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Daily Archives: October 18, 2007

“Halo 3″ Takes XBox 360 To The Moon

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 7:18 pm

New video game "Halo 3" was supposed to give sales of Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox 360 game console a leg up. But, things got out of hand.According to MarketWatch, figures "from ...
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Intuitive Surgical Earnings Stronger Than The Bionic Man (ISRG)

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 5:09 pm

Intuitive Surgical Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG) saw shares rise a monster 8.3% to $256.44 in active trading ahead of earnings.  After the earnings report, it appears shares are trading up another 4.9% ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 3:56 pm

IMS Health (RX) Bad numbers and a downgrade. Falls to $21.20 from 52-week high of $33.12.The PMI Group (PMI) Housing and mortgage markets hurt quarter. Falls to $22.80 from 52-week ...
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PMC-Sierra CEO Retires With Earnings… and Shares Rise (PMCS)

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 3:36 pm

PMC-Sierra, Inc. (NASDAQ:PMCS) posted earnings of $0.09 on non-GAAP EPS on net revenues of $117.5 million, versus estimates of $0.06 EPS and $113.7 million.  On a GAAP basis the company ...
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Sandisk (SNDK): A Modest Quarter

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 3:29 pm

Sandisk (SNDK) the world's largest supplier of flash storage card products, announced third quarter revenue increased 38% on a year-over-year basis to $1.037 billion and net income increased to $85 ...
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AMD (AMD): Nothing Ventured And Nothing Gained

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 3:25 pm

Investors hoped for big thing from AMD (AMD) moving shares up over 3% in the regular session to $14.56. Analysts were looking for AMD to report a loss per share ...
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Google Earnings Take Stock To $650 (GOOG)

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 3:17 pm

Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) earnings are out: $3.91 EPS and Revenues were $3.01 Billion; First Call estimates on last look were $3.78 EPS and $2.94 Billion in revenues.  The revenue number is ...
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September Financial Websites: Time Spent Per Person

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 1:44 pm

One of the companies mentioned in the 24/7 Wall St. piece on September financial website numbers sent along some additional information. That is time spent per person per month at ...
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Google’s Earnings, All About Expenses (GOOG, YHOO, MSFT)

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 10:27 am

Tonight's headlines are going to be dominated by one event... Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) earnings.  First Call estimates on last look were $3.78 EPS and $2.94 Billion in revenues.  The revenue number ...
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An Open Letter To Dr. Eric Schmidt About Google Finance

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 10:13 am

Dear Dr.Schmidt:Google Finance currently ranks 18th among all financial websites with 851,000 unique visitors in September. That puts it behind sites like The Motley Fool and Bloomberg. MSN Money had ...
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Nektar Crushed Under Pfizer’s Boot (NKTR, PFE)

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 9:29 am

Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) is seeing shares hitting 52-week lows after its pharmaceutical partner Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) unexpectedly said it would end its involvement in inhaled diabetes drug Exubera and return ...
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IMS Health (RX) Shares Down 25% On Raw Earnings

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 8:44 am

Brutal, IMS (RX) shares are selling off 25% to $21.80, a 52-week lowBad earnings followed by downgrades.IMS Health which is a provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare ...
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Southwest’s Fuel Hedges Keep Earnings Up, For Now (LUV)

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 8:41 am

Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) is managing to keep its earnings going and expects revenues in the coming quarter to exceed year ago levels.  The company posted $0.22 EPS and revenues of ...
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Virgin Mobile’s First Analyst Call…A Sell (VM, S)

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 8:09 am

Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE:), Richard Branson's recent pay as you go cellular carrier IPO, managed to pick up its first analyst coverage today.  Stanford Group Company was not in the ...
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Hershey…. Going The Wrong Direction (HSY)

Posted: October 18, 2007 at 7:34 am

Hershey (NYSE:HSY) posted a dismal earnings report.  If lower sales didn't make it bad, higher material costs and higher marketing costs made it worse.  The candy maker posted EPS of ...
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