A Hostile Takeover At CNET (CNET)
Hostile takeovers have come to the online content world. A group of outside investors have taken a major piece of CNET (CNET), the internet tech content company, and will try to push out the…
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Newest first · Page 421Media Digest 1/7/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is pushing the mobile handset as the next major target for its products. Reuters reports that analysts are trimming forecasts for the first and second quarter of this year…
Asia Markets 1/7/2008
Markets in Asia were down with several markes closed. The Nikkei fell 1.3% to 14,501. Casio fell 3.5% to 1177. KDDI fell 5.3% to 776000. Softbank fell 4% to 2145. The hang Seng fell…
A Half Point Interest Rate Cut By The Fed?
Some Wall St. analysts believe that the Fed will cut rates a half a point this month. That may raise the expectations high enough so the a smaller cut could send marketing into a…
A Fed Without Direction
One of the key members of the Fed admits that there is a great deal of debate within the body about cutting rates. Based on a speech by the Fed’s vice chairman Donald Kohn,…
OPEC Say $100 Oil Is Not Its Fault
OPEC says no one should point the finger at it for $100 oil. The new head of the cartel told Bloomberg “There is enough oil in the market. It’s the problems in Nigeria, in…
The Consequences Of $100 Oil
A recent study in the UK says that the country will lost 1.5% of its GDP is oil stays above $100 for any extended period. According to The Guardian "half of this coming from…
Intel’s New Enemy Besides Downgrades: Its Chart (INTC)
This was one ugly week in the stock market and frankly the worst start to a new trading year in memory. There are very few stocks that held up during the onslaught, but one…
Warner (TWX) Goes With Sony (SNE) Blu-ray
Warner, the studio wing of Time Warner (TWX) will throw its weight behind the Sony (SNE) Blu-ray high definition format. The new is a blow to the rival Toshiba HD-DVD initiative. Speaking with the…
Radio Shack: Julian Day Hardly Matters (RSH)
When it comes to second tier electronics sellers, 2007 was not the greatest year and 2008 has these all hitting 52-week lows as well. Today shares of Radio Shack (NYSE: RSH) are getting crushed…
Biotechs and Related Hitting 52-Week Lows Too (BBH, AMGN, AMLN, ARNA, GERN, INGN, PGNX, SUPG)
Today has been a rough day with more 52-week lows than we can recall in quite some time. The biotechs haven’t been immune. You can even see that the Biotech HOLDRs (BBH) at $160+…
52-Week Low Club (Jan 4, 2007) Led By Financials, Restaurants, Retail, REIT, Property & Tech
At 11:00 AM EST the NASDAQ was down 73 points and the S&P was was down some 25 points…. an hour later we had word of some $30 Billion in Fed liquidity that was…
Ford (F) Drops Below Where It Traded During Chapter 11 Talk
In April 2006, Bill Ford, then CEO of the company which carries his name, say that Ford (F) would not file for bankruptcy. His comments were a reaction to credit agencies and research firms…
Tech: The Weak Get Weaker (AMD)(MOT)
The tech sell-off is accelerating. It may be that Intel (INTC) got downgraded or that Motorola (MOT) may have had a weak Q4. But, the problem is probably worse than that. Tech was supposed…
Turnarounds That Haven’t Turned Around: UTStarcom (UTSI)
UTStarcom Inc. (NASDAQ:UTSI) is one of the former high fliers that crashed and burned, despite its US-based operations with what was huge leverage in China. In the past it had grown and grown but…