Palm, Inc. From The Stock Masters
Palm, Inc. (PALM) is down 8% today and just $3 away from its 52-week low. Friday’s speculation of Palm being acquired sent shares soaring and of course today they are right back down. The…
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SLAB: More New Products Needed
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat When Silicon Laboratories SLAB announced it was selling its handset chip business, we said it left the company with few options. The main one is to…
Cramer on More Sub-Prime
Cramer on today’s STOP TRADING on CNBC said that the sub-prime mortgage is bad gone worse. Neither New Century (NEW) nor others are good but they are not the size of a large financial…
Wal-Mart Terminates Technician Over Recordings
After 1:00 PM EST today CNBC ran a brief feature about Wal-Mart (WMT-NYSE) security officials reading outside emails, but the company just issued a press release stating it was an employee termination over phone…
Cramer Pans AMD; But He Makes Internet Picks
On another Wall Street Confidential video today, Jim Cramer ranked his favorite Internet stocks. The 1/3 of the market that is defensive is bottoming, but the next group will be the companies ahead of…
AMD: AMD Misses
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat AMD to Present at Morgan Stanley Technology Conference and Update First Quarter Guidance: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer…
Semiconductor Oversupply: From Bad to Worse
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Semiconductor Industry Association Reports: Worldwide sales of semiconductors of $21.47 billion in January were 9.2 percent higher than January 2006 when sales were $19.66 billion, the…
Cramer Pans Sub-Primes & Talks Defensive Stocks
On today’s Wall Street Confidential video on TheStreet.com, Jim Cramer discusses the market sell-off hitting that bottom again and we may hit it again. He said this may be similar to the May-June bottom…
Cheniere Energy Partners Sets IPO Terms
Cheniere Energy Partners, which will trade under the CQP ticker on NYSE, has announced the indicated terms of its pending and proposed IPO spin-off. Cheniere Energy "Partners" is the formed Limited Partnership that will…
Wal-Mart Cuts Sirius’s Throat
It is hard to believe that the nation’s largest retailer could do much to hurt a satellite radio company. But, think again. Wal-Mart (WMT) is going to be selling high-definition radios. As The Wall…
Motorola Should Invite Mr. Icahn In
Motorola (NYSE:MOT) opposes investor Carl Icahn’s bid to join its board. He is pretty annoying buy it would appear that he does something for the other shareholders in other companies where he buys large…
A Look At U.S. Equities: Stock Returns By Decile Since 2/27
From Ticker Sense We looked at the stocks of the Russell 3,000 to see how they have performed since the 2/27 decline when grouped into different categories. We broke the index into deciles (groups…
Perspective on Dow and Homebuilders
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Although the last week managed to shake investor’s (over)confidence, it wasn’t long ago that all the talk was about the new records being set by the…
NVR: Review of NVR 10K
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat’ NVR, Inc. is a member of our Small Cap Watch List, Mid Cap Watch List and Large Cap Watch List. We reviewed its recently issued 10K…
Sirius Hits Two Year Low
In a sign that the markets are concerned about the Sirius (SIRI) merger with XM (XMSR), Sirius stock hit a two year low of $3.48 as the market opened. The lobbying in Washington to…
It Can’t Get Worse At AMD, But It Does
AMD cannot seem to get itself out of trouble no matter what it does. Now the company has announced that it can’t meet its first quarter numbers. The company’s war with Intel has killed…
Biotech Implosion: Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp. (MEMY)
Early this morning, Memory Pharmaceuticals (MEMY) dropped a bomb with its announcement that Phase IIa results for MEM1003 failed to achieve its effectiveness targets for treatment in acute mania in bipolar disorder. It said…
US Cellular Left in the Lurch by TDS
US Cellular Corp. (USM-AMEX) shareholders were just delivered some less than great news. Telephone & Data Systems (TDS-AMEX) is ceasing its activity related to acquiring the rest of US Cellular Corp. due to "uneconomic…
Pre-Market Analyst Calls (MAR 5, 2007)
AAPL raised to Overweight at Prudential.AHD cut to Mkt Perform at Wachovia.ALD cut to Neutral at B of A.ATPG cut to Sector Perform at RBC.AVAV started as Outperform at FBR; started as Hold at…
Pre-Market Stock News (MAR 5, 2007)
(ALJ) Alon USA is buying 102 convenience stores for some $70 million.(ARXX) Aeroflex gets $13.50 buyout from private equity firms General Atlantic and Francisco Partners.(ASYT) Asyst Tech gets supply pact for new Toshiba plant.(AT)…