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NYSE Short Interest For July
Below are key short interest statistics for July. The figures are as of July 13 compared to June 15, 2007 Largest Short Positions Company …
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Pre-Market Stock News (July 18, 2007)
(ABT) Abbott Labs $0.69 EPS vs $0.68 estimate; guidance looks soft.(ASD) American Standard $0.84 EPS net, but $1.05 before items; estimates were $1.08. Spin-off/sale remains on track. (BLK) Blackrock $1.80 EPS vs…
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Health and Healthcare
Pfizer’s (PFE) Bad Hair Day
Not a good quarter for Pfizer (PFE). Second quarter revenue fell 6% to $11.1 billion. Net income was down 48% to $1.3 billion. The loss of U.S. exclusivity for Zoloft and Norvasc…
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Investing
Top Earnings Next Week Part 1 (July 16-18, 2007)
MONDAYMattel (NYSE:MAT)Novellus (NASDAQ:NVLS)Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG/ADR)W.W. Grainger (NYSE:GWW) TUESDAYJohnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ)Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC)Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER)Novartis (NYSE:NVS/ADR)Pharmaceutical Product Development (NASDAQ:PPDI)SLM Corp. (NYSE:SLR)State Street (NYSE:STT)Coca Cola (NYSE:KO)Wells fargo (NYSE:WFC)Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) WEDNESDAYAbbott Labs (NYSE:ABT)Altria…
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Health and Healthcare
Mixed Short Interest in Drug & Medical Stocks (June 2007)
As you will see, the short interest changes in medical and drug stocks of the active NYSE-listed names was a bit of a mixed bag. GlaxoSmithkline (GSK) saw the lagest increase, but…
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Investing
DJIA Components Short Interest Mixed (June 2007)
Stock Tickers: AA, AIG, AXP, BA, C, CAT, DD, DIS, GE, GM, HD, HON, HPQ, IBK, JNJ, JPM, KO, MCD, MMM, MRK, MO, MRK, PFE, PG, T, UTX, VZ, WMT, XOM As…
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Media Digest 6/22/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, the IPO for Blackstone priced at the high end of its range, raising $4.13 billion. Reuters writes that GE (GE) and Pearson (PSO) have dropped their potential bid for…
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Investing
NYSE Short Interest, June 2007
The NYSE released short interest in stocks traded on the exchange. The figures are as of June 15 and are compared to the comparable numbers at of May 15. Largest Shares Short…
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Investing
Media Digest 6/21/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Home Depot (HD) weighed a cut in its credit rating against its decision to buy-back $22.5 billion in shares. Reuters writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) acquired sports site Rivals.com. Reuters…
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Coley Pharmaceutical (COLY): Another Biopharma Collapse
Coley Pharmaceuticals (COLY) is yet another small-cap biopharma one-trick pony that fell apart like a cheap clock. Pfizer (PFE) had been conducting trials of a lung cancer drug licensed from Coley, and…
Douglas A. McIntyre 4:37pm ET
Health and Healthcare
Biotech Implosion: Coley Pharmaceutical Group (COLY)
Shares of microcap biotech Coley Pharmaceutical Group (COLY-NASDAQ) saw shares get pounded late on Wednesday afternoon. Right before 2:00 PM EST, the company announced that its partner Pfizer (PFE-NYSE) had discontinued and…
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Health and Healthcare
Cramer’s Picks & Pans in Pharmaceuticals
Stock Tickers: MRK, PFE, JNJ, GSK, SGP, LLY, WYE, NVS, NVO On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said he keeps getting asked about Big Pharma drug stocks. He’d rather focus…
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Market Trades For Super-Bulls, Chicken-Bulls, and Outright Bears
Stock Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, RIMM, BA, UTX, ATI, RTP, RIO, FLR, SGR, PEP, KO, BUD, CAG, HNZ, CPB, HRL, K, GIS, KFT, MCD, MRK, PFE, ALO, PYX, HME, WTR, SNH, SRZ, PG,…
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Health and Healthcare
Biotechs & Pharmas Bracing For ASCO Annual Meeting
This weekend we have the mother of all future cancer treatment conferences: ASCO, or The American Society of Clinical Oncology. Cancer stocks in the last few weeks have been seeing a muted…
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Investing
DJIA Components Huge Rise in Short Selling (MAY-07)
We reviewed various short selling trends and noticed that most sectors were mixed to up as the April to May reached record levels. But reviewing the 28 Dow Jones Industrial Average components…