The Palm Margin Squeeze (PALM, S, AMZN, WMT)
Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has sort of already fallen from grace despite all the hype behind the Palm Pre. Throw in that Pixi too. Discounting is trumping what may be weaker sales. It turns…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/20/2009) (GS)(JAVA)
Updated throughout the day. GE (NYSE:GE) and Vivendi are at odds over the NBCU valuation (FT) IBM (NYSE:IBM) is taking advantage of the delay in the Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) deal to be bought by Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) (TheStreet)…
Top Day Trader Alerts (BCRX, DELL, DRYS, NVAX, WCRX)
These are this morning’s top day trader alerts and active trader alerts early this Friday morning. We have links through to each stock at VSInvestor.com with more data and analysis on each: BioCryst Pharmaceuticals,…
Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AFL, BRCM, DDS, D, INTC, MRVL, BTU, RTP, STP, TXN)
These are Friday morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this morning in Wall Street research calls: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ:…
South Korea Continues To Best US In Auto Trade
The AP reports that South Korean auto groups claim that the Asian country exported 600,000 cars and light trucks to the US last year. Only 7,000 American autos were sold in South Korea during that…
Microsoft (MSFT) Claims Windows 7 Is Major Success
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at the company’s annual shareholder meeting that Windows 7 sales were astonishingly high. According to a Wall Street Journal account of the gathering, “Microsoft Corp. has sold twice…
Vivendi Disputes Value Of GE’s (GE) NBCU Business
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 news company is worth…
Big Goldman Sachs (GS) Shareholders Fight Bonuses
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 Street Journal reports that…
The Federal Reserve Vs. Ron Paul
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 at a local insane asylum…
Media Digest 11/20/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
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 is not over for…
Asia Markets And Europe Open (11/20/2009)
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% to 22,451. The Shanghai…
Pimco’s Gross Says Buy Utilities
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 recent upheaval in the…
52-Week High Club (DCI, NTAP, TSL)
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. NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP)…
Dell Very Disappointing… Very (DELL)
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 had estimates pegged at…
Black Friday Gimmicks & Desperation, A Win For Consumers (WMT, BBY, COST, TGT, KSS, GPS, M, JWN, MA, AMZN)
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 forward to all year…
Make or Break Earnings for Dell (DELL)
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 quarter those estimates are…
AMERITRADE Shelf Registration Spurs E*TRADE Speculation Further (AMTD, ETFC, SCHW)
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 that this lends more…
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)
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 Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) were…
Top Day Trader Alerts (INTC, HOTT, HOLI, NLST, CMED, MVIS)
These are this morning’s top day trader alerts and active trader alerts in stocks early on Thursday. We have more details and analysis over at VSInvestor.com for each stock: Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is…
Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/19/2009) (BA)(AMTD)(MWW)(NWSA)(AAPL)
Updated throughout the day. Update 12.50 PM EST: Boeing (NYSE:BA) could lose a $7.5 billion order for fighter planes to Brazil if the US Senate does not confirm Obama’s nominee to be ambassador to…