Fourth Quarter Earnings Update
From Ticker Sense At the end of last week, the percentage of S&P 500 companies beating earnings estimates stood at 69%. After another week of numerous reports, the percentage now stands at 66%, indicating…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
S&P 500 Trading Range
From Ticker Sense While everyone has become so concerned about the market’s "frothiness" due to the lack of a 10% correction or even a 2% down day, we would highlight that the S&P 500…
S&P/Case-Shiller Median Home Price Update with Futures
From Ticker Sense The November S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price numbers were released this week, so we have updated our historical composite chart accordingly. We also include the CME Futures prices that expire in February, May,…
Overbought ETFs and Leveraged Sector ETFs
As shown, most areas of the US markets are currently overbought, with REIT ETFs being the most extended. The DJIA tracking Diamonds (DIA) and the S&P 500 tracking SPDRs (SPY) are also above their…
Semiconductor Industry Should Quit Patting Itself on the Back (and Building Capacity)
By Wlliam Trent of Stock Market Beat Semiconductor Industry Association provided the monthly global sales report for December. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today reported that global sales of semiconductors reached a record $247.7…
Friday’s Top Biotech and Medical Stocks
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology SEATTLE GENETICS I +11.38% IMMUNOGEN INC +8.86% IDM PHARMA INC +8.58% SUNESIS PHARMACEUTIC +8.55% SANGAMO BIOSCIENCE +8.52% Diagnostic Substances NYMOX PHARM CORP +44.72% VALERA PHARMACEUTICA +6.03% HEALTHCARE TECH LTD +5.33%…
Access Pharmaceuticals Gains 70% on BusinessWeek Article
by H.S. AyoubBioHealth Investor.com I first mentioned Access Pharmaceuticals (ACCP.OB) way back in October after the company’s shares doubled on 16x average volume with no news. On Friday, shares of Access Pharmaceuticals jumped again,…
IBD Weekly Top Ranked Medical Stocks
From BioHealth Investor The following list represents the top ten medical stocks ranked according to Earnings Per Share and Relative Strength by Investor’s Business Daily (2/03/06) scores out of 100 (last week’s rank, change…
Biotech & Medical Venture Deals Roundup
by Adam Rubenstein Claros Diagnostics (Woburn, MA) is developing a handheld disease monitoring device that allows anyone to perform laboratory-quality blood tests in any setting, has closed a $7.8M Series A financing. The round…
This Week on StockHouse January 29 to February 2
By the StockHouse editorial team A fast-forward rewind of the week on StockHouse StockHouse Executive Editor and Publisher Darin Diehl traded thoughts with Mad Money market maven Jim Cramer in an exclusive interview (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19268…
GE To Replace NBC’s Wright After Mediocre Results
GE (GE) won’t sell its NBC Universal unit, so, after more disappointing quarterly numbers, it will put a new CEO in. Bob Wright, the head of the unit for years, will apparently be replaced…
Memo To Dell (DELL) Workers: So Much For Bonuses
Michael Dell, one of the world’s richest men, decided to cut bonuses for most of the people at the PC firm who would have been candidates to get them for 2006. Many will get…
HFF Holdings IPO
Posted by in General. Our pre-ipo piece on HF. As always, we put together in depth analysis pieces on every ipo well before they price/open….including all four of todays ipos HF/AHII/EIG/DEP. http://www.tradingipos.com Disclosure: at…
McDonald’s Coffee Better Than Starbucks
Consumer Reports says that McDonald’s (MCD) coffee tastes better than Starbucks (SBUX). Starbucks stockholders better hope not, because McDonald’s is on a roll. While Starbuck has begun serving food, McDonald’s is expanding its coffee…
Google Renegotiating With MySpace?
TechCrunch writes that Google (GOOG) and News Corp’s (NWS) are in negotiations to expand and perhaps extend their agreement for Google to be sole provider of search services for the huge community site. The…
Wal-Mart Starts The Year In A Sprint
Wal-Mart January sales were up a breath-taking 2.2%. For most retailers that would be mediocre, but WMT has been having 1% growth months for some time now. Wal-Mart itself said that it would do…
Cisco Systems Earnings Preview (CSCO) (2)
Cisco Systems (CSCO-NASDAQ) is set to report earnings next Tuesday.While there are many others, this is the biggie for tech heads. Thisstock was just maintained a BUY at Goldman Sachs this morning inanticipation that…
Cramer’s Playbook on the Switch & Data IPO
On CNBC’s MAD MONEY tonight, Cramer wanted to preview an IPO you’ll hear about for all next week. This is Switch & Data that will trade under SDXC on NASDAQ. SDXC is a network…
Cramer Changes His Bullish Intensity on Google
On tonight’s MAD MONEY show on CNBC Cramer said that Google (GOOG-NYSE) got hammered after earnings that Cramer said was a blow-out report. Yahoo! (YHOO) rose on bad numbers and eBay (EBAY) rose on…
Cramer on Paying Up For Strong Earnings
Cramer said it’s ok on CNBC’s MAD MONEY tonight to pay up after some companies beat earnings and you have to pay up to sell higher. Boeing (BA-NYSE) and Caterpillar (CAT-NYSE) are continuing to…