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General Motors Inc. is sort of the anti-Ross Perot, the company that informs you that no matter what the circumstance, it still needs a boatload of money just to make getting up in the morning worth it. The automotive giant (ish) asked for $18 billion in federal loans, one-and-a-half times the size of what it asked for a few weeks ago, amid a 41% decline in auto sales in November. But the thin...
Picking out a CEO to go in technology right now might seem pointless. The argument could be almost any of them if you count share price only. That is doubly true if you look at just DRAM and flash memory makers. But the one stand-out company which could use a new CEO is SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK). Dr. Eli Harari is a co-founder of the company, and he sits as Chairman, CEO, and as a member of...
Options traders have descended on the smart phone sector Tuesday, with heavy activity in Research in Motion, Nokia and Palm, following poor earnings by the latter, and news of an introduction of Nokia’s entrée into this market. Research in Motion’s options were the most actively traded. The stock was getting hit, down 7.5% after Palm reported less-than-stellar results for its most r...
Yahoo: Cowen Has Serious Doubts On Miller-Led Bid; Raising $30 Billion Would be “Extremely Difficult”
Tue, Dec 2, 3:12 PM ET
Cowen’s Jim Friedland this afternoon has weighed in on the WSJ report that former AOL exec Jonathan Miller is trying to raise cash for a bid for Yahoo, and finds the proposition to be something of a long shot. In a brief research note, he raises two key issues: Capital: He says it would be “extremely difficult” to raise the $28 billion to $31 billion that would be needed to cl...
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Today’s tickers: RIMM, BP, NXY, MMM, USB, WFC, GS & GE RIMM – Research in Motion – Terrible results from fellow-handset maker, Palm clouded the prospects for RIMM as well as the mobile phone industry sending shares of the Canadian manufacturer of the Blackberry device 7% lower to $37.02. The company recently faced delays in shipping its novel Blackberry Storm, but news tha...
Filed under: Good newsIt must be something in the water in Bentonville, Arkansas. The tiny town is home to Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), of course, but also the less famous America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ: CRMT), which operates 92 used car dealerships in the South-Central United States.While the auto industry is mired in the biggest downturn in its history, America's Car-Mart is posting some pretty impressi...
A reader recently asked me to give a look at the German DAX Index in terms of a possible Elliott Wave Count to see how it related to the US Equity Indexes. Here is my preferred count on the DAX Index on both the Weekly and then zooming in on the fractal Daily Count: German DAX Weekly: The DAX Elliott count is very similar to that of the S&P 500, with the exception that the topping process ...
The skyrocketing value of commodities sliced into profits at many a corporation in early 2008, as companies suddenly found raw materials costs had doubled or tripled. But anyone who responded to that by trying to hedge against a repeat of that is going to be hit again — this time on the way down. Already, several major corporations have taken hedging-related losses in the third quarter as...