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Zacks Earnings Preview: Hewlett Packard, Analog Devices, Medtronic, Campbell Soup and Deere - Press Releases
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 6:01am | 1245For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – November 22, 2010 – Zacks.com releases the list of companies likely to issue earnings surprises. This week's list includes: Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Analog Devices (ADI), Medtronic (MDT), Campbell Soup (CPB) and Deere (DE). To see more earnings analysis, visit http...
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Stock Market News for November 22, 2010 - Market News
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 4:56am | 989U.S. stocks closed with modest gains Friday as investors digested a week of volatile trading that was characterized by Ireland's debt woes and worries about Chinese growth. The blue-chip Dow average, after trading much of the session in the negative territory, closed the day with a slight gain....
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Fitch Ratings Downgrade Nokia - Analyst Blog
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 3:59am | 781Nokia Corp. (NOK), the struggling mobile phone manufacturer, has recently received a major blow as the rating firm Fitch Ratings has downgraded its debt rating and provided a negative outlook. Fitch downgraded Nokia's long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) and senior unsecured rating by one notch...
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11/21/10 Weekend Update & Outlook - Unchanged For The Week, But Quite A Ride
Sunday, November 21, 2010 - 4:17pm | 1235Even with volatility earlier in the week Markets finish exactly flat. Friday's options expiration was a lesson in pinning (when a market or security is magnetized to a specific significant strike, for example S&P 1200). Markets hovered around opening prices all day Friday. Let's see how the...
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Dan Nathan's Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) Trade
Sunday, November 21, 2010 - 3:09pm | 156On CNBC's Options Action, Dan Nathan said that he is watching Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ). He said that Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) is going to report earnings next week, and the options market is implying a 4% move. On earnings, it has moved 3% on average over the last eight quarters,...
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High Yield No Debt Stocks
Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 12:44pm | 412Debt can have its advantages, such as leverage, but can also be a burden. Many successful companies are debt free, such as Apple (AAPL) or have very low debt relative to cash, such as Amazon (AMZN). If you combine the debt free feature with a high yield, you may have a recipe for a successful...
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Trading Realities
Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 2:25am | 444The book Trading Realities: The Truth, the Lies, and the Hype In-Between by Jeff Augen is a very easy-to-read guide to avoiding fallacies, such as buying for the long term and holding onto stocks that have paper losses, and utilizing new strategies to viewing trends, analyzing and reducing risk,...
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Stocks Inch Up on Strength Among Retailers
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 3:51pm | 276(TheStreet) -- Stocks ventured into positive territory late in Friday's trading session lifted by shares of retailers and conglomerates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up by 3 points, or 0.03%, to 11,185. The S&P 500 was 2 points, or 0.1% higher, at 1198, and the Nasdaq Composite tacked...
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Dell Maintaining Its Pace - Analyst Blog
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 3:33pm | 840Dell Inc. (DELL) reported third quarter fiscal 2011 earnings per share (EPS) of 45 cents, exceeding the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 32 cents. Revenues Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 were $15.4 billion, up 19.0% from $12.9 billion reported in the year-ago quarter. The company's...
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Stuffing the Turkey with Data - Earnings Preview
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 3:00pm | 4934Earnings Preview 11/19/10 The third quarter earnings season is now almost over; just a handful of stragglers, mostly October fiscal ends, are left to report. Next week only 81 firms will report, but 9 of those will be S&P 500 firms, including Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Analog Devices (ADI), ...
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Buyers In Hewlett-Packard Before Monday's Earnings (HPQ)
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 2:43pm | 102Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is hitting a new intra-day high. The shares are up 1.22% to $42.20. The company will be reporting earnings on Monday after the closing bell. Wall Street analysts anticipate the company will report earnings per share of $1.27. In the year ago period the company reported...
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Investors Are Praising Salesforce.com But Now's the Time to Be Careful
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 12:57pm | 546By Ben McClure The market cheered Salesforce.com's (NYSE: CRM) impressive third-quarter numbers, pushing the stock up another 10% in after-market trading last night. In a slow economy -- in which the company's direct rivals, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and SAP (NYSE: SAP), aren't...
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Autodesk Beats Zacks Consensus - Analyst Blog
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 12:33pm | 1254Software design maker, Autodesk Inc. (ADSK) reported third quarter 2011 earnings of 27 cents per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2 cents. However, shares were down $2.06 (5.68%) to $34.20 in after hours trading. Earnings, including stock-based compensation but excluding one-...
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AAPL Pulls Back. Watch This Area.
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 11:51am | 92Apple Inc.(NASDAQ: AAPL) is the leading technology stock in the stock market. This stock carries a lot of weight now due to it's huge market capitalization which is now around $280 billion. The only other stock that has a larger market cap is Exxon Mobil Corp.(NYSE: XOM) which around $354 billion....
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Tech Earnings After the Bell: Dell, Intuit, Autodesk
Friday, November 19, 2010 - 11:30am | 89Dell (DELL) posted third quarter earnings after the bell yesterday that more than doubled vs. last year. Go to SwingTradingDaily.com for full article, videos and real-time updates.