RadHat Was Supposed To Be Dead
Stocks: (MSFT)(NOVL)(RHAT) RedHat was supposed to be on its way out. The largest supplier of Linux open source products to corporations was going to be crushed by rival Novell after its signed a deal…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Media Digest 12/22/2006 Reuters, NYTime, WSJ, FT, Barron’s
Stocks: (VOD)(RHAT)(QCOM)(GM)(TM)(F)(PFE)(MRK)(LLC)(RIMM) According to Reuters, Toyota plans to product 9.42 million cars in 2007, which should take it past GM as the world’s largest car maker. Reuters writes that Qualcomm has lowered its earnings…
Asian Markets 12/22/2006 Honda, China Netcom Up, Yahoo Japan Down
Markets in Asia were up slightly. The Nikkei rose .3% to 17,105. Canon was up .5% to 6690. Fuji Film was down 1% to 4870/ Hitachi was up .3% to 722. Honda was up…
Thursday’s Top Biotech and Medical Stocks
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology PRAECIS PHARMA +144.51% FERMAVIR PHARMACEUTL +28.00% POLYMEDIX INC +23.08% ACCENTIA BIOPHARMACE +17.59% REXAHN PHARMACEUTICL +17.39% Diagnostic Substances IMMUNOMEDICS INC +13.59% AVALON PHARMACEUTIC +12.50% ASPENBIO PHARMA INC +10.84% REMOTEMDX INC +7.75%…
FedEx (FDX) Trouble Probably Not Yet Over
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat After FedEx (FDX) missed earnings yesterday, the responses ranged fairly widely. The bullish case is perhaps best presented by Motley Fool at FedEx Is Just Fine…
Analyzing Coke (KO)- A Warren Buffet Portfolio Holding
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas I’ve recently agreed to be a guest author for the excellent Stock Pickr as I believe it has added value to my investing and trading. Hence…
Country P/E Ratios: US, UK, France, Japan, India, Russia, Brazil
From Ticker Sense We always get plenty of requests for country p/e ratios, so as somewhat of a holiday gift, we are providing price and p/e charts of the seven countries that get requested…
Cramer on Riverbed (RVBD)
Tonight on Cramer’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Cramer wanted to review a high-flyer to ask if you know what you own in growth stocks to see if it is too hot to handle. He…
Cramer calls Jones the next Hansen
Tonight on Cramer’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Cramer thinks that Jones Soda (JSDA) could be the next Hansen Natural. This stock closed at $10.65 and had a $270M Market cap, but shares popped up…
USG, Finally Back to Business…But With a Rights Plan (BAIT SHOP)
USG (USG-NYSE) issued a press release today stating that the company has made its final payment of $3.05 BILLION as part of the settlement for reorganization into that United States Gypsum Asbestos Personal Injury…
Cramer on Copper, Casinos, and Google
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer noted that the Philly Fed Index is not a good reading according to Cramer, because it would always give a negative yearly reading. Cramer on…
Previewing RIMM Earnings
Research-in-Motion (RIMM-NASDAQ; RIM-CN) expectations: $0.94 EPS on revenue of $816 million, up from $0.71 and $560.6 million. The company is expected to say that it added a net 800,000+ subscribers in this last quarter…
Scholastic Gives Shareholders an Early Christmas Gift: A New Harry Potter Novel
Scholastic (SCHL-NASDAQ) remembered how to reward shareholders: it release the name of the new Harry potter book. Scholastic has dubbed the 7th book in the Harry Potter series "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."…
Sony Says They Made the PS3 Too Expensive
From William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We have commented before on how Sony’s (SNE) tried to bite off more than they could chew with the PS3 gaming system. Now, a bizarre statement…
If Private Equity Likes Bankrupt Detroit Firms, How About Ford? (F)
Private equity and hedge fund money is all over Detroit, driving through the streets with trucks filled with gold. KPS Special Situations has put $23 million into Jernberg Industries. The car parts company has…
The Market Opens Anew 12/21/2006
The GDP rose at only 2% in the late summer, with real estate putting on a damper. Tough luck for home builders and Home Depot. Bristol-Myers settled the government’s beef with the company over…
A Big Mistake In Internet Traffice Measurements
Stocks: (YHOO)(MSN)(GOOG) Someone has to be wrong. One the one hand, Nielsen/NetRatings and Comscore, and on the other the head of Topix, the large online news aggregator. A survey of web page referrals, including…
Dell Trails Badly (DELL)(HPQ)(SUNW)
It is sometimes lost in the news, but Dell’s year is worse on a chart than it is often portrayed in the media. WIth the former CEO of American Airlines joining as Dell’s CFO,…
Europe Markets 12/21/2006 Vodafone Off, SAP Up
Stocks: (SAP)(BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UL)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(V) Markets in Europe were narrowly mixed at 6.40 AM New York time. The FTSE was down .1% to 6,192. Barclays was up .2% to 722.5. BP was down .6% to 566. BT…
Level 3, Looks Good If Investors Ignore The Compeition
Stocks: (LVLT)(VZ)(T) Level 3 is looking good. The video revolution is filing the company’s pipelines with heavy duty internet traffic. The stock is up to $5.65, making it a double over the last year.…