Ford (F) Gets Bankers To Sell Jaguar and Land Rover
Ford (F) has hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to sell its Range Rover and Jaguar brands. Jaguar has been losing money for some time. Both brands are part of the Ford Premier Automotive…
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Google (GOOG) Fight Baidu With Sina.com Partnership
Google (GOOG) has not been able to get market share from Baidu (BIDU) in China. Measurements put Baidu’s share at over 60% and Google’s at below 25%. Google has now made an effort to…
Europe Markets 6/11/2007
Markets in Europe at higher at 7.10 AM New York time. The FTSE is up .7% to 6,551. Barclays (BCS) is up 1.8% to 735.5 The DAXX is up 1% to 7,669. Deutsche Telekom…
Earlybird Analyst Calls (June 11, 2007)
AGP raised to Hold at Jefferies.ARAY started as Underperform at CIBC.BE cut to Underperform at Jefferies.BF/a raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.BOT cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.CAVM started as Buy at Deutsche bank.CPS raised…
Google’s Antitrust Claims Could Push Microsoft Into Search
Google (GOOG) has been talking to the Feds. In a complaint to the Justice Department, the search company claims that Microsoft’s (MSFT) Vista OS makes it difficult for other companies to get their desktop…
Microsoft (MSFT) And GE (GE) Would Never Buy Dow Jones (DJ)
The latest story on who might buy Dow Jones finds Microsoft (MSFT) and GE (GE) looking to bid. The talks apparently got no where, and it is no wonder. The Wall Street Journal has…
Disney (DIS) Goes Bollywood
In a move to get market share in the film industry in India, Disney (DIS) will make animated films for the market which will use the voices of local Bollywood actors much the same…
Media Digest 6/11/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, a hedge fund has taken a position in Barclays (BCS) and its urging it to drop its bid for ABN Amro. Reuters writes that private firm Alchemy is lining up $5.9…
Apple (AAPL) May Join Studios for VOD, Phone Companies Cower
Apple (AAPL) is getting close to a deal that would allow consumers to rent films from major studios through a video on demand service. Unlike Apple’s current iPod video service, the content would not…
Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), And Apple (AAPL): Threats To Privacy?
A group based in London which calls itself Privacy International has taken unto itself the job of rating how well major websites protect the privacy of their users. For starters, the sample is quite…
TD Ameritrade (AMTD): Better Off On Its Own?
:With the furious round of speculation and talk of TD Ameritrade (AMTD) being sold, the issue of how the company is doing on its own seems to have been lost in the noise. The…
Occidental Petroleum (OXY): Can A CEO Be Worth
Ray Irani, the head of Occidental Petroleum (OXY) made $270 million from exercising stock options last year, putting his compensation for gains on options higher than any other CEO in America. While the amount…
A Win For Sony-Ericsson, A Lose for Motorola (MOT)?
China awarded truly huge contracts for expandind it wireless GSM service. Ericsson (ERIC) was awarded $1 billion contract for infrastructure equipment, and Sony-Ericsson the $600 million deal for handsets. Since Motorola (MOT) makes both…
Microsoft (MSFT): Vista Up?
Microsoft (MSFT) Vista sales between now and the end of the year will be much better than expected, according to Cowen & Co. The research firms says that the investment play for the trend…
Qualcomm (QCOM) Crisis Deepens, Except For Nokia (NOK
Handset makers like Motorola (MOT) need their Qualcomm (QCOM) chipsets to launch new phones. And cell carriers like AT&T (T) need the new phones to sell 3G services. By not settling with Broadcom (BRCM)…
This Week on StockHouse June 4 to June 8
Interest rate fears pulled markets into a downward spiral this week, and affected a broader range of companies than the traditionally interest rate sensitive financial and utilities sectors. On StockHouse, Sean Mason and Keri…
TOP 7 ISSUES THIS WEEK (JUNE 8, 2007)
This Week’s Top Seven Issues (June 8, 2007) 1) THE ROLLER-COASTER MARKETThanks a lot Bill Gross. You’re sounding more like Greenspan now that you have him on your advisory board at PIMCO. Depending on…
52-Week Low Club (June 8, 2007)
Stock Tickers: AZN, BCRX, EHTH, CTIC, HW, NRMX, SBUX, WFMI, DUK It’s no secret we had the makings of a crummy week, but the market managed to turn itself back around after a fairly…
Market Trades For Super-Bulls, Chicken-Bulls, and Outright Bears
Stock Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, RIMM, BA, UTX, ATI, RTP, RIO, FLR, SGR, PEP, KO, BUD, CAG, HNZ, CPB, HRL, K, GIS, KFT, MCD, MRK, PFE, ALO, PYX, HME, WTR, SNH, SRZ, PG, CL, MO,…
Comverse Tech (CMVT) Shares No Longer Care About the Kobi Alexander Nimibia Scandal
As pressure remains on Comverse Tech’s (CMVT) ex-CEO and current fugitive Kobi Alexander to be extradited from Nimibia, you might wonder why shares of the ex-high-flyer have stayed toward the higher-end of a trading…