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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Whole Foods Ready For Earnings As FTC Hearing Begins (WFMI, OATS)

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 7:50 am

Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:WFMI) and Wild Oats Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ:OATS) today are in a preliminary injunction hearing to begin today that will end tomorrow to decide whether to approve ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (July 31, 2007)

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 7:28 am

(ADP) Automatic Data Processing $0.35 EPS vs. $0.36 est.(AEP) American Electric Power $0.64 EPS vs $0.58 est.(APC) Anadarko Petroleum $1.08 EPS vs $0.80 est.(BEAV) BE Aerospace $0.39 EPS vs $0.37 ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (July 31, 2007)

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 6:53 am

ABM raised to Overweight at Lehman.ARP cut to Neutral at Sun Trust Robinson Humphrey.BLDR cut to Mkt Perform at Pip[er Jaffray.CCJ raised to Outperform at CIBC.CE raised to Buy at ...
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IAC Interactive (IACI): Bad News All Around

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 6:46 am

IACI (IACI) released second quarter 2007 results , reporting $1.5 billion in revenue, a 6% rate of growth over the prior year, and $136 million in Operating Income Before Amortization, ...
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CBS (CBS): No Good News

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 6:32 am

CBS (CBS) revenues of $3.4 billion for the second quarter of 2007 decreased 3% from $3.5 billion for the same quarter last year. Operating income before depreciation and amortization ("OIBDA") ...
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GM (GM): The General Fights Back

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 6:23 am

GM (GM) announced net income of $891 million, or $1.56 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2007, an improvement of $4.3 billion compared with a reported net loss ...
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Sirius (SIRI): Getting Subscribers Is Getting Harder

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 6:10 am

Sirius (SIRI) reported second quarter results, including a 51% increase in revenue from the year ago quarter to $226.4 million, and strong subscriber growth of 561,493 new subscribers during the ...
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Lehman (LEH), Merrill (MER), Goldman (GS) And Bear (BSC) Get Junk Status

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 5:56 am

According to Bloomberg, the debt implied in the credit ratings of Merrill Lynch (MER), Goldman Sachs (GS), Lehman (LEH), and Bear Stearns (BSC) is akin to "junk" status. "Prices of ...
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Alcatel-Lucent (ALU): The Price of Failure

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 5:13 am

Shares of Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) are down over 8% in European trading, as they should be. After the much heralded merger, the integration of the two companies has been a disgrace. ...
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Europe Markets 7/31/2007 Big Rally

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 5:04 am

Markets in Europe were up sharply at 6 AM New York time.The FTSE rose 1.6% to 6,306. Barclays (BCS) was up 2.1% to 695. BHP Billiton (BHP) was up 2.6% ...
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Sun’s (SUNW) Poor Quarter

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 4:49 am

Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will be up today. Up big. After hours, the stock move as much as 11% on the plus side. That took them to $5.40, still well below ...
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Media Digest 7/31/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 3:25 am

According to Reuters, a groups lead by an internet entrepreneur is still pressing it case to buy Dow Jones (DJ).Reuters writes that Alcatel-Lucent''s (ALU) loss for Q2 was greater than ...
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Asia Markets 7/31/2007

Posted: July 31, 2007 at 2:58 am

Markets in Asia were mixedThe Nikkei fell .2% to 17,249. NTT (NTT) was down 1.3% to 518000. Toyota (TM) was down 1% to 7,200.The Hang Seng rose 1.5% to 23,090. ...
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Cameco: Playing Pinocchio or Pangloss (CCJ)

Posted: July 30, 2007 at 10:18 pm

Cameco Corp. (NYSE:CCJ) did something interesting, and it's a move that most companies do when they aren't happy about a reaction to a news release.  This morning the company issued ...
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Just In Case…. Cramer Outlines the Doom & Gloom Scenario

Posted: July 30, 2007 at 6:34 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said he is going at least address the doomsday scenario in the financial markets even though he doesn't think it is reality.  ...
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