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Daily Archives: September 21, 2007

The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 6:03 pm

Advance Amer Cash (AEA) Payday loan company forced to close a number of locations. Down to $10.44 from 52-week high of $19.05.Expressjet Holdings (XJT) Bad days for airlines. Drops to ...
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KKR And Goldman Walk On Harman

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 5:51 pm

Harman International (HAR) said that Goldman Sachs (GS) and KKR have walked away from an $8 billion private equity deal to buy the company. The buy-out interests say that Harman ...
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GM And UAW Getting Close On Deal

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 5:45 pm

GM (GM) and the UAW are getting close to a contract according to news from The Wall Street Journal and several other sources. WSJ.com comments that the parties have moved ...
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The VIX, Back Under 20..The Market Fear Is Gone

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 3:07 pm

These are the unofficial market closes, and note how close the DJIA is to 14,000 again.......DJIA           13,820.84; +54.14 (+0.39%)S&P500    1,525.56; +6.81 (+0.45%)NASDAQ   2,671.22; +16.93 (+0.64%)10YR-Bond  4.632% ...
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Cramer Calls Texas Instruments Higher (TXN)

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 2:00 pm

Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN) shares are up 3.1% today at $36.85 on the dividend hike and share buyback increase.  Jim Cramer on today's STOP TRADING segment on CNBC came out and ...
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IPO FILING: EMPHASYS MEDICAL, INC. (EMPH)

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 1:27 pm

EMPHASYS MEDICAL, INC. has filed to come public via an initial public offering and has listed it initial sale of securities as up to $86.25 million for filing purposes.  The ...
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Simplicity Cribs Made In China: One Million Recalled

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 12:35 pm

Simplicity Inc is recalling one million child's cribs according to an article in The Chicago Tribune. The newspaper had been doing an investigation of the products. Made in China, they ...
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Google Adds Market Share In August

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 11:39 am

comScore's new numbers indicate that Google (GOOG) added to its US market share in August. Its piece of searches done during the month rose to 56..5% from 55.2% in July. ...
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HSBC Closes A US Sub-Prime Unit

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 11:08 am

HSBC (HBC), the largest bank in Europe, said HSBC Finance would close Decision One Mortgage. According to Reuters the company will  be "cutting 750 jobs and taking an $880 million ...
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Mixed Short Interest In Brokerage Stocks (GS, BSC, LEH, MS)

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 10:58 am

There was no clear direction in the change in NYSE short interest on the major bulge bracket brokerage firms.  If you look at the earnings this week, Goldman Sachs seems ...
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The Business Day In Global Warming (EEE, AECOX, GE, VOLV, SOLF, FTEK, AW, PCG, PGN)

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 10:27 am

Evergreen Energy Inc (NYSE:EEE) has signed an “Agreement to Proceed” with specifications and design work that lead to the construction of a K-Fuel® lignite coal refinery in the Inner Mongolian ...
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Major Banks: Big Drop In September Short Interest (BAC, C, JPM, WB, WFC)

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 9:28 am

It looks like short sellers decided to bail out of the money center banking stocks ahead of the FOMC decision on rates.  This is consistent with the overall trends if ...
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Chasing Stocks of Forbes Richest Americans (MSFT, BRK-A, DELL, ORCL, GOOG, WMT, LVS, CHTR)

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 8:04 am

Forbes has released its list of the 400 wealthiest Americans.  We really wanted to see the corporate impact of the wealthy.  What is interesting is to compare how these companies ...
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Texas Instrument Buy-Back Moves Shares Up

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 7:42 am

Texas Intruments (TXN) announced this morning that it would add $5 billion to a share buy-back program and would raise its dividend 25%. Shares are up 2% to $36.50. The ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (September 21, 2007)

Posted: September 21, 2007 at 7:02 am

AUY cut to Sector Perform at CIBC.BGH cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.BPL raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.CC cut to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.DSX raised to Outperform at ...
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