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Daily Archives: March 5, 2008

Costco Mostly In-Line Earnings (COST)

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 7:42 am

Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST) has posted earnings of $0.74 per share EPS on revenues of $16.62 Billion.  First Call had estimates at $0.74 on EPS and $16.85 Billion in ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (DD, ELN, LOGI, MSFT, OMPI, PDLI, RRGB, RMG, WHR, XFML )

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 7:12 am

These are not all of the analyst calls moving stocks this morning, but these are the top ten individual analyst calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on this morning:DuPont (NYSE: DD) ...
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Europe Markets 3/5/2008 (HBC)(SI)

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 6:41 am

Markets in Europe were up about 1% at 6.35 AM New York time.The FTSE rose .7% to 5,810. British Airways was up 3.3% to 258.75. HSBC (HBC) was up 2.5% ...
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An Energy User’s Guide To The Universe

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 6:32 am

Oil prices are at $100 and may go higher. OPEC says that is because of speculators driving the prices up. The US government says it is supply. Over time, supply ...
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The Election Gets Bad For The Stock Market

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 6:15 am

Since the next President will not sit in his or her office until next January, there is little that person can do, directly at least, about the current economic crisis. ...
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Big Banks: What To Do When The Money Runs Out

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 5:59 am

Ill-timed remarks by Sameer Al Ansari, chief executive of Dubai International Capital hurt Citigroup's (C) shares yesterday. The man said that Citi would need more capital and that it might ...
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OPEC Set To Keep Oil Output Flat

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 5:42 am

It now appears that OPEC will not lower production despite the entreaties from the US and other big oil consuming countries. OPEC ministers said that rising prices had little to ...
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GM (GM) CEO Loses His (Real) Job

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 5:35 am

GM (GM) CEO Rick Wagoner got kick upstairs to the realm of the Zeppelin pilots yesterday. The company said that he did not lose any of his authority, but it ...
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Apple (AAPL): Steve Jobs In No Robin Hood

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 5:22 am

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) had a chance to do a something for shareholders who have seen the stock drop from $202 to $124 in a little over two months. Company founder Steve ...
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CEOs Time Stock Gifts A Little Too Well (HMA)(MSM)

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 5:11 am

It looks like CEOs are timing stock gifts, especially those to their family foundations, a little too well A study by a professor at New York University looked at 151 ...
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A Yahoo! (YHOO) Merger With AOL Won’t Float

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 5:04 am

Word got out overnight that Yahoo! (YHOO) is at the bargaining table with Time Warner (TWX) about AOL being merged into the larger portal. Yahoo! is grasping at every straw ...
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Media Digest 3/5/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 3:44 am

According to Reuters, Google (GOOG) lost a key executive to Facebook.Reuters reports that losses at Credit Agricole were worse than expectedReuters reports that OPEC indicated that it would leave production ...
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Asia Markets 3/5/2008

Posted: March 5, 2008 at 3:21 am

Most markets in Asia were down slightly.The Nikkei dropped .2% to 12,972. KDDI was up 1.8% to 631000. Mazda was up 2.2% to410.The Hang Seng dropped .1% to 23,095. China ...
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