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Douglas A. McIntyre

Ebay’s (EBAY) Skype VoIP Service Is Down

Ebay (EBAY) paid a lot of money for Skype. It ought to at least work. This AM the world’s largest VoIP service is off-line as is the home website help page. Perhaps the outage…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Pre-Market Stock News (August 16, 2007)

(AMGN) Amgen announced 12-14% layoffs and lowered guidance for 2007.(ANX) ADVENTRX Pharma announces fast track designation granted by the FDA for CoFactor for treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer.(AUXL) Auxilium Pharma receivef FDA clearance to…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Bad Analyst Call Of The Day: AMD (AMD) By Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse started AMD (AMD) at ‘underperform" today, with a price target of $13. Perhaps no one bothered to tell the analyst that is down 45% this year and is off almost 2% in…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Countrywide (CFC) To Open Down 14%

Couuntrywide (CFC) could help drive the market down a lot at the open. The shares are off 14% before the bell, trading at $18.29. According to Reuters, CFC said "it is drawing down an…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Pre-Market Analyst Calls (August 16, 2007)

ADI started as Neutral at Credit Suisse.AMD started as Underperform at Credit Suisse.ANN raised to Outperform at Piper Jaffray.ARMHY started as Outperform at RBC.CECO raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.CBL raised to Overweight at…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Chinese Plot To Kill US Citizens And Pets Expands

Add to the poison pet food, toothpaste, and ten million lead-laden toys a new and dangerous product out of China. Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has found counterfeit versions of its OneTouch Test Strip according…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

More Evidence Of US Bandwidth Shortage

According to The Inquirer, ABI Research has issued a report that US cable companies are heading for a crisis because they do not have the bandwidth or switching capacity to handle the increase in…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Europe Markets 8/16/2007 Big Drops

Markets in Europe were off sharply at 6.25 AM New York time, with some down over 3%. The FTSE fell 2.6% to 5,951. British Air (BAB) was of 5% to 382.35. Vodafone (VOD) was…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Trouble for McGraw-Hill (MHP) And Moody’s (MCO)

Moody’s (MCO) is already in a ton of trouble due to is rating on sub-prime debt and mortgage-backed securities. According to the FT, the European Union is opening an investigation because it "believes the…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Breaking Up Kraft (KFT)?

Kraft (KFT) may sell its Post cereals operation. The Wall Street Journal thinks the unit could be worth $3 billion. That really isn’t very much. The snacks and cereals division at the company did…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Media Digest 8/16/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

According to Reuters, China Mobile’s (CHL) net rose 28%. Reuters writes that Amgen (AMGN) will fire 14% of its sales force. Reuters reports that Hasbro (HAS) will increase inspection of products from China after…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Asia Market 8/16/2007

Markets in Asia were down sharply. The Nikkei fell 2% to 16,148. Hitachi (HIT) fell 4.1% to 769. Honda (HMC) fell 3.6% to 3780. The Hang Seng fell 3.7% to 20.580. China Mobil (CHL)…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

IPO Filing: 3PAR

A fairly recent IPO filing has come from 3PAR Inc., although the company has an identity crisis as it isn’t sure if it wants to list on NASDAQ or on the NYSE.  Underwriters look…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Broadcom (BRCOM) Injunction Could Cost Qualcomm (QCOM) $2.4 Billion

As 24/7 Wall St. reported this morning, Broadcom’s (BRCM) efforts to get an injunction against Qualcomm (QCOM) marketing chips with BRCM intellectual property could have effect of shutting down parts of QCOM’s business. Many…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago