From AAO Weblog GATX Corporation, the financial and leasing outfit, made a SAB 108 “cumulative adjustment” type of correction to its beginning 2006 retained earnings, noted in its 10-K filing. This one (like the…
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From World Beta I track the performance of roughly 60 country equity indices. Granted, most of the sample size is recent (there is only about 20 series in 1970, and 40 in 1990). Below…
Also on MAD MONEY toght, Jim Cramer wanted to review RUMORS that can make you mad money. On FEB 26 there was a British report that Dow Chenmical (DOW) could be the biggest buyout,…
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Cramer said that the traders are selling everything and Cramer said he is looking at sub-prime like the plague because no lender can be immune. He thinks others…
Youbet.com (UBET-NASDAQ) just gave its annual guidance along with its Q4 earnings. It posted -$0.03 EPS non-GAAP EPS and earnings were -$0.14 EPS after all items and its Revenues rose 41% to $9.2 million…
It was a "Bad Day At Black Rock" for the market. The lows were littered with housing and mortgage stocks. Homebanc (HMB) Down to $1.64 as the sub-prime market dies. Was $8.96 at 52-week…
The companies that actually stand to benefit from the sub-prime implosion are the credit and debt recovery and collections companies, with some caveats of course. First, they will not do well if the sub-prime…
Hidden amongst the growing carnage that is becoming this afternoon’s market is a weak trading session for Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL); which is currently trading at $17.98, down 4.7% on the day. This…
From The Stock Masters In 1982, the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in the leading role of the infamous movie, Conan the Barbarian. I caught AMC’s Friday night showing of Conan the Barbarian, and I…
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer said the financials dropping is in-line with the "avoid brokers until Friday" thesis. These are names Cramer likes in this deflationary market: AT&T (T) has…
Amgen (AMGN) got called in on the carpet for not make clear that a couple of its drugs had big time side effect. According to The Associated Press: "the FDA added warnings to the…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Analyst: Hyperion Should Nix Oracle Deal: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance Oracle Corp. will plunk down $3.3 billion to buy Hyperion Solutions Corp., but at least…
From Ticker Sense One way we look for compelling stocks is to start out by finding the sector that is the most oversold. After that we find which stocks in that sector are the…
The subprime mortgage market is the business of lending to people with blemished credit or lack of adequate cash for down payments. Wall Street is concerned about the fall in the subprime mortgage market…
Let’s not throw away JupiterMedia (JUPM) just yet. Yes the stock has dropped 27% since late February and Getty (GYI) won’t touch them with a ten foot pole. But consider these few facts courteous…
From Internet Outsider So Viacom took the predictable next step in the GooTube pissing match and sued Google for $1 billion. Why is this irrelevant? Because if Google takes the next logical step and…
The when-issued status has received very little coverage this week on what may be such a large issue. This also clears the way for the other spin-offs after Kraft (KFT) has been officially spun-off. …
Trump Entertainment Resorts (TRMP) is one that now even the Amazonian tribes know is on the block, but what we wanted to do was look under the hood to see what the valuation for…
Viacom Inc. (VIA-NYSE) announced this morning that it has sued YouTube and Google (GOOG) for "massive intentional copyright infringement" of Viacom’s entertainment properties. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District…