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GOOG   Google's Black Box Wins, Again 04/18/08   —  4/17 - "What happened to Wall St. is that it was fooled into thinking that Google's growth had nearly stopped. More important, investors did not understand that the firm had built a better black box, again. The advantage Google has had for five years now over competitors like Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO)...
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JPM   J.P. Morgan's Share Sale a Sign that Financials are Bottoming? 04/17/08   —  4/17 - "JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) may be raising cash it does not need to prepare its balance sheet for more losses. The bank reported a $2.37 billion profit. That was down by half from a year ago, but was still an impressive number...So, why raise the capital? The answer may be in news that Wilbur Ross, ...
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DAL   NWA   Delta and Northwest: A Day Late and a Dollar Short 04/16/08   —  4/14 - "The revived merger between Delta (DAL) and Northwest (NWA) is based on the premise that, in a airline industry depression, two carriers mashed together work better than if they remained independent. It is an argument which is half again too clever but has no merit to speak of...The more painf...
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Graphic_rating_sell YHOO   Microsoft may be lowering Yahoo! offer 04/04/08   —  Word has hit several media outlets that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) will drop the price of its bid for Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO). According to Reuters "Microsoft Corp is evaluating its offer for Yahoo Inc in light of worsening market conditions." The odds are high that someone at Microsof...
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LUV   AMR   The Idiocy Behind Airline Mergers 04/02/08   —  The math behind airline mergers doesn't add up, and the fact that the two most successful airlines in the US, American (NYSE: AMR) and Southwest (NYSE: LUV) are not merger happy is because they know the weakness of the math.
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UBS   UBS (UBS) To Mark-Down Value Of Auction-Rate Securities 04/01/08   —  In a move that will bloody a number of its customers, UBS (UBS) will mark down the value of auction-rate securities held by its customers. According to The Wall Street Journal the bank "began on Friday to lower the values of so-called auction-rate securities held by its clients, a move that will be a...
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Graphic_rating_sell AMD   AMD's (AMD) New Chip Needs Dentures 03/31/08   —  AMD (AMD) has been bragging that it will introduce a new high-end chip for desk-top computers. It will make PCs run faster, especially for hungry video and gaming applications. The chip, Phenom, is about to hit the market. Unfortunately, the competing product from Intel (INTC) has more power and a...
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VZ   T   Big FCC Auction Winners: Verizon (VZ) And AT&T (T) 03/28/08   —  Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) was the biggest winner of the Federal Communications Commission’s 700 MHz auction, winning six large licenses that i will give it air space to provide next-generation wireless broadband service in the C-Block of the spectrum vacated by broadcast television.
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VZ   Verizon (VZ) Flanks The Cable Guys Again 03/28/08   —  Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has started to give the cable companies fits with its new fiber-based TV and broadband services. The offering has all of the advantages of cable products and claims to have faster connection speeds. Even if it does not, cable now has direct competition from a company with a hefty b...
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MSFT   INTC   Microsoft (MSFT) And Intel (INTC) To Reinvent The Wheel 03/20/08   —  With the performance of the PC reaching its natural limits, the companies with the most at stake, Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) are hoping to take computing in directions which users can only imagine.
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Graphic_rating_sell FRE   Fannie Mae (FNM) And Freddie Mac (FRE) May Take Sharedholers Under 03/19/08   —  Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) has a market cap of about $12 billion. At Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) that number is closer to $22 billion. Both company's stocks are down about 70% from their 52-week highs. The firms suffer from the same subprime-related products that have driven a number of money center banks an...
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ABK   Ambac (ABK) Insiders Make Big Share Purchases, Nice Return 03/18/08   —  At the end of the week, Ambac (NYSE: ABK) raised $1.5 billion and was able to keep it "Aaa" rating, essential for the company and the bonds it insures. The capital may have solved some of Ambac's short term problems, but the number of shares sold to bring in the money caused huge dilution for exis...
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OIL   Oil At $100 Beyond 2016 03/17/08   —  Oil hit nearly $112 today. The debate now is not over whether oil will be at $100 for the near-term. Traders and economists are focused on whether a recession will take oil demand, and prices down, or whether falling supply will keep prices high. The bets are beginning to move in the direction of ...
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