Archive for February, 2006

  • What’s Your Wonderlic?
    , February 28th, 2006 at 6:15 pm

    Vince Young got a 6 on his Wonderlic test. What’s your score?

  • Donaldson’s Earnings
    , February 28th, 2006 at 4:36 pm

    The press release makes it sound great, but this was a disappointing quarter for Donaldson (DCI). The company missed the Street’s estimate by a penny [...]

  • Google Is Having Issues
    , February 28th, 2006 at 11:28 am

    Down 10%. Google Inc. shares slid as much as 13 percent, their biggest-ever decline, after finance chief George Reyes said growth is slowing at the [...]

  • Burger King’s IPO
    , February 28th, 2006 at 10:14 am

    IBD looks at Burger King’s IPO: THE BUZZ Unlike last year, 2006 is set to produce some massive, high-profile initial public offerings. And while the [...]

  • The Derivatives Mess
    , February 28th, 2006 at 10:02 am

    I meant to post this earlier. This WSJ article highlights the problems of the growth of derivatives on Wall Street. Derivatives allow banks, companies and [...]

  • Fourth-Quarter GDP
    , February 28th, 2006 at 9:01 am

    GDP growth raised to 1.6%. You wouldn’t know this from how people talk about the economy, but GDP growth is far more stable than most [...]

  • PhytoMedical Technologies
    , February 27th, 2006 at 10:06 pm

    David Phillips at 10Q Detective is unimpressed with PhytoMedical Technologies (PYTO.OB): The 10Q Detective suggests that if PhytoMedical Technologies really wants to be taken seriously [...]

  • The Future of Food
    , February 27th, 2006 at 7:59 pm

    Steven Milloy, the author of Junk Science Judo: Self-defense Against Health Scares and Scams, looks at the film “The Future of Food.” Produced by Deborah [...]

  • Lowe’s Vs. Home Depot
    , February 27th, 2006 at 2:19 pm

    Lowe’s reported great earnings today. Stephen D. Simpson looks at the battle between Lowe’s and Home Depot: For those who would suggest that home improvement [...]

  • Good Day Today
    , February 27th, 2006 at 12:57 pm

    If the market holds, the S&P 500 will close at a four-year high. The S&P 600 Small-Cap Index (^SML) and S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index (^MID) [...]

  • Failure Never Felt So Good
    , February 27th, 2006 at 11:21 am

    Attention corporate weasals. Don’t try to get anything past Michelle at Footnoted.org. It just ain’t gonna fly. And speaking of former executives, there was also [...]

  • Owning a Toll Booth
    , February 27th, 2006 at 11:15 am

    GroovyStocks on Intel (INTC): According to Yahoo Finance, shares of Intel are now trading at 14.7 times trailing earnings and 14.1 times forward earnings with [...]

  • Back Where We Started
    , February 27th, 2006 at 10:34 am

    Price chart of Intel (gold line) and Microsoft (black line) over the last eight years:

  • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
    , February 27th, 2006 at 9:44 am

    The latest offering from the Grassy Knoll gang is “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by John Perkins. The book has become a bestseller. In [...]

  • 1040 Tax Mistakes
    , February 27th, 2006 at 12:15 am

    MarketWatch looks at the lines on the 1040 Form that stumble most folks. Here’s a sample: Line 6 This year, you may trip as early [...]

  • Hedge Fund Manager Splits
    , February 26th, 2006 at 11:33 pm

    Good news: Investigators have finally tracked down missing funds of a hedge fund. Bad news: Except for $150,000, $150 million is still missing. More bad [...]

  • SEC Subpoenas Herb Greenberg & Carol Remond
    , February 25th, 2006 at 4:03 pm

    Omigod, the SEC subpoenaed two journalists! Herb Greenberg and someone else. This is government repression. Oh, wait. The Feds have backed off. The NYT: The [...]

  • Deconstructing TheStreet.com
    , February 25th, 2006 at 3:19 pm

    Ed at Daily Dose of Optimism does a thorough analysis of TheStreet.com (TSCM). Here are parts one and two. (Preview: He’s not a fan of [...]

  • Q&A: Small-Cap Stocks
    , February 24th, 2006 at 4:11 pm

    Hi Eddy, I think that your article regarding the “weak case” for better returns small caps doesn’t make a lot of sense. If you or [...]

  • Danish Embassy Rally
    , February 24th, 2006 at 2:35 pm

    A small, but spirited crowd rallied in support of Denmark today outside the Danish Embassy in Washington. The festive crowd of about 200 broke into [...]