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Daily Archives: April 25, 2007

Motorola Needs Icahn

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 10:19 am

Institutional Shareholder Services, proxy advisory service, thinks that flagging cell phone and telecom equipment company Motorola (MOT) needs Carl Icahn on its board. He owns just shy of 3% of ...
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Halliburton Q1-07 Earnings Preview

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 10:13 am

Halliburton (HAL) reports first quarter earningsbefore the bell tomorrow; EPS is expected to be $0.52 after a mid-March revision after the company lowered guidance.Halliburton’s main competitorshave already reported, with Schlumberger ...
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The Sun Microsystems Conundrum

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 9:44 am

There may be only marginally good news out of Sun Microsystems (SUNW-NASDAQ) since there was at least some growth, but the street is giving this a negative focus.  It is ...
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Alcoa: “We’re For Sale, Part Of Us Anyway!”

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 8:40 am

Alcoa (AA-NYSE) has just announced that it will explore strategic alternatives for the disposition (sale/spin-off/etc.) of its PACKAGING & CONSUMER segment.  This unit generated $3.2 Billion in revenues and $95 ...
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Microsoft: Shorts Keep A Strong Bet

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 8:12 am

Shares short in Microsoft (MSFT) rose 4.3 million to 98.8 million in April. It may be that the concerns about Vista will be worth the bet. The stock was over ...
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Seeing Value in Lucent-Alcatel: Goldman Sachs Raises Ratings

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 7:30 am

Goldman Sachs is raising its rating on troubled network and telecom equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent (ALU-NYSE/ADR).  The firm raised its official rating to a BUY from NEUTRAL, and shares are up ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (APR 25, 2007)

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 6:50 am

(ABN) ABN AMRO gets a higher bid of roughly $98 Billion (13% higher than Barclays) from a group led by Royal Bank of Scotland.(ABC) Amerisource Bergen raised guidance after earnings.(AMZN) ...
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Earlybird Analyst Calls (APR 25, 2007)

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 6:12 am

AAP raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus.AMZN raised to Hold at Citigroup; raised to Mkt Perform at Piper Jaffray.ASD raised to Overweight at Lehman.BNI cut to Neutral at Prudential.CBB cut ...
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Pepsi’s Big Day

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 6:02 am

People still must like soft drinks.Pepsi (PEP) reported a 17% increase in first-quarter earnings per share to $0.65, fueled by a 9% increase in net revenue, with each of the ...
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Europe Markets 4/24/2007

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 5:27 am

Markets in Europe were up at 6.20 AM New York time.The FTSE was up .5% to 6,463. Barclays (BCS) rose 1.5% to 732.5. BP (BP) was up .8% to 573, ...
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Nasdaq Short Interest, April 2007

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 5:03 am

Below is the short interest in major Nasdaq traded stock for the period ending April 13. The numbers are compared to March 15, 2007.Largest Short InterestSiruis (SIRI)           ...
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Sun Micro: Bring Back Scott McNealy

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 4:27 am

As least when founder and former CEO Scott McNealy ran Sun (SUNW) investors were used to a sting of bad quarters. New CEO Jonathan Schwartz has cut costs and promised ...
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Media Digest 4/25/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Reuters

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 3:59 am

According to Reuters, three banks lead by Royal Bank of Scotland have topped Barclays (BCS) bid for ABN Amro (ABN).Reurters writes that IBM (IBM) will start selling software from MySQL, ...
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Asia Markets 4/25/2007

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 3:28 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 1.2% to 17,236. Canon (CAJ) rose .8% to 6710. Honda (HMC) fell 2% to 3990. NEC (NIPNY) fell 2% to 626. NTT ...
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TZOO: Travelzoo Disappoints

Posted: April 25, 2007 at 3:10 am

From William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat (more...) ...
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