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Daily Archives: May 30, 2007

Wal-Mart Prepares For The Annual Shareholder Meeting (WMT)

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 10:37 pm

Ahead of the upcoming shareholder meeting and webcast to analysts and institutional holders this Friday, Wal-Mart (WMT-NYSE) has some final decisions to make and they could actually decide to be ...
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Biotechs & Pharmas Bracing For ASCO Annual Meeting

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 6:30 pm

This weekend we have the mother of all future cancer treatment conferences: ASCO, or The American Society of Clinical Oncology.  Cancer stocks in the last few weeks have been seeing ...
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Cramer Calls For A Yahoo! & eBay Merger

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 5:13 pm

Cramer came out tonight on CNBC's MAD MONEY proposing that Yahoo! (YHOO) and eBay (EBAY) should get together and merge.  He is calling for this because the growth is slowing ...
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Dow Jones (DJ): T Rowe Prices Wants To Take The Money And Run

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 4:30 pm

The head investment officer of money management firm T Rowe Prices, wants Dow Jones (DJ) to take Rupert Murdoch's money before it goes away. The firm does have some leverage. ...
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Novell Makes A Few Cents, Sort Of (NOVL)

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 4:30 pm

Novell Inc. (NOVL-NASDAQ) has turned in earnings of $0.03 non-GAAP EPS and revenues of $239 million, compared to First Call estimates of $0.01 and $235.1 million.  The company managed to ...
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Apple (AAPL) And YouTube: Another Product No One Wants

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 4:15 pm

Fortune magazine recently called Apple (AAPL) TV a tech dog. The publication listed four pretty damaging short-comings. Today Apple took the somewhat challenged electronics product and said it would now ...
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Yahoo! Loses Its CTO, Unfortunately Not Its CEO

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 3:51 pm

Yahoo!'s (YHOO-NASDAQ) Head of Technology and Chief Technology Officer, Farzad Nazem, is leaving the company effective June 8, 2007.  The filing says he will "continue to provide services including transition ...
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Motorola (MOT): You Can’t Cut Enough

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 3:50 pm

Motorola (MOT) cut another 4,000 people on top of its earlier "down-sizing" to knock out another $600 million in costs. The company said all the usual things about making money ...
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Solarfun Power (SOLF): The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 3:08 pm

Journal Register (JRC) Another newspaper company makes a low. Down to $5.41 from 52-week high of $10.23.Applied Biosystems (ABI) Had a rough first quarter and apparently is still paying for ...
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Farewell Kinder Morgan, Or At Least Catch You Later (KMI, KMP, KMR)

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 2:30 pm

Today was the last trading session for Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI). The acquisition of KMI by investors including Chairman and CEO Richard D. Kinder has closed. Additional investors include co-founder ...
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Lazard Less Bullish on Solar Stocks, Supply Issues May Be To Blame

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 11:58 am

Stock Tickers: ESLR, ENER, FSLR, SPWR, SOLFLazard Capital Markets has issued a special report today on the Alternative Energy & Industrials sector.  Sanjay Shrestha, Managing Director and Senior Analyst at ...
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Valence Technology (VLNC): Big Move On No News

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 10:07 am

There is something odd about small cap stocks that make unexpected runs on big volume.Take Valence Technology (VLNC). The stock is up over 30% on no news and has already ...
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Novacea and Schering-Plough Prostate Cancer Pact; Remind You of Anyone?

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 9:23 am

Novacea (NOVC-NASDAQ) is seeing its shares up more than 70% after signing a pact with Schering-Plough (SGP-NYSE) over the development and commercialization of Asentar for the treatment of prostate cancer.  ...
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Interactive Brokers (IBKR): What A Mess

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 9:10 am

Interactive Brokers (IBKR), the automated broker and market maker, posted some ugly numbers this morning and paid dearly. The company went public in early May at $30, raising $1.2 billion. ...
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Verizon (VZ): More Talk That High Speed Fiber Won’t Sell

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 8:50 am

Both BusinessWeek and Gigaom.com have recently run pieces asking whether consumers need all of the speed that the new Verizon (VZ) fiber-to-the-home product will offer. The new Fios system can ...
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