McDonald’s (MCD): Better Day Ahead In The US?
The head of McDonald’s (MCD) says that its business in the US has "huge potential" It is a bit hard to believe given that there is a McDonald’s on every corner in the country,…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Smart Money Bets Wall Street Will Correct
In the options market bets that the S&P 500 will correct 10% are now double those that the index will rise. That ratio had been in place for a month, the longest period since…
Detroit Diggs For Quarters (F)(GM)
Several media have suggested that the reason that Ford (F) wants to sell its Jaguar and Rover businesses is not simply to streamline the company and off-load underperforming divisions. The company may be raising…
Microsoft (MSFT) Takes A Run At Yahoo!’s Search Business
It has been assumed for some time that Microsoft’s (MSFT) search business would remain a distant third in the race for search share. But, new numbers from comScore indicate that Redmond is the only…
News Digest 7/16/2007
According to Reuters, the CEO of McDonald’s (MCD) believes that the company can still grow a great deal in the US. Reuters writes that Hollywood is starting labor negotiations with screenwriters with revenue from…
Asia Markets 7/17/2007
Markets in Asia were mixed with the Shanghai Composite up 1.9% to 3,896. The Nikkei was off .1% to 18,217. Honda (HMC) was down 1.1% to 4540. Sony (SNE) was down .9% to 6350.…
Google’s (GOOG) Mobile Search Magic
Google (GOOG) is launching a new service that will help mobile handset users search ringtones, games, and other content that consumer can buy from content providers. Google will make money by allowing companies to…
Schwab Unveils New Bond Trading Fee Structure (SCHW, MER, AMTD)
Online brokerage giant, Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ:SCHW) has unveiled some new pricing plans for its bond trading to entice more online brokerage account defections away from competitors. It has unveiled new $1.00 per $1,000…
Cramer’s EU Picks: Philips Electronics (PHG, TSM)
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said his new weekly feature will be to add Eurpoean stock picks into his portfolio. The markets in Europe are hot despite higher taxes and rising…
ACA Capital: Deep Value Stock OR Serious Viability Risk (ACA, BSC)
ACA Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ACA) is a company in trouble. A stock screen yields the results that the company trades significantly under book value, but your name would have to be Dr. Pangloss to…
GE’s $40+ Close: First Time Since March 2002
General Electric (NYSE:GE) managed to close over $40.00 today, a closing price it has not seen since March 2002. Technicians would view this as a mixed day. While shares did close up 1.4% at…
Microsoft Regaining Market Share in Search (MSFT, YHOO, GOOG, TWX, IACI)
If someone told you that good old Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) was actually regaining its market share in search, would you believe them? If you did believe it, you’d at least want proof. This actually happened,…
Cramer’s Trade Off Verizon: Sprint (S)
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer has a pretty tall call: he thinks instead of hoping for a Verizon (NYSE:VZ) buyout that was reported/misreported this morning, you should be buying Sprint…
Stumbling Block For Detroit: Highways In India (GM)(F)
The domestic auto industry’s promised land seems to be China and India. Neither country has a huge, mature manufacturing industry of its own. There are hundreds of millions of people, and very few have…
Short Bet Against Cameco (CCJ) And Uranium
According to Bloomberg, the short interest in uranium company Cameco (CCJ) has gone to 6.2% of shares outstanding. A few months ago, 24/7 pointed out that valuations of uranium companie were getting too high.…
Is Lawsuit Against Facebook Keeping Buyer Away?
TechCrunch has a story about a three-year old lawsuit against Facebook. It may be what is keeping Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), or Yahoo! from making the big offer the press keeps talking about. Three…
comScore Traffic For June (TWX)(GOOG)(MSFT)(YHOO)
comScore data for June showed Yahoo! (YHOO) leading all properties in the US with 133 million unique visitors. Google (GOOG) and Time Warner (TWX) sites were virtually tied at just over 123 million. Microsoft…
Dendreon: A New Form of Shareholder Activism (DNDN)
There was a bit of an unusual message this morning, and that was an advertisement about Dendreon’s (NASDAQ:DNDN) Provenge in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post. Yet it apparently isn’t from the company…
Is Samsung After AMD (AMD)?
The Inquirer has heard that Samsung may be eying AMD (AMD). As the second largest manufacturer of semiconductors in the world picking up the No.2 x86 company might make sense. Samsung has a larger…
Earnings Preview: Novellus Systems (NVLS) (July 16, 2007)
Novellus Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:NVLS) reports earnings after today’s close. First Call estimates were $0.44 EPS and $413.3 million revenues on last look. On a static snapshot of this morning’s options prices, it looks like…