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Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, CV Therapeutics, Inc. (CVTX) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on applying molecular cardiology to the discovery, development and commercialization of novel, small molecule drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Several big regulatory deci...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...
A 112% spike in foreclosures...
Earnings from Visa Inc (V)...
Earnings from MasterCard Inc (MA)...
Earnings from U.S. Steel Corp (X)...
Earnings from Corning Inc (GLW)...
Earnings from Countrywi...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — timothysykes
It’s trades like MXC that really make my blood boil. While PDO was a near perfect trade—even though I profited 30 cents/share, it’s now down $1.25ish just 1 day later (gotta love not being willing to risk it while traveling!)—as I posted, I never meant to enter MXC at all so this morning I j...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
A day after rival Visa (V) stepped into the earnings spotlight, MasterCard
(MA:
sentiment,
chart,
options)
took its turn this morning. The credit-card titan reported first-quarter net income of $446.9 million, or $3.38 per share, more than doubling from last year's profit of $214.9...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (SXL) reported strong first-quarter 2008 results, primarily due to high oil prices and good performance from its Western Pipeline segment. Sunoco reported better-than-expected first-quarter 2008 earnings of $43.2 million or $1.07 per limited partner diluted ...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Companies seeing a skew towards puts in the previous session: SPDR Trust Series I (SPY), Southern (SO), Corning Incorporated (GLW), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), General Electric (GE), Lehman Brothers (LEH), Radioshack (RSH), Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER), Newmont Mining (NEM), Avon Products (AVP), ...
Tuesday April 29, 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...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Good morning everyone - welcome to the second day of this trading week where we find stock futures continuing yesterday's sluggish action. The S&Ps are a point a half below fair value. Gold is down 10.80 to 884.70.
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Tuesday April 29, 2008 — timothysykes
That’s right, it’s that time of year again…my annual award is open to ALL Tulane students, faculty AND alumni–it’s not academic or athletic–there are waaaay too many of those–this is for anybody who’s even the least bit talented or passionate about ...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Wang's Happy Trading Daily Posts
bagger: a trade that more than doubles in profit; at least +100% profit. A 2-bagger would be a trade that trippled, or +200% profit.
Hello, everyone! Just returned from my vacation. Instead of jumping right back into my usual market analysis posts, I thought I’d post something more educa...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Wang's Happy Trading Daily Posts
Submitted By Optiondragon
The Killers - All These Things That I Have Done -UK Version
From briefing.com
Media Digest 4/29/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg by 24/7 Wallst.
According to Reuters, Cadbury is looking at buying Hershey.
Reuters writes that banks being sued by Clear Chann...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — timothysykes
Speech at U of M went well last night, 100 or so in attendance, pics and maybe even some video to come shortly—some Dealbreaker loser live blogged it in the comments section of THIS post (although misquoting / drawing the wrong conclusions aka guy has a bright future as an ANALyst!) God, I love sp...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — TraderBlog.com
GOLD
Gold is lower in early dealings today. Bears still have some downside technical momentum on their side. For June gold, shorter-term technical resistance is seen at the overnight high of $890.00 and then at the overnight high of $895.80. Buy stops likely reside just above those levels. Sell s...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — TraderBlog.com
Tuesday, April 29--Jim Wyckoff's Morning Web Log
OVERNIGHT/EARLY MORNING DEVELOPMENTS
The market feature in overnight/early morning trading today is a stronger U.S. dollar and weaker crude oil and gold prices. U.S. stock indexes are weaker early today.
* JIM'S MARKET THOUGHT OF THE DAY *
Whil...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Stock Market Beat
My latest column is up at RealMoney.
An article in Sunday’s New York Times (NYT) said consumers are tightening their belts — perhaps literally as well as figuratively — when it comes to food buying. The Times quoted retail consultant Burt Flickinger, who drew parallels to the...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) turned in a fantastic quarter this morning. Highlights.. -- Net sales and other operating income increased 64% to $18.7 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 and 51% or $16.2 billion for the nine months.-- Third quarter segment operating profit increased 54% t...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Fingad.com
Bharat Electronics - Q4 Net profit swells 41.36% - by mittar_b State-run heavy electrical equipments maker Bharat Electronics , a technology driven multi-product, multi-unit company announced a substantial rise in standalone net profit for the quarter ended March 2008, helped by better operatin...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
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Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
Ever hear the saying "throw some $#%t against the wall and see what sticks"? Thus seems to be Blockbuster's (BBI) current business plan. After being late to the video by mail model, late to the box top set model, talking about turning their obsolete locations into Apple Stores (AAPL) like location...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — pencils2
Lately rice supply has become a very big concern around the world. Here in the U.S. we do not feel the pinch nearly as much as those in countries whose main (and sometimes only) food is rice. What will be interesting to see is how a world economy deals with this problem, because many countries are...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
Wednesday's PicksKaren Finerman recommends Altria (MO) $20.24 on the dip.Pete Najarian prefers Biogen (BIIB0 $61.33 also on the dip.For the second day in a row Guy Adami recommends shorting the Dow with Short Dow30 ProShares (DOG) $60.65 Jeff Macke thinks Citigroup (C) $26.32 is a sell.Tuesday'...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
For the most part it was an uneventful day. The S&P 500 (SPX) traded in a low-to-high range of around 8 points and finished close enough to the breakeven line for me to call it flat.
A look to the sector action shows little going on there either. We had mild strength the PowerShares Clean E...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Fingad.com
Deutsche Bank launches India real estate business - by Aru_bhanotDeutsche Bank launched its global alternative investment management business RREEF Alternative Investments (RREEF) in India. It plans to invest over $1 billion in India across real estate and infrastructure sectors over the next th...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Metabolix Inc. (MBLX) is a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of environmentally sustainable, economically attractive alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics, fuels and chemicals. While we are excited about the prospects of Mirel (Metabolixâs firs...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Fingad.com
Indian economy crippled by inflation - by srini48_vasanNever in the Indian history that the inflation has touched the all time high of 7.33% and the prices of essential commodities have soared in a racket speed.The govt of india is making all out efforts to contain them.The finance minister goes o...