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Daily Archives: August 14, 2007

The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 3:21 pm

Thornburg Mortgage (TMA) Mortgage company faces concerns about margins calls. Analyst downgrades. Shares halted near close. Down to $7.49 from 52-week high of $28.40.Pulte Homes (PHM) Large home-builder. Nothing more ...
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Medialink (MDLK) Loss Widens, Hires New CTO

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 12:57 pm

From Silicon Alley InsiderMedialink Worldwide (MDLK), a video distribution, production, tracking, and marketing company, reported a second-quarter loss and added to its C-suite this morning. Medialink lost $1.7 million last ...
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Will Citadel (CDL) Get Imus?

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 12:25 pm

Late word is the Don Imus has settled things with CBS (CBS). He had a $40 million contract with the company when he was dismissed for unfortunate remarks on his ...
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Is Tribune (TRB) LBO Dying?

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 11:01 am

Shares in The Tribune Company (TRB) are off almost 4% today to $24.57. The price promised for an LBO lead by Sam Zell is $34.The deal is now likely to ...
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Apple (AAPL) Computer Customer Satisfaction Drops

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 10:13 am

Maybe Apple (AAPL) is just selling too many Macs.In the University of Michigan US Customer Satisfaction Index, Apple's score fell 4.8% to 79 (out of 100). Hewlett=Packard (HPQ) moved up ...
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Applied Materials: What To Expect From Earnings (AMAT, KLAC, NVLS, LRCX, ASML)

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 9:59 am

AppliedMaterials (NASDAQ:AMAT) reports earnings today after the close and First Call estimates are still $0.32 EPS and$2.53 Billion in revenues.  Next quarter is also its fiscal year-endand analysts expect it ...
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VMWare, Open For Trading (EMC, VMW)

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 9:00 am

VMWare's (NYSE:VMW) Long awaited partial spin-off and IPO from EMC (NYSE:EMC) has finally made it out to market.  Indications out of the chute were originally $38.00 to $41.00 after a ...
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VMware & EMC Trade Indications (EMC, VMW)

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 8:37 am

It's happening.  EMC (EMC) traded up 2.5% after the open and are now only up 1.3% since the indications of VMware have started. $19.84 was the recent and multi-year high, ...
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Linux Founder Paranoid About Microsoft (MSFT)

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 7:53 am

Everywhere he looks Linux founder Linus Torvalds see Microsoft (MSFT). Redmond attacks him while he is sleeping. According to ZDNet, MSFT "is falling short with its technology and, because it ...
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Is Citigroup (C) Out Of Pocket $3 Billion?

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 7:31 am

Analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co believe that Citigroup (C) may lose $3 billion in the third quarter. The big bank "may lose between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion ...
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Do Fat Children Prefer McDonald’s (MCD)?

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 7:15 am

A little study done by some doctors and scientists and published in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine shows that most children prefer food wrapped in paper with the McDonald's ...
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Nokia (NOK): Recalls Hit The Cellphone Industry

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 6:15 am

Perhaps Sony (SNE) should not feel so bad about all of those faulty PC batteries that it made.This AM Nokia (NOK) announced that as many as 46 million handsets had ...
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Home Depet (HD): Things Get Nasty

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 6:07 am

The Home Depot (HD) today reported fiscal 2007 second quarter consolidated net earnings of $1.6 billion, or $0.81 per diluted share, compared with $1.9 billion, or $0.90 per diluted share, ...
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Wal-Mart (WMT) Net Rises, Cuts Guidance

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 5:53 am

Wal-Mart (WMT) reported that net sales for the second quarter of fiscal year 2008 were $91.99 billion, an increase of 8.8 percent over the second quarter of fiscal year 2007. ...
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Europe Markets 8/14/2007

Posted: August 14, 2007 at 5:49 am

Markets in Europe were mixed at 6.45 AM New York time.The FTSE was up .2% to 6,232. BT (BT) rose 1.1% to 311.5. Vodafone (VOD) moved up 1.4% to 160.5.The ...
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