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Oct 20 2009, 07:08 AM
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Kim Peterson
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 Investors should take a long, hard look at Apple (AAPL) shares before jumping into the stock, writes Brett Arends of The Wall Street Journal.
A better investment in smartphones might be in network operators, which are cheap, he writes. Those include Verizon Communications (VZ), AT&T (T) and Vodafone (VOD), which have dividend yields in the 5% to 6% range. Arends lists a number of reasons why, even after Apple's impressive earnings report this week, investors should tread carefully. "The case for or against investing in Apple has little to do with whether it's a good company (it is) or whether it makes good products (it does)," he writes. "It isn't even about whether the company can beat expectations. It's about whether the shares, priced at these levels, make for a sound investment."
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Oct 19 2009, 03:44 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Wall Street believes that Apple (AAPL) will make $1.42 a share for the quarter that just ended on $9.2 billion in revenue. Both figures would be well over 10% higher than a year ago. Apple would have to sell about of 2.9 million Macs, 10.5 million iPods and 6.9 million iPhones to hit those numbers.
Fulfilling those expectations will be a tall order. iPod sales dropped 7% in the June quarter. Mac sales were only up 4% to 2.6 million, and iPhone sales reached 5.2 million.
Wall Street's iPhone sales estimates may be too conservative. The handset has been a hit for AT&T (T), especially after the introduction of the 3GS model, and there is some evidence that sales in Europe are rising quickly due to price cuts in the UK, Germany, and France.
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Oct 14 2009, 07:41 AM
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Kim Peterson
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 Michael Jackson's upcoming new album, "This is It," will undoubtedly be a smash. But Apple (AAPL), the No. 1 music store in the country, may miss out on the whole thing.
Apple's iTunes store won't be offering downloads from the album, reports Digital Music News, citing confidential information it received. The double-disc album releases on Oct. 26 worldwide, and Oct. 27 in North America. Michael Jackson's albums soared to the top of the charts after his death earlier this year, and it's safe to assume Apple would jump at the chance to offer "This is It." So what happened?
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Oct 13 2009, 06:06 PM
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InvestorPlace
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This article is by InvestorPlace's Jim Woods.
Chipmaker Intel (INTC) did it again. The tech bellwether handily beat consensus earnings forecasts for both its bottom line and the top line, reporting a third-quarter profit of 33 cents a share on revenue of $9.39 billion. Analysts who cover the stock were expecting a bottom line number of just 28 cents a share on revenue of $9.037 billion. Of course, with a company like Intel, the forecast for the quarter ahead is of supreme significance -- not just for Intel but for many companies in PC and related sectors. And here we have what could be the real reason to smile, for not only Intel, but for many other companies that use Intel chips in their products.
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Oct 08 2009, 01:26 PM
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Tobin Smith
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There’s no doubt about it. The fiercest battle in the corporate world today is being fought over smartphones. The latest salvo in this war comes from Google (GOOG) via its new Android mobile operating system. In recent weeks, Google has confirmed no less than nine new devices set to use Android. The pipeline for new Android-equipped smart phones is bursting, with handset makers Motorola (MOT) and Samsung firmly on board. Verizon Wireless (VZ) will be coming out with two new Google Android phones in the weeks ahead. Bing: More on Smart Phones
Hey, I’m a big fan of competition, and I love a heated fight for market share. And while I will be keeping a close eye on the impact Android is sure to have, according to the ChangeWave Alliance Research Network surveys, the really interesting battle in the smart phone wars still is being waged by industry titans Research In Motion (RIMM) and Apple (AAPL).
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Oct 08 2009, 03:46 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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 Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon (AMZN), is being praised as the man who has invented the next big and important electronic device.
That category includes the Sony (SNE) PlayStation 2, the Apple (AAPL) iPod, and the Nintendo Wii. The iPod has sold 200 million units worldwide. That, in the nomenclature of the electronics industry, makes it a once-in-a-generation success, a truly mass market product.
Bezos lowered the price on the Kindle to $249 from $299, and Amazon will release a version this month that can work over wireless networks in 100 countries. There is some compelling research that says people will not pay more than $200, or even $100, for an e-reader. That has not prevented Sony and Barnes & Noble (BKS) from entering the e-reader industry. Rumors are that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NWS) will come out with a product of its own.
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Oct 07 2009, 11:48 AM
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Minyanville
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This article is written by Minyanville's Mike Schuster
Gourmands, harried fiancées, and dentist office waiting rooms were struck a blow on Monday when publishing giant Condé Nast announced the closure of four of its popular magazines after severe drops in ad revenue.
Elegant Bride and Modern Bride will be ceasing publication as well as the soccer mom handbook Cookie. Gourmet will be shuttered at the release of its November 2009 issue, but will live on with TV programming and online recipes.
See also, Who Needs Newspapers Anyway?
The closures see roughly 180 employees laid off and a collective circulation of more than four million issues stripped from shelves and mailboxes.
Despite the dedicated readership each magazine held, the publications were at the mercy of a three-month study by the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. After its analysis, McKinsey advised several Condé magazines to cut 25% from their budgets, but no amount of cost-cutting initiatives was able to save the aforementioned few.
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Oct 06 2009, 07:49 AM
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Minyanville
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 This article is written by Minyanville's Josh Lipton
This week marks the start of the third-quarter-earnings season, as Alcoa (AA) reports earnings on October 7.
The Street is expecting corporate earnings to decline 24.8%, which would mark the first time the S&P 500 has recorded nine straight quarters of negative growth since Thomson Reuters began tracking the data in 1998.
However, that 24.8% drop is still slightly better than the 27.3% fall in the second quarter. In fact, analysts say earnings should show signs of improvement over for the short term, due to cost control, inventory restocking, and easy comparisons against a terrible 2008 -- particularly among the financials.
“Things get less bad this quarter, with smaller year-over-year losses than in the first quarter and second quarter,” S&P equity analyst Alec Young tells us. See also What to Expect for Stocks in October. Looking further ahead, for 2010, the crystal ball of professional forecasters becomes much cloudier and, frankly, your guess is as good as that of any bow-tied CFA working on Wall Street: Nobody really knows how this struggling economy will perform once it’s weaned off Uncle Sam’s massive federal subsidies.
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Sep 30 2009, 11:17 AM
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InvestorPlace
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 This article was written by InvestorPlace's Jim Woods.
Filmmaker Michael Moore is at it again. The latest documentary from the corpulent director is titled, "Capitalism: A Love Story," and releases nationwide on Friday (see a movie clip and an interview in the video player below). Based on his past hard-left screeds on the evils of the free-enterprise system ("Roger & Me" and "Sicko"), I think it's safe to assume that the main message of this film is that capitalism is bad and that its very existence is antithetical to the welfare of "regular people." Bing: Michael Moore Well Mr. Moore, let me tell you what free-market capitalism, in essence, really is.
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Posted
Sep 29 2009, 04:13 PM
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James Dlugosch
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This morning I saw an interesting interview with Alan “Ace” Greenberg, former chief executive of Bear Stearns, on CNBC. Asked to comment on the views of JP Morgan (JPM) Chief Jamie Dimon, Greenberg demurred and backed the banking genius 100%.
“Whatever Jamie says, I agree,” he said. Bing: More on JP Morgan
You will not often find Wall Street executives reluctant to share opinions. These guys have strong egos, and Ace has one of the biggest. His deference to Dimon is very telling
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