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Daily Archives: May 14, 2007

Cramer Gives a Thumbs Up on Schering-Plough’s CEO (SGP)

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 5:45 pm

Cramer has a series of 5 great CEOS for this week that have turned businesses around.  On tonight's Mad Money on CNBC, Cramer gave much of a turnaround is Fred ...
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Bracing For Wal-Mart Earnings

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 4:47 pm

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT-NYSE) reports earnings Tuesday morning, but the truth is that the company already tempered expectations with last week’s sales numbers.  First Call expectations put the results at ...
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Microsoft: The Zune Goes To China

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 4:41 pm

Microsoft (MSFT) wants more control of making the Zune, so it is putting up a factory in China, of all places. Perhaps labor costs are low there.The Zune multimedia player ...
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Sina’s Awful Quarter

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 3:41 pm

Sina (SINA) reported after hours. Revenue rose 10% to $51.3 million. Income from operations was up modestly to $7.5 million. Both numbers were off sharply from the immediately previous quarter.Sina ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 3:30 pm

Delta (DAL) Not public for long. Fuel prices hurting everyone in industry. Down to $18.75. The high was $21.95.Amerigroup (AGP) Drug maker GeoPharma Inc ended benefit management program with the ...
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Dow Jones: Murdoch’s Next Move

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 2:20 pm

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWS) has offered the Bancroft family a seat on the board of his company.Clever. All he wants is a meeting with the family that controls Dow ...
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Cramer on Stop Trading (May 14, 2007)

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 1:46 pm

Cramer thinks a lot of the Wal-Mart (WMT-NASDAQ) bad news has already been priced in and the eBay (EBAY-NASDAQ) Skype news could be big.  Cramer also said that the signal ...
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Dean Foods and other dairy processors to milk the Gold Organic Milk Rush

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 12:16 pm

Now tell me that wasn't the most ridiculous headline you ever read? However after reading Reuter's headline this morning of 'Organic milk seen flooding market, I couldn't resist. America's fascination ...
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Mylan’s Shareholders Act As LBO Lenders

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 11:21 am

Mylan Labs (MYL-NYSE) is seeing its shares take a beating because it is acquiring Merck KGaA's generic unit and Mylan is the acquirer in what is a very leveraged buyout.  ...
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Microsoft: Market Shrugs Off Linux Patent Claims

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 11:04 am

Microsoft (MSFT) says that open source Linux violates 235 of its patents. And, the world's largest software company wants royalties. Perhaps the whole thing will end up in court.The Linux ...
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Motorola Gets More Bad News

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 10:23 am

Motorola (MOT) management probably thought they would get a couple of weeks of restful sleep now that Carl Icahn has been dispatched. But, no such luck.Rival Nokia (NOK) says it ...
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Critical Therapeutics Inc (CRTX): Too High, Too Fast?

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 10:06 am

Share in Shares of Critical Therapeutics (CRTX) Inc are up 40% to after "the drug developer received Food and Drug Administration approval for a respiratory treatment it will market with ...
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Wal-Mart Skype Offering Indirectly Helps Vonage

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 10:02 am

Wal-Mart (WMT-NYSE) is increasing it electronic sales, but this morning the press release was specific to Pre-Paid Skype cards now being available in 1,800 Wal-Mart Stores. Shoppers can purchase a ...
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Starbucks Next Cost Problem: Biodiesel

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 9:33 am

Last week I wrote about how ethanol was increasing milk costs and how this will impact the bottom line at Starbucks (SBUX).  Today we need to look at biodiesel. Currently ...
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Ford Motor: Unable to Ditch the Ford Family

Posted: May 14, 2007 at 9:08 am

Ford Motor Co. (F-NYSE) was up 2% and then almost 4% pre-market on Bloomberg and Reuters reports that the founding family of Ford was considering a sale of part of ...
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