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Daily Archives: August 13, 2007

VMware IPO Price: Almost At 24/7 Wall St. Pricing Projection (EMC, VMW)

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 10:39 pm

EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) has finally done it.  The VMware (NYSE:VMW) partial spin-off and initial public offering has priced.  On Monday morning we gave a projected pricing of $30.00+.  We were ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 3:21 pm

Thornburg Mortgage Asset (TMA) Mortgage company and real estate investment trust gets downgraded by S&P. Falls to $13.81 from 52-week high of $28.40.Pope & Talbot (POP) Forest products company has ...
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Financial Website Rankings For July: WSJ Digital, No Murdoch Goldmine

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 1:05 pm

It appears that the speculation about Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWS)  making the WSJ online edition free to expand its audience may not make sense. Based on measurements from Net ...
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Will Nintendo Go After The Apple (AAPL) iPhone?

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 12:30 pm

TechCrunch is reporting that Nintendo has filed a patent for a handheld device with a sensor control. That would mirror a key function of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone. And, Apple is ...
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Top 25 Financial Websites For July, Big Increase At TheStreet.com

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 10:47 am

Notable changes this month start with the large drop in the MSN Money, down 22% to 10.3 million unique visitors. The Street.com (TSCM) had an unusually large increase of 51%BusinessWeek, ...
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VMware IPO Pricing Projection: $30.00+ (EMC, VMW)

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 9:46 am

EMC's (NYSE:EMC)partial spin-off of VMware (NYSE:VMW) in the long-awaited IPO should price later today for a Tuesday pricing, although some reports had indicated a Monday trade over the weekend.  As ...
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Qualcomm (QCOM) Lieutenant Walks The Plank

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 8:48 am

Qualcomm's (QCOM) legal strategy for defending its intellectual property has been a mess recently. It lost a key ruling with the ITC. The agency said that because the company infringed ...
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Intel (INTC) Puts Another Nail In AMD’s (AMD) Coffin

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 8:19 am

AMD (AMD) hope to this day that its new Barcelona quad-core chip will get it back in the game of taking server chip market share from Intel (INTC). The four ...
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Sears (SHLD) Shows What A Poor Retailer It Is

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 7:59 am

The head of Sears (SHLD), Ed Lampert, may be a good hedge fund manager, but he is an awful retailer. (He has appointed another poor soul, Aylwin Lewis to be ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (August 13, 2007)

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 7:32 am

(BEAS) BEA Systems trading up 6% pre-market on 3 upgrades: Raised to Buy at B of A; raised to Buy at UBS; raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.(BX) Blackstone earned ...
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Blackstone (BX) Earnings: A Walk-Off Home Run

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 7:23 am

Blackstone's (BX) earnings tripled and the stock is up almost 10% in the pre-market. Net income hit $774 million up from $224 million a year ago.The earnings were more than ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (August 13, 2007)

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 7:01 am

AMB cut to Sell at Citigroup.ARW raised to Buy at Citigroup.ARUN started as Neutral at JPMorgan.AVT raised to Buy at Citigroup.BEAS raised to Buy at B of A.BMC raised to ...
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Europe Markets 8/13/2007

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 5:30 am

Markets in Europe were up at 6.30 AMThe FTSE rose 1.8% to 6,147. GSK (GSK) was down 1% to 1263. Vodafone was up 3.1% to 156.3.2%The DAXX rose rose .8% ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) Hopes New Game Can Salvage Xbox

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 4:20 am

One very popular video game is only available on the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox. Halo, a violent space game, has sold 15 million units of its first two versions, according to ...
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Media Digest 8/13/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: August 13, 2007 at 4:04 am

According to Reuters, Asian central banks put $5.1 billion into the credit markets on Monday to calm fears.Reuters writes that Motorola (MOT) won $394 million worth of contracts to supply ...
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