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Year: 2008

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A Comeback For Ford (F)

Ford’s (F) share are trading up 5%. The company had an outstanding quarter. The car company reported net income of $100 million, or 5 cents per share, for the first quarter of 2008. This…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Potash Corp. Earnings Kick Ag (POT)

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (NYSE: POT) scored a win with earnings. The potash and fertilizer giant posted $1.74 EPS, a gain of 181% year over year and a gain of 50% sequentially.  Revenues…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Europe Markets 4/24/2008 (BHP)(BCS)(SAP)(ALU)(STM)

Markets in Europe were off at 6.35 AM New York time. The FTSE was down 1.7% to 5,977. Barclays (BCS) was down 2.4% to 445.  BHP Billiton (BHP) was off 5% to 1831. The…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Starwood Stays Mildly Hot (HOT)

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) has come out with earnings early this morning at $0.44 EPS from operations excluding special items, or a net of $0.42 EPS.  While these numbers are…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Wal-Mart (WMT) Takes Another Run At High Fashion

There were too many headlines to count when Wal-Mart (WMT) got into the business of selling high-fashion, higher-price clothes a couple of years ago. The number of headlines increased when the project failed. Wal-Mart…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

NextWave, From Spectrum to Hard Technology (WAVE)

NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE) may be unloading its held spectrum assets to focus on core technology offerings.  Last night it announced that it has retained Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank to explore…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

China Exporting Wealth & Dropping Investor Tax

There were two things that happened in China, both of which should be loved by U.S. and most country investors. First and foremost, China saw a rally in Shanghai by more than 9% on…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

The Mac: Apple’s (AAPL) Achilles’ Heel

Most analysts thought that the good news out of Apple (AAPL) was that Mac sales were up 51% to 2,289,000. Nothing could be further from the truth. iPod sales sales have slowed considerably. They…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Media Digest 4/23/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Acording to Reuters profits at Apple (AAPL) rose but Wall St. did not like margins. Reuters reports that Starbucks (SBUX) cut its outlook due to the housing crisis. Reuters writes that Amazon’s (AMZN) pricing…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Asia Markets 4/24/2008, Shanghai Up Over 9%

Markets in Asia were mixed with Shanghai up over 9% The Nikkei fell .3% to 13,541. KDDI rose 1.8% to 668000. Yahoo Japan fell 2.3% to 51,500. The Hang Seng rose 1.9% to 25,775.…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago