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Movement Expected In The Shares Of These Companies Amid Significant Events (BRK.B, BX, JPM, ORCL,YHOO)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 5:32pm | 524According to a Bloomberg report, the shares of the following companies may see some unusual trading moves today. After the close of Friday’s trading, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B), the insurance and investment company owned by Warren Buffet, became part of the S&P 500 index....
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PETS To Benefit From Bayer’s Decision
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 2:43pm | 145Analyst Ross Taylor of CL King maintains his "strong buy" rating on PetMed Express Inc (NASDAQ: PETS). The target price for PETS is set to $26. According to CL King, PetMed Express is expected to benefit from Bayer’s (NYSE: BAY) decision to sell its Advantage product line directly to pet specialty...
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Kindle - Multibillion Dollar Opportunity For AMZN
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 2:39pm | 126Analysts at Collins Stewart maintain their "buy" rating on Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN). The target price for AMZN is set to $150. According to Collins Stewart, Kindle is still the most compelling ebook device and a major contributor to Amazon.com’s non-core revenue growth, although competition...
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PCLN December Quarter Results To Beat Expectations
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 2:37pm | 125Analysts at Collins Stewart maintain their "hold" rating on Priceline.com Inc (NASDAQ: PCLN). The target price for PCLN is set to $225. Priceline.com is scheduled to report its December quarter results on February 17. Collin Stewart expects PCLN’s results to be significantly ahead of the estimates...
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VanceInfo Technologies (VIT) - China's Version of Infosys Technologies (INFY)?
Monday, February 15, 2010 - 4:07pm | 1246I've had VanceInfo Technologies (VIT) in my pool of "up and coming companies to keep an eye on" for about 4 months now; last week Investors Business Daily did their (as usual) excellent summary of a company, so this would seem a good time to introduce the stock to the website. This is quite an...
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Reviewing the Generals
Monday, February 15, 2010 - 3:29pm | 1544With the major indexes just below key resistance areas, it is a useful time to circle back and look at "the generals" of the market; i.e. the leadership stocks aka the "go to" stocks when institutional money wants in. While it is a 'stock market', in the end its a 'market of stocks' - even if...
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Bookkeeping: Weekly Changes to Fund Positions Year 3, Week 28
Monday, February 15, 2010 - 3:01pm | 1799Year 3, Week 28 Major Position Changes To see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of this entry entitled 'fund positions'. Cash: 78.1% (v 83.5% last week) 20 long bias: 13.8% (v 7.8% last week) 5 short bias: 8.1% (v 8.7% last week) [Includes 2 'long dollar' positions...
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Blue Nile (NILE) Maintains Negative Rating, Falls 4%
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 8:30pm | 137Susquehanna Financial Group analysts Marianne Wolk and Malindi Davies maintained their Negative rating for shares of Blue Nile, Inc. (Nasdaq: NILE) and price target of $34. The Susquehanna analysts noted that Blue Nile missed both Susquehanna's and wall Street's consensus expectations for holiday...
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Expedia, Inc. (EXPE) Maintains A Positive Rating
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 6:00pm | 112Analysts at SIG Susquehanna have maintained a Positive rating for Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE). Analysts have set a price target of $30 for the Expedia, Inc. stock. The company posted solid results in the fourth-quarter. However, the shares of the company saw weakness due to concerns about hotel...
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Blue Nile Inc. (NILE) Slips Into Further Weakness
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 2:32pm | 120The online jewelry retailer Blue Nile Inc. (NASDAQ: NILE) posted Q4 results late Thursday which missed the analysts’ expectations. Blue Nile Inc. (NILE) reported earnings of 35 cents per share on revenue of $102.9 million against the analysts’ estimated earnings of 38 cents per share and revenue of...
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Top 5 Stocks Falling on Unusual Volume (BWLD, NILE, IR, SSRI, BGC)
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 1:10pm | 227Earlier we had mentioned five stocks rising on unusual volume, so here are five falling on unusual volume. Shares of restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings (Nasdaq: BWLD) are receiving selling pressure down -12.27% at $42.46 per share. The chain common known as "B Dubs" has disappointed investors...
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Blue Nile (NILE) Shares Plunge After Earnings Report And Downgrade
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 12:42pm | 58Shares of Blue Nile, Inc. (Nasdaq: NILE) fell more than 6% the day after the company released a disappointing earnings report. Shares of Blue Nile's stock were also downgraded by Benchmark from Hold to Sell and the price target was lowered from $60 to $35. The online jewelry retailer's 52 week...
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Benzinga’s Top Downgrades (MITI, VCLK, NILE, PCYC, CSTR)
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 11:41am | 221Micromet, Inc (NASDAQ: MITI) was downgraded by RBC Capital Markets from “outperform” to “sector perform.” MITI’s shares have slipped 3.68% to $7.85 by 10:16 am. Micromet has a 52-week trading range of $2.25-$8.48. RBC Capital Markets downgraded ValueClick Inc (NASDAQ: VCLK) from “outperform” to “...
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Expedia (EXPE) Shares Upgraded To Buy
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 11:02am | 101Kaufman Bros. analyst Aaron Kessler raised his rating of Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE) shares from Hold to Buy, with a price target of $27. Expedia, Inc. is an online travel company that manages several travel related businesses, such as expedia.com, hotels.com, hotwire.com and TripAdvicor. The 52...
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Netflix (NFLX) Initiated With Market Perform
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 10:11am | 54Analysts at BMO Capital initiate coverage of Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) with a "market perform" rating. The target price for NFLX is set to $70. NFLX’s shares rose by 3.04% to close at $63.36 yesterday. Read more about the market