Stocks: (NTDOY)(MSFT)(SNE)(IBM)(DUK)(SE)(IMCL)(APC)(TWX)(BBI)((AZO)(AN)(HSP)(AXP)(ABT)(GOOG)(AAPL)(QCOM)(TXN)(AMR)(CSCO)(MU)(AMAT)(AMP)(SHLD)(BAM)(RL)(DTV)((ALL)(AHL)(AXS)(ENH)(IPCR)(MXRE)(MRH)(PTP)(RNR)(XL) A number of property and casualty insurers will do well this year as they rebound from last year’s hurricane season. Some of the shares are already up, but there may be further…
Stocks: (AMZN)(MSFT)(AAPL) New Comscore figures on holiday e-commerce spending show that spending from Nov 1 to Dec 1 2006 is up 24% to $11.75 billion. Perhaps more important, visitors to retailing sites is up…
Manulife (MFC) is the second largest life insurance firm in North America. It recently bought John Hancock Financial Services. Four years ago, the stock traded for $9. It now changes hands at $33. At…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat When we heard that Intel (INTC) was cutting prices on its new quad-core chips, we said “Since AMD has no direct competitor to Intel’s quad-core design,…
Those who read this column regularly know our doubts about Prizer’s new blockbuster drugs. These are the ones the are to replace all of those going off patent and into the hands of the…
Industry analysts are speculating that Microsoft’s Zune player will get some tweaks after the first of the year. It has currently captured 9% of the MP3 market, but Apple’s iPod has 63%. Microsoft may…
Stocks: (XOM)(COP)(SLB) Over the weekend, OPEC members sent a signal that they were unsure of what the would do with supply and inventories. Most members favor cuts as US stockpile rise, but it is…
Interpublic is one of the world’s largest advertising agency holding companies. But it has been beset by accouting problems, bad management and accounting problems. Press reports are saying that Publicis, another large ad agency…
The Ford Motor Company’s share of the US market dropped to 14.8% in November. It is now behind GM, Toyota and Chrysler. A year ago in November its share was 16.9% according to auto…
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer also discussed a stock that should be a gold medal winner. He said betting against the market isn’t smart. He still is touting Yamana Gold (AUY). …
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer discussed his stock of the year that is up and still going higher. Cramer on Friday didn’t want to just pick the stock for next week,…
DJIA 12,194.13; Down 27.80 (0.23%)NASDAQ 2,413.21; Down 18.56 (0.76%)S&P500 1,396.71; Down 3.92 (0.28%)10YR-Bond 4.425% Down 0.033NYSE Volume 2,733,464,000NASD Volume 1,955,439,000 Today the markets got to digest an…
On the STOP TRADING segment on CNBC today, Jim Cramer went over some more picks for a weaker US Dollar. Before he came on today, the dollar had weakend after the economic data to…
Stocks: (DCX)(TM)(F)(GM) Things were expected to be raw for Chrysler, but the company beat the devil. November sales of its cars and trucks rose 4.7% to 186,835, Even lagging division Chrysler sales were up…
Stock Tickers: PFE, UNH, JNJ, MO, BAC, AMGN, DNA, DGX, WLP, TSCM, SIRI, XMSR Well, here we go, Cramer is really switching out of Radio as we already knew to go TheStreet.com TV and…
The New York Stock Exhange just feels different today from an outsider viewpoint. It’s just before noon and the news Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), has only traded 9 million shares. Nortel (NT) has only traded…
Stocks: (AMD)(INTC)(NVDA) Nvidia, the graphics chip maker, has received a subpoena from Justice regarding potential antitrust activity in the graphics chip and processing cards. AMD is part of the probe as well. They bought…
The reading of ISM Manufacturing coming in under 50.0 is signaling that the Chicago Purchasing Managers was not a fluke yesterday, although read the summary about a silver lining at the end here. This…
On the technology framework: Goldman refreshed its favorite and least favorite technology picks based on growth and value. Goldman’s 5 favorite picks are Apple (AAPL), Cognizant (CTSH), eBay (EBAY), Google (GOOG), and Research-in-Motion (RIMM).…
Chrysler (DCX) is mailing a $1,000 off coupon to 3.4 million people. The incentive is in addition to others already being offered. The company’s already reported inventory problem must be getting worse. Consumers can’t…