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Daily Archives: November 7, 2007

Ebay (EBAY) May Buy Brit Auction Firm QXL

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 8:28 am

The TImes of London is reporting that eBay (EBAY), the US online auction giant, is being touted as a bidder for its smaller UK rival QXL Ricardo after the British ...
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Pre-market Stock News (November 7, 2007)

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 8:23 am

Blue Nile (NILE) trading up almost 10% after earnings.CDC Corp.'s (CHINA) China.com subsidiar signed an advertising contract with Giant Interactive Group (GA), one of China's leading online game developers.Devon Energy ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (November 7, 2007)

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 8:04 am

Allstate (ALL) raised to Buy from Hold at Citigroup.Archer-Daniels Midland (ADM) raised to Neutral at Credit Suisse.Assured Guaranty (AGO) raised to Neutral at JPMorgan.Camden Property (CPT) raised to Outperform at ...
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Is GM’s (GM) Big Turnaround in The Dumpster

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 7:34 am

General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) is trading down sharply after disclosing huge charges last night.  The auto giant posted $43.1 Billion in quarterly revenues  GM does note that ongoing challenges in ...
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GM’s Earnings…Driving on Flat Tires (GM)

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 7:19 am

General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) is trading down sharply after disclosing huge charges last night.  The auto giant posted $43.1 Billion in quarterly revenues  GM does note that ongoing challenges in ...
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A Panic In Mortgage-Backed Securities? More Damage For Citi (C)?

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 6:33 am

The FT says that the "super-fund" to bail out financial instruments tied to mortgage-backed securities may be dead. Speaking about the fund to the paper: “As far as we can ...
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A Perfect Storm For Recession Appears

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 6:26 am

The term "perfect storm" is overused by writers who have no other way to describe a disaster. Leaving that aside, the news from the last day would appear to indicate ...
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Time-Warner (TWX) Q3 Numbers

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 6:10 am

Time Warner (TWX) announced that in the third quarter, Revenues rose 9% over the same period in 2006 to $11.7 billion, led by growth at the Cable, Filmed Entertainment and ...
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Value Of Broken Buy-Outs Moves Above $200 Billion

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 6:02 am

Just when it appeared that there could not be much more bad news in the financial sector, new information shows that there will be over $200 billion in broken buy-out ...
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An Ill Wind Blows For Corporate Debt

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 5:46 am

Forget mortgage problems. The Wall Street Journal says that corporate debt is running into more trouble. The paper says that "Fitch Ratings says downgrades of corporate bonds rose in the ...
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Toyota (TM) Still On Top Of The World

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 5:38 am

Word was that Toyota (TM) was hurting. Sales in the US have not been robust and they have been falling in the company's home market of Japan. Car markets are ...
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Wal-Mart’s (WMT) Online Business May Show Company Is Better

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 5:27 am

Sales at Walmart.com have been doing well, and the head of the unit expects a robust holiday season. "Customers are still spending for the holidays. Halloween was very good for ...
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Media Digest 11/7/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 4:11 am

According to Reuters, profits rose 2.7% at Toyota (TM) and the company raised full-year forecasts.Reuters writes that GM (GM) will take a $39 billion non-cash charge in Q3Reuters reports that ...
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Asia Markets 11/7/2008

Posted: November 7, 2007 at 3:46 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .9% to 16,097. Nissan was down 2.6% to 1260. Docomo (DCM) was up 1.7% to 177000. Yahoo Japan was down 2.4% to ...
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