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Daily Archives: November 1, 2007

Ford (F) Plans To Cut To The Bone

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 6:40 pm

Ford (F) had another bad month in November with US vehicle sales falling almost 10%. The double-digit monthly drops are now a bad habit.The company has also indicated that it ...
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A Sprint (S) Merger With Clearwire (CLWR)

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 6:23 pm

The technology world loves WiMax, the ultra-high-speed wireless broadband technology. Wall St. hates it. The two biggest proponents of the system in the US are Sprint (S) and Clearwire (CLWR). ...
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Sun Micro (JAVA) In The Shadows: Selected Stocks Under $10

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 5:54 pm

Share in Sun Microsystems (JAVA) have been drifting. Their performance for the last three months looks like larger proxies for big tech, Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL), and IBM (IBM). ...
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Cramer’s New Oil Call (APA, XOM)

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 5:18 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said he has no cure for the financials, mortgage insurers, and banks right now.  But Cramer's call in oils for exploration and ...
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News Corp’s (NWS) MySpace Joins Google (GOOG) Social Network Group

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 4:08 pm

TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider have reported that News Corp's (NWS) MySpace will join the new Google (GOOG) OpenSocial initiative. The Google program pulls together a number of social networks ...
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Web 2.0 Industry De-Merger of Getty Starting To Be Factored In (GYI)

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 4:00 pm

Getty Images (NYSE:GYI) is seeing shares trade up in after-hours activity as some fears of imminent implosion from Web 2.0 start-ups eating its dominance may be getting priced in based ...
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EA Delivers, Outside of Deferred Numbers (ERTS)

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 3:29 pm

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) posted non-GAAP EPS of $0.27 on revenues of $640 million; Analysts were looking for $0.20 EPS on $896 million revenues but there is a revenue deferral and ...
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CBS (CBS): A Modest Improvement, Radio Weak

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 3:25 pm

CBS (CBS) revenues of $3.3 billion for the third quarter of 2007 decreased 3% from $3.4 billion for the same quarter last year, reflecting lower television license fees, the impact ...
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ValueClick’s In-Line Numbers Surprisingly Well Tolerated (VCLK)

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 3:17 pm

ValueClick Inc. (NASDAQ:VCLK) posted revenues of $156.9 million and EPS of $0.17, versus prior forecasts of $156 to $157 million and $0.16 to $0.17 EPS.Third quarter 2007 revenue was negatively ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 3:10 pm

Assured Guaranty (AGO) Small bond insurance company. Wall St. hates bonds. Drops to $17.79 from 52-week high of $31.99.AMBAC (ABK) Big bond insurance company in world where bonds are bad. ...
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Other In-Trouble Mergers After Affiliated Computer (ACS, TRB, CMLS, GCO, PPH, FINL, BX, COMS)

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 2:44 pm

Yesterday morning 24/7 Wall St. covered how the buyout for Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE:ACS) was for all practical purposes looking like toast, and we wanted to see which other pending ...
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GM (GM) November Sales Tick Up

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 12:59 pm

GM (GM) had another pretty good month in November. Sales of its cars and light trucks moved up 3.4% to just over 307,000. GM's stock was off 4.2% to $37.54.Douglas ...
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Bad News For Ford (F), No News For Toyota (TM)

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 12:53 pm

Ford (F) had another bad month for sales in its domestic vehicle operations. US units fell almost 10% to just over 195,000 total cars and light trucks. Wall St. thought ...
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The Washington Post (WPO) Online Train Wreck

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 12:46 pm

Donald Graham, CEO of The Washington Post Company (WPO) made this comment to Fortune last summer: "If Internet advertising revenues don't continue to grow fast," he says, "I think the ...
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Defensive Stocks Show No Panic Rotation (PEP, KO, BUD, TAP, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MCD, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, CL, MRK, JNJ, NVO)

Posted: November 1, 2007 at 12:30 pm

With the markets down so much today on the financial stock fallout after the Citi downgrade/concern and with oil stocks listing lower after the Exxon miss, we wanted to show ...
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