Cable Tries To Beat The Devil
Time Warner Cable (TWC) will begin testing a program where internet subscribers pay based on usage. According to Reuters "the company believes the billing system will impact only heavy users, who account for around…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
AMD’s Critical Earnings Juncture (AMD, INTC)
After today’s close we’ll see earnings out of Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD). The estimates have gone from bad to ugly as problems have mounted with the company’s processors. Analysts are looking for -$0.36…
Google (GOOG) Strengthens Video Hand
Google’s (GOOG) shares of the video market increased in November. Its share increased by two percentage points to 31.3% or almost 3 billion videos viewed, according to comScore. The news indicates how difficult it…
Would Warren Buffett Rescue The Bond Insurers? (ABK, MBI, MTG, BRK-A)
Shares of Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK) are being crushed even harder today than yesterday by more than 60% to around $5.00. The problem is that Moody’s has put it under review for…
Sirius (SIRI) May Have To Kill XM Satellite (XMSR) Deal
Sirius (SIRI) does not need competition from XM Satellite (XMSR), Apple’s (AAPL) iPod, or HD radio to put it out of business. The US government is doing the job nicely. While it clear that…
Goldman Sachs Raises Microsoft Ahead Of Earnings (MSFT, INTC)
We already noted some changes out of Goldman Sachs in the beverage sector this morning, but there is a more decisive call today on Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and that is after a recent estimate…
Goldman Sachs Beverage Changes (KO, HANS, TAP)
Goldman Sachs is out noting that investors hunkering down into earnings may want to look at beverages as an attractive sector with reasonable valuations. Goldman Sachs also believes that macro weakness should continue to…
Vulture & Value Investing With Chimera Investment (CIM, NLY, LM)
Chimera Investment (NYSE: CIM) is an investment vehicle that is set up to invest in mortgages per its charter, although as we noted the day of the initial filing that this is going to…
Pre-Market Stock News (Thursday, January 17, 2008)
It’s earnings season. We’ve got dozens and dozens of companies with news related to earnings, management changes, contracts, drug news, retail, banking, tech, and more. Here is a snapshot of the news affecting shares…
Merrill Lynch Monster Writedowns (MER)
Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) has issued its loss for the quarter at -$12.57 EPS for Q4, -$10.73 EPS for all of 2007. The total loss in dollars was listed as $8.6 Billion for the…
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ADBE, BIIB, DAI, DCGN, EBAY, HOG, JPM, WFC, MFE, MPEL, TIBX)
These are not at all the only key impact analyst calls, but these are the early bird calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on: Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at UBS. Biogen…
Airline Mergers Don’t Work (DAL)(UAUA))(NWA)
Perhaps the people at Delta (DAL) did not get the memo. The reasons for airline mergers seem to be a bit soft. While there may be come savings in cutting ground crews and reservations…
Tech M&A And Global Results Shows Industry Has Life
A funny thing happened on the way to the tech collapse. It didn’t happen. The market may not have liked Intel’s (INTC) results, but for a company its size, it still posted impressive growth.…
Drug Companies Cut Corners Again
Drug companies have put their fingers on the scales to make studies on the "effectiveness of a dozen popular antidepressants" look better than they actually are. According to The Wall Street Journal unpublished data…
With Potential New Oil Supply Coming, China Is Wild Card
A new study be Cambridge Energy Research Associates shows that new oil field discoveries could offset slowing production from older fields. According to The Wall Street Journal "This study supports a view that there…
Media Digest 1/17/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, SAP (SAP) sees no global slowdown in its results. Reuters reports that Dell (DELL) may be growing again according to IDC numbers. Reuters writes that Delta (DAL) and Northwest (NWA) are…
Cramer Revisits An Oversold Tech Value (ADCT)
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said he was sticking with his stance in finding technology companies that are either oversold or overlooked in the current market malaise where he thinks you…
Cramer Goes MO MO on Defensive (MO, RAI)
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said that despite this being one of the worst markets he’s seen in his career he wants you to stay in the game. He wants to…
Wal-Mart Lives Up To A Promise: Doing Well In A Recession (WMT, TGT, COST)
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) is managing to actually hold up well in an environment where almost all retail and consumer discretionary stocks are stinking up the stock exchanges. It seems that whether you like the…
52-Week Low Club (ABK, AKAM, C, CPKI, EBAY, FFIV, FUL, NMX, PMI, ZQK, SGMS, STXS, TTI, XRX, ZBRA)
After the financial meltdown and after the new tech wreck, many of the same stocks and same REIT’s keep appearing over and over on the list of new 52-week lows. Here are some others…