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Daily Archives: January 9, 2008

Alcoa’s (AA) Good Start

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 4:25 pm

Alcoa (AA) kicked off the earnings season and was rewarded with shares trading up over 3% after hours.Revenues for 2007 were $30.7 billion, compared to $30.4 billion in 2006. Annual ...
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The 52-Week Low Club (CFC)(F)(YHOO)(AMD)(Q)

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 4:00 pm

Qwest (Q) Concerns on telecom growth after AT&T (T) discloses slowing business. Drops to $5.46 from 52-week high of $10.45.Yahoo! (YHOO) Online ad revenue could be slowing. Falls to $21.37 ...
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Fox Business: Close The Network, Keep The Website

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Fox Business Network (NWS) posted embarrassing numbers when Nielsen reported the channel had only 6,300 viewers at any given time on weekdays. For a two month period beginning October 15, ...
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Dow Jones Online: WSJ.com Is Small Piece (NWS)

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 1:52 pm

There has been a good deal of debate over whether WSJ.com, now a paid subscription website, will become free to all visitors. The nearly $80 million in subscription revenue would ...
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December Financial Websites: AOL Moves Ahead Of Yahoo! (YHOO)

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 1:39 pm

Based on numbers from comScore, AOL Money, part of Time Warner (TWX) moved ahead of Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance in both unique visitors and total visits.AOL Money had 13.466 million unique ...
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An Open Letter To Frank Clegg, AMD (AMD) Board Member

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 10:32 am

Mr. Clegg,As a member of the AMD (AMD) board, you know how deeply disappointed the market is with the performance of the company's CEO Hector Ruiz. AMD shares hit another ...
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Yahoo! (YHOO) Falls To 52-Week Low

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 9:46 am

Perhaps it was the figures out of Hitwise showing that Yahoo! (YHOO) is still losing search market share to Google (GOOG). Or, maybe fears that a recession will undercut internet ...
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$2 E*Trade (ETFC): Desperately Trying to Save Self–And Still Spinning

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 8:57 am

From Silicon Alley Insidere*Trade is finally starting to relate its desperate salvage efforts in more detail--and some of its actions sound positive. Unfortunately, the firm's PR team still hasn't stopped ...
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MBIA (MBI) Cuts Dividend, Fights For Survival

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 8:19 am

MBIA (MBIA) will cut its divdend to $.13 from $.34 and go to the capital markets for cash.As part of its plan to raise capital to meet or exceed the ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AUO, ESRX, FDO, GRMN, PBR, PZE, PPDI, SFLY, TSO, ZUMZ, CAL, DAL, NWA, UAUA, LCC, AMR)

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 8:03 am

These are not the only key analyst calls coming out of Wall Street analysts today, but these are the key calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on in pre-market hours:AU Optronics ...
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Will The Apple Trade For Macworld Work in 2008? (AAPL)

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 7:39 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) hasn't gotten off to a good 2008 as a stock. Shares closed at $198.08 to close out 2007 and shares very briefly traded north of $200.00 ...
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Beware Tying ALCOA To Peers (AA)

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 7:00 am

Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) is set to report earnings today.  First Call has estimates at $0.33 EPS on $6.92 Billion in revenues.  Next quarter's estimates are $0.60 EPS on $7.03 ...
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Countrywide (CFC) Reports December Numbers

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 6:55 am

According to the Countrywide (CFC) "Our fourth quarter ended with a number of positive operational trends," said David Sambol, President and Chief Operating Officer. "Total loan fundings were $24 billion ...
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Silver Lake: A Vote For Private Equity

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 6:29 am

Most of the news about private equity operations has been bad. Tight credit markets. Broken deals. Buy-outs closed but in trouble because of large debt loads.Silver Lake, one of the ...
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Europe Markets 1/9/2008 (BP)(BCS)(SI)

Posted: January 9, 2008 at 6:23 am

Market in Europe were down at 6.20 AM New York time.The FTSE was off 1% to 6,295. Barclays (BCS) was down 3% to 458.75. BP (BP) was down 4.2% to ...
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