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Daily Archives: September 13, 2007

T. Boone Pickens Calling For Higher Oil Prices

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 7:15 am

The famed T. Boone Pickens came on CNBC for a telephone interview again with new predictions for high oil prices.  It was a bit interesting that he doesn't have a ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (September 13, 2007)

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 6:57 am

ACW started as Hold at Citigroup.ATHR started as buy at B of A.BIIB cut to Sell at UBS.BKI cut to Hold at Citigroup.BRCM started as buy at B of A.FTI ...
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Alcatel-Lucent: Two Bad Companies Do Not Make It Right

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 6:25 am

Shares of Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) are down 12% in trading in Europe. The company warned on revenue for the third time this year.The merger of the two companies started out with ...
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Sprint Digs For Pennies

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 6:01 am

Sprint (S) has come up with an unusually clever new business. It has set up deals with 30 retailers to allow customers to compare and buy nearly seven million products ...
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Europe Markets 9/13/2007

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 5:52 am

Markets in Europe were off slightly at 6.45 AM New York time.The FTSE fell .1% to 6,298. Barclays (BCS) was down 1.5% to 599. ITV was down 2.3% to 108.4. ...
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GM, Ford, And The UAW Back The Wrong Horse

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 5:42 am

The current stage of the UAW talks with the Big Three must be based on the assumption by the car companies and union that the rank and file works are ...
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Sun Microsystems Plays A Weak Hand, Partners With Microsoft

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 5:28 am

Maybe it was changing its ticker symbol to JAVA, but Sun (JAVA) has run up 20% in the last month. But, yesterday, a little after noon, the shares sold off. ...
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Advantage To Intel, Again

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 5:13 am

AMD (AMD) can't get a break on the launch of its new quad-core chip, the Barcelona. The day of its release, Intel (INTC) upped its revenue forecast for the quarter, ...
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Hewlett-Packard And Dell: Copying The Mac

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 5:08 am

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) launched a nifty new line of PCs. Bright black finishes.aluminum moldings, and blue ambient lighting. According to the FT, HP says that it is putting out the new ...
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Nintendo Wii Wins

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 4:55 am

Microsoft (MSFT) should consider closing its money losing video game division. According to the FT, Nintendo's Wii has now outsold Xbox 360 even though its has been on the market ...
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Online Video: Game, Set, Match To Google

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 4:44 am

The July data on video viewing on the internet just out from comScore should make investors wonder why any company other than Google (GOOG) is in the online video business. ...
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Media Digest 9/13/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 2:59 am

According to Reuters, Sprint (S) will launch a wireless shopping network to enhance its revenue.Reuters writes that supply worries are keeping the price of crude high.Reuters writes that a federal ...
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Asia Markets 9/13/2007

Posted: September 13, 2007 at 2:29 am

Markets in Asia were mostly higher.The Nikkei rose .2% to 15,821. Fujitsu fell 2.2% to 769. Toyota (TM) fell 1.1% to 6,380.Yahoo Japan fell 2.6% to 40900.The Hang Seng rose ...
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