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Daily Archives: October 29, 2007

Google (GOOG): The G-Phone Comes To Market

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 8:04 pm

Rumored for so long, it now appears that Google's (GOOG) G-Phone will come to market. The search company will announce that it will produce handsets along with Taiwan's HTC Corp ...
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Sohu = So Huge (SOHU, BIDU)

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 6:40 pm

Well, after looking at the news it is of little surprise that Sohu.com (NASDAQ:SOHU) is on fire in after hours trading. Last week Baidu.com (NASDAQ:BIDU) ran up on what logic ...
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China Looks At Buying Stakes In KKR, Carlyle, Or TPG

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 5:30 pm

China’s Social Security Fund, which manages over $61 billion in assets, appears to have an aggressive interests in getting further into the US private equities markets. Talks have slowed somewhat ...
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Baidu (BIDU) Buries Google (GOOG) In China Search Share

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 3:21 pm

Google (GOOG) is not making any progress in China. That's for certain.According to research firm Analysys International, Baidu (BIDU) had a 61.5 percent share in the third quarter, compared with ...
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Sirius (SIRI) Earnings Preview

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 3:08 pm

Sirius (SIRI) earnings are, of course, secondary to questions about whether its merger with XM Satellite (XMSR) will be approved. The company's shares are up 20% since its last earnings ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 3:02 pm

Office Depot (ODP) Super bad earnings. Drops to $16.51 from 52-week high of $42.61.Time Warner Cable (TWC) Fears that telecom broadband is taking customers pulling down all cable shares. Down ...
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Under Armour Suiting Up For Earnings (UA, NKE)

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 2:59 pm

On Tuesday morning (Oct. 30), we'll get the awaited earnings report from Under Armour (NYSE:UA).  Q3 is expected to see $0.34 EPS on $190.95 million revenues according to First Call's ...
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Bill Gross Calls For Extreme On Rates (C, CFC, TLH, IEF, TLT)

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 2:31 pm

Bond seer Bill Gross of PIMCO issued his November outlook and is looking for the FOMC not to just need a rate cut this week.  He believes that the FOMC ...
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Goodyear (GT) Earnings Preview

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 2:20 pm

Goodyear (GT) shares are up 30% this year to just over $27. The company reports Q3 earnings tomorrow. Goodyear said in August that it completed the sale of nearly all ...
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Bear Stearns Gets Off Quite Light In Latest Enron Settlement (BSC, LEH, UBS, CSR

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 1:04 pm

Reuters is reporting that Bear Stearns (NYSE:BSC) is paying $1 Million as a settlement to Enron creditors to settle a lawsuit related to equity transactions.  The agreement requires bankruptcy court ...
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XM Satellite (XMSR) Shares Out-Performing Sirius (SIRI)

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 11:33 am

Shares in XM Satellite (XMSR) should be trading in tandem with shares in Sirius (SIRI). They are, after all, planning to merge. For much of the year, the two stocks ...
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PetroChina (PTR) Prepares To Raise More Dough

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 11:05 am

PetroChina (PTR) will raise $8.9 billion in the world's biggest share sale this year to expand refineries and increase output at oilfields. According to Bloomberg, PetroChina will sell 4 billion ...
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Clayton Holdings (CLAY): A New Low

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 10:38 am

Clayton Holdings (CLAY) provides outsourced services, mortgage-related analytics, and specialized consulting services for buyers and sellers of mortgage-related loans and securities, and other debt instruments. It sounds like a tough ...
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Yahoo! (YHOO) Shares Down On Alibaba IPO

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 9:52 am

Buy the rumor, sell the news. Maybe. Word that Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba is going public and raising $1.5 billion has not helped Yahoo! (YHOO). The US portal company owns ...
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Google (GOOG) To Start Own Social Network, Compete With Facebook

Posted: October 29, 2007 at 9:16 am

TechCrunch is reporting that Google (GOOG) is "preparing its own major assault on the social networking scene." The project is currently called “Maka-Maka”.Google already owns large social network Orkut, but ...
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