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Daily Archives: April 13, 2007

Vertex Options Active Ahead of Data Presentation

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 10:53 am

Vertex (VRTX-NASDAQ) is seeing quite a bit of trading today ahead of a data presentation tomorrow.  This one may have been very active all on its own, but since Dendreon ...
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Critiquing Smart Money’s “Ten Stocks for the Next Ten Years”

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 9:25 am

Stock Tickers: AAWW, CELL, HPOL, OSIS, PWAV, SIRO, TTEK, UNFI, VAS, WTS The new cover story for the May 2007 Smart Money Magazine is an interesting one as "The Ten ...
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McDonald’s Kicks A–

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 8:14 am

McDonald's (MCD) global same store sales rose 8.2% and US same store figures were up 6.2%. That can't be good news for Yum (YUM), Burger King (BKC), and Starbucks (SBUX). ...
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IPO Pricing: Comverge, Inc. (COMV)

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 7:51 am

Comverge, Inc. (COMV-NASDAQ priced its IPO of 5.3 million shares at $18.00 per share.  The company used Citigroup as the lead underwriter; and co-managers include Cowen & Co., RBC Capital, ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (APR 13, 2007)

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 7:13 am

(AAPL) Apple is delaying its new Leopard OS by 3 months due to pulling programmers to work on iPhones.(ANDS) Anadys Pharma showed positive data  in hepatitis B studies.(AYR) Air Castle ...
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Full Analyst Summary (APR 13, 2007)

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 7:00 am

AOG started as Buy at Jefferies.ATMI started as Neutral at First Albany.BAC started as Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.BBX raised to Outperform at FBR.BEC started as Neutral at B of A.BUCY ...
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Sony’s Five Year High

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 6:10 am

Sony's (SNE) shares hit a five year high overnight in Tokyo. Odd for a company that appears to be struggling selling its new flagship game platform. A Deutsche Securities analyst ...
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GE Meets Expectations, But That’s All

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 5:55 am

GE (GE) announced earnings this morning. Revenue rose rose 5.7%. Results were hurt by the company's industrial division, especially its plastics unit. Earnings rose to $4.51 billion from $4.44 billion ...
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Fight With Qualcomm: Nokia’s Turn

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 5:45 am

Some observers think that now that the deadline has passed for Nokia (NOK) to renew its license with Qualcomm (QCOM) for using its IP and hardware in NOK handsets, that ...
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Europe Markets 4/13/2007 SAP, BP Up

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 5:31 am

Stocks:  (BCS)(BT)(BP)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UN)(VOD)(BAY)(DT)(DB)(SAP)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(STM)Markets in Europe were up slightly at 6.25 AM New York time.The FTSE rose .1%. (more...) ...
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Someone At Merck Is Crazy

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 4:35 am

Merck's new arthritis drug Arcoxia was rejected by an FDA panel by a vote of 20-to-1. Apparently, the drug has cardiovascular risks. The same problem with a related drug that ...
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Apple’s Bad Bet: Delaying It OS

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 4:07 am

Apple (AAPL) announced that it is delaying the release of the new OS for Mac,Leopard, until October because the engineers who were to build it are working on the iPhone.The ...
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Media Digest 4/13/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 3:48 am

According to Reuters, CBS (CBS) fired talk show host Don Imus due to racial remarks he made on his program.Reuters writes that Sallie Mae (SLM) the largest student loan company ...
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Asia Markets 4//13/2007

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 3:12 am

Stocks: (CAJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NIPNY)(NTT)(DCM)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CHU)(CN)(PCW)(HBC)(LFC)Markets in Asia fell with the Nikkei off over 1%. (more...) ...
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As Good As Gold(man)

Posted: April 13, 2007 at 2:50 am

From Ticker Sense (more...) ...
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