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Earnings For The S&P 500 Expected To Be Highest In Years (AAPL, CAT, DOW)
Friday, January 7, 2011 - 11:32am | 175Earnings for the fourth quarter for the S&P 500 are expected to be the highest they've been in years, according to this article from Bloomberg. Companies like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), and Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) are all expected to post strong earnings, thanks in large...
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Single Stock VIXs?
Friday, January 7, 2011 - 9:30am | 686Bill Luby from the Vix And More blog stumbled across what I think can be very useful if it catches on. The Chicago Board Option Exchange will start calculating a VIX like index for five individual stocks. Specifically a "VIX" will be calculated for Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG),...
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Reaction Day
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 10:43pm | 277Breadth came in at 2,300 gainers to 3,300 declines. The bears made a small dent. Once again, the stronger dollar hurt oil, gold and commodities. Weak same-store sales data hurt retailers, but the semiconductor and pharmaceutical did well. Tomorrow will be driven by the monthly jobs report with...
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Fast Money Pops & Drops, January 6th (DELL, BA, TOL, MEE, PLCE)
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 8:27pm | 278CNBC Fast Money's Joe Terranova said in the segment of the show called "Stock Pops & Drops" that he doesn't like Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL). He believes that Dell Inc. (DELL) gained 2.81%, because investors were impressed by the new 7-inch touchscreen tablet. Stephen Weiss explained that Massey...
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4 Companies Investing in Themselves - Investment Ideas
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 7:03pm | 1487While consumers may be struggling to keep cash in the bank, companies are flush with it these days. In fact, non-financial companies in the United States have nearly $2 trillion sitting in cash. That's a serious amount of dough. Time to Put that Money to Work During the financial panic, it made...
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Avnet Sells New ProSys Corp. - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 6:00pm | 624Avnet, Inc. (AVT) recently announced that it sold its non-core asset New ProSys Corp. to ACS Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of Applied Computer Solutions. The total sale consideration includes a cash payment at closing and a three-year earn-out amount based upon New ProSys Corps' anticipated...
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Avnet Sells New ProSys Corp. - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 5:26pm | 624Avnet, Inc. (AVT) recently announced that it sold its non-core asset New ProSys Corp. to ACS Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of Applied Computer Solutions. The total sale consideration includes a cash payment at closing and a three-year earn-out amount based upon New ProSys Corps' anticipated...
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Dell Up On CES Announcement (DELL)
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 4:10pm | 58Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is up more than 2% after the company announced its tablet, the Streak 7 at the CES today. At last check, shares of DELL were up 28 cents to $14.15, a gain of 2.02%. Dell designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and supports computer systems, as well as provides...
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Qualcomm Acquiring Atheros - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 4:03pm | 760Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), the largest global manufacturer of mobile phone chipsets, has decided to acquire leading Wi-Fi chip maker Atheros Communications Inc. (ATHR) for around $3.2 billion. According to our view, the primary reason of this acquisition is to offer an innovative product that will...
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Bloomberg: Apple Approached Tosi to Be CFO
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 3:28pm | 95Bloomberg is out with a story this afternoon that says Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) management approached Blackstone Group's Chief Financial Officer Laurence Tosi to become its finance chief. This information was obtained from three different individuals with “knowledge of the matter.” Tosi...
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Qualcomm Acquiring Atheros - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 3:24pm | 760Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), the largest global manufacturer of mobile phone chipsets, has decided to acquire leading Wi-Fi chip maker Atheros Communications Inc. (ATHR) for around $3.2 billion. According to our view, the primary reason of this acquisition is to offer an innovative product that will...
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EMC Revamps, Cuts Earnings Outlook - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 1:33pm | 785Data storage company, EMC Corporation (EMC) has cut its GAAP earnings outlook for fiscal 2010 due to a restructuring charge of approximately $90 million to be incurred in the fourth quarter of 2010. The charge will be incurred as part of reorganization in EMC's international business. EMC...
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EMC Revamps, Cuts Earnings Outlook - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 1:00pm | 785Data storage company, EMC Corporation (EMC) has cut its GAAP earnings outlook for fiscal 2010 due to a restructuring charge of approximately $90 million to be incurred in the fourth quarter of 2010. The charge will be incurred as part of reorganization in EMC's international business. EMC...
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Skechers Selects Teradata Appliance
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 11:01am | 44Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) today announced that SKECHERS USA, Inc. (NYSE: SKX) has selected a Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance as the keystone to its next-generation business intelligence infrastructure.
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Updates From CES So Far (AAPL, MSFT, SNE, MMI, T)
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 10:48am | 201Thanks to our friends at Mashable, here are some of the major developments, at the 2011 CES so far. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced its Mac App Store. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) had a slew of announcements. Steve Ballmer said the Kinect has sold more than 8 million units so far. It also showed off a...