Clearwire Analysts Must Be Dysfunctional
What is one of the worst things technical and fundamental traders hate to see? When a historically weak stock gaps up on news or on an event, only to lose all of its gains…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
New Highs Hit Highest Levels of 2007
From Ticker Sense Yesterday’s reading of net new highs (285) on the New York Stock Exchange hit its highest levels since December 5th of last year. Some market watchers consider a large increase in…
What Companies Aren’t Fair Game?
From Ticker Sense Late last year, one Wall St. strategist raised eyebrows when he argued that the S&P 500 was at such a cheap valuation that if it were a company it would be…
Market Comments From TheStockMasters
Sirius (SIRI) hits a new 52-week low today, shares are now trading under $3. Haven’t we heard enough about this stock already?
Time Warner to Keep AOL, Sell Cable, and Buy…MSN?
From Internet Outsider Matthew Karnitschnig of the WSJ kicks off the morning with a Twilight Zone piece about how Time Warner may not dump AOL after all, but instead sell off cable and "double…
Video Piracy 2.0: Get Ready for Viewer Lawsuits
From Internet Outsider The Journal‘s Kevin Delaney details the latest frontier in online video piracy: Sites like www.YouTVpc.com that assemble links to your favorite movies and TV shows–which are hosted on third-party servers in,…
StreetInsider.com Unusual 11 Mid-Day Movers 04/17/2007
InsWeb Corp. (Nasdaq: INSW) 67.7% HIGHER; Reported the first operating profit in the history of the Company. Revenues for the first quarter were $8.1 million, compared to $7.7 million in the first quarter of…
24/7 Wall St.’s Starbucks Evaluation Tour Swings West
As part of our ongoing evaluation of Starbucks (SBUX) Peter Lynch-style, we venture a look at the West Coast, the cavalry of the country’s coffee drinkers. Location: Sunny San Diego; 10601 Tierrasanta Blvd (about…
Ahead of Earnings: Yahoo! vs. Google (YHOO, GOOG)
Going into earnings, it is always important to look at which Internet search giant investors have made bigger bets on: Google (GOOG-NASDAQ) versus Yahoo! (YHOO). Yahoo (YHOO) reports after the close today; YHOO expectations:…
DirecTV And Echostar: The Crystal Ball Approach
The folks over at Cowen & Company have a novel theory about the future of satellite TV. The research operations has a "neutral" on Echostar (DISH) and DirecTV (DTV) with price targets at about…
IPO Filing: SoundBite Communications, Inc.
SoundBite Communications has filed to come public via an IPO, and for filing purposes it lists up to $69 million in common stock to be sold. Its proposed ticker is "SDBT" on NASDAQ. The…
GE Sells Off
General Electric’s (GE) stock out-performed the S&P over the days since it announced earnings, but that took a turn midday yesterday. At that point, GE dropped sharply below the index and opened well below…
Will Sirius Hold $3.00? Senate Hearings Today
There are two key levels that traders watch in lower priced stocks: $5.00 is the first and then $3.00 is the second. Some become unable to short at levels under that, but that "some"…
Clearwire Surging on Analyst Initiations
Clearwire (CLWR-NASDAQ) is seeing its quiet period now over. Yesterday marked its lowest close since the IPO at $18.61, and maybe these positive analyst calls may help stabilize it. So we have seen 8…
Final Pre-Market Stock News
(ABI) Applied Biosystems and Sciex announced plans to commercialize a first-of-its-kind mass spectrometry platform designed to help pharmaceutical companies accelerate the drug compound screening process.(AMTD) Ameritrade $0.23 EPS vs $0.24e.(BDK) Black & Decker raised…
Johnson & Johnson Earnings to the Rescue
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ-NYSE) reported $1.16 Non-GAAP EPS vs $1.05 estimates; Revenues $15.0 Billion versus $14.45 Billion estimates. Outside of all the items after R&D, acquisitions, and sales, gains, and other items showed a…
Cell Genesys Showing New Positive Study Data
Cell Genesys, Inc. (CEGE-NASDAQ) is trading up more than 7% at $5.50 in earlybird trading on thin volume this morning on its new prostate cancer studies. Yesterday it closed down at $5.10, more than…
EMC’s M&A Pays Off
EMC (EMC) had a 17% increse in revenue last quarter to $2.98 billion. Thanks the M&A department. The company’s VMware virtual infrastructure solutions operations reported a 95% increase in sales to $256 million. EMC…
Earlybird Analyst Calls (APR 17, 2007)
AVR cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.BGFV cut to Underperform at Credit Suisse.BNI cut to Neutral at UBS.BORL raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.CKFR cut to Mkt Perform at Piper Jaffray.CLWR: Jefferies started as Buy;…