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Daily Archives: November 28, 2007

The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 4:00 pm

The Pep Boys (PBY) Cutting stores, cutting jobs. Falls to $12.01 from 52-week high of $22.49.Idearc (IAR) CFO steps down. Drops to $17.83 from 52-week high of $38.The New York ...
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Is This V-Bottom For Real? (C, FRE)

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 1:51 pm

It is always a wonder when the markets go from horrible to wonderful in two mere days.  If you asked traders, institutions, and brokers last week (or even Monday) what ...
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Apple’s (AAPL) Cruel War On Vista

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 1:45 pm

Vista is Microsoft's (MSFT) flagship now. But, in a series of ads Apple (AAPL) and taken a juvenile and merciless approach to news that the new operating system from Redmond ...
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Syntax-Brillian: Some Companies Just Can’t Get It Right (BRLC)

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 1:12 pm

Even after a management quasi-shuffle in earlier months, Syntax-Brillian Corp. (NASDAQ:BRLC) has learned to keep disappointing.Early this morning the distributor of Olevia LCD televisions cut its sales targets as its ...
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AMD (AMD) News Of The Day

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 12:50 pm

The people at research firm iSuppli had unkind things to say about AMD (AMD). The company reported that Intel (INTC) outperformed the overall semiconductor growth rate of 4.1% this year. ...
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Abbott’s (ABT) Hammers Boston Scientific (BSX)

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 10:18 am

Boston Scientific (BSX) has been the leader in sales of stents, those little mess tubes that keep arteries open. Recent studies show that the devices are more dangerous than most ...
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Bidz.com (BIDZ) Short Interest Almost Doubles, Someone Makes A Killing

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 9:56 am

Well, the shorts made a good call on Bidz.com (BIDZ). They nearly doubled their interest in the shares from October 31 to November 15 taking shares sold short to 1.785 ...
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Stocks Under $10: CMGI (CMGI)

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 9:47 am

CMGI Inc. (CMGI) has just become eligible under the "10 under $10" with yesterday's drop to $9.97. The shares are slightly above $10 today  The company just recently began trading ...
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With Price Target At $40, Wall St. Still Likes Microsoft (MSFT)

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 8:59 am

Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) have pulled back a lot recently and now trade at a little over $33. Not long ago, they were are $37.50.A look at the Thomson/First Call ...
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New “AOL Finance” A Winner

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 8:50 am

AOL Money & Finance launched its new quote and chart pages today. They are not only better than the products from Yahoo! Finance and MSN Money; they are probably better ...
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The New York Times (NYT) Cut To “Sell”

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 6:54 am

According to MarketWatch Banc of America Securities cut its rating on The New York Times Company from "neutral" to "sell". It moved its price target from $21 to $14.What an ...
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Europe Markets 11/28/2007

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 6:44 am

Markets in Europe were modestly higher. The FTSE rose .5% to 6,170. Barclays (BCS) was up 3.2% to 540.5. British Air (BA) was up 3.5% to 328. The DAXX was ...
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Bank Of America (BAC) Approached Citigroup (C) About Merger

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 6:35 am

According to Reuters, "Citigroup Inc got a call from a prominent investment banker suggesting a merger with Bank of America Corp as it was dealing with billions of dollars in ...
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A $199 Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox?

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 6:18 am

The head of video game company Activision (ATVI) has good reason to see the prices on video consoles Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony (SNE) PS3 come down. If they ...
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GM (GM) Goes Green In China

Posted: November 28, 2007 at 6:08 am

According to Reuters, GM (GM) will start to build a hybrid car in China. The problem is that, in a country where the government underwrites that price of gas, there ...
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