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Monday March 31, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Lamar Advertising Company (LAMR) is benefiting from the rebound in pricing for local advertising and a stronger billboard business. Despite increased capital expenditures in the effort to digitize signs, higher expenses related to the recently acquired outdoor advertising assets, and high...
Monday March 31, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Dow component Boeing
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soared into positive territory after reporting a couple of major contracts. First, Iraq stated that it has signed a contract to buy 40 new aircraft from Boeing for $5.5 billion, with the option to purchase 15 more. The pact is ...
Monday March 31, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
So, Treasury Secretary Paulson has "defended" his plan to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory structure this morning, noting that initial reviews of the plan were wrong. Initially, analysts believed that the regulation was a tad weak, but Paulson notes that "Those who want to quickly label...
Monday March 31, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Retailer Pier 1 Imports
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announced a deal today to sell its corporate headquarters facility in Forth Worth, Texas, to a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy (CHK) for $104 million. The retailer expects the deal to close by June 30. In a statement, presi...
Monday March 31, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Boston Scientific
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shares are about 1.5% higher after the firm said it plans to sell its Santa Rosa Corp. unit to TV2 Holding Company for $30 million in cash. The terms of the deal include a warrant for Boston Scientific to purchase a minority int...
Monday March 31, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Humana, Inc. (HUM) is one of the largest publicly traded health benefit companies in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. We regard the reaction to the recently revised FY08 guidance by the company, following updated projections for the company's FY08 stand-alone PDP segment, as overdone.
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Monday March 31, 2008 — TIM - Timothy Sykes
As I posted early this morning, there were lots of potential shorts today, but I had to be extra-choosy due to the SEC’s reign of terror over accounts under $25k (explanation down below).
Awoke early and reserves shares of my favs—placing my sell limit orders waaay high, intent on lowering...
Monday March 31, 2008 — timothysykes
As I posted early this morning, there were lots of potential shorts today, but I had to be extra-choosy due to the SEC’s reign of terror over accounts under $25k (explanation down below).
Awoke early and reserves shares of my favs—placing my sell limit orders waaay high, intent on lowering...
Monday March 31, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
The outlook for AAON, Inc. (AAON) may appear a bit clouded to some observers, as orders reportedly are up, but backlog is declining. However, one bright spot for AAON is that the Canadian dollar has backed-off after a significant run-up, which helps with product that is bid in U.S. dollar...
Monday March 31, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Anheuser-Busch Companies (BUD) is benefiting from industry consolidation of production and a growing international beer presence from management's astute acquisition strategy. Though there are concerns about higher commodity costs, especially energy, agricultural, and packaging costs, the...
Monday March 31, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
There was only a little economic data slated for release today. According to a survey of corporate purchasing managers, business activity in the Chicago region contracted in March, but the contraction was less severe than in February. The Chicago purchasing managers index (PMI) was at 48.2% in M...
Monday March 31, 2008 — Condor Options
Markets showed some strength today, although not nearly as much as some were expecting. The Dow hit an intraday high of 12,326 (up 100+ points) but each intraday rally was consistently met with selling pressure. The conventional wisdom is that this was largely end-of-the-quarter “window dre...
Monday March 31, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Earnings rolled in from egg producer Cal-Maine Foods
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and investors aren't happy. The company posted fiscal third-quarter net income earnings of $57.2 million, or $2.41 per share, compared to its year-ago profit of $17.4 million, or 74 cents per sh...
Monday March 31, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
The trading session has started, and the final day of the first quarter is off to a slight gain. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is speaking, so we will have to see exactly how the market reacts (and as I typed that last sentence, the Dow slipped into negative territory).
With the initial ple...
Monday March 31, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Wonder Auto Technology (WATG), is a beneficiary of a high market share in alternator and starter production in China, along with strategic positioning in the faster growing sub-segments in these markets. Wonder Auto Technology announced that its subsidiary, Jinzhou Electrical Equipment Co...
Monday March 31, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is scheduled to announce a proposal to completely overhaul the regulation of the financial sector this morning. Among his key provisions are greatly enhanced oversight by the Federal Reserve and the elimination of the Securities and Exchange Commission as ...
Monday March 31, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
This morning, AT&T
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announced that it won a 5-year communications services contract with Royal Dutch Shell worth up to $1.6 billion. Under the terms of the deal, AT&T will provide managed network services to Shell and its subsidiary companies in more ...
Monday March 31, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Welcome to the beginning of the week ladies and gents, and let me be the first to say Play Ball! Today is basically a holiday in Cincinnati, as the Opening Day parade will welcome the Redlegs back to the baseball field. There is a good deal of news welcoming traders back to the week, so let's g...
Monday March 31, 2008 — Fingad.com
This week we will look at what will be a fairly controversial essay by good friend Michael Lewitt of HCM. In light of today's speech by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson of the re-organization of the regulatory system in the US, Michael suggest we look at what the real problems...
Monday March 31, 2008 — TIM - Timothy Sykes
Ever since I put that little “subscribe to TIM” RSS feed icon in the top right corner of this site, I’ve gotten used to receiving wannabe-nasty comments like “I’ll never subscribe to your theories!” and “TIM really stands for Totallly Irrelevant Moron̶...
Monday March 31, 2008 — timothysykes
Ever since I put that little “subscribe to TIM” RSS feed icon in the top right corner of this site, I’ve gotten used to receiving wannabe-nasty comments like “I’ll never subscribe to your theories!” and “TIM really stands for Totallly Irrelevant Moron̶...
Monday March 31, 2008 — StockWeb
Consumer prices in New Europe continue to grow up. Like Baltic states where for all three countries inflation is above 10 %. The highest rate is in Latvia with 16,5% followed by Estonia (11,5%) and Lithuania (10,9%). EU newcomers Bulgaria and Romania don't skew with 12,2% respectively 8%.Also othe...
Monday March 31, 2008 — Stock Market Beat
This morning Ansys (ANSS) announced it would buy Ansoft (ANST) for $16.25 per share in cash and 0.431882 shares of Ansys. A conference call discussing the deal will be webcast at 11:30 EST.
Ansoft is a leading developer of high-performance EDA software. The software is based on more than 25 years...
Monday March 31, 2008 — TraderBlog.com
CURRENCIES
The June U.S. dollar index is slightly lower in early trading today. Bears still have the near-term technical advantage. Slow stochastics for the dollar index are neutral early today. The dollar index finds shorter-term technical resistance at 72.25 and then at 72.50. Shorter-term supp...
Monday March 31, 2008 — TraderBlog.com
CURRENCIES
The June U.S. dollar index is slightly lower in early trading today. Bears still have the near-term technical advantage. Slow stochastics for the dollar index are neutral early today. The dollar index finds shorter-term technical resistance at 72.25 and then at 72.50. Shorter-term supp...