Chapman Capital Makes Quick Work of Embarcadero Techn (EMBT)
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All Work
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Sun Capital Discloses 5% Stake in Alpha Natural Resources (ANR)
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Buffet Makes the Smart Monopoly® Play, But Will Shareholders Enjoy the Ride?
Buffet is comparable to nobody else but Greenspan when it comes to making news on the slightest “ahem”, so a broad investment in three railroad stocks needs little introduction. Today Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) is…
Dow’s Buyout Premium is Falling Fast (DOW)
Dow Chemical (DOW) is once again spiking on buyout news this morning, but the stock is falling back below previous highs set on March 26th. Today the British rumor mill is spitting out a…
THC – Tenet Healthcare Corp: Coming Off of Life Support
By Saul Sterman 04/09/2007 The worst is over. Out of the four plagues that struck THC, two have been resolved, progress is being made on one and a cure needs to be found for…
The World Gets Worse For AMD, Again
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) cut its Q1 revenue estimate. It had already done so about a month ago. The company now expects revenue for $1.23 billion, down from previous forecasts of $1.6 to $1.7…
UST: Parting More Sweet Than Sorrowful for UST’s Former CFO
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We have noted several times over the last week that the departure of a Chief Financial Officer tends to raise alarm bells. And while Mid Cap…
Jobs Data Picture is Clear as Mud
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Employment Situation Summary Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 180,000 in March, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 4.4 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics…
Test-Driving Joost: Beyond Slick, and Not Really a YouTube Competitor
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Weekly Calendar (April 9-13, 2007)
Monday, April 9CardioDynamics -$0.04e; Cascade (CAE) $0.75, Lawson Software (LWSN) $0.03, Schnitzer Steel (SCHN) $0.62. Tuesday, April 10ALCOA (AA) $0.76, Electro Scientific (ESIO) $0.20. Wednesday, April 11Apogee (APOG) $0.28, Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY)…
Google 411, No Good News For Phone Companies
Google (GOOG) has launched a 411 directory look-up service. According to Tech Crunch, it works fairly well. The phone companies including Verizon (VZ) and AT&T (T) don’t need another online competitor to take away…
Airplane Wars: Sales Vs. Delivers
Boeing (BA) and Airbus play a clever PR game. Each company announced how many planes it has sold in a quarter. And, each companies announces how many it has delivered to customer. Since some…
Yahoo! MP3 To Challenge Apple (AAPL) iPod
Yahoo! (YHOO) is the latest company to go after the Apple iPod. It is going to offer an MP3 player with chip and storage company Sandisk (SNDK). The product will work with Yahoo! Music…
Vonage: Worth More In Pieces
Last September, Vonage (VG) had a share price of about $7.25 and a market cap of $1.1 billion. The company had two million subscribers. That valued each subscriber at $550. When the company had…
Media Digest 4/9/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, a US review into past money transfers a ABN Amro could derail its merger with Barclays (BCS). Reuters writes that a group of investors from the Middle East and the US…
Asia Markets 4/9/2006 Shanghai Up 2.3%
(CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NTT)(DCM)(SNE)(TM) Markets in Asia were up with a large gain for the Nikkei
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Historical Sector P/E Ratios: Part II
From Ticker Sense Below we highlight Consumer Staples, Consumer Discretionary and Energy as the next three sectors in our Historical Sector P/E Charts series. The P/E of the Consumer Discretionary sector took a dip…
IBD Weekly Top Ranked Medical Stocks
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BioWatch Alert: Repligen Jumps on Higher Volume, No News!
by H.S. AyoubBioHealthInvestor.com