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Daily Archives: March 19, 2008

E*Trade, Still Growing Account Base (ETFC)

Posted: March 19, 2008 at 7:20 am

E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has noted that customer cash and depositsincreased by nearly $1 billion in February, although total retail customer assets including customer cash and securities fell 1.7% ...
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Visa Taking $17.9 Billion in Market Trading Capital (V)

Posted: March 19, 2008 at 7:02 am

Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) will trade this morning.  The deal has priced at $44.00 per share, which is $2.00 above the range of $37.00 to $42.00 per share.  That is ...
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Morgan Stanley (MS) Results Poor, But Investors Relieved

Posted: March 19, 2008 at 6:45 am

Morgan Stanley (MS) followed other Wall St. firms with poor results and the company said the future was doubtul.But, the numbers were good enough to keep the horses in the ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AZN, BG, CCJ, CFC, DWSN, INAP, LAMR, MNST, NCC, SGEN)

Posted: March 19, 2008 at 6:36 am

Below are the ten analyst calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on in pre-market trading this Wednesday morning:AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) raised to Overweight at HSBC Securities.Bunge (NYSE: BG) raised to Overweight ...
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Sony Ericsson Warning Bad For Motorola (MOT) And Nokia (NOK)

Posted: March 19, 2008 at 5:34 am

Large handset company Sony Ericsson said it would miss Q1 earnings because of lack of handset demand. The company said it will only ship 22 million handsets for the period, ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) And Intel (INTC) To Reinvent The Wheel

Posted: March 19, 2008 at 5:19 am

With the performance of the PC reaching its natural limits, the companies with the most at stake, Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) are hoping to take computing in directions which ...
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Fannie Mae (FNM) And Freddie Mac (FRE) Get New Rules

Posted: March 19, 2008 at 5:09 am

Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) are about to get less strict capital rules and that should put $200 billion into the mortgage market. According to Reuters "Under the ...
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Boeing (BA) Says It Can Get Tanker Deal

Posted: March 19, 2008 at 4:56 am

Boeing (NYSE:BA) talks as if it can reverse the Air Force decision to give a $35 billion tanker contract to Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) and EADS, parent of Airbus. According to ...
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The Mad Hatters Take Over The Bear Stearns (BSC) Buy-Out

Posted: March 19, 2008 at 4:42 am

It was the cleanest theft since the Great Brink's Robbery in 1950. The Fed and JP Morgan (JPM) got the Bear Stearns (BSC) management is a room over the weekend ...
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Media Digest 3/19/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 19, 2008 at 2:53 am

According to Reuters, the Fed cut rates .75%.Reuters writes that Visa raised $17.9 billion in its IPO.Reuters writes that New York City will probe whether Bear Streans (BSC) misled investors.Reuters ...
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Asia Markets 3/19/2008 (HMC)(SNE)(LFC)(CHL)

Posted: March 19, 2008 at 2:27 am

Markets in Asia rose.The Nikkei was up 2.5% t 12,260. Honda (HMC) was up 5.3% to 2770. Sony (SNE) was up 6,8% to 4240.The Hang Seng rose 3% to 22,028. ...
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