The 52-Week Low Club (CCU)(ZRAN)
Clear Channel (CCU) Company is supposed to go private. Wall St. is worried deal may not fly. Falls to $27.77 from 52-week high of $38.58. Municipal Mortgage & Equity (MMA) Restatements, write-downs, drividend cut.…
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Newest first · Page 393More DJIA Earnings Pressing (MO, MRK, PG, XOM)
We are over half-way through earnings season now, but we still have four DJIA components set to report earnings this week. We’ve also provided a link here to see which targets are there in…
Are Refining Stocks Safer After Valero? (VLO, TSO, FTO, WNR, HOC)
Valero Corp. (NYSE: VLO) shares are trading up almost 10% after the company posted earnings. Valero has been what seems like habitually hampered with higher refining costs more than it has been a beneficiary…
What To Look For From Yahoo! (YHOO)
After today’s close we’ll get to see quarterly and fiscal year-end results from Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). Over the last week the consensus estimates for 2008 have come in marginally, although the real changes would…
Bank Of America (BAC) Say Countrywide (CFC) Deal OK
Bank of America (BAC) says that its deal for buying mortgage-bank Countrywide (CFC) is on track despite the M&A target’s big fouth quarter loss. “Everything is a `go’ to complete this transaction,” Bank of…
Cramer Changes to Anti-Tech (AAPL, GOOG, EMC, MSFT)
Jim Cramer is going anti-tech, again, yet for entirely different reasons than when he said "dump tech" in January 2007. In January 2007, Cramer wanted to dump tech because of the seasonality of it…
Wal-Mart Pretends It’s The Holidays (WMT)
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is doing something that hasn’t been seen in prior years: lowering prices considerably on thousands of items, but not during holiday season. These price cuts are as much as…
Pre-Market Earnings Gappers (January 29, 2008)
We are right in the thick of earnings season and below is a snapshot of some of the key earnings reports with price changes if available: Air Tran (NYSE: AAI) -$0.02 EPS vs -$0.02…
Countrywide (CFC) Rises On Earnings
Countrywide (CFC) is trading up over 5% on its fourth quarter and full year earnings announcement. CFC reported a net loss of $422 million, or $0.79 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter ended…
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ADCT, ARRS, EL, FLML, GERN, HD, LOW, MCD, MEDX, NOVL, NMX, DIS)
These are not the only pre-market analyst calls that are moving stocks, but these are the calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on: ADC Telecom (NASDAQ: ADCT) and Arris (NASDAQ: ARRS) raised to Buy at…
Europe Markets 1/29/2008 (BHP)(SI)(FTE)
Markets in Europe were higher at 6.30 AM New York time. The FTSE was trading up 1.5% to 5,874. BHP Billiton (BHP) was up 3.1% to 1437. Imperial Tobacco was down 2.2% to 2319.…
A Bail Out For Bond Insurers, Why Not Banks? (ABK)(C)(MBI)
The head of insurance regulation in NY State is busy as a bee trying to bail out Ambac (ABK) and MBIA (MBI). According to the FT "Eric Dinallo, the New York state insurance superintendent,…
McDonald’s (MCD) Chinese Take-Out
McDonald’s (MCD) last quarter results were undermined by slow same-store sales growth in the US. It only took the world’s largest fast food chain a day to start to talk about China. China is…
Lenovo: The Luck Of Staying Out Of The US (HPQ)(DELL)
Lenovo, one of the two large Asian PC companies with Acer, will report earnings that are likely to double for the latest reported quarter. That probably won’t happen at HP (HPQ) or Dell (DELL).…
The Fed: Who Needs Congress?
The economic stimulus package coming from Congress and the Administration may not be in effect until well into the second quarter. There is already news that the Senate and House are having trouble finding…