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Yesterday 12:04am — SchaeffersResearch
Salesforce.com
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said this morning that it agreed to buy Instranet Inc., a maker of call-center technology, for $31.5 million in cash and the assumption of $4.2 million in cash on the latter company's balance sheet. CRM supplies online services for s...
Yesterday 12:00am — SchaeffersResearch
Goldman Sachs
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lowered the boom on bank and brokerage stocks today, cutting its profit estimates for the sector. GS stated, "We expect third-quarter results will be hampered by declining global equity markets, further deterioration in mortgage assets...
Yesterday 11:51pm — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
May quarter revenue for National Semiconductor Corp. (NSM) was in-line with consensus expectations, although the EPS exceeded. Both order rates and backlog picked up in the last quarter and distributor inventory levels remain low.
Forward revenue guidance is flat-to-up 3% Q1. New higher...
Yesterday 11:34pm — Investing Intelligently
Vancouver Condo Info posted two housing market forecasts from Helmut Pastrick, one from March 17th, 2008 and one from August 20th, 2008. They are remarkably different.
The first one from the CBC goes like this:
housing prices will continue to rise by as much as 10 per cent this year and as much as...
Yesterday 11:28pm — SchaeffersResearch
I really thought that this was going to be a simple blog covering eBay's
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news announcement, but that changed after I looked at the first line of the company's press release: In time for the holiday shopping season. Seriously. I initially wondere...
Yesterday 11:23pm — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Watsco, Inc. (WSO) reported second quarter 2008 EPS of $0.94, above our estimate of $0.88 and up 6.8% year-over-year, amid strong revenue growth and higher gross profit as well as contributions from various profit improvement activities implemented in early 2008.
WSO has the liquidity p...
Yesterday 11:04pm — SchaeffersResearch
Despite an unexpected surge in crude stockpiles, supply concerns have pushed the front-month crude oil contract into positive territory this morning. The Energy Department reported that crude inventories surged by 9.4 million barrels last week to 305.9 million barrels. Analysts were expectin...
Yesterday 11:03pm — timothysykes
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Yesterday 11:01pm — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
We expect Autonation, Inc. (AN), the largest automotive retailer in the U.S., to be hurt by a continuing weak new car market. The company is disproportionately exposed to Florida and California, states that will be hit the most by a slowing car market. As a result, we rate the shares a Se...
Yesterday 10:35pm — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Principal Financial Group's (PFG) operating earnings of $0.97 per diluted share were slightly below our expectations.
Losses in the spread and securitization business, reflecting volatile conditions in the global credit markets, deteriorated operating earnings in the US Asset accumulati...
Yesterday 10:08pm — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
We maintain a Hold rating on Genta Incorporated (GNTA), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing drugs for the treatment of cancer.
Unfortunately, the company has entered into a survival mode due to the shortage of cash. With the non-approval of Genasense fo...
Yesterday 10:01pm — SchaeffersResearch
A check of the preliminary action shows some marked weakness in shares of UAL Corporation (UAUA). The stock is down more than 12% and this caught my eye given the recent discussion about short interest. Here is a look at what is going on.
Chart Courtesy of Thomson Financial
The premise o...
Yesterday 9:50pm — SchaeffersResearch
Goldman Sachs weighed in on a couple of its investment-banking peers this morning, with the brokerage firm recommending a pairs trade on Morgan Stanley
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and Citigroup
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. Analyst William Tanona is bullish o...
Yesterday 9:45pm — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Visteon Corp.'s (VC) near-term prospects have been dampened by constant production cuts at Ford (F), higher costs and uncertainty about its restructuring efforts. An apparent rise in non-Ford revenue was not enough to drive the stock.
The current cost structure combined with spiraling r...
Yesterday 9:40pm — SchaeffersResearch
Wachovia Corporation
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is taking another step toward unloading some of its toxic loan portfolio, according to reports this morning. A joint venture created by LandCap Partners is buying $40 million of the bank's land and construction loans, which ha...
Yesterday 9:32pm — SchaeffersResearch
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported today that applications for U.S. home mortgages dropped last week to their most sluggish pace since December 2000. The group's seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity declined by 1.5% to 419.3 in the week ended August 15, whil...
Yesterday 9:20pm — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Although the current business fundamentals at United Therapeutics Corp. (UTHR) are solid, we are seeing several potential hiccups coming in the next year. With the stock up 65% over the past twelve months and currently trading at 50x our 2008 EPS estimate, we believe investors are pricing...
Yesterday 9:13pm — SchaeffersResearch
Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...
Earnings from Analog Devices Inc.(ADI)...
Earnings from Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ)...
Earnings from Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd (STP)...
Earnings from BJ's Wholesale Club Inc (BJ)...
Lower sel...
Yesterday 8:29pm — SchaeffersResearch
Companies seeing a skew towards puts in the previous session: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LEH), Bank of America (BAC), Sun Microsystems (JAVA), Wachovia (WB), DIAMONDS Trust Series I (DIA), Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), General Motors (GM), Dell (DELL), Dendreon (DN...
Yesterday 7:58pm — 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...
Yesterday 7:49pm — SchaeffersResearch
Good morning everyone - welcome to the middle of the trading week where we find stock futures showing a moderate upside bias. The S&Ps are 5 points above fair value. Gold is up 1.80.
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Yesterday 4:22pm — timothysykes
Rule #1: dedication…I’m doing this post on a layover in the Toronto Airport!
Building a successful blog/internet brand ain’t easy. Nine months into this game, ‘m still workin’ 16-18 hour days…and lovin’ every second of it. Check out THIS awesome near-hourl...
Yesterday 1:49pm — timothysykes
I’ll try to check in throughout the day, but I’ve got 17 hours of flying to do today, so pretty much count me out. Here are the stocks I’m watching:
DYAX had a continued failed brekaout, boring messy chart, next!
POGS Dark Bitch is bragging how he found the stock a day before me,...
Yesterday 1:15pm — Wang's Happy Trading Daily Posts
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From Briefing.com
Periodicals Wrap-Up for Wednesday, August 20
WALL STREET JOURNAL: A venture led by residential land company LandCap Partners is buying $40M of land and construction loans from Wachovia ...
Yesterday 1:15pm — TraderBlog.com
CRUDE OIL
Crude oil prices are higher early today, on reports that Goldman Sachs has predicted oil prices will move above $140.00 a barrel by the end of the year. In September crude, look for buy stops to reside just above resistance at $116.00 and then just above resistance at this week's high o...