Stocks: (MOT)(ALU)(NT)(CSCO) Very few investors remember that Nortal traded for over $800 (split adjusted) in 2000. The shares are now at $26, a modest recovery from recently lows. The press is beginning to pin…
Thursday, December 21, 2006 Largest Short Positions Rank DEC 15 NOV 15 CHANGE 1 AT&T Inc 159,501,896 134,932,390 24,569,506 2 Ford Motor Co 145,042,439 101,824,318 43,218,121 3 iShrRus2000 IWM 129,715,096 119,789,086 9,926,010 4 Time…
Stocks: (AAPL)(MSFT)(BELL)(HPQ) Vista is coming to town. Its strengths as a operating system seem to be considerable, even when when compared to the best version of Linux destop and Apple’s Tiger OS. Research firm…
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas These days I’ve been educating myself about futures thanks to CME‘s wicked educational platform for newbies and thought readers might be interested in 3 questions I…
From BioHealth Investor Shares of Bentley Pharmaceuticals (BNT) are up more than 13% early Friday as the company announced that its U.S. marketing partner, Perrigo Company, has received marketing approval for simvastatin 5 mg,…
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology REPROS THERAPEUTICS +30.18% INTERMUNE INC +29.03% EXACT SCIENCES COR +24.59% LA JOLLA PHARMA +10.32% IDM PHARMA INC +9.16% Diagnostic Substances REMOTEMDX INC +12.95% IMMUNOMEDICS INC +7.98% GENE LOGIC INC +4.64%…
Much unpleasantness before the holidays. The Dow was off .63% to 12,343. The Nasdaq was down a similar percentage. News was light, but work leaked out the Chrysler will unveil another turnaround plan in…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Ceradyne (CRDN) opened sharply higher this morning when they announced some good news. Ceradyne Gets $133 Million Army Contract – 12/22/2006 4:31:00 AM – Manufacturing.Net –…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Readers surprised by our general bearish stance on LCD panel makers generally point out how much demand for the monitors (both as computer monitors and flat…
Stocks: (MSFT)(YHOO)(AAPL)(VZ)(TWX) Website A VC argues that being in the portal business is a losing game. More and more traffic will go to niche sites. Who needs a big site to index everything? CNN…
JP Morgan downgraded Qualcomm to "underweight" from "neutral". The primary reason was rising litigations costs are cutting operating margins. This may go one for some time. The move does not reflect rising competition from…
Stocks: (PFE)(RHAT)(GM)(QCOM) News from everywhere on the day before the Christmas weekend. The Pfizer board got out of control, giving the departing CEO a pay package of nearly $200 milllion. Oil dropped to under…
Stocks: (BP)(BT)(RTRSY)(VOD)(DB)(DT)(SI)(DCX)(ALU)(FTE)(V) Markets in Europe were off slightly at 6.45 AM New York time The FTSE was off a fraction to 6,182. BP was up .4% to 569.5. BT was down .8% to 309.75.…
Stocks: (MOT)(QCOM)(BRCM)(NT)(MOT)(ALU)(INTC)(TXN) The egg heads at the Financial Times of London want readers to believe that the leadership in telecom technology is moving out of the US. With the old Bell Labs,which became, Lucent,…
The Wall Street Journal does not like the Chinese Communist party setting up a branch for Wal-Mart employees, especially after putting a union in place for the big retailers "associates" We don’t like it…
This column has been critical of ConAgra. Most of its brands are not first-tier market leaders. Its restructuring plans have been in doubt. But, ConAgra answered the bell. The company has sold off poor…
(AIRN) Airspan CFO is leaving in 2007 and will be replaced in early 2007.(APN) Applica’s tender by Nacco was hiked from $6.50 to $7.00.(AQNT) Acquantive started as Buy/$30 target at Cantor Fitgerald.(EMC) EMC gets…
Stocks: (QCOM)(BRCM)(TXN)(NOK)(S) Qualcomm’s stock is down, again. The company, which likes to fight with customers like Nokia, and litigate with competitors like Broadcom, said the earnings for the first quarter would be below forecasts.…
Stocks: (F)(TM)(HMC) The Wall Street Journal ran a cover story about Ford CEO Alan Mulally’s new "war room". The walls are covered with charts and photos, Projects are color coded based on priority. Perhaps…
Ford recently said that Toyota would pass it to become the second largest car marketer in North America. Ford’s share in the US may slip as low as 14% and Toyota looks like it…