Cramer Calls Up 3 IPO’s for This Week
On tonight’s MAD MONEY, Cramer featured the IPO frenzy. Everyone is fascinated with IPO’s, but Cramer says he will tell you which to buy and which to sell and prices to get in and…
All Work
Douglas A. McIntyre
US Stock Market Wrap (DEC 12, 2006)
DJIA 12,315.58; Down 12.90 (0.10%)NASDAQ 2,431.60; Down 11.26 (0.46%)S&P500 1,411.56; Down 1.48 (0.10%)10YR-Bond 4.491%; Down 0.029NYSE Volume 2,639,175,000NASD Volume 1,906,346,000 The FED kept overnight rates steady at 5.25% but…
GE Slows Down
The markets probably did not want to hear that GE would grow more slowly in 2007 than in 2006. But, that is exactly what they heard. GE reiterated that it would have EPS growth…
Consumed Consumers: Does Best Buy Signal an End to the Consumption Boom?
By Willaim Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Stocks: (BBY) Given the pile of carcasses left behind by other pundits who have attempted to call an end to the consumer’s willingness to keep spending,…
Texas Instruments, Foundries Begin to See What We’ve Been Talking About
By Willlaim Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat It seems like less than two weeks ago that Texas Instruments said there wasn’t a serious problem with excess inventory. Now, they say they are cutting…
HP: $100 Billion Or Bust (HPQ)(MSFT)
Hewlett-Packard is saying the its reveues will top $100 billion in fiscal 2008. Their financial year ends in October. It does sound a bit like the predictions Dell used to make. Those did not…
A Meak Cramer on STOP TRADING
On today’s STOP TRADING segment CNBC, Jim Cramer noted the Fed, but he really hit options again as weighing on the market. He said Nucor (NUE) and Best Buy (BBY) are weighing on the…
Cramer: Illogical Issues Winning Over Fundamentals
Is this a change from Cramer on his stance on Big Pharma? He is saying Pharma isn’t working this morning in TheStreet.com video today. He said options are driving trading instead of fundamentals, and…
Solarfun: Another Chinese Solar Power Files For An IPO
Solarfun Power Holdings has filed to come public via an IPO under the ticker SOLF. Solarfun is yet another manufacturer of solar cells and modules out of China. The Chinese company plans to offer…
Merck Wants Out Of Pfizer’s Shadow
Stocks: (MRK)(PFE) Merck, along with most Big Pharma, wants to get as far away from the blast of Pfizer’s failed cholesterol drug launch as possible. To that end, MRK announced that it will seek…
Fed Day, Analyzing a Soft Landing
Today at 2:15 PM EST (plus or minus a few minutes) we’ll get the FOMC decision on interest rates, but investors are not expecting any rate change and that is with reason. We already…
Starbuck’s Gets Off Track (SBUX)
Starbuck’s stock is trading at about $36, which is almost exactly where it was six months ago. The stock traded under $10 five years ago, so it really acted like a growth stock until…
Hallucinations About Yahoo!
Stocks: (YHOO)(GOOG)(NWS) Bill Miller, one of the world’s greatest money managers, had his worst year in over a decade. His investments in EBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! killed his performance in 2006. But, he justified…
Best Buy: Wal-Mart Collateral Damage
Stocks: (BBY)(WMT)(TGT)(COST) Best Buy reported earnings and Wall St. was disappointed. Revenue came in fine, up over 15% to almost $8.5 billion. But, EPS was $.31 and investors wanted $.35. The shares were knocked…
Red Hat Completes its Transition to the NYSE….Why?
Stock Tickers: RHT, RHAT, MSFT, ORCL, NOVL Red Hat, the leader of a standalone Linux O/S and Office Suite for in-store boxed software suites, has completed its transition from a NASDAQ listing to the…
Hewlett Packard & Analysts: Who Is in Charge?
Stock Tickers: HPQ, DELL, SYMC I am not questioning who is running Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) at all. That is quite clear, and we all know it is effectively Hurdlett-Packard. What is not clear is the…
Goldman Sachs Indicating Lower After Earnings
Goldman Sachs (GS) posted earnings this morning at $6.59 on a diluted basis, but the number before items is a tad higher at $6.77 EPS, The street was looking for $6.00 to $6.10, but…
Pre-Market Stock News (DEC 12, 2006)
(AGN) Allergan noted as Buy by Cramer on MAD MONEY after he interviewed the CEO on TV.(ALNY) Alnylam Pharma filed to sell 4.7M shares.(AQNT) aQuantive is acquiring privately-held Accipiter for $30M.(ASIA) AsiaInfo selling off…
Select Analyst Calls (DEC 12, 2006)
AA cut to Underperform at RBC.ALO raised to Neutral at Cowen.ALU started as Ooutperform at Morgan Keegan.ALLT started as Outperform at Piper Jaffray.APPB raised to Mkt Perform at Raymond James.CCJ raised to Top Pick…
Yahoo! Panama, Finally
Stocks: (YHOO)(MSFT)(GOOG) Yahoo! is opening it advertising search marketing system, Panama, to new customers in the hopes of getting business from its major rival in the industry, Google. Like Google’s CheckOut service going after…