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Monthly Archives: June 2007

Rupert Murdoch: Close All The Newspapers

Posted: June 29, 2007 at 4:22 am

At the end of a recent interview with Time Magazine, Rupert Murdoch suggested that the way to turn The Wall Street Journal into a huge global brand was to hire ...
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Media Digest 6/29/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: June 29, 2007 at 3:22 am

According to Reuters, the Apple (AAPL) iPhone will hit stores today giving the mobile industry a jolt.Reuters writes that GM (GM) has sold its Allison Transmission business for $5.6 billion.Reuters ...
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Asia Markets 6/29/2007

Posted: June 29, 2007 at 2:49 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was up 1.2% to 18,138. Sony (SNE) was up 1.8% to 6330. Toyota (TM) was up 2.4% to 7800.The Hang Seng was down ...
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iPhone Option Trades: “Sell The News” Strategy (AAPL)

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 7:04 pm

Everyone knows how to make a bet on a stock going higher.  Most know how to make bets against a stock ("Sell the News") with short selling or buying put ...
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Sirius Retirement Plan Hurt By Its Share Price (SIRI, XMSR)

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 5:14 pm

It is always interesting to see how pension and employee 401K assets are doing when they have heavy stock weightings, and the SIRIUS Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. This is not ...
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Research-in-Motion Spanks Palm (RIMM, PALM, AAPL, T)

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 4:22 pm

It was a toss-up last as to which was going to do better as a stock this quarter, but the after hours reactions to earnings isn't even close.  Palm (PALM-NASDAQ) ...
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Tivo (TIVO) Gets A Break

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 4:19 pm

Just three days before a deadline for Comcast (CMCSA) to continue its license of Tivo's DVR software, the two companies have come to an agreement. Lucky for Tivo (TIVO).  The ...
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Palm’s (PALM) Bad News

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 3:15 pm

As Palm (PALM) reported its most recent quarter, the company CEO said: I'm confident that in fiscal year 2008 more and more standard handset customers will demand the capabilities and ...
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Limelight (LLNW) And Bigband (BBND) Lead The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 3:02 pm

Limelight (LLNW) IPO was recently. In the business of storing and streaming data and video content over the internet. Concerns about patent violations. Drops to $15.82 from recent high of ...
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Limelight (LLNW) And Akamai (AKAM): Crystal Ball Play Of The Day

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 2:06 pm

Wall St. has to love Cowen & Co. digging up some expert witness in the patent infringment suit against Limelight (LLNW) by Akamai (AKAM). The fellow says that the chances ...
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FOMC Decision: Rates Steady (June 28, 2007)

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 1:16 pm

As expected, we saw no rate change today.  As a reminder, we won't have another meeting until August 7.  Here is today's statement from the FOMC:The Federal Open Market Committee ...
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Did Starbucks Find a Bottom? (SBUX)

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 1:03 pm

This morning Starbucks shares are traded higher, thanks to it being upgraded at Thomas Weisel Partners to Overweight from Market-Weight with a $34.00 target. The note points to the recent ...
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Claymore Launches Large-Cap Value ETF (CLV)

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 12:05 pm

Claymore Securities, Inc. today announced the launch of the Claymore/Robeco Boston Partners Large-Cap Value ETF (CLV-AMEX).  The ETF tracks an index designed to identify a group of stocks that display ...
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How GM’s (GM) Stock Doubled

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 9:33 am

Consider this. Since late December 2005, GM's (GM) stock has doubled to about $38. With all of the excitement about the sale of Chrysler, Daimler's (DCX) stock is up 80%. ...
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CryoCor Regains Lost Ground; FDA Remains Unpredictable (CRYO)

Posted: June 28, 2007 at 9:08 am

CryoCor Inc. (CRYO-NASDAQ) is trading up almost 100% in early trading today.  Last night the company announced that an FDA Advisory Panel had recommended backing the company's pre-market approval application ...
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