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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AIG, TRAK, DECK, ETR, ITLN, MF, PFE, QSFT, REP, RHD)

Posted: February 29, 2008 at 7:23 am

These are not the only analyst calls affecting shares of stock this morning, but these are the initial calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on:AIG (NYSE: AIG) cut to Market Perform ...
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Founder’s Day: Dell, Yahoo!, Starbucks

Posted: February 29, 2008 at 6:58 am

A big company gets in trouble. The board throws the CEO under a bus and brings back the founder. The stock market figures that the person who built the company ...
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Big Lawsuits Finally Hit The Private Equity World

Posted: February 29, 2008 at 6:38 am

It is surprising that it took so long. A private equity firm is finally suing a bank that walked on a big transaction. It is only the beginning. Wachovia (WB) ...
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Oil At $103: OPEC On Cloud Nine

Posted: February 29, 2008 at 6:25 am

Oil moved over $103. The excuse this time was that "Ecuador's state-run oil company, Petroecuador, suspended operations at a key export pipeline after a landslide damaged infrastructure," according to MarketWatch. ...
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Sony’s (SNE) Playstation Pipe Dream

Posted: February 29, 2008 at 6:07 am

Sony's (NYSE: SNE) PS3 may have a better year in 2008 than it did in 2007. That would not be hard. The game console was beaten like a red-headed mule ...
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Microsoft (MSFT): Vista Price Cuts

Posted: February 29, 2008 at 5:57 am

No one in Redmond wants to admit this, but Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) new Leopard OS may be getting the better of Vista, at least in enough cases to make it ...
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Media Digest 2/29/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 29, 2008 at 4:15 am

According to Reuters, Paulson believes that the current proposal to help homeowners is too broad and may help speculators. Reuters writes that Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has cut the price of Vista ...
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Asia Markets 2/29/2008 (HMC)(CHU)(PTR)

Posted: February 29, 2008 at 3:49 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 2.3% to 13,603. Casio fell 3.6% to 137. Honda (HMC) fell 3% to 3260.The Hang Seng fell 1.1% to 24,332. China Unicom ...
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Cramer On Agriculture, Interviews Deere CEO (DE)

Posted: February 28, 2008 at 6:20 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer wanted to feature agriculture by interviewing Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE).  If you want to own a company that wins off of ...
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Gap’s ‘Less-Bad’ News Not All Bad (GPS)

Posted: February 28, 2008 at 5:50 pm

Gap, Inc. (NYSE: GPS) is seeing a 5% rise after the ailing casual apparel retailer reported earnings.  The company posted $0.25 EPS with a 5% revenue drop to $4.67 Billion, ...
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Dell’s Turnaround Is A Slow Turn, H-P Stays Much Stronger (DELL, HPQ)

Posted: February 28, 2008 at 5:30 pm

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) posted earnings of $0.34 EPS outside of charges on revenues of $15.99 Billion, while First Call had estimates at $0.36 EPS on revenues of $16.27 Billion. ...
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The 52-Week Low Club (S)(NT)(GCI)

Posted: February 28, 2008 at 4:17 pm

Nortel (NT) Nine-to-one this dog never hits bottom. Down to $9.05 from 52-week high of $30.Mylan (MYL) Market unhappy about quartery results. Sells off to $12 from 52-week high of ...
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Leveraged Gold ETN/ETF Launches (DZZ, DGP, DGZ, GLD, GDX, DGL, DB)

Posted: February 28, 2008 at 2:35 pm

Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB) has launched three new Exchange Traded Notes (ETN's) that will track the performance of certain index moves inside the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index - ...
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eBay Gets Rid of MercExchange Patent Suit (EBAY)

Posted: February 28, 2008 at 2:14 pm

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) has agreed to a settlement with MercExchange, L.L.C. to dismiss all claims and appeals in the patent lawsuit filed by MercExchange in September of 2001.These two companies ...
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SPAC IPO FILING: United Services Management Corporation

Posted: February 28, 2008 at 1:05 pm

We have yet another blank check company or SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) that has filed to come public via an IPO.  United Services Management has filed for an initial ...
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