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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Video: Game, Set, Match To YouTube (GOOG), MySpace (NWS) Hammered

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 11:08 am

If a company is in the video business, and it is not Google (GOOG) YouTube, it might as well shut down. According to new numbers from HitWise YouTube had over ...
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Wall St. Today, Panic Sets In (AAPL, GM, GE, RIMM, ORCL, BAC, C, CFC)

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 8:53 am

Today's selling does not look orderly like it has on many other down days this year. The drop is across almost every sector and most widely-traded shares. Much of it ...
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IPO Pricing: Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (NNA.U, NM)

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 8:40 am

Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: NNA.U) has priced its IPO of 22,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $220,000,000.  Each unit represents one ...
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Second Wind ETF Launch (IVZ, PWND, FAN)

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 8:19 am

If one ETF for covering the global trend towards wind power wasn't enough, we have the announcement of a second wind energy ETF.  Invesco's (NYSE: IVZ) PowerShares Capital Management ETF ...
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Sequenom Holds Up Well On Secondary Offering (SQNM)

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 8:03 am

Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) has priced its public secondary offering of 5,500,000 shares of common stock at a price of $15.50 per share, and underwriters have a 30-day option to ...
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Xinhua Finance Media Insiders Buying Shares (XFML)

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 7:21 am

Xinhua Finance Media Limited (NASDAQ: XFML) has been a troubled stock of late.  The Chinese news agency has been plagued with problems, scandal, and controversy almost since day one after ...
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Synchronoss Lands Time Warner Cable As Customer (SNCR, TWC)

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 7:08 am

Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNCR) has announced that its ConvergenceNow platform has been selected for the activation and lifecycle management of Time Warner Cable's (NYSEL TWC) triple play offering for ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (CPST, CHKP, RIO, COCO, ETR, GM, IDTI, MGM, PCG, TEN)

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 6:57 am

These are ten of the individual analyst calls we are looking at from Wall Street this Thursday morning:Capstone Turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) started as Buy at Broadpoint Capital.Check Point Software ...
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Key Analyst Calls: Financial Stocks (BCS, C, CYN, GS)

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 6:49 am

These are some of the calls in the financial sector that are impacting shares at major financial companies this Thursday morning:Barclays (NYSE: BCS) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley.Citigroup (NYSE: ...
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As European Central Bank Prepares Rate Increase, Fed May Have Bungled

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 5:44 am

The Fed sat still yesterday. It could not decide which was worse, inflation or the slowing economy. It tried to play Solomon and offered to cut the baby in two. ...
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The Word “Default” Enters Detroit’s Lexicon

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 5:27 am

Three years ago, rating firms like Moody's were talking about the chances that one of the "Big Three" automakers might have to file Chapter 11. That seems like a long ...
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Oracle (ORCL) And RIM (RIMM): Tech, Large And Small, Is Doing Fine

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 5:08 am

Wall St. focused on earnings forecasts from Oracle (ORCL) and RIM (RIMM) and thought the numbers were a bit light. That turned traders against the shares of both companies, but ...
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Citigroup (C): Another $9 Billion In The Hole?

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 4:56 am

Goldman Sachs researchers have decided that Citigroup (C) could lose another $9 billion in the second quarter. The big money center bank does not have that kind of capital on ...
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BUD: An Ethical Lapse By The Board

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 4:43 am

Anheuser-Busch (BUD) is threatened by an InBev takeover like its home city of St. Louis is menaced by the rain-swollen Mississippi. But, BUD took its first step to save itself ...
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Media Digest 6/26/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 2:57 am

According to Reuters, Anheuser-Busch (BUD) will reject a $46.3 billion buy-out from InBev.Reuters writes that Oracle (ORCL) posted strong earnings but its outlook was light.Reuters reports that RIM (RIMM) has ...
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