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Friday October 10, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Goldman Sachs decided to take its downgrade stick to the steel sector this morning, sharply cutting its forecast for steel prices. The brokerage stated that steel buying on a worldwide basis has nearly stopped, but did hint that there could be buying opportunities ahead for some steel stocks. Th...
Friday October 10, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Carmike Cinemas, Inc. (CKEC) faces a difficult operating environment, along with its own financial challenges. Although the company has had success with recent ticket price increases, the gains have not been sufficient to offset declining attendance. We do not expect material share price ...
Friday October 10, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
St. Jude Medical (STJ) is a leading medical device manufacturer producing consistent double-digit revenue and earnings growth over the past decade. Revenue growth is fueled by numerous product introductions, advancing in technological sophistication, and capturing higher margins.
We look...
Friday October 10, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
We maintain our Hold rating for Centennial Communications Corp. (CYCL), a regional provider of wireless and integrated communications, based on the company's recent operational performance driven by stronger than expected revenue and earnings, along with sustainable subscriber growth.
N...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
At first glance today, it seemed that the big banks were going to help lead the market higher ... that has since changed. The Dow is roughly 100 points lower, and what looked like a good day is slipping back into the volatile pattern of the past week. One of the stocks mimicking the Dow's patter...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
AAR Corp (AIR) provides goods services to commercial airlines and the defense establishment. On the commercial side, demand for he Wood Dale, Illinois-based company's product offerings moves with the size of the fleet -- which is declining -- while requirements for its services may grow ...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Wow. Has the market become so volatile that we have reached the point that we have exhausted all the new ways for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) to get whipsawed and have reverted to "reruns"? To see what I mean, consider this excerpt from yesterday morning right around this same ti...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
We are continuing our Hold on HSBC Holdings, Plc (HBC). The company will report its third quarter trading update on November 10. We are maintaining our EPADS estimates at $6.75 for 2008 and $7.50 for 2009.
Earnings should reflect strong loan and deposit growth, especially in emerging ma...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Economic reports on employment and wholesale inventories have hit the Street today. First up, the Labor Department said that initial claims for unemployment benefits dropped by 20,000 to 478,000 in the week ended October 4. The weekly decline fell right in line with analysts' expectations. ...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Grupo Televisa SA de CV (TV) has been posting great operating results in recent years. New investments in the telecom sector and the gambling business are quite encouraging and should keep on growing in the following quarters. However, the economic crisis in the U.S. and Europe will affec...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
The hits just keep coming for struggling bond insurers. Dennis Herrera, City Attorney of San Francisco, filed suit yesterday to accuse 5 bond companies of selling worthless insurance policies to California municipalities. The lawsuit, which names Ambac Financial Group
(ABK:
sentiment,
...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
The shares of Cleveland-based National City Corp.
(NCC:
sentiment,
chart,
options)
are up more than 11% this morning after The Wall Street Journal reported that it's in talks with a number of other banks about a potential sale. The newspaper cited PNC Financial Services Group (P...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
'America can always be counted on to do the right thing, after it has exhausted all other possibilities.' - Winston Churchill
The recently passed $700 billion bailout bill does contain the authority for the Government to buy new preferred stock in troubled financial institutions. At yes...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...
Upbeat comments from International Business Machines Corp (IBM)...
Rumors that National City Corp (NCC) may be working on a sale...
Comments from Henry Paulson that suggest "the government may invest in ...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
There's good news and bad news today in the merger melodrama surrounding Wachovia Corporation
(WB:
sentiment,
chart,
options). First, warring suitors Citigroup Inc. (C) and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) have extended their legal standstill through Friday morning. Both banks continue to wor...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Methanex Corp. (MEOH) is the world's largest producer and marketer of methanol. The Menlo Park, California-based company is benefiting from improving fundamentals and lower costs, along with declining average gas costs. It also has strong cash flow that drives dividend increases and stock...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
As discussed here, I have resurrected a scan that focuses on companies that are heavily shorted. The purpose is to find stocks that could be in the midst of a potential short covering rally. More details about the methodology are listed below and more information on short interest is here.
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Thursday October 9, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Companies seeing a skew towards puts in the previous session: J. Crew Group, Inc. (JCG), Procter & Gamble (PG), Wells Fargo & Co (WFC), Moody's Corp. (MCO), QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM), National City Corp (NCC), Xerox Corp. (XRX), Google Inc (GOOG), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN), General Motors (GM), Del...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — timothysykes
God, I love putting up posts like this right on big down days in the market as millions of dumb investors are crying, confused as to why their blue-chip/value investments are getting crushed…welcome to the new world you friggin dinosaurs!
This getting-even-more-ridiculous-rather-quickly figu...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Here are the results for today's unusual stock volume scan. The scan looks at the previous day's volume and compares it to the recent average volume. It then sorts the stocks based on those that showed the biggest increase (the "unusual" part) in volume.
Companies included in today's scan are...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Good morning everyone - welcome to Thursday where we find a modest upside bias in stock futures. The S&Ps are 8 points above fair value. Gold is down 16.70.
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Thursday October 9, 2008 — timothysykes
Thank you to all of those emailing/commenting about whether LiveStock is on tomorrow–the answer is yes we’re live from 1-2PM EST at http://www.mogulus.com/livestock.
For those new to my site/mission in life, LiveStock is my weekly 1-hour live and interactive finance show, the only one...
Thursday October 9, 2008 — Stocks and Blogs
The Dow plunged almost 700 points today, and is down 17% just this week and 24% over the last 30 days. The drop is not just the result of the financial crisis that plaques the market today....
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Thursday October 9, 2008 — timothysykes
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Thursday October 9, 2008 — Wang's Happy Trading Daily Posts
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From Briefing.com
Periodicals Wrap-Up for Thursday, October 9
WALL STREET JOURNAL: Wal-Mart (WMT) initiated a retail price war, lowering the price of popular toys to $10. Target (TGT) and Amazon....