Monthly Archives: November 2009

Vivendi Disputes Value Of GE’s (GE) NBCU Business

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 5:23 am

The much-anticipated deal for Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) to take control of the NBC Universal division of GE (NYSE:GE) may die next week . Vivendi, which owns 20% of NBCU, believes that the entertainment and ...
Read Full Story »

Big Goldman Sachs (GS) Shareholders Fight Bonuses

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 4:55 am

A number of large Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) shareholders would like to see the firm's profits in their pockets and not in the bank accounts of the Goldman partners. The Wall ...
Read Full Story »

The Federal Reserve Vs. Ron Paul

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 4:35 am

There is a rumor that has been around Hollywood for decades that some of the greatest silent film comedy scripts were created by screen writers who would bribe wardens ...
Read Full Story »

Media Digest 11/20/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 3:56 am

Reuters: The Senate is near its first vote on healthcare. Reuters: Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is betting on corporate spending for its recovery. Reuters: Time Warner's (NYSE:TWX) AOL showed that the worst ...
Read Full Story »

Asia Markets And Europe Open (11/20/2009)

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 3:16 am

Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was down .5% to 9,498. Sony NYSE:SNE) fell after its investor meeting. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) gained back some losses. The Hang Seng fell .7% ...
Read Full Story »

Pimco’s Gross Says Buy Utilities

Posted: November 19, 2009 at 7:31 pm

PIMCO's chief Bill Gross puts out a regular letter in which he shares his investment advice with the public. Invoking the memory of Will Rogers, a Depression-era comic, Gross describes the ...
Read Full Story »

52-Week High Club (DCI, NTAP, TSL)

Posted: November 19, 2009 at 7:05 pm

Donaldson Company Inc (NYSE: DCI) rose over 8.5% to a yearly high of $45.19 after the air filter maker reported 3Q earnings of $0.45 per share, beating analyst estimates. ...
Read Full Story »

Dell Very Disappointing… Very (DELL)

Posted: November 19, 2009 at 4:07 pm

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) reported earnings of $0.17 EPS as a headline, but the clean number is $0.23 EPS on a non-GAAP basis and $12.9 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters ...
Read Full Story »

Black Friday Gimmicks & Desperation, A Win For Consumers (WMT, BBY, COST, TGT, KSS, GPS, M, JWN, MA, AMZN)

Posted: November 19, 2009 at 12:54 pm

We are right at a week away from the highly awaited Black Friday for 2009's holiday and Christmas season. As you likely know, this is THE day that retailers look ...
Read Full Story »

Make or Break Earnings for Dell (DELL)

Posted: November 19, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is set to report earnings after the closing bell today. Thomson Reuters has estimates pegged at $0.28 EPS and $13.18 billion in revenues. For the coming ...
Read Full Story »

AMERITRADE Shelf Registration Spurs E*TRADE Speculation Further (AMTD, ETFC, SCHW)

Posted: November 19, 2009 at 11:38 am

TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTD) has just filed an automatic shelf registration statement with the SEC today, which many rumor mongers may jump on and point to the notion ...
Read Full Story »

The More Focused, and More Opaque, Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B, BNI, UNP, NSC, GS, GE, TIF, HOG, WMT, COP, XOM, WFC, RSG, DOW, ETN, WBC, MCO, WLP, UNH, GSK, SNY, GCI, WPO)

Posted: November 19, 2009 at 8:59 am

This was an important week for investment guru and billionaire watchers to see which gurus were holding which stocks. The full public equity holdings of Warren Buffett via Berkshire Hathaway ...
Read Full Story »

Categories:
- 24/7 Wall St. Wire (1639)
- Accounting (220)
- Activist Investor (206)
- ADR (485)
- Aerospace (104)
- After-Hours Activity (95)
- Agriculture (238)
- Airlines (278)
- Analyst Calls (2537)
- Annual Report (50)
- Apparel (186)
- Austerity (15)
- auto (11)
- Autos (1090)
- Bait Shop (91)
- Banking (1514)
- Bankruptcy (171)
- Biotech (692)
- Blogs (4)
- Bonds (349)
- Brokerage Firms (407)
- Buffett (279)
- Buffett Holdings (29)
- business and finance (24)
- Business Services (152)
- Cable Companies (113)
- Calendar (195)
- Casinos (62)
- Charts (99)
- China (782)
- Commodities (552)
- Compensation (256)
- Conglomerates (398)
- Consumer Electronics (947)
- Consumer Goods (393)
- Corporate Governance (361)
- Cramer (727)
- Cult Stock (175)
- Currency (108)
- Defense (70)
- Defensive Stocks (106)
- Dividend (439)
- Drug companies (231)
- Earnings (2671)
- Earnings Warning (407)
- Economy (2209)
- Editor's Picks (412)
- Emerging Markets (188)
- Entertainment (502)
- ETF (510)
- Exchange (34)
- Exchange News (106)
- FDA (80)
- Financial Stocks (1132)
- Food (539)
- General (3593)
- Green Biz (815)
  - Alternative Energy (778)
- Hardware (187)
- Healthcare (144)
- HI/LOW (642)
- Housing (605)
- Index (232)
- Industry (105)
  - Technology (79)
    - Semiconductors (24)
- Infrastructure (179)
- Insider Activity (192)
- International Markets (1885)
- Internet (1587)
- Interview (51)
- IPOs (896)
- Labor & Unions (395)
- Large Cap Stocks (120)
- Law (362)
- Luxury (136)
- Management Change (575)
- Market Close (110)
- Market Open (101)
- Market Roundups (31)
- Media (791)
- Medical (215)
- Mergers and Buy Outs (1749)
- Metals (405)
- Micro Cap (7)
- Most Actives (31)
- Mutual Funds (198)
- Nanotech (8)
- Newsletter (7)
- Nuclear (71)
- Oil & Gas (1631)
- Old Media (194)
- Options (90)
- OTC (23)
- PC Companies (562)
- Personal Finance (50)
- Pharmaceuticals (202)
- Politics (502)
- Polls (17)
- Pre-Market Activity (728)
- Press Digest (1272)
- Private Equity (398)
- Product Review (58)
- Regulation (425)
- REIT (78)
- Research (1447)
- Restatements (21)
- Retail (1155)
- Rumors (782)
- Satellite (262)
- SEC (154)
- Secondary Offering (482)
- Semiconductor (610)
- Shareholder Issues (424)
- Short Interest (308)
- Small Cap Stocks (20)
- Software (701)
- Special Report (43)
- Stock Buybacks (156)
- Stock Splits (53)
- Tax (74)
- Technical Analysis (94)
- Technology Companies (1227)
- Telecom (597)
- The Day (77)
- The Week (132)
- Tobacco (45)
- Trading Alert (912)
- Transports (230)
- Turnarounds (194)
- TV (69)
- Utilities (262)
- Value Investing (303)
- Video Games (189)
- Water (53)
- WiMAX (154)
- Wireless (892)

24/7 Wall St. - Insightful Analysis and Commentary for U.S. and Global Equity Investors