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Daily Archives: May 6, 2009

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Ten Women Who Should Be Big Company CEOs

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 8:46 pm

Twelve of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Just twelve. Over the next year, that number is likely to go up considerably because of a confluence of economic and financial ...
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Cramer Calls Cadence Design His #3 Speculative Tech Stock (CDNS, TKLC, BRCD)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 5:39 pm

Jim Cramer continued adding to his basket of speculative technology stocks on tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC.  His #3 speculative stock pick was Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a ...
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Cisco Conference Call Notes (CSCO)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 5:12 pm

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) traded higher after its earnings came in not as light as analysts were expecting.  What we wanted to capture was a feel for the overall ...
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Cautious Optimism at Cisco (CSCO)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 3:24 pm

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) is out with its third quarter earnings report.  The networking and communications equipment leader posted earnings of $0.30 in non-GAAP EPS and $8.2 billion in revenue.  ...
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WisdomTree Launches Emerging Currency ETF (CEW, WSDT)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 3:00 pm

There was a new ETF launch today on the NYSE Euronext.  The WisdomTree Dreyfus Emerging Currency Fund (NYSE: CEW) marks the 50th ETF listed by WisdomTree on NYSE Arca.  The ...
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OpenTable Sets IPO Terms (OPEN)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 2:24 pm

OpenTable, Inc. has set its initial public offering terms.  When this one filed to come public, there were some who thought it might not make it to market.  If today's ...
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Bank “Stress Test” Tab Almost $60 Billion (C)(WFC)(BAC)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 12:43 pm

As more information hits the press about the amount of money the government will say big banks will need due to the results of "stress tests", it is already clear ...
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Will Chambers Change Cisco’s Outlook? (CSCO)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 12:28 pm

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) is set to report its Q3-2009 earnings after the close.  Cisco's growth is currently off the table if estimates are accurate, but the Thomson Reuters estimates ...
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Big Bank TARP Recipients Financed Largest Subprime Firms (JPM)(C)(GS)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 11:23 am

The twenty-five subprime lenders that originated $1 trillion in high interest loans between 2005 and 2007 got their funding from Wall St. banks that are now the beneficiaries of TARP ...
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Amazon’s Large Format Kindle, New Media Grail or Distraction? (AMZN)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 10:19 am

It's official.  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has introduced the much larger version of its Kindle e-book reader.  The Amazon Kindle DX  offers Kindle’s revolutionary wireless delivery and content with a large ...
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Financials & Direxion 3X Bulls, Recent Highs (FAS, FAZ, JPM, BAC, GS, WFC)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 10:00 am

To call the triple-leverage financial ETF of the Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) volatile would be the understatement of the year.  It has become the day trading instrument ...
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Crude Builds Slowing? (OIL)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 9:44 am

The weekly oil inventories are still building by the Department of Energy's count.  Last week we saw a build of 600,000 barrels of crude to 375.3 million barrels and distillates ...
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Visa Files To Raise Cash (V)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 8:59 am

We had been awaiting a shelf registration statement from Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) for a while now, and now we have gotten that filing this morning.  While the company has ...
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Transocean Profits Sink, Yet Surprise (RIG, DO)

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 8:28 am

The world's largest offshore driller, Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG), reported first quarter 2009 EPS of $2.93 on net income of $942 million and revenue of $3.12 billion. In the first quarter ...
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Bank of America’s $34 Billion Distress Signal

Posted: May 6, 2009 at 8:21 am

The first stress test result suggests Treasury was conning its way toward nationalization. By Chadwick Matlin of The Big Picture When the stress tests were first announced, I suspected that ...
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