Just Who Is Axis Technologies Group (AXTG-OTC)?
Stock Ticker: AXTG Investors are always looking for new stock names, with new hypes and new promises that they can gamble with. Axis Technologies Group (AXTG-OTC) is one of these new names. If you…
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Short Sellers Chase Yahoo! Down
Stocks: (YHOO)(GOOG)(NWS) You don’t have to be a genius to be short Yahoo!. But short interrest in the company grew 6.4 million shares to 84.3 million. And, the short position has been up six…
Fifteen Most Overvalued Stocks: AT&T
Stocks: (T)(BLS)(VZ)(INTC)(MOT)(INTC)(TWX)(CVC)(CMCSA) Investors would have to go all the way back to 2002 to find a time when AT&T’s price was as high as it today. After peaking at $35 a few days ago,…
Fannie Mae: Raines’ Pay Settlement
The AAO Weblog is a weblog published by Jack Ciesielski (bio), dealing with accounting issues and news topics related to investment and finance. A couple of years after Fannie Mae’s financial reporting breakdown appeared…
Angiodynamics Offers $220M To Buy RITA Medical
From BioHealth Investor Shares of RITA Medical Systems (RITA) jumped 3% on higher volume last Friday with no news. This prompted BioHealth Investor to issue a Watch Alert on RITA shares over the weekend.…
51job (JOBS) CEO Buys 633K Shares
From 13D Tracker In an amended 13D filing on 51job Inc. (Nasdaq: JOBS) CEO Rick Yan disclosed he raised his stake in the company to 30.1% (17.1 million shares). 633,118 additional Common Shares, in…
Second Analyst Cautions on Sirius (SIRI) Numbers
Stock Tickers: SIRI, XMSR Yesterday Banc of America’s satellite analyst Jonathan Jacoby issued a cautionary statement on Sirius Satellite Radio (SIR) stating that there was a weakening of Sirius compared to 2005 holiday sales…
Pre-Market Stock News (Nov. 28, 2006)
(AMWD) American Woodmark $0.57 EPS vs $0.58e.A(PPB) Applebees said NOV s-s-s were -3.1%.(BA) Boeing won another multi-billion dollar order valued at $5.7 billion in Germany.(BRL) Barr Pharma’s Pliva received final FDA approval for Pravastatin.(CLS)…
Select Analyst Calls (NOV. 28, 2006)
by Jon C. Ogg AAPL tght raised to $108 at UBS.ARP added to JPMorgan Focus List.BIIB started as Mkt Perfor at Piper Jaffray.BCE started as Outperform at CIBC.CMLS & CXR cut to Sell at…
Cell Phone Nation: China’s Rural Market
Stocks: (CHL)(TXN)(NOK)(ERIC)(MOT) While 60% of the Chinese who live in a major city have cell phone service, this is only true for 12% of the Chinese in rural areas. China Mobile, the country’s big…
Europe Market Report 11/28/2006 GlaxoSmithKline Up, SAP Down
Stocks: (BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(TRTSY)(UL)(VOD)(BAY)(DC)(DT)(DB)(SI)(SAP)(ALA)(AXA)(FTE)(V) Markets in Europe were narrowly mixed at 6.15 AM New York time. The FTSE was up .1% to 6,053. Barclays was was down .1% to 687.5. BP was up .8% to 575.5.…
Fifteen Most Overvalued Stocks: Cablevision
Stocks: (CVC)(DISH)(DTV)(BBY)(CC) Cablevision is an interestin company. It is controlled by the Dolan family and they try to buy the company from its public shareholders from time to time. They also decided to borrow…
YouTube Phones Home (VZ)(GOOG)
The YouTube operations of Google have cut a deal with Verizon Wireless to provide content for its cell phones. The arrangement is viewed as "a selling point for its subscription multimedia service and a…
Nasdaq Short Interest For November 2006
Below is the short interest in key Nasdaq stocks for November 15 compared to October 13, 2006. Largest Short Positions Rank NOV 15 OCT 13 Change 1 Nasdaq-100 Trust 186,235,439 161,363,718 24,871,721 2 Sirius…
Media Digest 11/28/2006 Reuters, WSJ, NYT
Stocks: (MOT)(VZ)(GOOG)(F)(INTC)(MSFT)(PALM) According to Reuters, a misappropriations suit against Motorola ended in a mistrial, The $10 billion case was brought by SPS Technologies. Reuters writes that Verizon will begin to offer YouTube videos on…
Asian Markets 11/28/2006 Softbank, Yahoo Japan Up China Mobile Down Sharply
Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(NIPNY)(NTT)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CN)(PCW)(HBC)(HMC) Asian markets were down with the Hang Seng off sharply. The Nikkei was down .2% to 15,855. Bridgestone was off.8% to 2420. Canon was off .2% to 5980.Casi was off 2.1% to…
Intel’s Troubling Price Cuts
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat We have written many times on both the general oversupply condition building in the semiconductor industry and in particular the battle between Intel (INTC) and AMD…
Targeted Genetics Jumps 52% with No News!
From BioHealth Investor Shares of Targeted Genetics (TGEN) jumped more than 52% on Monday, ending the trading day at $5.87 a share. Over 7 million shares traded hands, which is 6900% over the 3-month…
AMS May Be Seeing A Turnaround
From BioHealth Investor by Alligator Investor American Shares Hospital Services (AMS) is a tiny company with a market cap of only 31M. The stock is thinly traded and jumps around quite a bit for…
Colorado Bioscience Discovery Grant Over $2 Million
From BioHealth Investor by Adam Rubenstein The State of Colorado Bioscience Discovery Grant Program provides matching funds for proof-of-concept projects. The University Colorado Tech Transfer Office selected 13 finalists from a large pool of…