Trading Stocks: Fire The Humans
Reuters (RTRSY) is beginning to market a new piece of software tha scans the news. It can tell the difference between the good news and bad news about a public company. The software program…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Media Digest 4/30/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Porsche made a below-market offer for control of VW. The smaller company believes that the offer will be rejected, but is required by law becase Porsche own over 30% of VW.…
Asia Markets 4/30/2007
Shares in Asia were mixed with Shanghai up sharply. The Nikkei was closed for Golden Week. The Hang Seng fell 1.1% to 20,307. China Life (LFC) was down 1.6% to 24.5. China Mobile (CHL)…
Chrysler: Magna The Wrong Buyer
Word around Wall St. is that Canadian car parts company Magna International (MGA) is the leader among companies that want to buy Chrysler from DaimlerChrysler (DCX). Magna already does parts and assembly work for…
Apple, Microsoft, Sony, And NetFlix: The Myth Of Convergence
The New York Times rans a breathless article about Silicon Vally start-up Vudu. The company makes an internet-ready set-top box that can deliver films from the company’s 5,000 movie archive. The strength of the…
Starbucks reports Thursday but can they maintain the momentum?
Starbucks (SBUX ) reports earnings this Thursday, May 3rd after the market close. Get ready to read about 5,000 articles this week about "how will Starbucks report? " and if the company doesn’t report…
If everyone loves RadioShack (RSH), why the 2008 Puts?
Julian Day is a hero, he brought RadioShack (RSH) back from the dead and received a nice little compensation package valued at $19 million for 2006 after coming on board last summer. RadioShack’s stock…
Siruis: Mel Karmazin’s $31 Million Pay Day
Wall St. can whine about something else going on at Sirius (SIRI). The stock is down. The merger with XM (XMSR) is not progressing smoothly. Howard Stern makes too much money. Mel Karmazin, the…
GDP: Economy Definitely Slowing, Consumer Fighting Valiantly
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat
Recent Activity in the S&P 500
From Ticker Sense First off, we would like to apologize for the lack of posts recently. We have been backed up but should be able to provide more substance starting next week. At the…
This Week on StockHouse April 23 to 27
Earnings season was in full force this week, and the Dow closed above 13,000 points for the first time. For a fast rundown of what’s hot and the companies that are attracting attention of…
Friday’s Top Biotech & Medical Stocks
by H.S. AyoubBioHealth Investor.com
IBD Weekly Top Ranked Medical Stocks
From BioHealth Investor
Brunswick–Comments From TheStockMasters
It’s finally Friday and Miller time: What a week and we hope you all took some profits after what could have been the best week in the market in the last 5 years. One…
Unusual Options Activity (April 28, 2007)
It wasn’t all that long ago that we were dicussing the implosion of the CBOE Volatility Index (the VIX) as it was trying to suck its way to under 10.0 for the first time…
DeLong: Hedge Fund Comp Fine for Top 20, Silly For Everyone Else
From Investment Intelligencer Brad DeLong concludes that the top hedge-fund managers–Simons, Soros, Lampert, Cohen, etc.–who took home an average of $240 million apiece last year (per the New York Times) may have earned their…
Apple: Jobs Says Subscription-Music For The Birds
From Internet Outsider
TheStreet.com: Wall Street Likes It (Sort Of). Pray for Cramer’s Health and Success
From Internet Outsider
Largest $ Movers of Note – StreetInsider.com – 04/27/2007
UPWARD MOVERS:Baidu.com (Nasdaq: BIDU) +$20.40; Reports Q1 EPS of $0.32 ($0.37 ex-stock compensation) vs. consensus of $0.33. Revenues were $35.7 million vs. $34.43 million consensus. Sees Q2 revenues between $48.9-50.2 million vs. consensus of…