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Daily Archives: April 8, 2008

Nuance Makes Strategic Acquisition, Partly With O.P.M. (NUAN)

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 7:45 am

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) has announced a dual-pronged deal this morning.  It has signed an agreement to acquire eScription, a provider of computer aided medical transcription technology.The total consideration ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AAPL, GLW, FNM, FRE, JBL, KCI, LVLT, PCS, TWTC, WM)

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 7:10 am

These are the top individual analyst calls we are focusing on this Tuesday morning:Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Cut to Underperform from Market Perform at Morgan Keegan.Corning (NYSE: GLW) raised to Outperform ...
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Dell (DELL) Predicts A Good ’08

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 6:24 am

Michael Dell, CEO of Dell (DELL) predicted that 2008 would be a prosperous and profitable year for the company, even in the teeth of a recession. According to Reuters, the ...
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Auction-Rate Securites: A $20 Billion Legal Headache For Banks

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 5:58 am

Palm (PALM) took a $25 million write-off yesterday due to the falling value of the auction-rate securities on its balance sheet.Diamond, Kaplan, and Rothstein is the first law firm to ...
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The “AAA” Club: Why The Safest Companies Bet The Market

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 5:41 am

There are only six companies left with "AAA" ratings from both S&P and Moody's. The are Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK), GE (GE), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Exxon ...
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Detroit’s Newest Lifeboat: Exporting Cars From The US

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 5:25 am

The Big Three reason that if they cannot sell enough cars in the US, they can make them here and send them overseas. There new agreement with the UAW and ...
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PC Makers Bet On Wee Computers (AAPL)(INTC)(DELL)(NOK)(RIMM)

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 5:03 am

The market for desktop PCs and notebooks gets more competitive by the day. Just ask Michael Dell of Dell (DELL). He has cut more people and plans to shut a ...
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Cheap Multiples For Legacy Airlines Flying To Bermuda Triangle (DAL, UAUA, AMR, NWA, CAL, LCC)

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 5:02 am

It's that magic time of the economic cycle, all over again.  Investors run screens galore for cheap stocks to hide money in during a consumer and credit recession.  One group ...
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Google (GOOG) Gives Away Storage, Until It Doesn’t

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 4:48 am

Google (GOOG) is launching a nifty new program. It allows programmers who use its Google App Engine to tap the company's server infrastructure to store their work. That is until ...
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Ten Hedge Fund Managers Make Over $700 Million, But Who’s Counting?

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 4:36 am

If there is any sort of recession at all, the top hedge fund managers don't know it. John Paulson and Phil Falcone of Harbinger each made as much as $2 ...
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Media Digest 4/8/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 2:46 am

According to Reuters, Alcoa (AA) profits fell by half due to high energy costs and a weak dollar.Retuers reports that AMD (AMD) cut guidance and will lay-off 10% of its ...
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Asia Markets 4/8/2008 (SNE)(SNP)(CHL)

Posted: April 8, 2008 at 2:17 am

Markets in Asia were mixed.The Nikkei fell .5% to 13,250. NEC fell 2.9% to 409. Sony (SNE) fell 3.7% to 4210.The Hang Seng fell .4% to 24,473. China Petroleum (SNP) ...
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