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Daily Archives: June 14, 2008

Broker Earnings To Dominate Earnings Calendar (LEH, GS, MS)

Posted: June 14, 2008 at 10:42 am

This coming week is going to be a rather important week for brokerage and investment banking firms.  We have three key firms in the sector reporting earnings: Lehman Brothers Holdings ...
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The Week’s Top BioHealth Issues For Next Week (PFE, TEVA, CRA, IVGN, CMED, ANPI, ISRG, VVUS, CELG)

Posted: June 14, 2008 at 7:31 am

One key stock to watch next week is Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE). While it has been in the land of the boring forever, watchers are looking to see if it ...
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Same Headline, Wrong Tactic, Again: Ford (F) To Cut Costs

Posted: June 14, 2008 at 5:53 am

Ford (F) is making the rounds of its employees and unions to tell them that the company will have to take out more costs. According to The Wall Street Journal, ...
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Saudis Get The Message, Pump More Oil

Posted: June 14, 2008 at 5:40 am

Now that world opinion about oil is becoming more passionate by the day, world leaders and world consumers have to blame someone for the high prices of gas. The first ...
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Yahoo! (YHOO) Gives Up A Mint By Rejecting Microsoft’s (MSFT) Second Offer

Posted: June 14, 2008 at 5:19 am

Microsoft (MSFT) told its employees that it offered Yahoo! (YHOO) $8 billion in cash for 16% of the company and $1 billion to buy its search operations. According to Reuters, ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) Becomes The Victim, Opens “Save The Whales” Fund

Posted: June 14, 2008 at 5:10 am

Now that Microsoft (MSFT) can't have Yahoo! (YHOO), it does not want anyone else to have the portal. Yahoo! has gone to search rival Google (GOOG) to sell some of ...
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Time Warner (TWX) Kills Weather Channel Talks

Posted: June 14, 2008 at 5:00 am

Buying The Weather Channel and Weather.com got a bit rich for Time Warner (TWX). The company pulled out of the negotiations, leaving GE's (GE) NBCU operation and its partners as ...
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