:15 PM ET, we updated our table of how the S&P 500 has performed on the day of rate decisions ...
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