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Daily Archives: April 12, 2007

Cramer’s STOP TRADING (APR 12, 2007)

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 1:47 pm

Cramer noted that Dow Chemical (DOW-NYSE) this last round of firing over unauthorized merger talk engagements of talks signals that this means the ousted executives could lead a deal to ...
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Uranium: When Is Too Much Really Too Much?

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 11:29 am

Stock Tickers: USU, CCJ, EMU, URZ, USEG, TXU, URRE, URMEThe recent performance of Uranium stocks has just been too powerful to overlook, even if the mere mention of it is ...
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MedImmune Decides To Pursue a Sale

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 8:01 am

MedImmune, Inc. (MEDI-NASDAQ) announced that its board of directors has authorized management to evaluate whether third parties would have an interest in acquiring the company at a price and on ...
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Wal-Mart: Sales Up, Earnings Down?

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 7:41 am

Wal-Mart (WMT) said its same store sales for the period rose 4% in March. Sales for the five weeks ending April 6 were up almost 12% to $34.26 billion.That would ...
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Vonage Decides Its CEO Must Go, Finally

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 7:35 am

Vonage Holdings Corp. (VG-NYSE) announced that Michael Snyder has (FINALLY) stepped down from his position as CEO and resigned from the Company's Board of Directors effective April 11, 2007. Jeffrey ...
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Goldman Sachs Research Summary (APR 12, 2007)

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 7:11 am

Stock Tickers: BARE, HWAY, RIMM, DNA, ETP, APPB, C, RUTH, PFCB, SLG, BPOUpgrades: Bare Escentuals, Inc. (BARE) raised to Buy from Neutral.Healthways, Inc. (HWAY) raised from Sell to Neutral, but ...
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Full Research Summary (APR 12, 2007)

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 6:55 am

ABK raised to Buy at B of A.AIR started as Buy at Stifel Nicolaus.AMTD started as Hold at Deutsche Bank.AV cut to Neutral at B of A.BAC started as Hold ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (APR 12, 2007)

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 6:47 am

(AEO) American Eagle Outfitters raised guidance after stronger sales.(AMAG) Advanced Magnetics said phase III in iron replacements showed very positive results and shares rose 7%.(CKFR) CheckFree confirmed that it did ...
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DELL: DELL Ditching Retail Dabble?

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 6:40 am

By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat (more...) ...
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Earlybird Analyst Calls (APR 12, 2007)

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 6:14 am

ABK raised to Buy at B of A.AIR started as Buy at Stifel Nicolaus.AV cut to Neutral at B of A.BAC started as Hold at Deutsche Bank.C started as Buy ...
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Europe Markets 4/12/2007

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 5:39 am

Stocks: (BCS)(BT)(BP)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UN)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DT)(DB)(SAP)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(STM)Markets in Europe were down slightly at 6.30 AM New York time. (more...) ...
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As Clearwire Falls, More Money For WiMax

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 5:14 am

Telsima, a WiMax equipment company, has raised another $50 million from VC firms including NewPath Ventures and Intel Capital. The WiMax standard already has tremendous backing from large tech companies ...
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CBS: When Too Much Is Not Enough

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 4:57 am

CBS (CBS) has cut a series of deals to put its TV shows on Time Warner (TWX) AOL, Microsoft (MSFT) MSN, and Yahoo! (YHOO). The programming will also go on ...
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Sprint: Will Gary Forsee Be Sacrificed?

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 4:36 am

A large institutional money management firm, Relational Investors, has picked up 1% of Sprint (S) and wants the company to cut capital spending and sell its long distance operations. The ...
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Media Digest 4/12/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: April 12, 2007 at 4:17 am

According to Reuters, Nestle has paid $5.5 billion to buy Gerber Foods from Novartis (NVS).Reuters writes that IBM (IBM) has developed a new chip stacking technique to make microprocessors faster ...
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