Ford’s (F) reputation for stupidity may not have been mitigated by Bill Ford stepping down as CEO and a senior executive’s decision not use the company plane for free to fly home to Florida.…
Wall St. would think that a company at the center of the global cell phone market would be growing, even if margins were hurt by falling handset prices. But, after reporting a December quarter…
According to Reuters, Nintendo’s net for the last nine months rose over 43% on the strength of sales of its DS handheld device. Reuters reports that a press piece in Nikkei say that Ricoh…
Stocks: (CAJ)(FUUJ)(NIPNY)(HIT)(HMC)(NTT)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CHU)(CN)(PCW)(HBC) Markets in Asia were off modestly. The Nikkei fell .3% to 17,458. Bridgestone was down 2.1% to 2585. Canon was down 1.2% to 6530. Fuji Film was down .2% to 4780. Hitachi…
From Ticker Sense A well-known Wall Street strategist recently put out a report on monthly winning streaks for the S&P 500 where he says that the S&P 500 is on pace for its eighth…
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From World Beta Posted by Mebane Faber I usually don’t dip my toes into fundamental discussions here on World Beta, but this is a great paper, and I would be amiss to not repost…
Posted by David Polonitza Wally Weitz, Omaha’s other investment oracle, recently released his Annual letter. Of note is his opinion that the securities his fund holds are not cheap but are not dear either.…
Posted by David Polonitza Warren Buffett frequently references the 1951 Moody’s manual as an example of his early successes in finding undervalued securities. Most recently, Mr. Buffett made a reference to the manual and…
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Cramer says that Gap Inc. (GPS-NYSE) keeps saying "I’m going higher!" He says it’s a triple buy even though it is the worst of the worse. He says…
Cramer tonight on MAD MONEY on CNBC went over his favorite foreign stocks to the foreign legion for US investors. Previously this week he added CVRD (RIO), NTL Inc (NTLI), and Bank of Nova…
AeroVironment (AVAV-NASDAQ) sure lost its momentum if you consider that it was a hot issue with a 50% premium. It opened up about 50% from teh pricing yesterday at $25.00 on the first print. …
eBay (EBAY-NASDAQ) posted $0.31 EPS and $1.7 Billion in revenues; it bought $1 Billion in stock and will add $2 Billion more to the buyback plan. Estimates were $0.28 EPS and revenues of $1.67…
Netflix (NFLX-NASDAQ) is trading up 5% at $23.96 in reaction to its earnings. It ended with 6.3+ million subscribers; it posted EPS of $0.21 net and $0.24 adjusted, above the $0.17 estimate. Its guidance…
Qualcomm (QCOM-NASDAQ) $0.43 EPS on $2.02 Billion revenues; was expected at $0.42 and $2.07 Billion, but they had already guided slightly lower in December and Motorola had already given its warning. QUALCOMM reaffirms most…
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On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer said, "What a tape!"…. He thinks Level 3 (LVLT) up, Blockbuster (BBI) up….also Goldman Sachs (GS) as his $300 target price tag are all going…
First Community Bancorp (FCBP) did show us the new financials last night, and this was important because they have been such an acquisition machine and staying positive required having faith that the books would…
A tech sector company really had to be out of favor not to get a big pop today. Yahoo! (YHOO) was up 7.4% at 1 PM eastern time to $28.96. Sun (SUNW) jumped 7.6%…