Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NTT)(DCM)(SNE)(TM)(CHK)(CN)(PCW)(HBC) Asian markets were mixed. The Nikkei was up .6% to 16,473. Bridgestone was up 2.9% to 2625. Canon was up 3.1% to 6340. Daiwa Securities was down .1% to 1334. Fuji Film…
After the National Association of Realtors and almost every economic forecaster in the world has said the housing in is a slump and will stay there, the home building industry has caught on. Executives…
Dell announced, with great fanfare, that it had hired the head of Wells Fargo’s online operations to run its global online business. The public relations push might have made sense if the new executive…
Frod’s shares took another beating yesterday, down over 4%, because the company said it would take on $5 billion in debt on top of the $18 billion it announced last week. The reasons Ford…
After months of speculations, the CFO of Sirius has simply come out and said that putting the two satellite radion companies together would be good for shareholders and consumers. It would also allow for…
From BioHealth Investor I recommended Halozyme Therapeutics (HTI) in August (and mentioned it again last week that I was holding it in my biotech portfolio) as a nano-cap biotech. What I liked best about…
From World Beta I take a look at the top 5 countries in the MSCI EAFE Index – UK, Japan, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Cash. Much better return with similar volatility (resulting in a…
From The Average Joe Investor Welcome back to The Average Joe Investor, your home for Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP) data! Just kidding… I’m sure right now holders of Suntech stock are well aware…
A lot of investors don’t like companies with two classes of shares. When a small group contols the board, shareholders sometimes believe that a takeover at a premium is off the table. Certainly stockholders…
On Cramer’s MAD MONEY show on CNBC, Cramer also said you should buy Level 3 Communications (LVLT). This isn’t his first pony ride on this stock. He called it a Triple Buy. No profits…
ON tonight’s MAD MONEY, Cramer said that it is important to know your IPO and this one could have you rolling in the dough. Heelys (HLYS) hits tomorrow, and Cramer said this one may…
HOME DEPOT (HD-NYSE) is also in the stock options soup, so now it is even getting into DJIA components. This is not "just" isolated to high growth tech companies and the practice is obviously…
DJIA 12,309.25; Down 22.35 (0.18%)NASDAQ 2,445.86; Down 6.52 (0.27%)S&P500 1,412.90; Down 1.86 (0.13%)10YR-Bond 4.481% Up 0.039NYSE Volume 2,638,164,000NASD Volume 1,857,818,000 Shares of Ford (F) Fell another 4.1%…
On today’s ‘STOP TRADING’ segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer keyed in a little earlier than normal. Cramer said YUM BRANDS (YUM) is a cheap stock. Cramer still thinks Taco Bell is a good chain…
Stocks: (AAPL)(MSFT) Microsoft will sell one million Zune players between now and June 2007. Apple says it sold 39 million iPods in the year ending September 30. Not apples-to-apples on the time table, but…
Reuters has floated an interesting theory based on conversations with institutional investors. GE’s stock, which is down since Jack Welch left and flat this year, might go up if the economy goes south. It…
Volatility Gremlins Readers have been emailing me about the returns of the models I have presented in the last few posts. Rather than respond to all of them individually, I thought I would just…
By William Trent, CFA at Stock Market Beat At first glance it may seem as though we spoke too soon last Thursday when we criticized talk of more semiconductor acquisitions. Just three days later…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat A month ago, we said the decision by FedEx (FDX) to cancel its orders for the Airbus A380 jumbo jet meant you could stick a fork…
The big Microsoft deal to cooperate in marketing of Novell’s Suse Linux open source operating system along side Windows was not enough to save Novell shareholders. Weak guidance got them in the end. Novell…