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Thursday May 1, 2008 — Wang's Happy Trading Daily Posts
Well, another rate cut, a quarter-point this time, turned out to be pretty much a “non-event”, at least for the market today. The market was up solidly just before the news came out, and, held steadily for about half-an-hour. Then, the market reversed. The market came back some befo...
Wednesday April 30, 2008 — Wang's Happy Trading Daily Posts
The market stayed pretty flat ahead of the Fed meeting tomorrow. Commodity related sectors sold off as crude dropped back down to $115 and change. Metals were mostly lower. It seemed that at least some money was rolling into technology sectors, as Nasdaq led the market.
V reported very good ear...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Baidu.comâs (BIDU) financial results for the first quarter again exceeded the market consensus. Being China's most popular search engine, Baidu has an advantage over rivals in China's fast-growing online advertising market.
In addition, Baidu continues to expand its product lines to at...
Friday April 25, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Baidu.com
(BIDU:
sentiment,
chart,
options)
announced that its first-quarter income skyrocketed 72% to RMB146.6 million, or $20.9 million, from RMB85.5 million as revenue more than doubled. On a per-share basis, earnings increased to 61 cents. Excluding items, earnings increased to...
Friday April 25, 2008 — Baidu.com, Inc.
BEIJING, April 24 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Baidu.com, Inc. , the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008(1). (1) This announcement contains translations of certain RMB amounts into
U.S. dolla...
Monday April 21, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...
Lower-than-expected earnings from Bank of America (BAC)...
Lower-than-expected earnings from Eli Lilly & Co (LLY)...
An upbeat earnings report from Hasbro Inc (HAS)...
The efforts by Google (GOOG)...
Monday April 21, 2008 — StockWeb
MondayEconomic: NAEarnings: Haliburton (HAL), Arch Coal (ACI), BofA (BAC), Weatherford (WFT), Novellus (NVLS), Netflix (NFLX), Texas Instruments (TXN), Vertex (VRTX)TuesdayEconomic: Existing Home Sales (4.95M)Earnings: ATT (T), Coach (COH), DuPont (DD), CME (CME), McDonalds (MCD), Smith (SII), Sun...
Friday April 18, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
In a post earlier this week - Baidu.com, Inc. (BIDU) Challenges the 300 Level...Again we saw that shares of Baidu.com were challenging an important level. The stock has now completed a successful push through that mark as the company is set to report earnings next week on April 24. Here is where...
Friday April 18, 2008 — Seven Summits Investment Research
CHICAGO, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Summits Research issues PriceWatch Alerts for key stocks.Seven Summits Strategic Investments' PriceWatch Alerts are available athttp://www.iotogo.com/s/041808A (Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)Today's Price...
Wednesday April 16, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
For the second time this month, shares of Baidu.com, Inc. (BIDU) are challenging an important level. In past posts I have discussed the significance of this zone and so far it has proved a challenge. But there is an interesting twist to the story now. Here is a look into the situation...
Cha...
Monday April 14, 2008 — Baidu.com, Inc.
BEIJING, April 14 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Baidu.com, Inc. , the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced that it will report its financial results for the first fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2008, after the U.S. market closes on April 24, 2008. Baidu's management will hol...
Tuesday April 8, 2008 — Seven Summits Investment Research
CHICAGO, April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Summits Research issues PriceWatch Alerts for key stocks.Seven Summits Strategic Investments' PriceWatch Alerts are available athttp://www.iotogo.com/s/040808B (Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)Today's ...
Tuesday April 8, 2008 — Baidu.com, Inc.
BEIJING, April 8, 2008 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Baidu.com, Inc. , the leading Chinese language Internet search engine, today announced the signing of an agreement with China Netcom Group (CNC) (NYSE: CN; 0906.HK) to jointly provide a Baidu-powered Internet search page for CNC users.(Logo: http://www...
Wednesday April 2, 2008 — Baidu.com, Inc.
BEIJING, April 2, 2008 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Baidu.com, Inc. , the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced the appointment of Mr. Peng Ye as chief operating officer, effective April 25th, 2008.(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041011/BAIDULOGO )"We are please...
Wednesday April 2, 2008 — Wang's Happy Trading Daily Posts
This weekend, in my Market Forecast, I said,
“For the new week, I think the market is in a good position to continue what it started early last week. We’ll again be watching to see if the market can rally above SPX 1340 and Nasdaq 2300. If it does, the important thing this week is for the ma...
Thursday March 27, 2008 — Seven Summits Research
CHICAGO, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Summits Research issues PriceWatch Alerts for key stocks.Seven Summits Strategic Investments' PriceWatch Alerts are available athttp://www.iotogo.com/s/032708A (Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)Today's Price...
Tuesday March 25, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...
The approval, by the Justice Department, of the merger between Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR)...[note - more on this can be found here...]
The bickering between Motorola Inc (MOT)...
Tuesday March 25, 2008 — Wang's Happy Trading Daily Posts
The market was in a jolly mood today! JPM announced that it would raised the buyout offer for BSC to $10/share. BSC shares doubled at one point, trading above $13. BSC closed at $11.25, up +88.76%. JPM also closed on the up side. Market seemed to like the news.
The Dow added +187.32 points;...
Friday March 21, 2008 — Baidu.com, Inc.
BEIJING, March 21 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Baidu.com, Inc. , the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced the appointment of Jennifer Li as chief financial officer, effective March 31, 2008.(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041011/BAIDULOGO )"We are thrilled to w...
Tuesday March 18, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Companies seeing a skew towards puts in the previous session: SPDR Trust Series I (SPY), Oracle Corp. (ORCL), Annaly Mortgage Management (NLY), FREDDIE MAC (FRE), Fannie Mae (FNM), Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER), AMR Corp. (AMR), Wachovia (WB), MORGAN STANLEY (MS), XM Satellite Radio (XMSR), AK Ste...
Thursday March 13, 2008 — Wang's Happy Trading Daily Posts
The market opened strong, continuing from yesterday’s rally. But, it started to fade in late morning, as profit-taking started to kick in (other people/articles might give other reasons). Within the last hour of trading, the profit-taking gained momentum and the market closed in the red. ...
Wednesday March 12, 2008 — Wang's Happy Trading Daily Posts
Wow, “what a difference a day makes!” It’s Fed to the rescue! $200 billion of liquidity to be pumped into the financial markets! Guess Simon & Garfunkel were right: when you “slip sliding away”, you’re almost there!
The market opened strong, dozed off until ...
Saturday March 8, 2008 — Seven Summits Investment Research
CHICAGO, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Summits Research releases NewsBites on key stocks.Seven Summits Strategic Investments NewsBites are available to all investors at:http://www.go7now.com/nb/0307Y (Note: You may have to copy this link into your browser then press the [ENTER] key.)Today's Seven...
Thursday March 6, 2008 — Baidu.com, Inc.
BEIJING, March 6 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Baidu.com, Inc. , the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced that Mr. Robin Li, Baidu's chairman and chief executive officer, will present at the Piper Jaffray ChinaVenture Investment Conference 2008 at the JW Marriott Hotel at T...
Friday February 29, 2008 — Baidu.com, Inc.
BEIJING, Feb. 29 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Baidu.com, Inc. , the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced its intention to launch an instant messaging (IM) service, called "Baidu Hi."(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041011/BAIDULOGO )"We are very excited to enter...