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The Least Battered DJIA Components (DD, GE, HD, JNJ, WMT)
Below is a list of Dow Jones Industrial Average components that are actually down the least on an ugly day. There has been news on most of these or if not there…
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Johnson & Johnson
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Good News From Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) announced record sales of $16.0 billion for the fourth quarter of 2007, an increase of 16.6% as compared to the fourth quarter of 2006. Net earnings and diluted…
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Can Microsoft (MSFT) And AT&T (T) Save The Bull Market?
Of the earnings that will hit over the next week, none are as important as Microsoft (MSFT) and AT&T (T). Both have broad business which touch consumers and businesses worldwide. Both carry…
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7 Dow Components Report Earnings Next Week (JNJ, PFE, UTX, T, MSFT, CAT, HON)
Monday is a market holiday in observance of Martin Luther King Day in the U.S. But after that we have an earnings deluge with hundreds of companies issuing their earnings. For the…
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ALL, GLW, DISH, GM, INTC, ITG, JNJ, PNM, RESP, UPL)
These are not the only top analyst calls impacting share prices this morning, but these are the main calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on in pre-market trading this Friday morning: Allstate (ALL)…
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Defensive Stocks For 2008 From 247WallSt.Com (PEP, KO, BUD, MCD, YUM, RAI, MO, PG, JNJ, PFE, MRK)
We are updating our list of tier-one Defensive Stocks since so many of these stocks have run up and since lists need continual updating. Our originally updated list of tier one defensive…
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10 Turnarounds That Haven’t Turned Around: Pfizer (PFE, MRK, BMY, JNJ)
Early this week we are running a list of stocks that have been in a turnaround plan, yet the stocks and the businesses haven’t turned around. Could these be the stocks to…
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10 CEO’s That Need To Leave in 2008: James Tobin of Boston Scientific (BSX, BIIB, JNJ, ABT)
James Tobin, the CEO of Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) is likely to find himself in front of the shareholder firing squad in 2008. In early 2004 this stock was above $40 and had…
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Media Digest 12/5/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, OPEC will probably keep oil output at current levels. Reuters writes that a goverment plan to help sub-prime borrowers will probably freeze their rates for five years. Reuters writes…
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Abbott (ABT) Stent Slowdown, Bad For Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) And Boston Scientific (BSX)
Abbott Labs (ABT) which just launched a new stent product, Xience V, has laid off 1,200 people because of slowness in the stent market. Stranger than fiction. According to MarketWatch, Abbott says…
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Bad News For Boston Scientific (BSX) As Abbott (ABT) Moves Closer To Stent Approval
Abbot Labs (ABT) is trying to get into the stent business. The market has been dominated by Boston Scientific (BSX) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). Stents are small mess implants which are…
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As Doctors Renew Interest In Stents, Boston Scientific (BSX) May Get A Break
Several studies which showed that stents could cause blood clotting in the heart have done significant damage to the revenue for those products at Boston Scientific (BSX) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).…
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Media Digest 11/12/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, BHP Billiton (BHP) will not sell its petroleum division, as had been rumored, to finance a bid for Rio Tinto (RTP). Reuters writes that most of the Hershey (HSY)…
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Defensive Stocks Show Rotation Out of Tech (PEP, KO, BUD, TAP, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MCD, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, CL, MRK, JNJ, NVO)
The markets haven’t fallen apart after yesterday’s 360 point dive on the DJIA, but we are still trading a tad lower today. Now that Cisco Systems is showing you can’t just automatically…
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Boston Scientific (BSX): Saving Itself Through Auctioning Off Pieces
Boston Scientific (BSX) did it shareholders a terrible disservice buy buying Guidant in a bidding war with Johnson & Johnson. It now has long-term debt of almost $8.3 billion. Troubles in its…