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Daily Archives: March 6, 2008

The 52-Week Low Club (MS)(LEH)(WB)(FNM))(MER)(C)(JPM)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Thornburg Mortgage (NYSE: TMA) Fear of Chapter 11. Falls to $1.26 from 52-wek high of $28.40.CIT Group (NYSE: CIT) Lehman Brothers cuts price target. Drops to $15 from 52-week high ...
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Apple’s iPhone Strategy For Business, A Long Journey in the Making (AAPL, RIMM, MSFT, PALM, T)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 3:20 pm

Apple has determined that the best way to reach and ultimately exceed its goal of selling 10 million iPhones this year is by adding more features and opening up the ...
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An Idiot’s Guide To A Bad Economy

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Today was the day the roof officially fell in on the US economy. News from Europe involving bank trouble at UBS (NYSE: UBS) and an inadequate rescue of Ambac (NYSE: ...
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American Water Works Closer To IPO (AWK)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 1:06 pm

American Water Works may be closer to coming public.  The huge water utility has an amended IPO Filing with full fiscal details for 2007.  It lists that is intends to ...
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Is Annaly Really Immune? (NLY, TMA, CIM)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 10:50 am

Shares of Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) are being pounded this morning.  The reason for the selling isn't on its own news.  Competitor Thornburg Mortgage (NYSE: TMA) has fallen ...
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View on Intel: Maturity Versus Growth (INTC)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 10:20 am

After the first day of the Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) analyst day, we have been looking through many opinion pieces and reports.  There is one standout report that addresses growth ...
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Big Financials Hit 52-Week Lows (TMA)(MER)(FRE)(JPM)(C)(BAC)(WM)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 9:48 am

A number of the large financial stocks took news of a write-down at UBS (NYSE: UBS), debt problems at Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER), and downgrades of Thornburg (NYSE: TMA) hard.Hitting ...
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Wal-Mart Juices Dividends (WMT)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 9:36 am

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) already gave stronger sales than most this morning, but the company is doing another shareholder friendly initiative that is far better than a stock buyback:  ...
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Goldman Sachs Hikes Ag/Fertilizers (MOS, MON, MOO)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 8:59 am

Goldman Sachs has come out positive on two companies that overlap in agriculture and fertilizer plays this morning, and it has raised estimates and targets:The firm recently visited Monsanto (NYSE: ...
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Goldman Sachs Updates Oracle/BEA Targets, Issues Buy on Oracle (ORCL, BEAS)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 8:33 am

Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is being reinstated as a "Buy" rating in new coverage this morning at Goldman Sachs.  The firm notes that with macroeconomic concerns being front and center, ...
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Apple (AAPL) Misses Movie Rental Target

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 8:27 am

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is way shy of its movie rental goals. Apple planned to have 1,000 movies available for its set-top box. According to the The Assocated Press that number is ...
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ViewSonic Kills IPO… Trouble in LCD Land? (VIEW)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 8:21 am

If you have been shopping for LCD monitors or LCD TV's, you've probably run across ViewSonic as a brand.  The company had been in the IPO pipeline and was going ...
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Urban Outfitters Proves Its Performance (URBN)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 8:07 am

Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) showed why its stock has done well while others in retail have floundered for much of the last quarter.  The apparel store posted earnings of $0.32 ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (CN, CHU, DISH, FLR, IPCM, MDR, MFA, PLD, SKS, WRE)

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 7:47 am

These are not the only calls impacting stocks, but these are the top ten individual calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on:China Netcom (NYSE: CN) downgraded to Neutral at Credit Suisse.China ...
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Wal-Mart (WMT) Same-Store Sales Beat The Band

Posted: March 6, 2008 at 7:25 am

Baby has got to have new shoes. For those who can't afford the nice ones, there is always Wal-Mart (NSYE: WMT). And that showed up in their same-store sales last ...
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