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Daily Archives: April 13, 2008

Looking At Starbucks (SBUX) Quality, Store By Store

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 5:26 pm

It has been one year since 24/7 Wall St. looked at over 40 Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) from Texas to New York.Since then, the company has replaced its CEO with the ...
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China Mobile (CHL) Backs Off Apple (AAPL) iPhone Again

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 4:24 pm

The cat-and-mouse game between China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) over the release of the iPhone in China continues. China Mobile has over 300 million subscribers and that ...
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Google (GOOG): Thirty-Six Expensive Data Centers?

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 3:47 pm

According to TechCrunch, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has thirty-six huge data centers of which ninteen are in the US.Here are maps of the locations.No wonder Wall St. is worried about Google's ...
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Delta (DAL) Merger With Northwest (NWA) Could Come In Days

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 3:22 pm

The on-again, off-again merger between Northwest (NYSE: NWA) merger with Delta (NYSE: DAL) appears ready to go through. The deal could be hurt by the fact that the pilots have ...
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Tough Market Cannibalizes Prices Of Weakest Companies (SIRI)(GRMN)(MOT)(DELL

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 3:12 pm

No rest for the weak in a market which even punishes mediocrity. Several widely traded companies made new lows. Firms with heavy debt and poor operating profit prospects were hit ...
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The Week In Stockhouse, April 7-11

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 2:48 pm

Wall Street opened the week flat, ahead of the weeks’ earnings, despite a rise in the financial sector. Weak earnings, a dismal global financial assessment from the IMF, and deepening ...
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Market Toughens As Financials And Tech Sell-Off (C)(BAC)(GE)(JPM)(WFC)(INTC)(CSCO)(DELL)(RIMM)(AAPL)

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 2:43 pm

Over the last week, both major financials and techs sold off substantially, another sign that one major sector is doing nothing to offset the other. Taken in tandem with GE's ...
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Northern Trust, State Street, and WaMu Start The Bank Earnings March (STT, NTRS, WM)

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 10:36 am

This week, we'll have an earnings onslaught from major US financial institutions for Q1 2008 quarterly results.  What investors need to grasp from these financial giants is not whether or ...
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Earnings War: Intel Versus AMD.. Q1 2008 (INTC, AMD, NVDA)

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 9:17 am

This week, we will have the real start of the earnings onslaught for Q1-2008 earnings season.  We compiled many estimates Friday evening to see which pairs of companies and which ...
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American (AMR) Flights Back To 100%, What Was Cost?

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 6:45 am

AMR (NYSE: AMR), parent of American Airlines, will return to 100% service tomorrow after FAA-mandated inspections of it MD-80 fleet forced the cancellations of over 3,000 flights. AMR management has ...
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Did Accounting Firms Miss The Subprime Numbers?

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 5:47 am

The New York Times brutalized the accounting industry today by suggesting that auditors should have caught bad numbers on the books of financial companies much earlier. The paper reports that ...
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Apple (AAPL) Passes Citigroup (C) In Market Cap

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 5:36 am

With all of the write-offs it has taken in the past and all those it is likely to take in the future, the market rubbed more salt in the wounds ...
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Merrill Lynch (MER) And Citigroup (C) Expected To Post Massive Write-Downs

Posted: April 13, 2008 at 5:25 am

Citigroup (NYSE: C) is expected to post write-downs of as much as $12 billion in first quarter and have a loss of over $3 billion. Merrill Lunch (NYSE: MER) could ...
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