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Daily Archives: August 8, 2007

AIG Earnings, “Comfortable With U.S. Mortgage Market” (AIG)

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 4:14 pm

American International Group, Inc. (NYSE:AIG) posted earnings ahead of estimates with $1.64 EPS on $31.15 Billion, which compares to First Call estimates of $1.61 EPS & $30.1 Billion revenues.  On ...
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News Corp (NWS) Posts Strong Numbers, Interactive Unit Profitable

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 3:31 pm

News Corp's (NWS) interactive unit made money last quarter, driven by advertising and search revenue at MySpace. For the quarter ending June 30, the entire company had net income of ...
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Uranium Resources Loves Its Executive Changes (URRE)

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 1:26 pm

Uranium Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ:URRE), the speculative uranium explorer and miner, has made several executive change decsions today.  The stock has been up most of the day and shares are still ...
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Jupitermedia Mystery 10% Stock Rise Ahead of Earnings (JUPM, GYI)

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 1:08 pm

Jupitermedia (NASDAQ:JUPM) reports earnings after the close.  The stock is actually up 11% today and it hasn't yet reported.  First Call estimates are $0.04 EPS on revenues of just over ...
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Is Verizon (VZ) FiOS Hurting Cablevision (CVC)?

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 12:06 pm

Cablevision (CVC) announced earnings today. The most notable piece of news was that Verizon's (VZ) FiOS fiber-to-the-home business is affecting cable subscriptions at about the rate that Cablevision has been ...
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Ford (F): Profitable Again?

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 11:28 am

Ford's (F) Alan Mulally told an industry conference that the company should be profitable again in 2009. At about the same moment, GM (GM) was saying the its was revising ...
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How The CheckFree Buyout Killed An ETF (FISV, CKFR, BHH, MER)

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 11:01 am

Fiserv's (NASDAQ:FISV) proposed cash buyout of CheckFree (NASDAQ:CKFR) for some $4.2 Billion, did at least make some CheckFree shareholders whole again.  The $48.00 cash buyout price is actually a 'takeunder' ...
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Blackstone’s $21.7 Billion Fund Now Closed (BX)

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 8:38 am

If private equity is really dead, then why did a $21.7 Billion private equity fund just get closed upon.  The Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) has sent out notice that today was ...
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Infrastructure Earnings Scorecard (MDR, FLR, FWLT, ACM)

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 8:14 am

If you have watched the infrastructure stock news this week, you will know most of these companies have beat earnings expectations and the industry isn't seeing any major weakness ahead.Fluor ...
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The Trouble With Portfolio.com

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 7:48 am

There has been a lot of press about Conde Nast's Portfolio magazine. The magazine publishing giant wants something to compete with Fortune and Forbes. A lot of the early reaction ...
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Hansen Chugging Earnings (HANS)

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 7:44 am

Hansen Natural Corp. (NASDAQ:HANS) is gapping up pre-market after the company exceeded earnings estimates.  The company was expected to post $0.36 EPS on $217.65 million in revenues, but the 54% ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (August 8, 2007)

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 7:23 am

(ABTL) Autobytel -$0.12 EPS vs -$0.16 est.(AGU) Agrium $1.70 EPS vs $1.58 est.(ALLT) Allot -$0.01 EPS vs $0.01 est.(BNI) Burlington got an additional 1.6 million shares purchased by Berkshire Hathaway, ...
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Dell Increasing Virtualization (DELL, MSFT, APPL, EMC, VMW)

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 7:10 am

Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is apparently boosting PC offerings with Linux and is going after more virtualization.  The company released some data that it will have PC's that run multiple versions of ...
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McDonald’s (MCD) Same Store Sales Jump

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 7:06 am

Starbucks (SBUX) must feel like someone is walking over its grave. McDonald's (MCD) same-store sales rose 6.5% in July. The company said the the improvement in the US was due ...
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Pre-Market Analyst calls (August 8, 2007)

Posted: August 8, 2007 at 6:34 am

ACLS raised to Equal Weitght at Lehman.AEG cut to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.ALXN cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.CSC raised to Hold at Jefferies.CSCO raised to Outperform at Bear ...
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