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Investing
Stocks Which Could Drop 50% In 2008
It actually is not very unusual for a stock to lose half its value, especially if it is in the right sector. Shares in Countrywide Financial (CFC) are down over 75% in…
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Apps & Software
VMWare (VMW) Gets A Challenge From Microsoft (MSFT)
Microsoft (MSFT) is beginning to show beta of its virtualization technology, called Hyper-V. Some in the industry think this will put it on a collision course with market leader and recent IPO…
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Apps & Software
Unique Value Manager’s Take On EMC…Sans-VMware (EMC, VMW)
The 3rd annual VALUE INVESTING CONGRESS took place in New York City this week, and 24/7 Wall St. attended and covered this great value investor event. Fund managers, investment managers, and hedge…
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Investing
VMWare (VMW): Wall St. Price Targets Still Well Above Current Price
Barron’s recently ran an article describing potential weaknesses in the VMWare (VMW) business model. The analysis quotes a Cowen researcher as saying "that VMware is increasingly selling software under enterprise license agreements,…
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Media
Media Digest 11/27/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Citigroup (C) is selling up to 4.9 percent of itself for $7.5 billion to the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government. Reuters writes that retail stocks fell despite…
10:09am ET
Investing
Mid-November NYSE Short Interest In Tech Stocks (AMD, GLW, EMC, HPQ, IBM, LSI, MU, MOT, NOK, NT, TXN, VMW)
Every month, 24/7 Wall St. peruses through the NYSE, AMEX, and the NASDAQ. One key area we look at of course is technology. Below is a summary of some of the key…
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Banking, finance, and taxes
IPOs For Merrill (MER) And Citi (C) Brokerage Units?
The FT is reporting that Merrill Lynch (MER) and Citigroup (C) are looking at partial IPOs of the retail brokerage units. According to the newspaper "brokerage businesses trade on much higher earnings…
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Apps & Software
Oracle Joins the VMware Fight, Sort Of (VMW, ORCL, RHT, QSFT)
Oracle Corp (NASDAQ:ORCL) made its "virtualization push" public yesterday at its Oracle OpenWorld, which is seeing some mixed reaction on the day after. The enterprise software giant has not had a public…
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Apps & Software
Virtual Iron CEO Calls VMware Dominance Bad For All In I.T. (VMW, EMC, CTXS, SAP, GS, MSFT, DELL, HPQ, IBM, INTC, AMD, SYMC, SUNW)… 24/7 Wall St. Exclusive
The CEO of Virtual Iron, Ed Walsh, spoke exclusively to 24/7 Wall St. partners in two separate interviews. Virtual Iron is the virtualization company owned in part and backed by Goldman Sachs…
10:05am ET
Energy
Exxon (EOM) And Chevron (CVX): The Safey Of Big Oil In A Bad Market
Some on Wall St. are concerned that, as the price of oil reaches closer to $100, Big Oil will not do as well as the rising price of crude would indicate. That…
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Apps & Software
VMWare (VMW) Says “Ouch”
VMWare (VMW) looked good out of the box. After its IPO, shares went from under $52 to over $125. But, as the stock hit $84.60 today, one-third of the peak value of…
6:56am ET
Technology
Tech Stock Values For Dummies
Yesterday’s sharp sell-off in the Nasdaq showed the market something. In a downturn, the Apples (AAPL) and RIMMs (RIMM) of the world have an Achilles Heel. They have run up too much.…
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Apps & Software
Dell Heads Toward More Virtualization (DELL, VMW, CTXS)
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire EqualLogic, a provider of high-performance iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions uniquely optimized for virtualization. Dell will purchase EqualLogic for approximately $1.4…
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Investing
Mutual Fund Year-End Window Dressing Meets FOMC Date (MSFT, CSCO, GOOG, AAPL, RIMM, VMW, EMC, KO, YUM, MCD, BIDU, CROX, DELL, SCI, GS, STT, NYX, TXT)
Wednesday is much more than Halloween and it is more than the FOMC announcement date. We have an event that has been perhaps more influential to many key stocks than the upcoming…
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Apps & Software
Citrix CEO Selling Shares Into VMware/Virtualization Strength (CTXS, VMW)
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) announced after today’s close that Mark B. Templeton, its President & CEO, is adopting a prearranged trading plan for the exercise of 763,017 expiring stock options and the…
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