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Very low current and forward Price to Earnings ratio when compared to its peers in the IT sector.Also has a nice world-wide diversification in sales and services.The company has also thrived under new leadership.Briefly

1)It looks cheap in comparison to other IT companies,

2)Has nice world-wide diversification in sales,

3)Also showed good sales and income growth in its recent results.

The MSFT Yahoo deal fell through.

On the day the markets were doomed for collasp MSFT saves the day. I said it then and I will say it now. SOMETHING SMELLED FISHY.

the news that corporate America was in contraction for the first tim in years was huge. Even strtanger was this news was based on CORRECTIONS. In other words the Federal Government knew the bomb was coming. Then along came their savior with a BS hostile take-over proposal.

A contraction in corporate America means massive reduction in technology spending. NOBODY THAT IS NET LAYING PEOPLE OFF SPENDS MONEY ON COMPUTE

By Dr. Declan Fallon

CXO Advisory Group monitors a lenghty list of Gurus and their related market calls. But the rankings are misleading for the reasons given below. The current list of leading gurus who have an accuracy call of 50% or higher is given below. Click to enlarge:

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Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) wants out of the business of owning factories that make PCs. According to The Wall Street Journal, "Dell has approached contract computer manufacturers with offers to sell the plants." Owning the manufacturing facilities cuts Dell's margins.

Analysts believe that in the current environment where laptops have taken the lead in PC market share owning facilities that pump out massive numbers desktops is no longer practical.

Dell could be making a huge mistake in the nam

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Analyst upgrades:

• Oppenheimer upgraded shares of Shanda Interactive (NASDAQ: SNDA) to Outperform from Perform following the company's better-than-expected quarter to reflect its growth acceleration in the casual games platform and margin improvements.
  
• SAIC (NYSE: SAI) was upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform following the solid Q2 report and guidance.
  
• Susquehanna upgra

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