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Daily Archives: February 14, 2008

How To Get Apple (AAPL) Back To $200

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 8:51 pm

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) traded at over $200 just before the first of the year. On a good day it now trades at $128. 24/7 Wall St. recently ran an analysis ...
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Cramer’s Big Pipe Hit (WG)

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 6:39 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer came out discussing oil and gas infrastructure, and said that a relatively small player name Willbros Group, Inc. (NYSE: WG) is a ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Holdings A-G (BRK-A, BRK-B, AXP, AMP, BUD, BNI, KMX, KO, CMCSA, CDO, COP, COST, GCI, GSK)

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 5:56 pm

These are the new combined holdings (alphabetically A-G) from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) for the period ended December 31, 2007:American Express (NYSE: AXP) 151.6 million shares for a ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Holdings “H to P” (BRK-A, BRK-B, HD, IR, IRM, JNJ, KFT, MTB, MCO, NKE, NSC, PG)

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 5:54 pm

These are the new combined holdings (alphabetically H-P) from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) for the period ended December 31, 2007:Home Depot (NYSE: HD) 4.181 million shares for $112.6 ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Holdings S-Z (SNY, STI, USB, USG, UNP, UPS, UNH, WBC, WMT, WPO, WFC, WLP, WSC)

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 5:52 pm

These are the new combined holdings (alphabetically S-Z) from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) for the period ended December 31, 2007:Sanofi-Aventis (NSE: SNY) 3.569 million shares for some $162.5 ...
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Things Get Ugly At GMAC

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 4:43 pm

After a big fourth quarter loss, private equity player Cerberus may regret buying a controlling interest in GMAC. The head of Cerberus said in a note to clients picked up ...
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Priceline.com Earnings Keep Flying (PCLN)

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 4:14 pm

Priceline.com Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN) just posted non-GAAP EPS of $0.96 EPS on $334.9 million in revenues, while the estimates from First Call for the online travel company were $0.84 EPS ...
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The 52-Week Low Club (UBS)(BX)(REDE)

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 4:00 pm

UBS Ag (UBS) Swiss bank gets pounded on big write-off. Drops to $33.60 from 52-week high of $66.26. Blackstone (BX) Today is CEO Steve Schwarzman's birthday. Happy birthday, Steve. Shares ...
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Nielsen Branding Shows Why Microsoft Wants Yahoo! in Google Fight (MSFT, YHOO, GOOG)

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 2:21 pm

Nielsen has released its top aggregate sites by parent company for January 2008, and it starts getting even more clear why this super-merger on the web is being pursued.  Below ...
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Subprime & CDO Meltdown Worse than RTC/S&L Crisis

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 1:37 pm

There is a new study out that has compared the current mortgage and subprime meltdown to the S&L and consumer crisis of the 1980's that led to the creation of ...
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Heaviest Online Video Users Visit Odd Sites.

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 1:36 pm

A recent research report from comScore breaks video viewers into three groups. The "heavy user" group watched an average of 841 minutes of video per month. This group made up ...
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Priceline.com Braced For Earnings (PCLN)

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 12:56 pm

This afternoon after the market closes, we'll get to see earnings out of Priceline.com Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN).  The estimates from First Call for the online travel company are $0.84 EPS ...
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Icahn’s Top Holdings (APC, BEAS, BIIB, CSX, LEA, M, MOT, JCP, REGN, TIN, TWX, TWC, UNM, WMB)

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 11:58 am

Billionaire activist investor and financier Carl Icahn has released the total holdings in an SEC filing for the period end December 31, 2007 for  ICAHN CAPITAL, LP. As Carl Icahn ...
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Geeks on Call: New ‘Public’ Competitor to Best Buy’s Geek Squad (GOCH, BBY, TKO)

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 11:25 am

Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:GOCH) has completed a merger transaction and the closing of a $3.0 million private placement.  There was an SEC filing showing the details of the ...
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Splitting Bond Insurers In Half–Nice Solution (ABK)(MBI)

Posted: February 14, 2008 at 11:06 am

New York State Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo has come up with the lame-brained idea of taking bond insurers like MBIA (NYSE: MBI) and Ambac (NYSE: ABK) and "breaking them in ...
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