A Look at Gaps on Recent Down Mornings
From Ticker Sense Last Tuesday and Thursday, the Spyders (SPY) gapped down 89 and 113 bps respectively. On Tuesday, as we all know, the decline continued throughout the day, with the Spyders going down…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
CSGS: CSG Tax Disclosure Confusing
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Small Cap Watch List member CSG Systems (CSGS) issued its 10K last week. We haven’t had a chance to review it thoroughly, but did notice some…
Most Financials Dragged Down with Sub-Prime Lenders
By Chad Brand of Peridot Capitalist Short term market movements are often the result of what I call "guilt by association" trading. Along with the dramatic decline in sub-prime mortgage lending stocks, there has…
CSG Systems: They Mumbled Something Sounding Like “SAB 108″
From AAO Weblog CSG Systems filed their 10-K last week, and mentioned the effect of SAB 108 on their financials. But it’s a bit hard to piece together what they meant.First, this mention of…
Wednesday’s Top Biotech & Medical Stocks
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology TERCICA INC +20.49% CERUS CORP +18.04% LPATH INC +15.38% AURIGA LABORATORIES +11.20% EMERGENT BIOSOLUTION +8.54% Diagnostic Substances PRESSURE BIOSCIENC +10.68% ICAGEN, INC. +9.44% ORCHID CELLMARK INC +5.33% AVIGEN INC +3.72%…
Bruker BioSciences: Earnings Growing, Insiders Buying
by H.S. AyoubBioHealth Investor.com Bruker BioSciences (BRKR) seems primed for a great performance in 2007. The maker of mass spectrometry and x-ray detection systems for both the life science and security industries continues its…
Biotech Stock Performance Around Critical Events
From World Beta In her 2001 book "From Alchemy to IPO" Cynthia Robbins Roth cites a Hambrecht & Quist study of biotech stock movement surrounding clinical trial results (Phases I-III) and FDA approvals. The…
Investing like Ace Rothstein in Macau China
From The Stock Masters Last year Macau, China received 21.99 million visitors, setting a new record and registering a 14.6% increase over the previous year. The two biggest Macau casinos that you can invest…
Jupitermedia gets spanked hard, now what?
From The Stock Masters Wow, Jupitermedia Corp. (JUPM) said today it has ended talks to be bought by Getty Images Inc. (GYI), tanking Jupitermedia shares by 19%. JUPM shares are now just $2 from…
Commnets From The Stock Masters
Well my friends, the Masters saw this one coming. E.W. Scripps Company (SSP) got cold smoked last week after issuing lower guidance due to high costs in its internet division and unexpectedly poor performance…
Cramer Interviews Verifone’s CEO
Cramer briefly interviewed the CEO of Verifone (PAY) that blew away numbers and has also sold off with the market. The CEO Douglas Bergeron was available for an interview and this was one Cramer…
Cramer’s Solar Play
On MAD MONEY tonight, Cramer also went on a bottom-hunting expedition for damaged stocks rather than damaged companies. Yesterday he touted General Cable (BGC) but his pick tonight is First Solar, Inc. (FSLR-NASDAQ). FirstSolar…
Cramer’s 2 New Picks That Didn’t Fall
Tonight on Cramer’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer was reviewing some stocks that went unscathed through the market sell-off. When the next sell-off occurs, these are the ones you want to flock to. …
The 52-Week Low Club
CV Therapeutics Inc (CVTX) The company announced mixed results from a late-stage study on its angina drug Ranexa. The stock dropped to $8.99. The 52-week high was $25.36. Novavax, Inc (NVAX) Down to $2.77.…
TiVo Wants to Fast Forward
TiVo (TIVO-NASDAQ) has posted its quarterly results. Keep in mind that this is also the day it launched its "Unbox" service expansion with Amazon.com (AMZN-NASDAQ). Service and Technology revenues increased 22% year-over-year to $57.4…
Mamma.com Posts Actual Income
Mamma.com (MAMA-NASDAQ) just gapped up after posting its quarterly results. Its Q4 revenues increased 118% to $3.57 million due to a significant increase in search advertising revenues, new software licensing contracts and increase in…
US Stock Market Closing Wrap (MAR 7, 2007)
DJIA 12,192.37; Down 15.22 (0.12%)NASDAQ 2,374.64; Down 10.50 (0.44%)S&P500 1,391.95; Down 3.46 (0.25%)10YR-Bond 4.497% ; Down 0.031NYSE Volume …
Cramer Has Some New Calls (MAR 7, 2007)
Cramer said on CNBC’s STOP TRADING segment that you can buy Take-Two (TTWO) after the activist seizure of the company. With the short interest it will be a huge squeeze and the shorts had…
Revisting Valero’s Break-Up Value (VLO)
Crude oil and natural gas prices have quietly been on the rise for most of 2007, and Valero (VLO-NYSE) has greatly been the beneficiary. Spot prices for North Sea Brent were just under $62/barrel…
Cramer Evaluates Warren Buffett Stock Picks
On today’s Wall Street Confidential video on TheStreet.com, Jim Cramer evaluates Warren Buffett’s stock purchases. In the last 3-years if you buy what he has bought on the announcement date (13D filings) you would…