24/7 Wall St. Starbucks Store Evaluation Tour
Peter Lynch, who had one of the great investment track records while at Fidelity once made this point: "An amateur investor can pick tomorrow’s big winners by paying attention to new developments at the…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Citigroup’s “Less Bad” Behavior
Citigroup Inc. (C-NYSE) is seeing shares gap up more than 1% pre-market to $52.25 as traders are hoping to get in ahead of an ongoing restructuring after the company managed to beat earnings this…
Online Ad Firms Launching on Google-DoubleClick Acquisition
Stock Tickers: GOOG, TFSM, VCLK, AQNT, YHOO, MSFT, TWX, IACI Sometimes it doesn’t matter that the largest behemoth in one area is buying the leader in another when it comes to the competitors of…
Intel Goes To War With The Cell Phone Makers
Intel (INTC) plans to release chips to power a new generation of tiny PCs. The kind you can fit in a coat pocket. The device will work with WiFi, WiMax, Bluetooth, satellite navigation and…
Full Analyst Summary (APR 16, 2007)
AAUK cut to Hold at Citigroup.AMGN raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley.AMZN raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank.APOL raised to Buy at B of A.AQNT raised to Buy at UBS.AQNT raised to Buy at…
Conde Nast’s “Portfolio” Magazine Launch
Today marks the official launch of Conde Nast’s new "Portfolio" Magazine. This is a monthly business magazine publication that subscribers will be able to subscribe to for $12.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling. This…
Pre-Market Stock News (APR 16, 2007)
(ADBE) Adobe is noted favorably as Barron’s cover story.(APC) Anadarko selling certain oil and gas properties in Texas for $750 million.(ATRO) Astronics wins $17M in multiple commercial airlines.(BYI) Bally Tech signed contract extension with…
Europe Markets 4/16/2007
Stocks; (BCS)(BT)(BP)(GSK)(RTRSY)(DCX)(DT)(DB)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(STM) Markets in Europe were up modestly at 5.45 AM New York time. The FTSE rose .4% to 6,490.
Media Digest 4/16/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, bidders for Clear Channel (CCU) will improve their offer and let shareholders co-invest with them. The private equity deal has been attacked as having too low a price. Reuters writes that…
Asia Markets Rise Sharply, China Mobile Up Over 5% 4/16/2007
Stocks: (CAJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NTT)(TM)CHL) Most markets in Asia were up well over 1%.
Google’s Clear Channel Deal May Not Be Worth Much
Google (GOOG) will make a big deal of its new arrangement to sell 5% of all of the ad inventory for huge radio chain Clear Channel (CCU). The partnership represents about 5% of the…
Can Sallie Mae Be Worth A 50% Premium?
Salllie Mae (SLM) is being take private by banks and private equity firms including JC Flowers & Co. and Friedman Fleischer & Lowe LLC. The price for the student loan company is $60 a…
DoubleClick: Microsoft Loses, Then Whines
Now that Google (GOOG) has won the contest to buy dominant ad server company DoubleClick, one of the losers in the bidding, Microsoft (MSFT) is complaining that Google may be creating a monopoly. According…
The Week of Buyout Picks (April 9-13, 2007)
Stock Tickers: GOOG, AQNT, VCLK, TFSM, MSFT, YHOO, TWX, SLM, NNI, FMD, MEDI,HAL, WHT, MEH, AAI, COT, IPS, PALM, DELL, NFI, BCE, AA, DOW, WYN, NDAQ,GFI, KR, ABN, BNI, DCX This week was a…
Unusual Options Activity (APR 14, 2007)
Stock Tickers: EDS, ESRX, SLM, WFT, HAL, IPS, YHOO, MER, MEDI, MEDX, DNDN, AAPL Friday saw some strange options activity, but perhaps not as strange as in previous weeks. EDS (EDS) saw 11,675 contracts…
Barron’s Keynotes (April 14, 2007)
This weekend’s edition of Barron’s hit on some key names. The cover story is on Adobe (ADBE-NASDAQ) with the prediction that the shares are set to go higher. The video and photo editing and…
Cramer’s Stealthy Uranium & Inflation Plays
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer had a stock that is leveraged to inflation: you buy Gold, Art, Collectibles. He says you can buy Sotheby’s (BID-NYSE) because it is in a duopoly…
Google Acquires DoubleClick; Who’s Next?
Stock Tickers: GOOG, YHOO, AQNT, VCLK, TFSM, TWX, MSFT Google did after the close announce it was paying $3.1 Billion to acquire DoubleClick (DCLK). So they are going to trump Microsft (MSFT-NASDAQ) and Yahoo!…
S&P: Sell Yahoo! and Hold Google (YHOO, GOOG)
Standard & Poor’s has keyed in today on both Yahoo! (YHOO-NASDAQ) and Google (GOOG-NASDAQ) ahead of the earnings reports next week. Analyst Scott Kessler is the one making this call at S&P, and this…
Google To Buy DoubleClick For $3 Billion
Google (GOOG) will apparently buy huge ad serving firm DoubleClick for $3 billion. The move would be a blow to Microsoft (MSFT) which has been trying to buy the firm to build up its…