Yahoo! Finance Tries To Widen Its Lead
Yahoo! (YHOO) is already the leader in financial website visitors and has a massive lead in page views with 606 million in December, more than double the next site, MSN Money (MSFT) at 274…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Entrenched Corporate Leader: Rupert Murdoch of News Corp.
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman & CEONews Corp. (NWS) It doesn’t really matter if shareholders like what billionaire Rupert Murdoch does or not. The only day shareholders get any say is on the day of…
Goldman Sachs Research Summary (JAN 19, 2007)
This morning, Goldman Sachs started 3M (MMM) and International Paper (IP) with Neutral ratings. Rite Aid (RAD) was downgraded from a Neutral to Sell rating after the recent stock gains. As a reminder, this…
Pre-Market Stock Notes (JAN 19, 2007)
(C) Citigroup $1.03 EPS vs $0.98e.(COF) Capital One reported EPS $1.14 versus $1.24 est; stock fell almost 2%.(CREE) Cree $0.06 EPS vs $0.06e; stock down 3% on lower LCD sales.(CREL) Corel $0.52 EPS vs…
Analyst Calls (JAN 19, 2007)
ABT raised to Neutral at UBS.CAI cut to Neutral at B of A.CHKP cut to Underperform at FBR.CRA started as Outperform at Piper Jaffray.DCX raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley.EQIX started as Outperform at…
Detroit’s New Best Friends: Toyota And The Oil Companies
Detroit has been in so much trouble for the last two years that its problems have seemed insoluble. Labor and benefit costs could not be cut fast enough and North American market share kept…
Europe Markets 1/19/2007 British Air And Alcatel Down
Markets in Europe were lower at 5.55 AM New York time. The FTSE was down .2% to 6,195. Barclays was down .3% to 743.5. BP was up .4% to 538.5. British Air was down…
Sandisk On Sony-Ericsson Coattails
Sandisk (SNDK) provides a lot of the guts for Sony-Ericsson (SNE)(ERIC) phones. And, Sony-Ericsson seems unstoppable in the handset market. Its net profit tripled in Q4. Most of Sony-Ericsson’s strength is in the music…
A Burger With That Gas? McDonald’s In China
McDonald’s (MCD) has cut a deal in China to build drive thru restaurants at Sinopec petrol stations. The company has 30,000 gas stations, but some are probably small and don’t have rest rooms. The…
AT&T’s Free Call Plan Won’t Save It From Cable
At this point, Big Telecom will do almost anything to keep cable companies from taking more of their phone customers. The latest idea from AT&T is to let its cellphone customers call AT&T (T)…
Catastrophe Now The Key To Oil’s Bull Case
Wall St. players who think oil is headed back to $70 are running out of arguments. Recently, T. Boone Pickens, who made a fortune on rising oil last year, repeated that oil is heading…
Asia Markets 1/19/2007 Yahoo Japan, Cathay Pacific Up, Toshiba, China Netcom Down
Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NIPNY)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CN)(PCW)(HBC) Markets in Asia were narrowly mixed. The Nikkei fell .4% to 17,310. Bridgestone fell .2% to 2615. Canon fell .8% to 6440. Fuji Film fell 1% to 4720. Hitachi fell .3% to…
Media Digest 1/19/2007 FT, NYTImes, WSJ, Reuters, Barron’s
According to Reuters, the Fed is still concerned about a rise in inflation. Reuters writes that IBM’s (IBM) profits rose fueled by services revenue, but its shares were pounded after hours. Reuters reports that…
Analyzing IBM
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Advisors IBM posted revenues of $26.3 billion beating The Street’s $25.7 billion. IBM’s results benefited from an improvement in margins, enabled by cost cutting and the better…
The Most Overbought and Oversold Russell 3000 Stocks
From Ticker Sense Below is a list of the Russell 3000 stocks that are currently trading the furthest above and below their 50-day moving averages. After a rough earnings report yesterday, RACK leads the…
Sector Relative Strength
From Ticker Sense With the market taking a slight turn for the worse over the last two days, even as oil trades with a 40 handle, we thought it would be a good time…
Dell pays for strategy change – 18 Jan 2007 – IT Week
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Just yesterday we reiterated our concern that the prices for PCs have gotten so low that DELL’s world-famous direct selling model is no longer the most…
SMH: Semi Equipment Orders Up – A Turn for the Worse
By Willaim Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Semiconductor stocks, as reflected by the Semiconductor HOLDRS (SMH) ETF, were down nearly 4% yesterday following disappointing news from equipment maker LAM Research (LRCX). As we…
Biophan Bulks Up With FIN 46R Creatine
From AAO Weblog Little Biophan Technologies (current market cap: $45 million) posted one of the more quirky non-reliance 8-Ks in recent history. The quirk is in the effect of the restatement they’ll be making…
Thursday’s Top Biotech and Medical Stocks
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology BIONOVO INC +17.04% FERMAVIR PHARMACEUTL +11.11% VERNALIS PLC ADR +9.58% CHELSEA THERAPEUTICS +6.77% XTL BIOPHARMACEUTICA +5.77% Diagnostic Substances ASPENBIO PHARMA INC +4.45% CYTOGEN CORP +3.50% DADE BEHRING HLDGS +3.40% TRINITY…