Better Quality Cars Are Killing Auto Industry (GM)(F)
During the 1970s and 1980s US car companies like Ford (NYSE: F) and GM (NYSE: GM) got into trouble for building low quality cars. They tended to have to be in the repair shop…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
The Disappearing American Job (SBUX)(LEH)
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) and Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH) do not have much in common.That changed a bit yesterday when word came out that they would both cut workers. It is a demonstration of how…
The Biggest Bail-Out Since The Great Depression
Imagine if the Federal government decided to fix most of the problems in the housing market by giving the 8.8 million Americans with mortgages larger than their home values assistance. Over two million mortgages…
Media Digest 2/22/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Micorosft (MSFT) will open up some of its software code to rivals. Reuters reports that BP (BP) will try to get billions of more barrels out of Prudhoe Bay. Reuters writes…
Asia Markets 2/22/2008 (HMC)(LFC)(PTR)
Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was off 1.4% to 13,500. Honda (HMC) was down 2.4% to 3300. KDDI was off 10.1% to 650000. The Hang Seng dropped 1.4% to 23,305. China Life (LFC)…
EMC Buys Into Personal Information Management (EMC)
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) has announced it will acquire Seattle-based Pi Corporation. This is a small merger, but this company is one we have actually had under watch as a development stage operation that…
The 52-Week Low Club (PSYS)(NVTL)(VDSI)(BYD)(ESI)(LAD)
Lithia Motors (NYSE: LAD) Bad quarter, analyst downgrades. Falls to $9.78 from 52-week high of $30.54. ITT Educational Services (NYSE: ESI) Student loan market getting very tight. Falls to $57.66 from 52-week high of…
An ETF Launch For Private Equity, Actually An ETN (PPE, PSP)
Today was the launch of the Lehman Brothers’ first exchange traded note with the initial listing of the "Opta S&P Private Equity ETN" on NYSE Arca. This ETN will trade under the ticker "PPE"…
Starbucks Opts For Reshuffle (SBUX)
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is making some changes today in what it hopes will streamline certain aspects of its operations. The press release notes that this will "better focus efforts on enhancing the customer experience,"…
US Search Engine Market Share: Yahoo! (YHOO) Running Out Of Time
Based on the January US search engine numbers, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) needs to hurry up and get itself sold. The Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) share barely moved according to comScore. It had 58.5% of the…
Failed Private Equity Deal Blow-Ups, Major Share Erosions Remain (COMS, ADS, BX, SLM, URI, CCU)
There is a menagerie of companies with stocks that look like the boulevard of broken dreams because of the woes in the stock market and economy in January. But no group looks as bad…
SPAC IPO FILING: Redstar Partners on the OTCBB
Redstar Partners, Inc. is another blank check company, although this IPO filing looks a little different than many other SPAC IPO filings. For starters, this blank check company will sell its units for $8.00…
Microsoft & Interoperability (MSFT)
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is implementing four new interoperability principles and corresponding actions across its high-volume business products: ensuring open connections; promoting data portability; enhancing support for industry standards; fostering more open engagement with customers…
Intel Goes More After AMD Turf (INTC, AMD)
The WSJ has reported that Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) is completing a new processor called Diamondville that is for computers of $250 and under. The size of this processor is tiny at a whopping…
Teva’s Lofty Goals Seem Attainable (TEVA)
Teva Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: TEVA – News) has some pretty loft goals for itself at its Investor Day presentation. If you trust the company’s history and its pipeline of candidates under trials and under pending…
T. Boone Pickens Calling For An Oil Pullback (CLNE, OIH)
If there is one public oil and energy sage that the markets like to listen to, you need to look no further than T. Boone Pickens. He’s been a bull all the way up. …
Record Revenues on TheStreet.com (TSCM)
TheStreet.com (NASDAQ: TSCM) has just posted earnings at $0.17 pro forma EPS on a 38% jump in revenues to a record $19.9 million. First Call had estimates at $0.16 on $19.95 million in revenues.…
Microsoft (MSFT) Says XBox Live May Double
If the Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox 360 will stop overheating, the company believes that it can double the number of Xbox Live users. The Live product has 10 million users now who spend $50…
Microsoft (MSFT) Gets Good News From Asia
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) says that its sales to PC makers in Taiwan are running up and should rise about 10% this year. Manufacturers in Taiwan make about 60% of PCs sold around the world…
Blue Coat Earnings Technicolor (BCSI)
Blue Coat Systems (NASDAQ: BCSI) is seeing shares surge in early pre-market trading after its earnings release. The data monitoring company posted earnings of $0.38 non-GAAP EPS on a 73% revenue jump to $81.4…