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Daily Archives: June 19, 2007

The National Bank of Wal-Mart (WMT): The Retailer Moves To Mortgages

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 7:43 pm

MarketWatch reports that Wal-Mart will enter the mortgage and home equity loan businesses. The retailer has not been able to get a federal bank charter, largely because of fears that ...
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Jerry Yang: Worth $1.75 Billion or -$600 Million to Yahoo!????

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 5:44 pm

Stock Tickers: YHOO, GOOG, MSFT, TWX, DJ, DELLIn today's pre-market trading activity in Yahoo! (YHOO-NASDAQ), shares were up 5% and the company would have had an implied $39.5 Billion Market ...
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Morgan Stanley Earnings Preview (June 2007)

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Morgan Stanley (MS-NYSE) is expected to post earnings per share of $1.98 on revenues of $9.85 Billion.  If you compare Morgan Stanley shares to last Monday's close before we had ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 3:30 pm

Journal Register (JRC) Another newspaper company steps further down the ladder. Down to $4.90 from 52-week high of $9.67.McClatchy (MNI) Second newspaper chain. Two for the price of one. Falls ...
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Airgas Raised Guidance Big (ARG)

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 2:56 pm

Airgas, Inc. (ARG-NYSE) just saw shares launch at the end of the day because the company raised guidance.  The guidance wasn't just a bit, it was by 17%: $0.61 to ...
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IPO Filing: Heritage-Crystal Clean, Inc. (HCCI)

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 12:37 pm

A rather small company called Heritage-Crystal Clean, Inc. has filed to come public via an initial public offering. The only two underwriters listed here are William Blair & Co. and ...
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The Slaughter House, Q2 Earnings Bleeders: Sun Microsystems (SUNW)

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 12:09 pm

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal pointed out that more enterprise servers where moving to Linux. One of the loser is Sun (SUNW) and it Solaris software. Other ...
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General Electric’s New Multi-Year Stock Highs (GE)

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 11:14 am

General Electric Co. (GE-NYSE) is actually putting in new multi-year highs today.  All of a sudden, mega-caps are back.  This is just a couple months after more than a few ...
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Google Maintains 65% of US Search

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 10:27 am

There are numerous online measurement services out there, and frankly all of the results are different from source to source.  But these are all still looked at by all marketers ...
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Blackstone Expedites IPO Date (BX)

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 9:32 am

Blackstone Group LP (BX-NYSE) is now expecting to price its IPO on this Thursday evening for a Friday trade date, one week earlier than originally planned.  The company has apparently ...
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Expedia (EXPE): Finally, A Buy-Back That Works

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 8:38 am

Expedia (EXPE) has announced that it will buy in up to $3.5 billion of its shares. That will be about 42% of the company's shares. The company is a spin-off ...
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Gabelli Challenging the 24/7 Real Media Buyout Price?

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 8:19 am

THIS IS A DRAFT ONLY.......The waiting period (more...) ...
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YouTube Goes Overseas

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 8:06 am

In an attempt to broaden its audience, Google's (GOOG) YouTube will open local language sites in Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom. According ...
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Best Buy, Best Effort? (BBY, CC, GME)

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 7:35 am

Best Buy's (BBY-NYSE) Q1 2008 was a bit of a disappointment, although that is somewhat par for the course as the mood was fairly sour going into the report.  The ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (June 19, 2007)

Posted: June 19, 2007 at 7:11 am

(ALTH) Allos Therapeutics trading down 20% after its Phase III study of Efaproxyn failed to meet primary endpoint of improvement in overall survival.(BAY) Bayer raised guidance on Schering integration.(BMY) Bristol-Myers: ...
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