China Wants OPEC Dialogue: Stand In Line
China is broadcasting that it wants a direct conversation with OPEC to secure a steady stream of oil for its mushrooming economy. It is easy to see the benefit of that for China, but…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Cramer Makes More Merger Picks
Today Cramer discussed a wave of M&A after Pfizer’s (PFE) blow-up today, also bank mergers predicted, and more tech deals coming. You can watch his new video HERE on thestreet.com new free online video…
Comcast: Verizon Home Invasion
Stocks: (CMCSA)(VZ) Verizon is starting service in Philadelphia for its IPTV service over fiber. It will be offered to 100,000 homes. The city is the headquarters home for cable giant Comcast, which owns the…
Airbus Loses Its Mind
Stocks: (BA) Airbus is late to market with its wide-body A350 jet. Boeing has been selling its competitive product, the 787 Dreamliner, for some time. Part of the reason that Airbus was late to…
Yahoo! Mobile Gets Out Of Hand
Stocks: (YHOO)(RTRSY) Recent research shows that Yahoo! has a healthy lead over other internet companies like AOL and Google in terms of wireless device usage. There is some chance that this could help offset…
Demutualization IPO Filing: Employers Holdings
Employers Holdings, Inc. has filed to come public in an IPO, but this is not a run of the mill IPO. The company has filed to sell up to $287,960,000 in an IPO, but…
Cramer Comments on Pfizer; Also What to Expect on PFE From Here
This morning Cramer on TheStreet.com posted his comments regarding Pfizer’s (PFE) drug blow-up this weekend. You’ll need to go visit thestreet.com there about what he said exactly, but keep in mind he has been…
InTel And Qualcomm Battle For Wireless
Stocks: (QCOM)(INTC)(ERIC)(S)(MOT) Qualcomm announced that it bought two chip companies, one in the WiFi space and one in Bluetooth. The move would appear to be one that puts QCOM in competition with Intel to…
Pre-Market Stock News (DEC 4, 2006)
(AGR) Agere being acquired by LSI for 2.16 shares.(AH) Armor Holdings won a $649M truck order from Army.(ATI) Allegheny Tech noted as a name that can still go higher according to Cramer on MAD…
Select Analyst Calls (DEC 4, 2006)
ABFS cut to Sell at Merrill Lynch.ACAS started as Outperform at KBW.AKAM started as Outperform at Cowen.AINV started as Outperform at KBW.ALTR raised to Buy at AGEdwards.ALU cut to Sector Perform at RBC.BAC cut…
The Chinese Take On Google In Japan
Stocks: (BIDU)(GOOG)(YHOO) Baidu, the Chinese search engine company, is moving into the Japanese market Yahoo! and Google have the largest market shares in the Japanese market while Baidu gets about 50% of the search…
Ten Most Undervalue Stocks: Anheuser-Busch
The series on most undervalued stocks will look at company’s cash flow, price to sales rations, balance sheet, earnings portential and future P/E forecasts to find shares that trade at a discount to their…
Europe Market Report December 4, 2006 AXA, Vivendi Up
Markets in Europe were up modestly at 5.25 New York time. The FTSE was up .4% to 6,044. BEA was down 1.7% to 384. BP was up .5% to 570.5. BT was up .3%…
Media Digest December 4, 2006 Reuters, NYT, WSJ
Stock: (RTRSY)(DJ)(YHOO)(ERIC)(QCOM)(PFE)(GOOG)(BA) According to Reuters, the CEO of Ericsson is more optimistic that there will be a deal between his frim and Qualcomm. Ericsson has complained that Qualcomm overcharges for royaltied on Wideband and…
Westwood Holdings Gains As Volume Jumps 280%
From Volume Spike Investor Shares of westwood Holdings Group (WHG) gained more than 5% on Friday as volume spiked 280% above the 3-month daily average. There were no significant news releases or other significant…
The Monday Edition- US Economy & Opportunities In Turkey
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas In this week’s Monday Edition I plan to talk about 1) US Economic Outlook 2) Images- ‘Insider Activity Sector Wise’ and widely held Growth & Value…
Traditional Indexation, Fundamental indexation, and Market Spirits
From Value Discipline Not exactly a subject that makes your socks roll up and down. Most value “guys” don’t give a moment’s thought to indexation…we believe that through application of our discipline, we can…
Is DELL Cooking the Books?
By Willaim Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat As accounting geeks, we are always on the lookout for examples of misleading company financial reports. In particular, it is a neat find when a company…
Semiconductor Fundamentals Likely to Bottom Soon – We Hope
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat As we anticipated, the latest semiconductor sales report suggests that supply and demand imbalances will no longer worsen, as it now seems likely that within a…
Asia Market Report December 4, 2006 NEC Down, Yahoo Japan, Cathay Pacific Up
Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(NIPNY)(HMC)(SNE)(NTT)(TM)(CHL)(CHU)(PCW)(HBC) Asian markets were narrowly mixed. The Nikkei was down .1% to 16,304. Bridgestone was down .6% to 2485. Canon was down 1.2% to 6010. Daiwa Securities was up .4% to 1315. Fuji…