FDX Gapping Down on Earnings
From Ticker Sense FDX is trading down nearly $5 in pre-market trading after reporting earnings this morning. Below is a list of FDX earnings reports along with its one-day price change since October 2002. …
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SEMI Equipment Takes A Breather – Don’t Hold Your Breath Waiting For it to End
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has released its latest semiconductor equipment bookings and billings data. “North American semiconductor equipment bookings and billings have moderated in…
ETF Alert: HOLDRS Still Have All 5 Worst Performance
A couple of weeks ago we noted some performers in ETF’s that were really lagging and noted that the FIVE WORST performing ETF’s were all specialty sector funds from the HOLDR’s family of Merrill…
Pre-Market Stock Notes (DEC 20, 2006)
(ABTL) Autobytel.com settles with Dealix & will receive $20 million in settlement.(ADBE) Adobe positive by Cramer on MAD MONEY.(AIR) AAR $0.33 EPS vs $0.32e; wins Southwest Air pact.(ALOY) Alloy pays $10.50 per share to…
WiMax Goes Mainstream (MOT)(INTC)(QCOM)(S)(CLWR)(WAVE)
Two WiMax companies are planning to go publc: Clearwire and NextWave. The technology is hot now. Sprint is adopting it for next generation cell infrastructure. The technology is in trials in a number of…
Select Analyst Calls (DEC 20, 2006)
by Jon C. Ogg ACA started as Outperform at Credit Suisse; started as Overweight at JPMorgan.ALAB started as Overweight at JPMorgan.ALY started as Buy at AGEdwards.ASML started as Overweight at Thomas Weisel.BCE raised to…
Airbus Evens The Score With Boeing (BA)
Singapore Air, one of the world’s largest long-haul carriers has ordered nine Airbus A380 superjumbos and taken options on six more. The new plane has had a history of production problems, and industry observers…
If You Liked Suntech You May be Interested in…
From The Average Joe Investor Suntech (NYSE: STP) has been a fun ride over the last year since it came public and there’s still likely a lot more to come. For those that are…
Catalysts That Make Apple Computer (AAPL) A Buy- Revisited
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas This post is going to be an Apple Fiesta- I’m going to include my own take but this time also some very smart comments of readers…
Railroaded
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat After years in the doldrums, rail carriers have had a strong couple of years. Union Pacific (UNP), for example, is up about 20% so far in…
Google Pay Off PayPal Customers
Stocks: (EBAY)(GOOG) According to The New York Times, Google’s Checkout online payment system is offering customers some pretty big incentives to switch from Ebay PayPal. Google is paying for customer promotions and will not…
Europe Markets 12/20/2006 Vivendi, BMW Up
Stocks: (BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UL)(VD)(BAY)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(V) Markets in Europe were up modestly at 6.10 AM New York time. The FTSE rose .4% to 6,228. Barclays was 1.1% to 725.5. BP was down .1% to 572.5. BT was up…
Cramer’s Tech Picks Last Night
Jim Cramer on Last night’s MAD MONEY made some new influential calls that moved shares of tech stocks: He was very positive on InnerWorkings (INWK-NASDAQ). This one is up huge since the IPO and…
Ericsson Chase Cisco
Stocks: (ERIC)(CSCO)(ALU)(RBAK)(JNPR)(T)(BLS) Ericsson is buying Redback Networks, a broadbank data routing company, for $2.1 billion. The total market for IP edge routing, Redback’s strenth, is forecast to be $5 billion by 2009. Redback’s big…
Media Digest 12/20/2006 Reuters, NYTimes, WSJ, Barron’s, FT
Stocks: (GOOG)(YHOO)(ERIC)(EBAY)(TOMO)(GS)(RBAK)(CC)(DELL)(UNH)(MS)(PALM) According to Reuters, Ericsson will buy Redback Networks for $2.1 billion expanding the European company;s footprint in the broadbank equipment business. Reuters writes that Ebay has partnered with Tom Online in China…
Asia Markets 12/20/2006 Yahoo Japan, China Unicom, China Netcom Rise
Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HMC)(NIPNY)(NTT)(TM)(HIT)(CHL)(CHU)(CN)(PCW)(HBC) Markets in Asia were rose sharply. The Nikkei was up 1.4% to 17,011. Bridgestone was up .9% to 2085.Canon was up .1% to 6690. Daiwa Securities was up 1.3% to 1334. Fuji…
Cramer Thinks Adobe Is Not Stucco
One stock we weren’t able to cover that was a Cramer tout on CNBC’s MAD MONEY was Adobe Systems (ADBE). Cramer was out very positive on the stock and noted that ADBE rallied after…
Pfizer Boosts Dividend More Than Expected
By Chad Brand of Peridot Capitalist Late Monday drug giant Pfizer (PFE) announced a 21 percent increase in its annual dividend, to $1.16 per share. With the stock trading at $25 and change, the…
FFHL, final blog piece of ’06 and…Happy Holidays
IPO Trader Well throughout the year we’ve been putting pretty much one free analysis piece on the blog each week, usually Sunday/Monday. Most often the piece has been one that debuted the previous week.…
UnitedHealth: Re-Imagining Stock Comp
From AAO Weblog Seen Casino Royale yet? The hook is that it’s the first Bond movie in a freshening of the franchise. Instead of trying to extend the existing franchise under the same logical…