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Daily Archives: September 4, 2007

GM’s Big August Sales Win

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 12:55 pm

GM (GM) August sales in the US rose 5.3% to 388,168. The company's shares moved up well over 2% to $31.40The company's pick-up line did especially well.Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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What To Expect Ahead of VMware’s VMWORLD Conference

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 12:24 pm

Even if VMware (NYSE:VMW) sees its stock go sideways or even if it gets soft from here, it has a long way to go before many would be able to ...
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Ford’s Sales Worse Than Expected

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 12:04 pm

Ford's (F) US sales for August were worse than expected, dropping 14.4%. Ford said it sold 218,332 vehicles last month, down from 255,112 a year ago, with a 33.7% drop ...
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Ford’s Sales Worse Than Expected

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 12:04 pm

Ford's (F) US sales for August were worse than expected, dropping 14.4%. Ford said it sold 218,332 vehicles last month, down from 255,112 a year ago, with a 33.7% drop ...
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Tales From The Bulletin Boards (BFNH, AMNT, OJSY, WYDY) (Sept. 4, 2007)

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 10:52 am

If you spend a few minutes going through the headlines of OTC-BB and Pink Sheet listed stocks, it becomes evident that investors in that space are on their own.  But ...
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Too Much Excitement Over Intel

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 10:13 am

Shares in Intel (INTC) have not been much above their current price of since February 2004. Analsysts are taking a new liking to the shares. As Barron's points out, Credit ...
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Apple iPhone Sales Surge

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 9:34 am

Apple's (AAPL) was the top selling smartphone in the US during July, according to iSuppli. The handset was also 1.8% of all cell phone unit sales for the month.According to ...
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What Does a Combined Leap Wireless & MetroPCS Look Like? (LEAP, PCS)

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 8:40 am

This morning there was a somewhat surprising merger announcement, although some have speculated this merger was inevitable.  MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE:PCS) has sent a letter to Leap Wireless International, Inc. ...
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Home Depot: Another Way To Kill The Share Price

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 8:39 am

Home Depot (HD) say that under the terms of its share buy-back, it brought in about 299 million at $37 a share. That totals 14.6% of the outstanding.Usually, this would ...
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Sun Microsystems Goes After Linux

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 8:22 am

Sun (JAVA) claims that it open Solaris software will beat Linux to a pulp. According to ComputerWorld: "Sun intends to take the operating system into markets where it hasn't traditionally ...
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Thornburg Mortgage Catches Two Breaks (TMA)

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 7:59 am

Shares of Thornburg Mortgage (NYSE:TMA) are trading up by roughly 5% in pre-market activity.  This news could have been mostly expected, but the good news is that there was not ...
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Local.Com Renews With Yahoo! (LOCM, YHOO)

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 7:45 am

Local.com Corp. (NASDAQ:LOCM) has announced that it has renewed a multi-year agreement with Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO).  Yahoo! will continue to deliver its sponsored search results to Local.com, including Local.com's recently expanded ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (September 4, 2007)

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 7:12 am

ABY raised to Neutral at UBS.AMD raised to neutral at Credit Suisse.AG raised to neutral at Credit Suisse.AEO raised to Outperform at Cowen.BLOG started as Outperform at Wachovia.DVA raised to ...
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While You Were On Holiday…Here’s What You Missed

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 6:53 am

Last week was a light volume trading week, but the markets were open and they didn't wait for the holiday crowd to come back.   Here is a snippet of some ...
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Can Starbucks Lay Seige To Russia?

Posted: September 4, 2007 at 5:49 am

During WW II, the German army found out just how hard it is to invade Russia. Napoleon discovered the same thing 150 years earlier.Now, Starbucks (SBUX) want to come to ...
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