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Perhaps the reason those Apple (AAPL) 2.5G iPhones are so hard to come by is that the launch date for the 3G versions is set for June 9. Why have a lot of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Inflation is contained! Crude Oil Futures, June 2008
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) reports earnings after the close of trading today. The tax and business software provider is expected to post $1.33 EPS on $1.29... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
How was that for odd? The Core Rate was much higher than the headline -- 0.4% versus 0.2%. Why? It has to do with the way seasonal adjustments are calculated -- and not, as some have suggested, a drop in energy prices. Follow this if you will: Each year in the Spring, we get a fairly large seasonal adjustment. If memory serves, its about a ~7% increase in Energy for April. This year, however, energy...
fivecentnickel.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
I spent some time over the weekend getting caught up in Quicken. While updating our accounts, I discovered something interesting about the way in which Vanguard debits your bank account when processing automatic investments. Instead of making a single withdrawal and then partitioning it up into the various funds that you're investing in, they make [...]
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Oppenheimer now puts out a negative report on banks stocks every other day, like clock work. Today's reports says that money center financial firms "may write... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) has reported its Q1 net income of $602 million, down from $651 million in the same quarter in 2007. It saw a 1.4% drop in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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CNBC just hosted oil magnate T. Boone Pickens this morning in a sit down interview with Becky Quick. Now that his $125 target on oil has been hit, he's making... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Goldman Sachs has noted that an analyst named Brad Cragin has left the firm, and his former targets and ratings in specialty apparel names are no longer in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
In a call overseas earlier this morning, Lehman Brothers decided to cut its target prices on some select European investment banks. Here are three of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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These are not the only analyst calls out there, but these are ten calls affecting stocks this Tuesday morning: ASM Intl NV (NASDAQ: ASMI) started as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Yesterday, we saw the release of the Leading Economic Indicators (LEI). It was the second consecutive month of a slight rise in the index. I have not been a fan of the outfit behind LEIs -- the Conference Board -- as they have, in a very BLS-like manner, continually modified the leading indicators in a way that overstates growth. Recall that a few years ago, the LEI was reconfigured -- mostly to include...
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It was impossible for Home Depot (HD) to post good earnings. It relies too much on the troubled housing industry. But, its earnings were cut by a huge amount,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Part of the long-term thinking at GE (GE) has been that, as the US economy slowed, emerging markets in Asia would drive double-digit returns. GE's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
In many homes, the TV is topped by a cable box, a DVR, a satellite box, a PC, a Slingbox, and an Unbox from Amazon (AMZN). Netflix (NFLX) thinks that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
