In Toyota (TM): The World Economy In A Bucket
Toyota (TM) said its earnings fell 28% in the fourth quarter. It blamed the Yen and a slow car market in the US. Although no one was surprised, the figures were worse than most…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Auctioning Off Yahoo! Inc. On Ebay
Yahoo! (YHOO) seems to have gotton several pieces of bad news yesterday. The chief of strategy at Microsoft (MSFT), if there can be any such person, said that his company would go off on…
Moody’s (MCO): A Convenient Execution
One of the great traditions in American business is to punish the few for the sins of the many. It a sort of Scopes Monkey Trial for the subprime mess, the president of Moody’s…
Media Digest 5/8/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, the head of strategy at Microsoft (MSFT) says it deal to acquire Yahoo! (YHOO) is over. Reuters writes that Toyota (TM) posted a 28% drop in profit due to a strong…
Asia Markets 5/8/2007 (LFC)(SNP)
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 1.1% to 13,943. Honda (HMC) fell 2.9% to 3340. KDDI fell 3.2% to 670000. The Hang Seng was off .4% to 25,519. China Life (LFC) was…
52-Week Low Club (AGN, WTR, CTB, ISLE, LPSN, OPTT, SGIC, SNCR)
Today turned out being an ugly day, but there were many stocks that fell sharply to new 52-week lows all on their own without help from the market working against them. Allergan Inc. (NYSE:…
CurrencyShares ETF Launch: Russia, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong
Rydex Investments has filed to launch 4 new CurrencyShares platforms. These platforms will allow traders and investors to purchase “Baskets” for the specific currency. Therefore, the share price of each trust will reflect the…
Will Productivity Gains Boost Layoffs?
This morning was strange on the economic number cycle as far as firstquarter worker productivity is concerned. The Labor Departmentreleased a figure of non-farm business worker productivity measured asper-hour output being up by +2.2%. …
CEOs Who Don’t Get Out Often Enough, And Some Who Do
The hallmark of some of the most successful companies over the last fifty years is that the CEOs spent a great deal of their time with customers and at company locations around the world.…
Can Synchronoss Really Blame iPhone For Its Woes? (SNCR, AAPL, T)
Synchronoss Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: SNCR) looks now like it will be one of the worst seen earnings moves of popular companies in all of this earnings season. The outsourced device activation provider posted $0.16…
Regenerx Looks To Boost Liquidity Via Offering (RGN)
REGENERX BIOPHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (AMEX: RGN) filed for a secondary offering late yesterday to sell some $60 million in a secondary offering of stock and warrants. Its fully diluted market cap on last look was…
IPO Withdrawal: Harry & David
Harry & David Holdings, Inc. has withdrawn the company’s IPO Filing registration statement and all related exhibits. The current climate is being blamed for the IPO withdrawal: "…..the Registration Statement has been abandoned due…
Secondary Offering Weighs on Itron (ITRI)
Itron Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) announced after yesterday’s close that it will sell 3.4 million shares of common stock in an at the market public secondary offering. Yesterday’s closing price was $94.47 per share, so gross…
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (WTR, BYD, CNET, CTRP, GOOG, SOLD, NITE, NYX, SOHU, VDSI)
These are ten of the top analyst calls we are focusing on this morning: Aqua America (NYSE: WTR) cut to Market Perform at Wachovia. Boyd Gaming (NYSE: BYD) started as Sell at Banc of…
Take-Two (TTWO): Time For Electronic Arts (ERTS) To Walk
It looks like Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) will sell $500 million of its new game "Grand Theft Auto IV" the first week that it is on the market. That is better than most expectations. It…
Sprint & Friends: Revenge Against The Phone Companies
Sprint (NYSE: S) was dead and being lowered into the grave when the big firms which really hate the phone companies came in and exhumed it At this point Verizon Wireless and AT&T (T)…
Wall St. Misreads Disney (DIS) Results
Disney (NYSE: DIS) certainly did well in the first quarter. Walt Disney himself would have been proud. Revenue at the entertainment company moved up 10% to $8.71 billion. EPS rose 35% to $.58. Wall…
Media Digest 5/7/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Cisco (CSCO) has a good quarter but was cautious about the future. Reuters reports that Sprint (S) and Clearwire (CLWR) will announced a $12 billion project for national broadband service. Reuters…
Asia Markets 5/7/2009 (LFC)(SNP)
Markets in Asia were mixed The Nikkei moved up .4% to 14,102. Mazda was up 2.8% to 472. NEC was up 4.9% to 535. The Hang Seng fell 2.4% to 25,638. China Life (LFC)…
UTStarcom Miraculously Pins The Tail on the Donkey (UTSI)
If there has ever been a battered and tattered tech stock, UTStarcom Inc. is the epitome of that. Almost miraculously, the company has raised guidance and shares are soaring. The company has put guidance…