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Lawyers Making Loads Of Money From Tiger’s Sex Life
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 6:58pm | 94Tiger Woods’ sex life has provided a bountiful opportunity to lawyers to make lots of money. Apart from the criminal defense lawyer hired by Woods himself, there are lawyers for just about any issue. Some lawyers won a court order in London related to nude photos of Woods, others sued the companies...
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New 52-Week High Stocks (SMLC, ACGY, ACXM, AHGP, ASPS)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 3:07pm | 235012 Smile.Communications Ltd (NASDAQ: SMLC) has made a new 52-week high of $19.64, after gaining 3.48% in today’s trading. The 52-week range for SMLC is $3.40-$9.66. SMLC provides a range of broadband and traditional voice services in Israel. Acergy SA (NASDAQ: ACGY) has made a new 52-week high of...
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INX Inc (INXI) Increases Senior Credit Facility to $70M
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 7:19am | 69INX Inc. (Nasdaq: INXI) announced that it has increased its senior credit facility with Castle Pines Capital LLC ("CPC") used primarily for inventory floor plan financing and working capital requirements to $70 million from $60M. INX Inc. (INXI) is a leading U.S. provider of IP network...
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IBM Announces A Deal With Digicable (IBM, WIT, INFY)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 2:09pm | 129According to the Wall Street Journal, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) said it has received a 10-year information technology outsourcing contract from cable and broadband distributor Digicable, with an initial outlay of 3.8 billion rupees ($81.1 million). IBM will support the...
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Aerospace/Defense Stocks Weekly Summary
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 2:51pm | 119The performance of the stock covered by Jesup & Lamont in the Aerospace/Defense sector was below the sector average for the week ending on December 18. The Commercial Aerospace sector gained 3.2% in the week with a multiple of 14x earnings and 7.4x forward EBITDA. The Defense IT sector gained...
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Companies Can Do Without Tiger (ACN, PEP)
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 10:58am | 309“The road to high performance isn’t always paved”. This advertisement tagline for Accenture (NYSE: ACN) featuring Tiger Woods is one of the most common targets of all jokes post the sex scandal that erupted a few weeks ago. Tiger Woods’ fall from grace has triggered many discussions once again...
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Tag Heuer Latest Sponsor To Drop Tiger Woods
Friday, December 18, 2009 - 4:14pm | 109Tag Heuer, the Swiss watchmaker, has dropped its sponsorship of Tiger Woods, following the golfer's admission of marital infedelity. Tag Heuer joins a growing list of companies to part ways with the top ranked golfer. Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) have dropped Woods from their...
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Leading Indicators Confirm Improved Performance From Accenture (ACN)
Friday, December 18, 2009 - 3:27pm | 119Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is upbeat about Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) prospects as leading indicators confirm an improved environment. The macro background and IT spending environment are also favorable. Accenture has increased its pipeline and headcount plan for 2010, apart from seeing an increase in...
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Benzinga’s Top Pre- Market Losers (PALM, CAN, BCR, CTXS, CATY, NTAP)
Friday, December 18, 2009 - 10:20am | 316Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has plunged 10% to $10.55 in the pre-market session after Palm reported wider-than-estimated loss. PALM reported a net loss of $81.9 million, or $0.54 a share in its fiscal second quarter. Excluding items, Palm posted a loss of $0.37 a share, which was wider than the...
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Stocks to Watch (AMZN, CAN, BEC, APSG, DRI)
Friday, December 18, 2009 - 9:27am | 236Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is trading 0.75% to $127.88 in the pre-market session after Amazon.com said on Thursday its Kindle electronic book reader posted its best sales yet in the month of December, as the battle for the digital reader market heats up. Accenture Plc (NYSE: ACN) fell 1.34% to...
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Go On. Dump The Tiger.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 3:21pm | 305As Tiger Woods' string of extramarital affairs grew longer, the tagline “It’s what you do next that counts” proved to be catchier than Accenture (NYSE: ACN)(FREE stock trend analysis), a Tiger sponsor, had bargained for. The golfer has been the consulting firm’s public face since 2003. He was...
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Bookkeeping: Beginning Positions in Sourcefire (FIRE) and Rackspace Hosting (RAx)
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 11:43am | 616A couple of breakouts caught my eye yesterday - Sourcefire (FIRE) and Rackspace Hosting (RAX). Both are very expensive stocks but valuation seems to mean little nowadays; so I am going more on technicals rather than anything. I do like the core businesses of both (IT security & hosting /...
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Top 5 Small-Cap Stocks with Highest Profit Margins (DXR, NRF, FDI, ESGR, SFE)
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 10:12am | 182Below are the top 5 small-cap stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of highest profit margins. The trailing-twelve-month profit margins of Daxor Corp (NYSE: DXR) are 462.31%. DXR’s market capitalization is $47.7 million. DXR’s shares have declined by 25.13% over the past 52 weeks, as compared...
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NASDAQ Pre-Market Top Gainers (APWR, AONE, ALVR, ANDS)
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 9:50am | 101The top gainers in the NASDAQ pre-market trade were A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (NASDAQ: APWR), A123 Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE), Alvarion Ltd. (USA) (NASDAQ: ALVR) and Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANDS). A-Power gained 8.19% in the pre-market trade to $20.20, after it...
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Benzinga's Earnings Preview (ORCL, ACN, DFS, RAD, RIMM, NKE)
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 6:53am | 274Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL)(FREE stock trend analysis) is expected to report fiscal second-quarter earnings of 36 cents a share on revenue of $5.69 billion. Wednesday, ORCL closed at $23.11. Accenture Plc (NYSE: ACN)(FREE stock trend analysis) is projected to report fiscal first-quarter...