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NYSE Short Interest For August
Below are short interest figures for major companies traded on the NYSE as of August 15 compared to July 13, 2007 Largest Short Positions Ford (F) …
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Media Digest 8/22/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, GM (GM) sees revenue in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East growing by several billion a year for the next several years. Reuters writes that Toyota (TM) believes…
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Chrysler And The Communists
Senior management at Chrysler has told The Wall Street Journal that the company plans to "expand outside North America by licensing vehicle production, outsourcing manufacturing and building cars in joint ventures with…
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GM’s Piple Dream
GM (GM) CEO Rick Wagoner says that the big car company is OK despite the tough stock market and problems in the mortgage sector. According to Reuters, "GM’s exposure to the subprime…
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GM (GM) Gets Killed, Disney (DIS) Is Fine: The Beer And Hamburger Economy
With the market down 300 point in a day and off more than 10% from its recent highs, Wall St. is looking at some of the most active stocks and scratching its…
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Toyota’s (TM) US Problem
Toyota (TM) says that its growth in the US will slow over the next several years. Toyota has 17% of the market, so that may have something to do with the law…
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How Are Defensive Stocks Doing? (KO, MRK, PG, CAG, BUD, HRL, MO, CG MCD, KFT, GM)
Last Friday, we wrote about defensive stock havens for a crummy stock market. We also warned that in true market selling extremes there is no such thing as a true haven, and…
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Cars and Drivers
Toyota (TM) Blows An Engine
Toyota (TM) is the hybrid company. The Prius is the hybrid car. The Japanese car company has used that reputation to build a hybrid business in the US that no domestic company…
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Media Digest 8/9/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, BNP Pariba suspending three funds due to sub-prime problems in their portfolios. Reuters writes the net income and sales rose at News Corp (NWS). Reuters reports that Wal-Mar (WMT)…
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Cars and Drivers
Ford (F): Profitable Again?
Ford’s (F) Alan Mulally told an industry conference that the company should be profitable again in 2009. At about the same moment, GM (GM) was saying the its was revising its 2007…
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Media Digest 8/8/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Cisco (CSCO) announced quarter profits and a forecast that topped expectations. Reuters writes that Vodafone (VOD) will keeps its 45% of Verizon Wireless. The Wall Street Journal writes that…
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Chrysler Punishes Former CEO
Tom LaSorda, Chrysler’s CEO, was kicked out of the corner office today. Maladroit manager Robert Nardelli, who did his best to sink Home Deport (HD) while CEO there, gets the top job…
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Media Digest 8/2/2007 Reuters, WSJ NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, auto sales in the US dropped in July and imports took more than 50% of the market for the first time as sales dropped shsrply at GM (GM) and…
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GM (GM) Sales Get Hammered
GM’s (GM) US sales fell 22% during July to 320,935. Car sales fell 26% and light trucks were off by 19%. At about the same time that GM announced its results Ford…
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GM (GM) And Ford (F): An Inconvenient Truth
The press and the business community clearly want large US car companies Ford (F) and GM (GM) to prevail in their struggles to reshape themselves as smaller, profitable companies. They are icons…