Cramer on a Cat’s Meow
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said that Carerpillar (CAT) is being kept down too low. Cramer think sthe Chinese are back into buying commodities and the companu is leveraged to commodities…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
The Week of Cramer (MAR 16, 2007)
Very soon we’ll have another evening of Cramer’s MAD MONEY. Tonight we should get another one of his speculative plays in medical or elsewhere, assuming that the weak market did not take the wind…
What’s Ahead Next Week (MAR 19 to 23, 2007)
Next week is a farily light calendar, but we should at least get some more confessions from companies who are going to fall short of guidance as this will mark two weeks from the…
Cramer Talks the Drop & Commodities
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer addressed the drop today potentially being a rough day because of options expiration and with so many people having left the trading desks for the…
LEND: Accredited Lives to Fight Another Battle
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Subprime lender Accredited in deal to sell loans – Yahoo! News U.S. subprime mortgage lender Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co. (LEND) said it reached an agreement…
Semi Equipment Orders Starting to Drop
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat According to Reuters: North American suppliers of equipment for making microchips saw orders slip slightly in February, a U.S. trade group said on Thursday.Bookings in February…
Comments From The Stock Masters 3/16/2007
New 52-week lows for two of our favorite companies we have slammed in the past – Atari Inc. (ATAR) and Bally Total Fitness (BFT). Bally’s has been on a terrible decline ever since control…
Sector Performance Leading Up to the Start of Bear Markets
From Ticker Sense As the major equity indices have made significant declines in recent weeks, some have speculated that we are in the early stages of a bear market. Historical precedent however, would refute…
Inflation on the Come Back?
From Ticker Sense Over the last year and a half we have found that the ISM Commodities Survey has been an effective barometer of future inflation. When the number of commodities rising in price…
Largest $ Movers of Note – StreetInsider.com – 03/16/2007
UPWARD MOVERS:Imperial Tobacco Group plc (NYSE: ITY) +$5.45; Stock jumps for second straight session. Yesterday, the company announced a $15.2 billion bid to acquire rival Altadis. The Manitowoc Company (NYSE: MTW) +$4.38; Company expects…
RLR Capital Raises Hypercom (HYC) Stake to 5.1%, Wants Repurchase, Curtail of Acquisition Plans and Possible Sale
In a 13D filing on Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC), RLR Capital Partners disclosed a 5.1% stake (2.7 million shares) in the company. This is up from the 539K share stake the firm disclosed for…
Barington Suggests Spin-Off or Sale of Griffon (GFF) Telephonics Subsidiary and Buyback
From 13D Tracker In an amended 13D filing on Griffon Corporation (NYSE: GFF), 5.24% holder Barington Capital disclosed a letter sent to the company’s Chairman and CEO Harvey R. Blau outlining a number of…
Viacom’s Redstone Just Hedging Google/YouTube Bets?
From Internet Oursider One massive old media conglomerate, Viacom, is so outraged about Google’s "willful copyright infringement" that it is suing Google for $1 billion. Another massive old media conglomerate, CBS, finds Google so…
Vidmeter: Big Media Clips Not So Popular
From Internet Outsider Following up on yesterday’s post about Vidmeter’s "Top 200" video rankings, a reader suggested I look at "daily" numbers instead of "all-time" numbers, because most of the Big Media clips might…
Cramer Pans Newspapers
On today’s WALL STREET CONFIDENTIAL video on TheStreet.com, Cramer talked Gannett’s (GCI) story about advertising not being that great. Cramer noted the circulation is actually not going down that much, but the advertising money…
Wal-Mart the Ex-Banker; They Still Don’t Get It
Wal-Mart (WMT) has withdrawn its Industrial loan charter application, in what is an obvious throwing in of the towel. This will generate a sigh of relief among community bankers and regional finance and banking…
IPO Alert: Gafisa S.A., Sam Zell’s Brazilian Play
Gafisa S.A. (GFA-NYSE/ADR) has begun trading on the NYSE. Its initial public offering of 39,676,600 common shares in the US (represents two common shares in Brazil) priced at US$24.88 per ADS. The issue that…
IPO’s For Private Equity & More Hedge Funds Coming
More and more discussions of IPO’s for hedge funds and private equity firms are more forthcoming today. Blackstone, one of the largest private equity players in the US, may be coming public via an…
Hollis Eden: What Else They Have Under the Hood
Hollis Eden (HEPH), a micro-cap drug development company, is up roughly 7% at $2.68 pre-market after the company announced it was officially shelving its Neumune radiation treatment development because of the government’s withdrawal of…
Goldman Sachs Full Research Summary (MAR 16, 2007)
GOLDMAN SACHS has made several updates on its Americas Conviction Buy List this morning: Federated Investors (FII) is added to CONVICTION BUY LIST to replace AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (AB). Deere (DE) maintained on the…