IPO Filing: Cellcom Israel
Cellcom Israel has filed this week to debut its shares in the US via an IPO under the NYSE ticker "CEL." Cellcom Israel is one of four providers of cellular phone service in Israel.…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
IPO Filing: JA Solar
JA Solar Holdings has filed for an IPO this week. It wants to come public on NASDAQ under the "JASO" ticker. This is yet another Chinese manufacturer of high-performance solar cells, which isn’t a…
Pre-Market Stock Notes (JAN 18, 2007)
(AAPL) Apple beat estimates again by far, but Mac sales were soft and then guidance was light as usual; stock down 1.25% pre-market.(ABT) Abbott Labs reportedly in talks to sell its diagnostics unitto GE.(ANSV)…
Analyst Calls (JAN 18, 2007)
AAPL target raised to $124 at Piper Jaffray, reitr Outperform at Credit Suisse; cut to Neutral at JPMorgan; reitr Overweight at Morgan Stanley.ACE raised to Outperform at FBR.AMZN maintained underweight at Prudential.AV cut to…
Everyone Upgrades Apple
A number of Wall St. firms took the risk of raising price targets for Apple (AAPL). The company did have a break-out quarter, but iPod sales are slowing and the PC and consumer electronics…
Can Blogs Save The Newspaper Industry?
It appears that blogs are becoming a major traffic driver for newspapers. The number of visitors to the blogs at the top 10 online versions of newspaper grew 210% from December 2005 to the…
Google Needs To Shed Some Businesses
Google (GOOG) began offering $10 to customers who sign up for its Checkout service, a competitor to Ebay’s (EBAY) PayPal. Paying to get customers seems like a bad sign, but, who knows? Google does…
Europe Markets 1/18/2007 AXA, GlaxoSmithKline Up
Markets in Europe were rallying at 6.15 AM New York time. The FTSE was up .6% to 6,240. Barclays was down .2% to 747.5. BP was up 1% to 542. BT was down 1%…
GE; The Hits Keep On Coming, Or Do They?
GE (GE) continues to try to revive its mediocre stock price by using acquisition to bulk up divisions that already have strong results. The big conglomerate is close to buying the diagnostics business of…
Media Digest Reuters, NYTimes, WSJ, Barron’s, FT
According to Reuters, sales of Apple’s (AAPL) iPod are now used to guage currency markets by measuring what consumers pay for the device in a number of markets. Reuters reports that several wealthy investors…
Asia Markets 1/18/2007 Honda, Softbank Rise
Stocks: (CAJ)FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NIPNY)(NTT)(DCM)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CHU)(PCW)(HBC) Markets in Asia staged an impressive rally. The FTSE rose .6% to 17,371. Bridgestone fell .8% to 2620. Canon rose 1.1% to 6490. FujiFilm rose 1.1% to 4770. Hitachi rose .4% to…
Which Stocks Have Been Leading the Dow Higher?
From Ticker Sense In the table below, we rank each Dow stock on a daily basis by its price performance versus its peers. For example, Dupont (DD) was the best performing stock in the…
LRCX: Lam Research Further Validates Our Thesis
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Our readers know we have been anticipating a down cycle in semiconductors for some time. In fact, last June we wrote: After denial comes anger. We…
DELL, HPQ: PC Industry on a Treadmill
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat In May, 2006 we noted that things were tough in the PC industry, with the HP/DELL/Lenovo troika competing heavily for market share at the expense of…
Caremark Investors Shouldn’t Get Too Excited About Sweetened CVS Bid
By Chad Brand of The Peridot Capitalist Shares of Caremark (CMX), a leading pharmacy benefits manager, are jumping today after the company received a sweetened takeover bid from drug store chain CVS Corp…
Catalysts That Make Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) A Buy
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas Trading in ICE’s futures and OTC products has increased substantially over the past two years thanks to volatility in the energy markets, increased interest in alternative…
Applied Signal Looks Back
From AAO Weblog In a non-reliance 8-K filed yesterday, Applied Signal Technology joined the long look back crowd. The firm will be slapping the nonreliance label on its financials issued between 2000 and 2005;…
Wednesday’s Top Biotech and Medical Stocks
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology BIONOVO INC +24.42% IOMAI CORPORATION +15.29% GENITOPE CORPORATION +13.17% ARTES MEDICAL, INC. +10.93% MICROMET INC +10.04% Diagnostic Substances SYNOVA HEALTHCARE GR +12.00% HEALTHCARE TECH LTD +4.94% NYMOX PHARM CORP +3.52%…
GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Iomi Land Avian Flu Vaccine Contracts
From BioHealth Investor by H.S. AyoubBioHealth Investor.com The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has awarded GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics (NVS) and Iomi (IOMI) all a total of $133 million in…
The News For Dell Keeps Getting Worse
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) widened its global PC sales lead over Dell (DELL), again. HP’s PC shipments in Q4 increased by 24% over the same period last year. Its worldwide market share now stands at 17.1%…