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Daily Archives: July 21, 2008

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Yahoo! Partially Capitulates to Icahn (YHOO)

Posted: July 21, 2008 at 6:43 am

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) just took away any near-term embedded call option in its stock.  The company has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related ...
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Top 10 Early Bird Analyst Calls (AIG, CTAS, KBW, NTES, NKE, SAY, SHW, SWK, TEVA, WFMI)

Posted: July 21, 2008 at 6:01 am

These are only some of the early bird analyst calls that we have seen in early Monday pre-market trading, but these are some of the more active stock names:American International ...
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Another Call To Break-Up Citigroup (C)

Posted: July 21, 2008 at 5:56 am

The idea of breaking Citigroup (C) into pieces is hardly new. From the day Sandy Weill threw the place together, many analysts could see no benefit to an umbrella company ...
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Itty-Bitty PCs Attack Computer Company Margins (AAPL)(DELL)(HPQ)(INTC)(RIMM)(NOK)

Posted: July 21, 2008 at 5:33 am

The PC industry's race to create smaller and smaller computers to stave off competition from smart phones has begun to backfire. Intel (INTC) has started making tiny, energy-efficient chips to ...
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Earnings Police Go After McDonald’s (MCD) Premium Coffee

Posted: July 21, 2008 at 4:58 am

Probably the worst thing that ever happened to Starbucks (SBUX) was when McDonald's (MCD) went into the premium coffee business. Consumer Reports even rated the fast food chain's java ahead ...
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Roche Tries To Torpedo Genentech (DNA) Shareholders

Posted: July 21, 2008 at 4:33 am

Swiss drug company Roche is trying to steal the part of biotech company Genentech (DNA) that it does not already own. Roche has offered to buy the 45% of DNA ...
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Media Digest 7/21/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 21, 2008 at 2:52 am

According to Reuters, Roche has offered to buy-out Genentech (DNA) for $42.7 billion.Retuers reports that one of Yahoo!'s (YHOO) activist investors has called for a compromise which would put some ...
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Asia Markets 7/21/2008

Posted: July 21, 2008 at 2:23 am

Markets in Asia were mostly higher. Japan was closed for a holiday.The Hang Seng rose 3.3% to 22,603. China Life (LFC) rose 5% to 29.45. China Petroleum (SNP) rose 4.9% ...
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