May 2008

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 22, 2008 at 3:14 AM EDT

Short Sellers Make Huge Bets Against Financials, Flee Tech

Short sellers are making significant bets that most financial stocks traded on the NYSE will fall sharply. Data is as…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 22, 2008 at 2:59 AM EDT

Media Digest 5/22/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

According to Reuters, the Fed lower growth expectations and noted rising inflation. Reuters writes that AMR (AMR) will sharply cut…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 22, 2008 at 2:29 AM EDT

Asia Markets 5/22/2008 (LFC)(SNP)

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was up .4% to 13,978. NEC was up 3.9% to 534. Nissan was…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 2:52 PM EDT

The 52-Week Low Club (AMR)(LLC)(CAL)(DAL)(NWA)(UAUA)

AMR (AMR) falls after saying it will cut service to save money. Down to $6 from 52-week high of $29.32.…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 1:29 PM EDT

FOMC Describes Recession Without Saying It

If you are hoping for already-low interest rates in the U.S. to go lower, you better look at the FOMC…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM EDT

Why is CVS Buying $2 Billion of its Stock? (CVS, WAG, RAD)

CVS Caremark Corp. (NYSE: CVS) has announced that the company will buy back up to $2 Billion worth of common…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 9:41 AM EDT

Ladenburg Thalmann Takes Poleaxe To Lehman (LEH)

Ladenburg did nothing to spare the feelings of management and employees at Lehman (LEH). It cut its price target on…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 9:26 AM EDT

AMR’s Sweeping Changes Could Set Industry Trends (AMR)

AMR Corp. (NYSE: AMR), the parent of American Airlines, has announced some sweeping changes at its annual meeting of shareholders…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 8:27 AM EDT

Gafisa (GFA): The Best Homebuilder In the Universe

The housing market in Brazil operates in a what which is beyond the wildest dreams of US homebuilders. The sector…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 7:03 AM EDT

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (CENT, CSUN, EP, FSLR, INTU, MDT, MU, NOV, NUE, PALM)

These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this morning: Central Garden (NASDAQ: CENT) raised to Buy…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 6:27 AM EDT

Worst Research Call Of The Month: Soleil Downgrades Airlines (AMR)(CAL)(UAUA)

Soleil has downgraded the airlines industry from "outperform" from "neutral". The call is not only about six months late, the…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 5:32 AM EDT

Microsoft (MSFT) Begins Service To Pay People To Search

If Microsoft (MSFT) can’t make up ground on Google (GOOG) the old fashion way, they can pay people to use…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 5:23 AM EDT

Honda’s (HMC) Hybrid: Driving Miss Daisy

Introducing new car models is now all about the environment. Too much gas is bad for the ozone, global warming,…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 5:12 AM EDT

Barnes & Noble (BKS) + Borders (BGP) = 0

Barnes & Noble (BKS), the No.1 bricks and mortar bookseller, is looking at a buy-out of No.2 player Borders (BGP).…

Douglas A. McIntyre | May 21, 2008 at 4:58 AM EDT

Microsoft (MSFT): A Pox On The House Of Yahoo! (YHOO)

Carl Icahn is known as much for his mistakes as his successes. His process for making money is based on…

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Month: May 2008

Short Sellers Make Huge Bets Against Financials, Flee Tech

Media Digest 5/22/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Asia Markets 5/22/2008 (LFC)(SNP)

The 52-Week Low Club (AMR)(LLC)(CAL)(DAL)(NWA)(UAUA)

FOMC Describes Recession Without Saying It

Why is CVS Buying $2 Billion of its Stock? (CVS, WAG, RAD)

Ladenburg Thalmann Takes Poleaxe To Lehman (LEH)

AMR’s Sweeping Changes Could Set Industry Trends (AMR)

Gafisa (GFA): The Best Homebuilder In the Universe

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (CENT, CSUN, EP, FSLR, INTU, MDT, MU, NOV, NUE, PALM)

Worst Research Call Of The Month: Soleil Downgrades Airlines (AMR)(CAL)(UAUA)

Microsoft (MSFT) Begins Service To Pay People To Search

Honda’s (HMC) Hybrid: Driving Miss Daisy

Barnes & Noble (BKS) + Borders (BGP) = 0

Microsoft (MSFT): A Pox On The House Of Yahoo! (YHOO)

SMH ETF Investors: Watch Hyperscaler Capex Guidance at July Earnings Calls

The Average American Has Worked for 6 Employers and 23% Still Have Multiple Old Retirement Accounts, Fidelity’s 2026 Study Finds

Apple Will Run Advanced AI Model on Nvidia GPUs via Google Cloud, Ditching Private Infrastructure

The Average American Has Worked for 6 Employers and 23% Still Have Multiple Old Retirement Accounts, Fidelity's 2026 Study Finds

Fidelity's 2026 Study: 76% of Boomers Are Counting on Social Security While Younger Generations Lean on Workplace Plans

SMH ETF Investors: Watch Hyperscaler Capex Guidance at July Earnings Calls

The Average American Has Worked for 6 Employers and 23% Still Have Multiple Old Retirement Accounts, Fidelity’s 2026 Study Finds

Short Sellers Make Huge Bets Against Financials, Flee Tech

Media Digest 5/22/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Asia Markets 5/22/2008 (LFC)(SNP)

The 52-Week Low Club (AMR)(LLC)(CAL)(DAL)(NWA)(UAUA)

FOMC Describes Recession Without Saying It

Why is CVS Buying $2 Billion of its Stock? (CVS, WAG, RAD)

Ladenburg Thalmann Takes Poleaxe To Lehman (LEH)

AMR’s Sweeping Changes Could Set Industry Trends (AMR)

Gafisa (GFA): The Best Homebuilder In the Universe

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (CENT, CSUN, EP, FSLR, INTU, MDT, MU, NOV, NUE, PALM)

Worst Research Call Of The Month: Soleil Downgrades Airlines (AMR)(CAL)(UAUA)

Microsoft (MSFT) Begins Service To Pay People To Search

Honda’s (HMC) Hybrid: Driving Miss Daisy

Barnes & Noble (BKS) + Borders (BGP) = 0

Microsoft (MSFT): A Pox On The House Of Yahoo! (YHOO)

SMH ETF Investors: Watch Hyperscaler Capex Guidance at July Earnings Calls

The Average American Has Worked for 6 Employers and 23% Still Have Multiple Old Retirement Accounts, Fidelity’s 2026 Study Finds

Apple Will Run Advanced AI Model on Nvidia GPUs via Google Cloud, Ditching Private Infrastructure

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The Average American Has Worked for 6 Employers and 23% Still Have Multiple Old Retirement Accounts, Fidelity's 2026 Study Finds

Fidelity's 2026 Study: 76% of Boomers Are Counting on Social Security While Younger Generations Lean on Workplace Plans