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Daily Archives: March 12, 2008

TiVo Bringing YouTube to TV (TIVO, GOOG)

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 7:56 am

TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) has reached an agreement with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to bring videos from YouTube to the television set.  It will offer access to videos stored on YouTube ...
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Suntech Power Hikes Raised Funds in Convertible Offering (STP)

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 7:40 am

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP) has priced $500 million of 3.00% Convertible Senior Notes that are due in 2013 in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers. What ...
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Could Display Advertising Put Another $2 Billion In Google’s (GOOG) Pocket

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 7:29 am

Now that Google (GOOG) has a green light to buy ad serving firm DoubleClick, it is making a foray into display advertising. Currently the company makes almost all of its ...
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Goldman Sachs Shovels Coal (ACI, CNX, KOL)

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 7:07 am

Goldman Sachs is panning the coal sector again this morning.  It sees downside to coal stocks after a run since the start of 2008 as coal production will come online ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (DVR, GHDX, KLAC, KR, LCAPA, LOW, NOK, PBT, TMA, UBS)

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 6:51 am

Below are the top calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on in pre-market trading this Wednesday:Cal Dive International (NYSE: DVR) Raised To Overweight at JP Morgan.Genomic Health (NASDAQ: GHDX) Cut To ...
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Cutting Oil Prices, Open The Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 5:55 am

OPEC President Chakib Khelil says that petroleum prices will stay at the current levels until the end of the year. Call him an optimist. For the US, that means $108 ...
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China’s Secret Secret Stealing

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 5:33 am

People who believe in conspiracies are nuts in need of powerful anti-psychotic drugs. That is until their theories prove true. They then morph into prophets and sages.Agoraphobic men wearing aluminum ...
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Sovereign Funds Will Eat The World

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 5:16 am

Assets controlled by sovereign funds could hit $12 trillion by 2015, at least according to Morgan Stanley.That would put the pool of capital which they control higher than all reserves ...
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Charter (CHTR) Raises Money For A Lost Cause

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 4:58 am

Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) raised another tranche of junk debt, about $1 billion. That will sit on top of the $19 billion which the company, controlled by billionaire Paul Allen, already ...
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Fannie Mae (FNM) And Freddie Mac (FRE) May Take Sharedholers Under

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 4:49 am

Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) has a market cap of about $12 billion. At Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) that number is closer to $22 billion. Both company's stocks are down about ...
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AMD (AMD) Needs Intel (INTC) EU Case To Save Its Skin

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 4:39 am

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) management and lawyers are in Europe talking with EU officials about whether the big chip company violated anti-trust laws in the region. According to The Wall Street ...
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Boeing (BA) Cries To Congress

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 4:26 am

Boeing (NYSE: BA) made an official complaint with the Government Accountability Office about a $35 billion Air Force tanker deal which it did not get. The deal went to Northrop ...
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NASDAQ Short Sellers Back Off Tech (INTC)(DELL)(YHOO)(JAVA)

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 3:05 am

According to NASDAQ figures on short selling on February 29, share sold short in tech companies dropped sharply, an indication that investors are not willing to bet that stocks in ...
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Media Digest 3/12/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 2:49 am

According to Reuters, central banks are uniting to ease the credit crisis.Reuters writes that Google (GOOG) got EU approval to buy DoubleClick and its shares rose.Reuters reports that Caterpillar (CAT) ...
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Asia Markets 3/12/2008 (LFC)(PTR)

Posted: March 12, 2008 at 2:26 am

Markets in Asia were mostly higher.The Nikkei was up 1.6% to 12,861. Japan Tobacco was down 3.5% to 550000. KDDI was up 3.7% to 623000.The Hang Seng rose .8% to ...
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