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Daily Archives: February 13, 2008

Deere Beats Earnings, Shares Indicated Lower (DE)

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 7:42 am

Deere(NYSE: DE) posted earnings at $0.83 EPS versus the First Call estimate of $0.78 EPS.  Its revenues rose 17.5% from Q4-2006 to $5.2 Billion versus $5.07 Billion consensus. As far ...
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Europe Markets 2/13/2008 (VOD)(DB)(ALU)

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 7:39 am

Markets in Europe were off at 7.30 AM New York time.The FTSE fell 1.1% to 5,845. Diageo fell 2.5% to 1033. Vodafone (VOD) fell 1.3% to 174.8.The DAXX fell .6% ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (CPLA, CEPH, DYN, HBC, MS, SGP, SLM, TASR, TROW, VISN)

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 7:34 am

Below are the top analyst calls that 247WallSt.com is looking at this morning:Capella Education (NASDAQ: CPLA) started as Neutral at JPMorgan.Cephalon (NASDAQ: CEPH) raised to Strong Buy at Broadpoint.Dynegy (NYSE: ...
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Have A Coke (KO) And A Smile

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 7:13 am

The Coca-Cola Company (KO)  reported fourth quarter earnings per share of $0.52, an increase of 79 percent versus the prior year on a reported basis, and $0.58 after considering items ...
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Apple (AAPL) Looking At Game Console Business

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 7:04 am

It is not enough that Nintendo, Microsoft (MSFT), and Sony (SNE) are scratching each other's eyes out in the game console business. It looks like Apple (AAPL) wants in. Given ...
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A Farewell To The Earnings Season

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 6:42 am

A lot of smaller companies will continue to report earnings over the next several weeks, but almost all of the really big companies which are on calendar fiscals have put ...
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Message From The Heartland: No Recession Here

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 6:25 am

There is a recession over on Wall St. Bank where brokerage stocks are down 50% and losses keep mounting. But, a great majority of businesses in the US and Europe ...
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Hugo Chavez Cuts His Own Throat

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 6:11 am

Venezuela president Hugo Chavez says he will not send anymore crude to Exxon (XOM). The most profitable US company has frozen $12 billion assets from the Latin American country's state ...
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Delphi: No Exit

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 5:59 am

Wikipedia listing "No Exit", a 1944 play by Jean-Paul Sartre, (see also--Delphi's Chapter 11 problem.)On the way to getting out of Chapter 11, auto parts company Delphi ran into the ...
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As Google (GOOG) Walks Away, Yahoo! (YHOO) Looks To AOL And MySpace

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 5:44 am

Google (GOOG) always had a problem trying to keep Yahoo! (YHOO) out of the hands of Microsoft (MSFT). The No.1 and No.2 search engine firms would have had 80% of ...
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Buffett Puts The Screws To The Banks (C)(ABK)(MBI)

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 5:30 am

Eric Dinallo, New York State’s insurance regulator, is a clever devil. He has effectively pitted Warren Buffett against the nation's biggest money center banks to see who will get the ...
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Media Digest 2/13/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 3:55 am

According to Reuters, GM (GM) offered buy-outs to workers after posting a large Q4 loss.Reuters writes that Warren Buffett offered to insure $800 billion worth of bonds currently insured by ...
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Asia Markets 2/13/2008 (TM)(SNE)(LFC)(CHL)

Posted: February 13, 2008 at 3:30 am

Markets in Asia mixed.The Nikkei rose .4% to 13,068. Sony (SNE) rose 2.2% to 4,730. Toyota (TM) fell 1.7% to 5,870.The Hang Seng rose 1.1% to 23,170. China Life (LFC) ...
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