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Daily Archives: April 23, 2007

Target Gets Slaughtered

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 7:53 pm

Target (TGT) is now saying that its same store sales for April will come in below the 2% to 4% forecast. For the second quarter, the retailer expects same store ...
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Google Lengthens Search Lead As Ask.com Disappears

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 7:41 pm

Google's (GOOG) share of the US search market rose to almost 54% in March, according to NetRatings. Its year-over-year increase in handling queries rose almost 32%. Yahoo! (YHOO), which has ...
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AMD’s $1.8 Billion Voodoo Financing Announcement

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 6:17 pm

What's the best thing to do when you are in the midst of losing a price war THAT YOU STARTED?  Go convince Main Street that you can win what you ...
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Cramer’s Discovery (DISCA)

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 5:52 pm

Jim Cramer on tonight's Mad Money on CNBC said that Discovery Holdings (DISCA-NASDAQ) is a broadcast company that is a winner in the cable arena.  This could be bought, sold, ...
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Cramer’s Private Equity Buyout Pick: Actuant

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 5:22 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Cramer reviewed private equity firms and his feature this week is to predict which ones could be acquired.  So much for Cramer not just ...
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Google: The World’s Most Valuable Brand?

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 4:53 pm

Market research firm Millward Brown has come out with a list of the world's most valuable brands.. According to Reuters, the rankings were based on publicly available financial data along ...
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GM: For The “Tell Us Something We Don’t Know” File

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 4:17 pm

Bob Lutz, the world's oldest car designer, who is also vice chaiman of General Motors (GM) today told an automotive conference in Louisville that default rates in the mortgage markets ...
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Boston Scientific Loses Heart

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 4:08 pm

Boston Scientific (BSX) reported that sales for the first quarter of 2007 were $2.086 billion as compared to $1.620 billion for the first quarter of 2006. EPS came in at ...
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Texas Instruments Drives Guidance

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 3:40 pm

Texas Instruments just reported earnings: $0.35 EPS & REvenues were $3.19 Billion.  Estimates were previously given as $3.07 to $3.22 Billion in revenues on earnings per share of $0.29 to ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 3:28 pm

Capital Bancorp (CBC) Capitol Bancorp Ltd., a community bank holding company, on Friday said its first-quarter profit fell 37 percent as a sagging economy in Michigan and elsewhere necessitated a ...
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Juniper Almost Hits Top-Line Estimates

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 3:21 pm

Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR-NASDAQ) just reported earnings: Q1-07 Net Revenue of $626.9M, up 11% from Q1'06; GAAP Diluted EPS $0.11; Non-GAAP Diluted EPS $0.19; expectations from te street were $620.8 ...
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Amgen: Lackluster Results

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 3:10 pm

Amgen (AMGN) got a bit of good news last week, but just a bit. The company's Aranesp anemia drug for small cell lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy did not cause ...
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24/7 Wall St. Starbucks Evaluation Tour – San Diego II

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 2:26 pm

Peter Lynch encourages investors to look at what they use and what they know for investing, and Starbucks (SBUX-NASDAQ) has become one of the largest household names out there. 24/7 ...
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Cramer’s Bank & Biotech Picks

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 1:48 pm

On today's STOP Trading segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer said he questions the call that retail is tied to weaker General Motors (GM) sales comments that hurt the market today.  ...
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StreetInsider.com Unusual 11 Mid-Day Movers 04/23/2007

Posted: April 23, 2007 at 1:00 pm

Alanco Technologies (NASDAQ: ALAN) 38.8% HIGHER; Expects sales revenues for the third quarter ended March 31, 2007, to exceed $4.4 million, an increase of over 300% versus comparable revenues of ...
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