Asia Markets 1/23/2008 Big Rally
Markets in Asia were up sharply. The Nikkei rose 2% to 12,829. Honda (HMC) rose 3.3% to 3010. NEC rose 4.1% to 411. The Hang Seng rose 10.7% to 24,090. China Life (LFC) rose…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Ladies Night With Jim Cramer (TJX)
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, this was actually a Ladies night where he was in front a live audience full of nothing but… ladies. He discussed the Fed coming in with the emergency…
Hoku Disconnect: Past Earnings Versus Potential Operations (HOKU)
HOKU Scientific Inc. (NASDAQ: HOKU) reported a Q3 non-GAAP loss of -$0.01 per share, which is better than the First Call consensus of estimate of -$0.10 and revenues rose 15.0% from last year to…
Advanced Energy Slapped On Warning (AEIS)
Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS) is seeing shares trade sharply lower in after-hours trading after it lowered guidance. The company now sees revenues of approximately $84 million. Its previous guidance of $86 million…
Texas Instruments Delivers (TXN)
Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) has posted earnings of $0.54 EPS and revenues of $3.56 Billion. TI gave guidance at the start of December with revenues between $3.5 to $3.66 Billion and an EPS…
Apple’s Guidance Looks Light Rather Than Just Conservative (AAPL)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has posted EPS at $1.76 on its earnings today with $9.6 Billion revenues; Estimates out of First Call were $1.62 EPS on revenues of $9.47 Billion. Next quarter is looking…
52-Week Low Club (AA, BT, CVC, CECO, CSCO, CLWR, CPWR, CSC, COCO, EBAY, ELOY, ENER, ESI, MOT)
These are not at all the only stocks we saw hitting 52-week lows. These are the main names we follow that closed lower and that challenged their 52-week lows: ALCOA (AA) opened at new…
AMD (AMD) Loses Ground To Intel (INTC)
More bad news for AMD (AMD). According to new IDC data, Intel’s (INTC) share of the PC market in Q4 07 went to 74.55% a year earlier to 76.68%. According to MarketWatch "PC chip…
Despite “Strategic Alternatives,” Does Anyone Want Getty Images? (GYI, JUPM)
Getty Images Inc. (NYSE: GYI) is one of the few stocks up considerably today, and its business wasn’t likely going to be helped all that much or hurt that much based upon the Fed’s…
eBay Gets Ready For New Leadership (EBAY, DIS, AMZN)
Shares of online auctioneer eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) are trading lower today to a new 52-week low on reports that CEO Meg Whitman will be stepping down. The WSJ led this reporting and it actually…
As Charter (CHTR) Moves To Penny Land, Market Thinks Chapter 11
Charter (CHTR) recently traded as low at $.92 recently and hit $1 early in today’s trading. At a $425 million market cap, the company now trades at .07x revenue. With nearly $20 billion in…
Lazard Notes Bare Escentuals As Recession-Resistant (BARE)
Bare Escentuals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BARE) may be one sweet spot that is at least partially immune from the ups and downs of consumer spending. Today we are getting word out of Lazard Capital Markets…
Chips Bracing For Texas Instruments Earnings (TXN)
Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) is set to report earnings after today’s close. It may very well take the back seat compared to the attention that Apple will get, but this will be one…
Apple’s ‘Conservative Guidance’ May Mean More Than Past Quarters (AAPL)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is set to report earnings after the market closes today. This is actually just the first quarter for its fiscal 2008, but this is also the quarter with the Christmas…
Motorola (MOT) And Palm (PALM): Night Of The Living Dead
It is all over now for Motorola (MOT) and Palm (PALM). They might have had a chance to pick up enough market shares to dig themselves out of the holes of late products, crummy…
The Least Battered DJIA Components (DD, GE, HD, JNJ, WMT)
Below is a list of Dow Jones Industrial Average components that are actually down the least on an ugly day. There has been news on most of these or if not there was on…
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AFL, AXP, ABX, CATM, KSS, LOW, LULU, MDAS, MET, MHS, TNK)
It is going to be hard to get traders to care about mere upgrades and downgrades on a day when the Federal Reserve did an inter-meeting emergency rate cut to stave off a 500+…
Bernanke Delivers Emergency Rate Cuts
The Federal Reserve has decided to finally take action to at least catch up to the markets with an inter-meeting emergency rate cut. The FOMC has announced a 75 basis point rate cut in…
Pre-Market Stock News (January 22, 2008)
On a day that DJIA futures are indicating a -500 point drop in the market, it is pretty hard to focus on the individual news out there in each stock. There are actually a…
Good News From Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) announced record sales of $16.0 billion for the fourth quarter of 2007, an increase of 16.6% as compared to the fourth quarter of 2006. Net earnings and diluted earnings per…