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Daily Archives: April 24, 2008

A Comeback For Ford (F)

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 6:09 am

Ford's (F) share are trading up 5%. The company had an outstanding quarter.The car company reported net income of $100 million, or 5 cents per share, for the first quarter ...
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Potash Corp. Earnings Kick Ag (POT)

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 5:52 am

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (NYSE: POT) scored a win with earnings.The potash and fertilizer giant posted $1.74 EPS, a gain of 181% year over year and a gain of ...
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Europe Markets 4/24/2008 (BHP)(BCS)(SAP)(ALU)(STM)

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 5:39 am

Markets in Europe were off at 6.35 AM New York time.The FTSE was down 1.7% to 5,977. Barclays (BCS) was down 2.4% to 445.  BHP Billiton (BHP) was off 5% ...
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Starwood Stays Mildly Hot (HOT)

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 5:31 am

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) has come out with earnings early this morning at $0.44 EPS from operations excluding special items, or a net of $0.42 EPS.  ...
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Chinese Online Population Now Equals US (MSFT)(BIDU)(SINA)(GOOG)(YHOO)

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 5:29 am

Based on estimates from the Chinese government, the most populated country in the world now has 221 million people online. That puts it even with the US. Of course, the ...
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Wal-Mart (WMT) Takes Another Run At High Fashion

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 5:15 am

There were too many headlines to count when Wal-Mart (WMT) got into the business of selling high-fashion, higher-price clothes a couple of years ago. The number of headlines increased when ...
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NextWave, From Spectrum to Hard Technology (WAVE)

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 5:13 am

NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE) may be unloading its held spectrum assets to focus on core technology offerings.  Last night it announced that it has retained Deutsche Bank and UBS ...
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As Samsung Passes Motorola (MOT) Handset Business Becomes Worthless

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 5:05 am

After Motorola's (MOT) global handset market share dropped from 22% two years ago to 14% more recently, it could hold on to one prize. It was still the top selling ...
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China Exporting Wealth & Dropping Investor Tax

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 4:52 am

There were two things that happened in China, both of which should be loved by U.S. and most country investors.First and foremost, China saw a rally in Shanghai by more ...
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The Mac: Apple’s (AAPL) Achilles’ Heel

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 4:50 am

Most analysts thought that the good news out of Apple (AAPL) was that Mac sales were up 51% to 2,289,000. Nothing could be further from the truth.iPod sales sales have ...
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Starbucks (SBUX): Schultz Can’t Win After Two-Minute Warning

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 4:31 am

Football stars and CEOs pride themselves on winning when the chips are down, when things look to be at their worst. Elias Sports Bureau and legions of demented math Ph.Ds ...
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Media Digest 4/23/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 2:37 am

Acording to Reuters profits at Apple (AAPL) rose but Wall St. did not like margins.Reuters reports that Starbucks (SBUX) cut its outlook due to the housing crisis.Reuters writes that Amazon's ...
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Asia Markets 4/24/2008, Shanghai Up Over 9%

Posted: April 24, 2008 at 2:13 am

Markets in Asia were mixed with Shanghai up over 9%The Nikkei fell .3% to 13,541. KDDI rose 1.8% to 668000. Yahoo Japan fell 2.3% to 51,500.The Hang Seng rose 1.9% ...
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