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Daily Archives: December 6, 2007

When You Want To Like Palm, But Just Can’t (PALM)

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 7:29 pm

Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) is perhaps becoming the poster child of "What Not To Do As A PDA/Smartphone Company."  The stock is getting crushed again on yet one more warning.  ...
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10 CEO’s That Need To Leave in 2008: Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide (CFC)

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 5:37 pm

When all the CEO's and corporate officers are lumped together for playing down the sub-prime mess in the summer and for all the sub-prime loans that were made, one CEO ...
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Another SIV Bail-Out

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 5:22 pm

Another SIV has been bailed out by a major bank. Dutch bank Rabobank will move $7.6 billion of SIV assets onto its balance sheet. The SIV in question, Tango Finance, ...
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UnitedHealth Dodges A Big One in SEC Options Backdating Settlement (UNH)

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 4:36 pm

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) appears to have escaped any serious hooks of the SEC in its stock options backdating fiasco.  Its Special Litigation Committee, an independent committee comprised of two ...
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The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 4:31 pm

Verifone (PAY) Accounting problems still taking shares down. Falls to $19.57 from 52-week high of $50.Blockbuster (BBI) Concerns about postal costs. Down to $2.99 from 52-week high of $7.30.Williams Partners ...
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Dow Jones (DJ)(NWS) Gets New CEO, New Publisher For WSJ

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 4:14 pm

Les Hinton, a senior executive as News Corp (NWS) has been named the head of Dow Jones (DJ). Times of London editor Robert Thomson has been named Publisher of The ...
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10 CEO’s That Need To Leave in 2008: Hector Ruiz of AMD (AMD)

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 4:03 pm

When you think of one CEO that went from hope to hype to outright disappointment in technology, the top name that comes to mind after 2006 and then after 2007 ...
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Yahoo! Finance (YHOO) Loses It Focus

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 3:27 pm

The most visited website at the 24/7 Wall St. New York news desk is Yahoo! Finance. We actually pay to use Yahoo! (YHOO) real time quotes. Based on syndicated research, ...
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Dolans Save $3 Billion On Rejected CVC Buyout

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 2:39 pm

From Silicon Alley InsiderThe Dolan family, which controls Cablevision (CVC), Madison Square Garden and the New York Knicks, are starting to look like financial geniuses. Or at the very least, ...
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10 CEO’s That Need To Leave in 2008: BigBand Networks’ Amir Bassan-Eskenazi (BBND)

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 2:02 pm

BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND) is looking to be one of the poorest IPO's of 2007.  Management has lost credibility with the underwriters and with analysts that initially gave this ...
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10 CEO’s That Need To Leave in 2008: CIRCUIT CITY’s Schoonover (CC)

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 12:20 pm

Out of large electronics retailers, Circuit City (NYSE: CC) has become the irrelevant shopping destination and it has a stock that proves it.  Its CEO, Chairman, and Chief Supreme Leader ...
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10 CEO’s That Need To Leave in 2008: ALCATEL-LUCENT’s Patricia Russo (ALU)

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 11:31 am

If Wall Street could cheer for one CEO to leave in the telecom equipment and communications equipment sector, it would be Patricia Russo of Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU). She had her time ...
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10 CEO’s That Need To Leave in 2008: Michael Cherkasky of Marsh & McLennan (MMC)

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 11:25 am

MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES INC. (NYSE: MMC) is guilty of having one of the TOP 10 CEO's TO GO FOR 2008.  Michael Cherkasky is both President & CEO of the ...
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Guidelines for 10 CEO’s Who Need To Go In 2008

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 10:30 am

It's December already, and some of us have started considering what new year's resolutions will be after the holidays.  Companies make their annual projections and many boards of directors need ...
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Herb Greenberg Names Eddie Lampert Worst CEO of 2007 (SHLD)

Posted: December 6, 2007 at 8:32 am

Herb Greenberg at MarketWatch wrote a column that will be stirring some of the Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) shareholders and true believers.  He has named Chairman Eddie Lampert as the ...
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