Busted Dot-com Ideas Breathe New Life
If you remember the dot-com bust pretty well you may recall a company called AllAdvantage. Back in the 1990’s this Internet start-up was one of the first to recognize that online advertising really was…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
80% of S&P 500 Stocks Above 20 and 200 Day Averages
From Ticker Sense As of Tuesday’s close, over 80% of the stocks in the S&P 500 were trading above their 20 and 200-day moving averages. In the chart below, we highlight prior occurrences since…
Bureau of Economic Analysis
From Ticker Sense The Bureau of Economic Analysis has a great website that offers countless tables and databases. We were able to extract out a few things from the website that we thought were…
Will Microsoft Buy YouTube Rival
The New York Times and CNET are reporting the management from Microsoft are looking at Revver, a YouTube competitor. Revver is much smaller than YouTube, but MSN would certainly have the ability to send…
Cramer Actually Says to Buy Charter Communications (CHTR)
On tonights MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer says that you should buy a really bad name: Charter Communication (CHTR). He says it is a dog, and he has said it is a dog…
Cramer’s Uranium Pick (EMU)
On tonights MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer had a nuclear power play that may still have a negative bias if the democrats comeinto power. Cramer actually has a nuclear power play in Uranium…
Alcatel-Lucent Gets Lucky
Patent lawsuits can go either way. The near-dead telecom equipment company Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) won the lottery by besting Microsoft (MSFT) in a suit over the big software company’s use of MP3, and audio format…
Cramer More Positive on Chip Stocks
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer noted that the SEC comments about market forces regulatiung hedge funds. On SEMICONDUCTORS, Cramer was again saying the Analog Device (ADI) numbers caught the shorts…
Cramer Talks Chip Stocks
On today’s Wall Street Confidential video on TheStreet.com, Jim Cramer said this was a big chip day and he said here is how to play it: Chips can be played on inventories and when…
CMGI Earnings Preview: Has CMGI Tansformed Itself?
Recently CMGI Inc. (CMGI-NASDAQ) announced that it will report earnings after the close on Monday, February 26, 2007 and will present at the Robert W. Baird Business Solutions Conference on February 28. The earnings…
15 Companies Management Can’t Fix: 3COM (COMS)
Even with the hint of decent news on the horizon, 3COM (COMS-NASDAQ) finds itself in a precarious spot. The company virtually leveraged its entire cash balance to buy the remaining half of the H3C…
24/7 Wall St. Break-Up Values: Level 3 $8.00 (Current Price $6.67)
By Ryan Barnes. Edited By Douglas A. McIntyre Level 3 Communications Inc. (LVLT) – Price $6.67; Break-up Value $8 Level 3 is a play on bandwidth, pure and simple. As the internet matures in…
15 Companies Management Can’t Fix: Sirius/XM
There are certain companies that probably cannot be turned around no matter who runs them. They tend to be in industries where macro-economic trends are against them, like the buggy whip business 150 years…
Tick Tick Boom
From Ticker Sense The S&P 500 Uptick-Downtick Index (TIKX) measures the number of stocks in the S&P 500 that have traded on an uptick minus the number of stocks that have traded on a…
Meckler Confirms Jupitermedia & Getty Image Talks (JUPM, GYI)
Jupitermedia (JUPM-NASDAQ) has confirmed that it is in discussions with Getty Images, Inc. (GYI-NYSE) regarding a potential sale of the company to Getty Images in a cash transaction that would be valued at $9.60…
Goldman Sachs Research (FEB 22, 2007)
GOLDMAN SACHS: raised Stereotaxis (STXS) to Neutral from Sell; dropped Catalina Marketing (POS) from coverage. Increased estimates in ECOL, ABG, DO, SRCL, THE, MHS, WEN, CAR, GPC, PII, ZZ, VNO, GTXI, CMX, OSIP, MDT,…
Early-Bird Stock News (FEB 22, 2007)
(AAPL) Apple & Cisco settled their iPhone trademark issue.(ADI) Analog Devices traded up 4% after beating estimates and signaling strengthening orders.(AMR) American Airlines raises its NYC-based flights after the JetBlue problems.(BEAS) BEA Systems reports…
Early-Bird Analyst Research (FEB 22, 2007)
ARDM started as Buy at Merriman Curhan Ford.ASCA started as Outperform at Wachovia.CMA started as Neutral at JPMorgan.CBH started as Neutral at JPMorgan.ED raised to Buy at Jefferies.FLDR cut to Mkt Perform at JMP…
24/7 Wall St. Break-Up Values: Sun Micro $6.61 (Current Price $6.28)
By Ryan Barnes. Edited By Douglas A. McIntyre Sun Microsystems (SUNW) – Price $6.28; Break-up Value $6.61 Remember when Sun was one of the “Four Horsemen of the Internet”? It wasn’t all that long…
Apple Settles With Cisco, But iPhone Success Still In Doubt
Apple (AAPL) and Cisco (CSCO) have reached an agreement. Cisco, which holds the trademark on the term "iPhone", will allow Apple to use the name for its new handset. Cisco will also use the…