It’s The Last Day of The Month
From Ticker Sense As we have noted in the past, during the current bull market returns on the first day of the month have been extremely positive. What about the last day of the…
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Earnings Analysis by Sector
From Ticker Snnse Yesterday, we highlighted how the S&P 500 as a whole is performing this earnings season. Below we break it down by the ten major sectors. As shown, health care and technology…
Analyzing Procter & Gamble’s (PG) Quarter
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas P&G reported 2Q results which were up 17% YoY with EPS of $0.84 ahead of Street estimates. The key driver appears to once again be strong…
Activision Deactivates 15 Years Of Financials
From AAO Weblog And they’re not the only ones setting the controls of the WABAC machine for the early 1990’s. Sherman and Mr. Peabody, the dog and his boy who went back in time…
Tuesday’s Top Biotech and Medical Stocks
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology PIPEX PHARMACEUTICAL +42.50% BIONOVO INC +15.87% NEUROBIOLOGICAL TECH +13.93% REPROS THERAPEUTICS +10.24% OBAGI MEDICAL +9.90% Diagnostic Substances LEXICON GENETICS I +8.50% GENELABS TECH INC +6.21% EZ EM INC +5.59% SURMODICS…
Companies Banking on Anti-Smoking Trend
by H.S. AyoubBioHealth Investor.com During the November elections three states, Ohio, Arizona and Nevada, passed tight smoking bans. Arizona’s anti-smoking laws will be enforced in May, Ohio is proceeding through the final legal drafts,…
Media Digest 1/31/2007 Reuters, NYTimes, WSJ, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, India’s Tata Steel will become the world’s No.5 steel maker after buying Corus Group for $12 billion. Reuters writes that Microsoft (MSFT) believes that it will sell twice as many copies…
Asia Markets 1/31/2007 Hang Seng And Shanghai Composite Fall Sharply
Stocks: (CJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NIPNY)(SNE)(NTT)(DCM)(TM)(CHL)(CHU)(CN)(HBC)(PCW) Markets in Asia were pounded down. The Nikkei fell .6% to 17,383. Bridgestone fell .6% to 2620. Canon fell .6% to 6350. Fuji Film rose 4% to 4980. Hitachi rose 1% to…
In World’s Internet Audience Rank, It’s Good To Be Microsoft
Microsoft (MSFT) lags Google (GOOG) and Yahoo! (YHOO) in search and internet advertising, but, according to Comscore, it beat both in global visitors in December 2006. Google grew a bit faster at 13% over…
In Wall Street Journal Reputation Study Ranking Not Linked To Market Success
The Wall Street Journal came out with its annual ranking of the reputations of major corporations. Harris Interactive asked over 22,000 people to evaluate companies based on financial performance, social responsibility, product quality and…
Cramer Interviews RPM International (RPM)
One company Cramer talked about last week is RPM International (RPM), and he interviewed the CEO. The name RPM is one he likes that has 100 brands, and Rustoleum is 15% of the business. …
Cramer Picks Cyclicals That Bottomed
Stock Tickers: CAT, BDK, ASD Cramer discussed a group of cyclical stocks that are oversold at the economic peaks. When that happens you can take a shot. One is Caterpillar (CAT) and you can…
Cramer Busts the Short Sellers in Greenbrier Companies (GBX)
Cramer tonight wanted to review a couple stocks that the Short Sellers have wrong; he calls it SHORT BUSTING. This is where there are too many short sellers in the wrong stock under the…
Cramer Busts the Short Sellers in Waste Services (WSII)
Cramer tonight wanted to review a couple stocks that the Short Sellers have wrong; he calls it SHORT BUSTING. This is where there are too many short sellers in the wrong stock under the…
Does Websense Make Sense?
Websense Inc. (WBSN-NASDAQ): Despite the items in questions and despite the fact that on a net-net basis you could argue in favor of the results at or ahead of estimates, this just doesn’t usually…
Juniper’s Mixed Picture
Juniper Networks (JNPR-NASDAQ) is giving it up a bit in after-hours; shares closed up 1.75% at $19.82 in regular trading and are down about 2% at $19.40 on last look. In all honesty they…
Reading SanDisk’s Tea Leaves
SanDisk (SNDK) just blew out the top-line and bottomline numbers at $0.87 EPS and $1.16 Billion. Estimates were $0.75 and $1.01 Billion. Shares after-hours are basically flat (up/down, up/down) after closing up 1.4% at…
Cramer Likes the Market and Has a Gas Pick
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer said the market is acting like it is immune to falling. Even subprime lenders, FHN-First Horizon and CFC-Countrywide are rising without a Countrywide deal yet. …
Cramer Critiques Poor Management
Stock Tickers: UPS, MMM, MRK, MOT; ITW, BDK This morning on TheStreet.com’s Wall Street Confidential, Cramer said it’s 2-days of Fed blabber and the media has to cover it but it’s unimportant. Illinois Tool…
IPO Filing Update: Clearwire Corp. (CLWR)
The most recent filing for Clearwire is now out, and the company ended with over 206,000 subscribers as of December 31, 2006. It also said that it estimates an average monthly increase in subscriber…