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Daily Archives: July 25, 2008

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The 52-Week Low Club 7/25/2008 (SSP)(MNI)(CVG)(ATI)(CROX)(AFFX)

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 3:49 pm

Scripps (SSP) Newspaper stock takes big hit on earnings. Falls to $7.17 from 52-week high of $147.78.McClatchy Newspapers (MNI) Another newspaper company with problems. Sells down to $4.30 from 52-week ...
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Coal Stocks Key Off Arch Report (ACI, FCL, BTU, CNX)

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 12:04 pm

This morning we saw Arch Coal (NYSE:ACI) report a tripling of earnings for the second quarter, $113 million compared with $37.6 million for the same period a year ago. The ...
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A Stupid Call On Fannie Mae (FNM), Freddie Mac (FRE) Bail-Out

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 11:24 am

I will preface this by saying that I'm a big fan of David Dreman. I read his column in Forbes regularly, and his book Contrarian Investment Strategies is an all-time ...
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RadioShack (RSH): A Contarian View Of Earnings

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 9:37 am

Shares of RadioShack (RSH) soared nearly 14% on Thursday after the company reported revenue growth of 6% on a 6.9% increase in same store sales. Good initial sales of digital-to-analog ...
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Traders Slamming GT Solar IPO (SOLR)

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 8:46 am

IPO traders and investors are probably wishing they never heard of GT Solar International Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR).  The company fell roughly 12% yesterday but that is just the start of ...
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IPO FILING: AutoGenomics Inc.

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 8:21 am

Apparently the IPO filing hiatus isn't entirely a dead end story.  A company called AutoGenomics, Inc. has filed a registration statement for a proposed initial public offering.  It has applied ...
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Lazard’s Strong Defense of Capstone Turbine (CPST)

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 8:05 am

If you trade small-cap alternative energy (or less-brown energy stocks), then Capstone Turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) has likely come across your desk.  Despite a recent pounding with a 35% pullback, ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (BSX, CCMP, DAL, ESV, HBI, JNPR, NE, RVBD, TER, VIA)

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 6:32 am

These are some of the top analyst Upgrades and positive calls we are seeing early this Friday morning:Boston Scientific (BSX) Started as Outperform at Piper Jaffray.Cabot Micro (CCMP) Raised to ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (ANF, AFFY, T, CPHD, DAI, RF, STJ, TASR, NCTY, TIF, WTSLA)

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 6:30 am

These are some of the top analyst Downgrades and negative calls we are seeing early this Friday morning:Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) Cut to Neutral at Banc of America.Affymax (AFFY) Cut ...
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Lehman (LEH) May Sell Neuberger

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 5:16 am

First, Lehman (LEH) was being closed or sold. Then it was under attack from short sellers.Then it was being taken private.The latest rumor, floated by CNBC, is that LEH will ...
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Foreclosure Rates Rocket Further Imperiling Banks (FRE)(FNM)

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 4:56 am

A number of analysts believe that there can be no recovery in bank earnings and share prices as long as the housing market is troubled.If that opinion is right, new ...
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China Pushes Past The US In Internet Use: A Chance For Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO)

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 4:22 am

China now has more people online than the US, 253 million to be exact. The China Internet Network Information Center says that the number of internet users was up 56% ...
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Wal-Mart (WMT) Learns China’s Hard Lesson

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 3:46 am

When the Chinese government pushed its retail union into Wal-Mart (WMT) two years ago, the world's largest retailer should have figured that it was only the beginning of trouble.Now labor ...
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Media Digest 7/25/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 3:02 am

According to Reuters, Microsoft (MSFT) backed its internet spending plan and said it was done with negotiations with Yahoo! (YHOO).Reuters reports that the CFO of Wachovia (WB) is leaving. (more...) ...
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Asia Market 7/25/2008 (SNE)(LFC)(CN)(CHU)

Posted: July 25, 2008 at 2:31 am

Markets in Asia fell sharply.The Nikkei was down 2% to 13,335. Canon was down 4.9% to 5100. Mazda was down 5% to 527. Sony (SBE) was down 4.2% to 4360.The ...
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