Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NIPNY)(NTT)(DCM)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CHU)(CN)(PCW)(HBC) Markets in Asia were higher The Nikkei rose .7% to 17,424. Bridgestone rose 1.9% to 2665. Canon rose .2% to 6450. Fuji Film rose .2% to 4730. Hitachi rose 3.5% to 822.…
From The Peridot Capitalist Critics of the Sears and Kmart turnarounds have long argued that if Sears Holdings (SHLD) Chairman Eddie Lampert ignored the retail business by cutting capital expenditures and marketing expenses, the…
From Ticker Sense Since oil’s initial decline last Summer, conspiracy theorists have been questioning the motives behind Goldman Sachs’ move to lower the weightings of various energy components in its commodity indices. Prior to…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat TI sees 2007 global cellphone unit sales up 20 pct | Technology | Technology | Reuters.co.uk Global sales of mobile phones are expected to grow to…
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas In this week’s institutional newsletter I’d like to talk about: 1) Deciphering The Economy Through Bonds, 2) Fed & Earnings Focus and 3) Bank of Japan’s…
From AAO Weblog It’s been a while since one of these showed up: a derivatives accounting restatement. This morning, General Electric Capital filed a non-reliance 8-K on in its 10-Ks and 10-Qs for the…
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology VANDA PHARMACEUTICAL +10.30% EMERGENT BIOSOLUTION +9.20% BOSTON LIFE SCIENCES +8.03% LEV PHARMACEUTICALS +6.96% ALFACELL CORP +6.37% Diagnostic Substances RG GLBL LIFESTYLS +25.35% OSTEOLOGIX INC +7.96% ICAGEN, INC. +4.84% ASPENBIO PHARMA…
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 (1/20/06) scores out of 100 (last week’s rank, change…
From BioHealth Investor by Adam Rubenstein NovaVision (Boca Raton, FL) a non-invasive device that may restore vision loss in stroke and traumatic brain injury patients has raised $20M in Series C. The deal was…
From BioHealth Investor by Andrew Vaino Javelin Pharmaceuticals (JAV) is a tiny biotech focused on drug delivery. Their lead compound is Dyloject, an injectable form of pain-killer diclofenac. One of the problems with injecting…
From BioHealth Investor by H.S. AyoubBioHealth Investor.com The FDA issued a warning letter to Dr.Alfred T Sapse of Stem Cell Pharma, Inc., a Las Vegas company, alleging that the doctor and the company had…
By Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA I am not a buyer of Abbott Labs(ABT) at this price, as the margin of safety has been depleted by the latest stock appreciation. But I like its latest transaction…
Posted by David Polonitza The following article provides a detailed definition of enterprise value. To determine the proper value of a company, I try to develop an appropriate intrinsic value for a company using…
These are the biggest issues for the play book this week as far as US investors are concerned. There are literally a few hundred companies reporting earnings, and this week and next week will…
This is a brief review that willdirect you to Cramer’s comments this last week, although this is ashortened list. This is a re-run of yesterday morning’s article incase you missed it, so if you…
Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is planning to use Intel (INTC) chips in its servers. As if things were not already bad enough for AMD (AMD), which is Sun’s exclusive provider now. How times change. For…
Things don’t get much more humiliating for a big public company than when the Wall Street Journal runs a piece that says the firm cannot hire a No.2 executive. SprintNextel (S) is also facing…
January short interest in Exxon Mobil (XOM) dropped over 8 million shares in January to 50 million. Intuition might say it should go the other way. With the price of oil down from a…
Maybe it is a coincidence. Google recently started to offer a $10 credit to e-commerce customers who use its CheckOut product. For a few days Google (GOOG) even highlighted the offer for its PayPal…
Broadcom’s (BRCM) stock dropped some when analysts speculated that it might not make components for the Apple iPhone (AAPL). Another tech company, Marvell Technology (MRVL) went up on rumors that it would supply parts.…