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Daily Archives: July 28, 2008

Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (AFL, AMGN, BBY, CHTT, CVH, HNT, KMB, PCLN, RDC)

Posted: July 28, 2008 at 6:30 am

These are not all of the upgrades or positive calls we have seen, but these are some calls moving shares this Monday morning:AFLAC (AFL) Raised to Outperform at Raymond James.Amgen ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (JOBS, AUO, AVR, CRDN, CLX, DKS, GR, MPEL, PLXS, VSE)

Posted: July 28, 2008 at 6:24 am

These are not all of the downgrades or negative calls we have seen, but these are some calls moving shares this Monday morning:51jobs (JOBS) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.AU ...
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Some Of America’s Most Prominent Companies Face Massive Dilution (SIRI) (AMR)(FRE)(C)(AMD)(FNM)(GM)(CHTR)

Posted: July 28, 2008 at 5:36 am

The national economy has gotten so bad, driven by high commodities prices and a credit crisis which cannot seem to find a bottom, that some of America's most well-known companies ...
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Google’s (GOOG) New Rival, Cuil, Doesn’t Work

Posted: July 28, 2008 at 4:50 am

Google (GOOG) has a new rival, Cuil. Out of the box, it seems hopelessly broken. The news search engine claims it covers three times as many web pages as Google. ...
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If Dell (DELL) Says Business Is Good, Someone Else’s Is Not

Posted: July 28, 2008 at 4:18 am

In an interview with BusinessWeek, Dell (DELL) founder, chairman and CEO Michael Dell said that the company's turnaround efforts are bearing fruit. He said growth rates for the second half ...
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Motorola (MOT), A Creature Of The Past, Auctions It Future

Posted: July 28, 2008 at 4:11 am

Management at Motorola (MOT) is in the midst of an ugly capitulation. It now as much as admits that it cannot run the company with any success, even though it ...
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KKR IPO Bodes Ill for Buy-Out Business

Posted: July 28, 2008 at 2:57 am

The Wall Street Journal reports that, when legendary buyout shop KKR debuts on the NYSE it will sport a market value of between $12 billion and $15 billion -- roughly ...
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Why Is Circuit City (CC) Opening New Stores?

Posted: July 28, 2008 at 2:51 am

Consider the following:Since 2006, shares of Circuit City have fallen from $30 per share to $2.22.In FY 2006, the company earned $140 million. In FY 2008, Circuit City lost ...
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Media Digest 7/28/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 28, 2008 at 2:44 am

According to Reuters, KKR will go public on the NYSE at a valuation of $15 billion.Reuters writes that the production problems with the Airbus 380 are not over.The Wall Street ...
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Asia Markets 7/28/2008 (HMC)(NTT)(SNP)

Posted: July 28, 2008 at 2:20 am

Most markets in Asia were up slightly.The Nikkei rose .1% to 13,354. Honda (HMC) fell 2.9% to 3650. NTT (NTT) rose 3.1% to 528000.The Hang Seng moved up .1% to ...
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