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Daily Archives: May 7, 2007

Motorola Without Icahn: $14

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 8:05 pm

Carl Icahn seems to believe that he has lost his bid for a seat on the Motorola (MOT) board.If so, the stock will probably head back to where it was ...
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WEN – Wendy’s Int. Inc: Acquisition Unlikely For Now

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 7:49 pm

By CrossProfit 05/07/2007 About a month ago, our analyst colleague Mark Basham form Standard & Poor's reiterated his sell rating primarily because he thought that Wendy's would have trouble meeting ...
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Milk Hurting Starbuck’s

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 7:47 pm

This year the US Ethanol industry will produce over 5 billion gallons and use more than 1.5 billion bushels of corn pushing prices near $4 a bushel. Dairy farmers are ...
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Cramer’s #1 Buybacks=Buyouts Pick (WTW)

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 5:51 pm

Cramer has a new method for predicting takeovers.  Four of the fourteen largest buybacks have either been taken over or have agreed to be taken over in the last few ...
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Cramer’s #3 & #2 Buybacks=Buyouts Picks

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 5:28 pm

Cramer has a new method for predicting takeovers.  Four of the fourteen largest buybacks have either been taken over or have agreed to be taken over in the last few ...
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CVS/Caremark reports tomorrow – Will the merger payoff?

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 4:38 pm

They are the nation's largest retail pharmacy chain, with approximately 6,200 stores across 38 states. Add Caremark into the mix and you've got yourself one mammoth drug related services company ...
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News Corp Keeps Online Explosion Expanding

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 4:35 pm

News Corp's (NWS) MySpace has just bought Photobucket, the largest online photo website and one of the top 50 websites in the US by traffic. The price? Only $250 million. ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 3:28 pm

The Bombay Company (BBA) Company has a "going concern" letter from its auditors. Also losing money and has hired an outside adviser to help with "liquidity" issues. Down 25% today ...
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AT&T Flubs It TV Launch

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 3:02 pm

AT&T's (T) bid to compete in the TV space and push the cable barbarians back into the Stone Age is off to a rocky start. The company announced a couple ...
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Memo To Chrysler: Build Better Cars

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 2:52 pm

Chrysler, the US unit of DaimlerChrysler (DCX) is launching an ad campaign to position the brand as fuel-efficient and technically advanced. The company thinks that the Japanese get all of ...
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The Noid

Domino’s Pizza (DPZ): $13.50 dividend pays today but at what price?

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 2:31 pm

It hurts when you walk into the office Monday morning and see that your company stock has fallen 38% over the weekend even if you are receiving a special dividend ...
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Berkshire Hathaway’s “Whale” Acquisition; Who Could It Be?

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 1:48 pm

Stocks to Watch: BRK/A, MRO, TRV, WM, ALL, LEH, CHA, REP, OXY, DOW, VLO, E, MET, BF, DB, SNPWarren Buffett was noted this weekend as saying he is tempted to ...
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Financial Blog News From Around The Web

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 12:15 pm

GigaOm makes the point that AT&T (T) will use the Apple (AAPL) iPhone launch to rebrand its wireless service. People still call it Cingular. One of Microsoft's (MSFT) biggest online ...
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Defending Wal-Mart on CNBC (WMT, TGT, BRK/A)

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 11:21 am

As a guest on CNBC today (link to video), I found myself in an interesting position: coming to the defense of Wal-Mart (WMT-NYSE) shares.  This isn't exactly a change of ...
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Berkshire A Buy–When Buffett Steps Down.

Posted: May 7, 2007 at 10:12 am

Since this was "Woodstock For Capitalist's" weekend in Omaha. A bit about Berkshire (BRK-A) and it's leader.  No one will will argue or dispute his past success and what he ...
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