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Daily Archives: August 9, 2007

Countrywide Punished Over Quarterly SEC Filing Disclosures (CFC)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 6:58 pm

Countrywide Financial Corp. (NYSE:CFC) has filed its 10-Q quarterly report with the SEC, and the stock has gotten hammered in after-hours trading with a drop of more than 10%.  Investors ...
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Cramer’s Chip/Semiconductor Plays (SNDK, INTC, AMD)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 5:54 pm

Jim Cramer came on CNBC on tonight's MAD MONEY and he said that he still likes technology and his pick tonight was Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) for it in the tech sweet ...
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Bears In Them Thar Gold Hills (GLD, ABX, NEM, AUY, AU, RGLD)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 5:05 pm

What is the one sector that is viewed as a safe haven in scary times?  Outside of water it's gold, and gold is easier to invest in than water as ...
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How Are Defensive Stocks Doing? (KO, MRK, PG, CAG, BUD, HRL, MO, CG MCD, KFT, GM)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 4:39 pm

Last Friday, we wrote about defensive stock havens for a crummy stock market.  We also warned that in true market selling extremes there is no such thing as a true ...
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NVIDIA Running Strong, But No Guidance Until Conference Call (NVDA)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 3:41 pm

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) posted earnings of $0.51 EPS and $935.3 million in revenues.  First Call estimates were $0.43 EPS and $859.9 million revenues.  Non-GAAP gross margin improved to a record 45.6 ...
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Ford (F): The Next Shoe Drops

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 1:58 pm

Ford (F) is off almost 5.5% today, victim of the double whammy.With private equity frightened of its own shadow and the $10 billion Home Deport (HD) Supply deal in trouble, ...
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IPO Filing: Peplin (PLIN)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 1:56 pm

Today was an interesting IPO filing for a company called Peplin, Inc., a subsidiary of Peplin Limited in Australia.  There will be somewhat of a dual listing and if you ...
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Ramifications Of A Higher VMware IPO Price (EMC, VMW)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 1:29 pm

The upcoming and heavily anticipated partial-IPO of EMC Corp.'s (NYSE:EMC) VMware (NYSE:VMW) just saw the stakes of poker go up.  The company has hiked the IPO pricing range for next ...
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Weighing AMD’s Replacement Financing Pact (AMD, INTC, NVDA)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 12:14 pm

After looking at a new financing pact at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD) the first reaction here was "these bankers really are using voodoo financing like we said back in ...
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Home Depot (HD): Bring Back Bob Nardelli

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 10:20 am

This is what Bloomberg said about Robert Nardelli in a piece written the day he joined Chrysler as CEO: "At Home Depot (HD), Nardelli doubled sales and the number of ...
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Earnings Preview: NVIDIA (NVDA)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 10:18 am

After the market closes today, we will get earnings out of NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA).  First Call estimates are $0.43 EPS and $859.9 million in revenues.  Next quarter estimates are $0.49 ...
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Dell’s (DELL) Little China Problem

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 9:21 am

It seems that some Chinese consumers want to beat up Dell (DELL) and take its lunch money.Some of the people who bought the big US company's PCs have started a ...
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Limelight’s (LLNW) Shares Shattered

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 8:44 am

Limelight Networks (LLNW), the content delivery network and Akamai (AKAM) competitor which recently went public is off over 37% in today's trading. The company traded as high as $24.33 after ...
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Jupitermedia: Earnings Miss & Stock Photo Issues (JUPM, GYI)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 8:36 am

Jupitermedia Corp. (NASDAQ:JUPM) shares gapped down significantly with what looks to be new 52-week lows, although it appears the shares are back above that low.  Shares closed at $6.79 yesterday ...
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Home Depot Supply Unit Sale Being Restructured & Share Tender Modified Lower (HD)

Posted: August 9, 2007 at 7:55 am

Home Depot (NYSE:HD) broke the news this morning that it is in discussions with private equity firms Bain Capital, Caylyle, and with Clayton Dubilier & Rice over restructuring its previously ...
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