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Daily Archives: October 16, 2008

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GM (GM) Deal To Takeover Chrysler Makes Progress, Creating Opportunity For Disaster

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 5:49 pm

The merger talks between GM (GM) and Chrysler appear to be heating up. GM would like to have an agreement by the end of this month.Putting the two companies together ...
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AMD (AMD): More Of The Same, Which Is Not Good

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 3:31 pm

AMD (AMD) had another dreadful quarter. It is a wonder that the NYSE even lets the company keep its membership card. The firm reported third quarter 2008 revenue from continuing ...
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Gilead Boosted Partly By Currencies (GILD)

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 3:23 pm

Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) has just issued its third quarter earnings at $0.52 net EPS and $0.55 non-GAAP EPS and $1.37 billion in revenue.  First Call had estimates at ...
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IBM (IBM) Makes Numbers

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 3:19 pm

IBM (IBM) had already told the market that it had done remarkably well in Q3. The company confirmed that today.IBM announced third-quarter 2008 earnings of $2.05 per share from continuing ...
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Google (GOOG): Low Expectations, Great Achievement

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Analysts have been revising down their expectations for Google's (GOOG) third quarter for weeks. The search company did not have much to measure up to. A slowing economy moved consensus ...
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Coal and Steel Play Follow the Leader (IIIN, RS, ACI, BTU, MEE, NUE)

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 2:48 pm

Two small-cap steel companies reported earnings before the market opened today. Insteel Industries (NASDAQ:IIIN) beat analysts' estimates of $0.60 EPS on $101 million in revenue, posting EPS of $0.89 on ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) Tortures Yahoo! (YHOO)

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 11:05 am

Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is torturing Yahoo!'s (YHOO) board for not taking his $33 buy-out offer. Recently, Yahoo! was below $12. Ballmer commented that the transaction would still "make ...
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Real Goods Solar In The Shade (RSOL, GAIA)

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 9:47 am

Real Goods Solar (NASDAQ:RSOL) came public in May at $10.00 per share (at the bottom of the $10 to $12 range) yet its trading high is only $9.25 this year.  ...
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Financial Stocks: No One Believes Paulson (UBS)(MER)(C)(BAC)(MS)(WFC)(JPM)

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 9:37 am

Henry Paulson seems like a very large and old Eagle Scout. He would never mislead, at least not on purpose.He gave the impression as he announced that Treasury would dump ...
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The Plot Thickens at SemGroup, L.P. (SGLP, BX)

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 9:30 am

Not every piece of SemGroup, L.P. was included in the company's Chapter 11 filing back in July.  The company's publicly traded midstream subsidiary, SemGroup Energy Partners LP (NASDAQ:SGLP), was spared, ...
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Kinder Morgan Hiking Payout, Yet Misses Targets (KMP, KMR)

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 8:37 am

After the market closed yesterday, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE:KMP) reported EPS of $0.48 on revenue of $3.23 billion for the third quarter. This is a gain of more than ...
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Day Trader Alert: Aladdin Knowledge Systems (ALDN)

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 8:26 am

Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALDN) is seeing shares surge in pre-market trading, albeit on rather thin volume.  The data security company posted much narrower losses than expected with a ...
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Nokia (NOK): Trouble For Motorola (MOT)

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 8:12 am

By some estimates the handset business that Motorola (MOT) plans to spin-out to shareholders next year has no value at all. If the parent company puts some cash in the ...
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The Bankrupting of Henry Paulson

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 7:44 am

By John Tamny  RealClearMarkets'while nationalization has enabled some industries to postpone job losses for a time, the resulting overmanning has usually proved unsustainable and the eventual job losses consequentially greater.' ...
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Top Pre-Market Upgrades & Downgrades (APC, ATPG, BCS, CRZO, DNDN, EBAY, FPL, STM)

Posted: October 16, 2008 at 6:42 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades and downgrades we are seeing from Wall Street analysts this Thursday morning:Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Raised to Buy at Jefferies.ATP Oil & Gas ...
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