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Hewlett-Packard Shares Up as CEO Out

2005-02-09T15:26:00.000-08:00

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Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)

Hewlett-Packard Shares Up as CEO Out

Hewlett-Packard, an international leader in technology solutions for consumers, businesses, and institutions, ousted its chairman and chief executive officer, Carly Fiorina today. The release marks the end of a rocky six-year tenure for the high-profile female executive, whose term as CEO is most well-known for her unsuccessful acquisition of Compaq Computer. Shares jumped after the release of the news.

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About a month ago Hewlett-Packards board announced that it would be relieving Fiorina of some of her day-to-day duties, transferring them to other members of the board. Some believed that this would spare the controversial executive from being fired, but the differences in opinions about operation and performance strategies between the board members and her were to large to overcome. While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute H-P's strategy, I respect their decision," said Fiorina. The company has said that it will begin looking for a new CEO immediately, and Robert P. Wayman, the current chief financial officer, will take over in the interim.

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While the stock price jumped immediately on the news, it is difficult to determine what the effects will be in long term. While Fiorina was able to make the Compaq deal happen, she did not possess the operational prowess to make it successful. Her run was not all bad as she was instrumental in getting the company to release its version of the Apple IPOD, and stringing together positive earnings at the beginning of 2004."She's been a controversial figure, and many investors have felt that she has not set forth with sufficient credibility a path for sustainable trajectory for the company," CIBC World Markets analyst, Ali Irani said. "The long-term implications of this move depend entirely on who the new replacement CEO will be."

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Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The Company's offerings span information technology (IT) infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. Product and service categories include desktops and workstations; notebooks and tablet personal computers (PCs); printing and multifunction; handheld devices; monitors and projectors; fax, copiers and scanners; digital photography; entertainment; storage; servers; supplies and accessories; networking, and software products. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), HP organized its operations into seven business segments: the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), the Personal Systems Group (PSG), Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS), HP Services (HPS), HP Financial Services (HPFS), Software and Corporate Investments.

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2005-02-08T17:23:00.000-08:00

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The market closed in the green today after a government report showed that the economy created fewer jobs than expected in January, which eased concerns about the Federal Reserve's approach to raising interest rates The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 123.03 points, or 1.1%, to 10,716.13; the S&P 500 rose 13.14 points, or 1.1%, to 1203.03, while the Nasdaq gained 29.02 points, or 1.4%, to 2086.66. More Market News

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Nextel Communications Inc. agreed Monday to a plan by federal regulators aimed at ending interference from Nextel cell phones that disrupts public safety communication systems in hundreds of communities. The Federal Communications Commission will give Reston, Va.-based Nextel a new piece of broadcast spectrum in return for the company vacating other spectrum and paying to reconfigure the airwaves it currently occupies. The agreement, valued at $4.8 billion, is the end of a yearslong process aimed at eliminating cell phone interference that in some cases leaves police, fire and other emergency personnel unable to communicate. (Source: Yahoo.com) Full Story

The long arm of the law may get a bit longer, if the Bush administration's budget proposal is passed by Congress. As a result, taxpayers can expect to see a rise in the number of audits. In his annual budget, President Bush Monday requested an additional $500 million to bolster IRS enforcement efforts. The IRS says it would use the new money to increase audits of corporations and high-earning individuals, expand collection efforts, and investigate criminal activities. (Source: CNNMoney.com) Full Story

Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , the largest maker of communications gear to direct traffic over the Internet, on Tuesday said quarterly earnings rose, benefiting from higher sales in advanced technologies and the impact of a year-earlier accounting change. Cisco said profit rose to $1.4 million, or 21 cents a share, in its fiscal second quarter, from $724 million, or 10 cents a share, a year earlier. Prior-year earnings before the effect of an accounting change were $1.3 billion, or 18 cents a share. (Source: Reuters.com) Full Story

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Cisco (CSCO) Fiscal 2Q Earnings Due Today

2005-02-08T11:28:00.000-08:00

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Cisco possesses a dominant market share position in a growing market, as well as gross margins topping 65%, and a rock-solid balance sheet with $18 billion of net cash. With sales expected to rise 13% to $6.13 billion from $5.4 billion, Cisco is expected to report fiscal second-quarter results that are in line with the company's forecasts. "We believe the company has been more aggressive with its own pricing and may be gaining share in some areas (of switching)," wrote Aalok Shah, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities. Analysts, on average, expect Cisco to weigh in with earnings of 22 cents a share and revenue of $6.13 billion, according to Thomson First Call. In the year-ago second quarter, Cisco reported earnings of 18 cents a share and revenue of $5.39 billion. On average, analysts have Cisco posting third-quarter earnings of 37 cents a share and revenue of $6.23 billion.

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Stocks closed mixed on Monday. A rally in the dollar and a drop in oil prices was not enough to boost the markets. Weakness in Internet stocks like Sohu.com, Google and Yahoo and a series of mixed earnings news weighed on the markets. President Bush proposed a $2.5 trillion budget that calls for deep cuts in government spending, domestic programs from farm aid to housing grants for the poor in an effort to reduce the deficit. Wal-Mart said that sales at stores open more than a year will rise 2 percent to 4 percent in February. More Market News

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President Bush sent Congress a $2.57 trillion budget plan Monday that would boost spending on the military and homeland security but seeks spending cuts across a wide swath of other government programs. Bush's budget would reduce subsidies paid to farmers, cut health programs for poor people and veterans and trim spending on the environment and education. (source: ABCNews) Full Story

Weeks after a move to raise listing fees on its auction site created an uproar, eBay offered an olive branch to sellers in the form of lowering some fees and improving customer service. But if the moves patch up some of the damage done to its customers, some worry that it may come at the expense of operating margins. (source: The Street) Full Story

PNC Financial Services Group Inc.'s $779 million deal for embattled Riggs Bank has fallen apart, Riggs parent company said Monday, and Riggs is suing the regional bank for damages. Riggs National Corp. said its board has rejected a reduced merger bid of $19.32 a share from Pittsburgh-based PNC that was made after Riggs pleaded guilty to violations of a law to prevent money laundering. The original cash-and-stock deal was valued at $24.25 a share. (source: Yahoo) Full Story

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Big gains for tiny telcos? Sure, the industry giants are all merging. But you should be taking a closer look at small telcos. Sprint is buying Nextel. SBC is scooping up AT&T. And now Verizon and Qwest are said to be looking at MCI. At this pace, it seems like there will be just one major nationwide telecom carrier left standing by the end of 2006. Or will there? Despite all the consolidation among the big brand name companies in the sector, there are still plenty of tiny telecoms out there. (source: CNNMoney) Full Story

Deriving the Most from Dividends.With companies' cash at record levels, S&P thinks some funds may go to boost investor payouts. Here's how you can tap into high-yield stocks. Dividend-paying securities have become increasingly popular among investors for a number of reasons, including favorable tax rules and high-yielding equities' appeal as a safe haven during periods of market volatility. (source: BusinessWeek) Full Story

Five weeks into the new year, the merger juggernaut is at full tilt. The biggest deals weigh in at tens of billions of dollars and unite companies that are household names: Gillette and Procter & Gamble. AT&T and SBC Communications. Travelers Life & Annuity and MetLife. But even before January's jumbo deals rolled into the spotlight, mergers and acquisitions were on the rise among small and midsize companies. The overall number of deals climbed 8 percent to 8,313 last year, from 7,702 in 2003, while the dollar value surged 46 percent to $833 billion in 2004, from $570 billion a year earlier, according to the Association for Corporate Growth. One new wrinkle in the merger environment is a heightened appetite of foreign buyers, who are capitalizing on the weaker dollar, for acquiring US companies. (source: Boston.com) Full Story

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Aeroflex (ARXX)	$0.10	$0.10	$0.09
Allergan (AGN)	$0.86	$0.83	$0.67
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Clorox (CLX)	$0.59	$0.52	$0.52
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Hasbro (HAS)	$0.44	$0.50	$0.61
Humana (HUM)	$0.26	$0.27	$0.41
Kyphon (KYPH)	$0.14	$0.13	$0.08
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Ameren (AEE)	$0.35	$0.24
Amkor Technology (AMKR)	-$0.19	$0.12
AON Corporation (AOC)	$0.46	$0.55
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Cisco (CSCO)	$0.22	$0.18
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)	$0.80	$0.71
Elan Corporation (ELN)	-$0.28	-$0.63
Human Genome Sciences (HGSI)	-$0.45	-$0.38
La-Z-Boy (LZB)	$0.15	$0.29
Level 3 Communications (LVLT)	-$0.20	-$0.30
Marriott International Inc. (MAR)	$0.74	$0.69
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Prudential Financial (PRU)	$0.79	$0.64
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AMD (AMD)	Prudential	Neutral
Ann Taylor Stores (ANN)	Prudential	Overweight
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NOBLE CORP (NE)	Banc of America	Buy
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Darden Restaurants (DRI)	Legg Mason	Sell
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Pfizer (PFE) Stock Rises Ahead of Three-Day Review

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Pfizer Stock rises ahead of three-day review.

Shares of Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker, rose more than 2 percent on today ahead of an upcoming U.S. Food and Drug Administration meeting to review the risks and benefits of painkillers, including the company's own Celebrex. A panel of academic scientists are to meet to advise the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the safety of Cox-2 inhibitors such as Celebrex, Bextra and the withdrawn Vioxx. They will also discuss the safety of older anti-inflammatory medicines such as Aleve and Motrin. The FDA has allotted three days for the work, a clear sign of controversy.

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It will be an especially important meeting for Pfizer, which makes Celebrex and Bextra. The meeting is likely to determine the future of those drugs, if any. The discussion may also have an impact on Pfizer's potential liability. Even if Celebrex and Bextra don't make it through the meeting, Pfizer could look like a winner to investors as long as it doesn't face a massive liability cloud like the ever-ballooning diet-drug litigation that has weighed on smaller rival Wyeth for years.

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Pfizer told drug regulators that its analysis of 41 of its own patient trials involving more than 40,000 patients found no evidence that Celebrex increased heart problems. Celebrex is one of Pfizer's best-selling medications, with $3.3 billion in sales last year. Pfizer's analysis was included in documents the FDA released this past Friday for public viewing ahead of the three-day hearings.

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Despite a dip on Thursday, the markets kept up the good work from the previous week to rise every other day of the week and post a healthy gain despite there being numerous earnings reports, the focus was on other events, among them the Iraqi elections, Fed policy, and economic reports among the earnings reports, Amazon perhaps had the greatest impact, its earnings falling below expectations though its revenue numbers were better than expected however, Google performed better than even the most bullish analyst had expected on Wednesday, the Fed raised the fed funds target by another quarter point, as expected January nonfarm payrolls increased by 146k, below the 200k consensus; the number, however, is in line with the 3% real GDP growth More Market News

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U.S. employers added just 146,000 jobs in January, the government said on Friday in an unexpectedly weak report on the labor market, while a drop in job-seekers pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in more than three years.

The gain in nonfarm payrolls in January came in below expectations for 190,000 new jobs, but was enough to return the nation's employment to where it was before the 2001 recession began. It also erased the jobs lost during President Bush's first term (Source: Reuters) Full Story

The Federal Reserve increased a pivotal short-term interest rate that banks use to determine rates for many loans by a quarter-point Wednesday to 2.5 percent. The rate hike -- the sixth since June -- came at the conclusion of a two-day Fed meeting and was widely expected on Wall Street. The Fed's Open Market Committee added in a statement that it plans to maintain a "measured" stance towards boosting rates, which market observers interpret to mean that the Fed is likely to keep raising rates at quarter-point increments as opposed to taking more drastic action to combat inflation. (source: CNN/Money) Full Story

Growth in U.S. factory output eased in January as companies received fewer orders, although managers showed a renewed willingness to hire. As manufacturers kicked off the new year, the Institute for Supply Management said its index of national manufacturing activity slipped to 56.4 in January from 57.3 in December, below forecasts for a dip to 57.0. "The manufacturing sector hit a bump in the road," said Anthony Chan, senior economist at JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management. (source: ABC News) Full Story

The pace of U.S. worker productivity growth slowed at the end of 2004 and new claims for jobless aid dipped last week, according to reports raising both job-growth hopes and inflation concerns. Separate reports on Thursday tempered the optimism as growth in the huge U.S. services sector cooled a bit last month while factory orders rose a mere 0.3 percent in December. (Source: Reuters) Full Story

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Can Procter & Gamble's $54 billion merger with Gillette kick-start growth in the consumer-goods industry?

Every industry has its golden age. The makers of packaged consumer goodsquilted paper towels, tinned baked beans and other household essentialsenjoyed theirs around the middle of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, companies such as General Mills, Unilever and Procter & Gamble were delighting their customers with one innovative new product after another, from fluoride-enhanced toothpastes to fragrant fabric softeners and disposable nappies. But the industry's youthful vigour has ebbed away. Mr Clean, the bald, rugged sailor who fronts a line of domestic-cleaning products for P&G, turns 47 this year. (The chap has had a rejuvenating name change, however: he used to be called Mr Veritably Clean.) (Source: The Economist) Full Story

Eastman Kodak said Monday it would buy printing technology firm Creo, a printing technology firm for about $980 million in cash to support its strategy to push more aggressively into commercial printing. Kodak, which has been undertaking a challenging transition to digital products as it shifts focus from its flagging traditional film business, will pay $16.50 a share for Creo, whose systems manage images and convert computer files into plates used to print books, magazines and other products. (source: USA Today) Full Story

Oil powerhouse ExxonMobil (XOM:NYSE - news - research) keeps shattering its own records. The world's leading super major on Monday barreled past Wall Street expectations with quarterly operating profits of $8.42 billion -- up 90% from a year ago and the highest ever in the history of the company. Fourth-quarter earnings of $1.30 a share came in well above the $1.07 consensus estimate. For the full year, high energy prices helped push earnings up 52% to a record $25.3 billion. (source: The Street) Full Story

SBC Communications Inc. Tuesday said it expects to cut around 10,200 jobs as a result of its $16 billion acquisition of AT&T Corp.

The company said in a slide presentation prepared for an analyst meeting Tuesday that 5,125 jobs will be cut as a result of network efficiencies. Another 1,700 will be trimmed from the combined sales department and 3,400 jobs will be cut from business operations.
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A molecular replacement for the transistor?

SMALL may be beautiful, but it is also hard. This is the reality faced by those trying to make ever-smaller transistors, one of the key components of virtually all modern electronic devices. The laws of physics place a limit on how small they can become.

This, then, is a tricky problem for those hoping to build future generations of computer chips that are vastly more powerful than today's. (The slow speed of electrical signals means that smaller components make for faster computers.) So the search has been on for (Source: The Economist) Full Story

Googles Internet-leading search engine fueled a sevenfold increase in fourth-quarter profits to soar past analyst expectations. The Mountain View-based company said Tuesday that it earned $204.1 million, or 71 cents per share, during the final three months of 2004. That compared to net income of $27.3 million, or 10 cents per share, at the same time in 2003. (source: MSNBC News) Full Story

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Did 2005 start out on the right -- or wrong -- foot for equity investors? The market may be in for a down year after stumbling in the first month, according to the January Barometer. The Barometer, made famous by the Stock Trader's Almanac, states that the S&P 500 index's performance during the month of January is indicative of how it'll fare for the remainder of the year. (source: BusinessWeek) Full Story

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Markets Close in Green As Stocks Closed the Week Higher

2005-02-04T16:13:00.000-08:00

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The market closed in the green today as stocks closed the week higher, unfazed by a lackluster jobs report. Investors had been anxiously awaiting the January payrolls report, hoping it would give some indication how fast or slow the job market will grow this year. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 1.2 percent on the day and 2.8 percent for the week, the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index up 12.91 to 1,202.80 rose Friday 1.1 percent and was up 2.7 percent for the week. The Nasdaq composite up 29.08 to 2,086.72, advanced 1.4 percent Friday and added 2.5 percent for the week. More Market News

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Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media company, reported Friday that its earnings nearly doubled in the fourth quarter without the losses from its former music division in the year-ago period and on higher results from cable TV, publishing and other businesses. Time Warner -- whose vast stable of media brands includes HBO, Warner Bros., CNN and People magazine -- posted net earnings of $1.13 billion, or 24 cents per share, compared with $639 million, or 14 cents per share, in the same period a year ago. Revenues rose 1.9 percent to $11.11 billion from $10.90 billion in the same period a year earlier. (Source: Yahoo.com) Full Story

Tobacco shares rose Friday after an appeals court in Washington reportedly said U.S. law doesn't support a huge profit disgorgement in the government's racketeering case against cigarette makers. The $280 billion penalty sought by the Justice Department was ruled inappropriate by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia . The Justice Department was trying to bring its case to trial under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Prosecutors argue major tobacco companies systematically lied about the dangers of smoking, and wanted $280 billion profits returned. (Source: TheStreet.com) Full Story

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The big just keep getting bigger in telecom. Sprint is buying Nextel. SBC is scooping up AT&T. And now Verizon and Qwest are said to be looking at MCI. At this pace, it seems like there will be just one major nationwide telecom carrier left standing by the end of 2006. Or will there? Despite all the consolidation among the big brand name companies in the sector, there are still plenty of tiny telecoms out there. Clearly, the telecom industry was ripe for consolidation. There are too many carriers and the intense competition has created a pricing environment that, while great for consumers, is disastrous for the financial health of the telecom companies. (Source: CNNMoney.com) Full Story

Every night, millions of cashed checks fly around the country, headed for their home bank. Starting Thursday, technology will begin grounding many of those flights. And it may ground some consumers, too those who try to sneak an extra day or two of "float" out of their checking accounts. A new era in banking has begun as the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, commonly known as Check 21, takes effect. Banks will slowly get away from the business of flying checks around the country each night. Instead, checks will be cleared electronically, and often destroyed when they are cashed. (Source: MSNBC.com) Full Story

Growth is steady, employment continues to rise and money is still cheap despite the Fed's rate hike on Feb. 2. So why does it still feel like Punxsutawney Phil was analyzing the U.S. economy when he saw his shadow yesterday morning? It'd be tough for the U.S. economic climate not to feel chilly compared with the hothouse growth of, say, January 1999. (Source: Forbes.com) Full Story

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Company (Symbol)	Reported	Expected	Last Year
Cardinal Health (CAH)	$0.73	$0.77	$0.86
Ryder System (R)	$0.82	$0.79	$0.64
Time Warner (TWX)	$0.20	$0.16	$0.24

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Company (Symbol)	Expected	Last Year
Activision (ATVI)	$0.56	$0.53
Aeroflex (ARXX)	$0.10	$0.09
Allergan (AGN)	$0.83	$0.67
Business Objects (BOBJ)	$0.26	$0.29
Cendant (CD)	$0.33	$0.28
Clorox (CLX)	$0.52	$0.52
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)	$0.22	$0.12
Hasbro (HAS)	$0.50	$0.61
Humana (HUM)	$0.27	$0.41
Kyphon (KYPH)	$0.13	$0.08
Lincare (LNCR)	$0.72	$0.61
Principal Financial Group (PFG)	$0.61	$0.43
Sina (SINA)	$0.32	$0.28
Sohu.com (SOHU)	$0.18	$0.28
Wellpoint (WLP)	$1.68	$1.43

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Company (Symbol)	Analyst	Rating	Target
Amazon.com (AMZN)	Smith Barney Citigroup	Hold	$36
Boeing Corp. (BA)	Banc of America	Buy
Cardinal Health (CAH)	JP Morgan	Overweight
Colgate-Palmolive (CL)	Prudential	Neutral	$56
Duke Energy (DUK)	Wachovia	Mkt Perform
Eclipsys (ECLP)	Piper Jaffray	Outperform	$25
Family Dollars (FDO)	CIBC	Sector Perform
General Growth (GGP)	Smith Barney Citigroup	Hold
Hewlett Packard (HPQ)	Lehman Brothers	Overweight	$25
McKesson Corp. (MCK)	JP Morgan	Overweight
Mercury Interact. (MERQ)	Wachovia	Outperform
Novell (NOVL)	Prudential	Neutral
SBC Comm. (SBC)	JP Morgan	Overweight

Top Analyst Downgrades
Company (Symbol)	Analyst	Rating	Target
Amazon.com (AMZN)	CSFB	Neutral
BMC Software (BMC)	Legg Mason	Hold
Owens & Minor (OMI)	Lehman Brothers	Underweight	$27
Starbucks (SBUX)	Smith Barney Citigroup	Hold
Thermo Electron (TMO)	JP Morgan	Neutral
TXU Corp. (TXU)	Smith Barney Citigroup	Hold

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Starbucks (SBUX) Missed Same-Store Sales Expectations

2005-02-04T09:50:00.000-08:00

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Starbucks Missed Same-Store Sales Expectations

Starbucks share price fell more than 7 percent on Thursday after the company reported same-store sales below some analysts expectations. The company said sales on shops open at least 13 months rose 7 percent in January. Wall Street analysts expected the increase to be between 8 percent and 10 percent.

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The company has a long-term target of same-store sales increase of 3 percent to 7 percent but historically has done better than that. Last January, same-store sales rose 12 percent. Analysts highlighted that this was Starbucks smallest same-store sales gain since October price hike.

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2005-02-04T05:51:00.000-08:00

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An economic indicator that changes before the economy has changed.
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Stocks Drop on Mixed Economic Reports

2005-02-03T16:06:00.000-08:00

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The major indices finished the day lower due to mixed economic reports and a disappointing earnings report from Amazon.com... fourth-quarter productivity rose 0.8 percent, which is the smallest gain in nearly 4 years, and fell well short of the 1.8 percent that analysts estimated... the domestic services sector showed growth, but not nearly as much as it has in past months... Amazon reported earnings of 35 cents a share, where as analysts expected them at 40 cents... More Market News

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As merchants released their results Thursday, a diverse group of retailers had sales that beat Wall Street expectations, including clothing stores Abercrombie & Fitch and Talbots Inc., department store chain J.C. Penney Co. Inc. and discounter Target Corp. Luxury stores such as Neiman Marcus Group Inc. again reported sales that surpassed Wall Street estimates. The month provided some encouraging trends stores including Penney, Talbots and Gap Inc. reported strong sales of regular-priced spring merchandise, indicating consumers are feeling better about spending. (Source: Fox News) Full Story

Oil futures fell Thursday as traders focused on rising temperatures in the U.S. Northeast and after the U.S. government reported a smaller-than-expected decline in natural gas inventories.Light sweet crude for March delivery fell 24 cents to $46.45 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, where natural gas futures dropped 22.7 cents to $6.149 per 1,000 cubic feet. Heating oil fell 2.05 cents to $1.2765 per gallon and gasoline declined 2.51 to $1.2684 per gallon. While down from their late October highs above $55 a barrel, oil futures remain about 36 percent higher than a year ago. (Source: Yahoo Finance) Full Story

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For a proud tech-industry leader, the situation couldn't have gotten much worse than what IBM faced in the summer of 2003. Its semiconductor unit, which had bet on a strategy of manufacturing all kinds of chips for all comers, had lost $1.2 billion over the previous 18 months. Big Blue was also spending billions to upgrade its chip plants -- and getting thrashed by Asian rivals that were manufacturing at much higher volumes and offering bargain-basement prices. It was a full-blown crisis. "We were in danger of being marginalized," recalls William M. Zeitler, senior vice-president in charge of IBM's systems and technology group. (source: BusinessWeek) Full Story

The numbers the Labor Department reports for January could be as confusing as they are encouraging. Part of the problem is the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics will use the January report to restate payroll numbers for much of last year. Economists generally believe that some of the weaker job growth numbers reported during the course of the year could get a lift from this revision. "We're likely to see large upward revision to earlier data, so it'll be harder for January to show a big gain," said Mark Vitner, economist with Wachovia Securities. (source: CNN/Money) Full Story

Starwood Hotels & Resorts shares rose after the hotel company beat fourth-quarter earnings expectations and offered a bullish 2005 forecast. Starwood announced net income of $100 million, or 46 cents a share, up 14.9% from the $87 million, or 42 cents a share, it earned a year earlier. Business was strong throughout Starwood's hotels, and room rates rose significantly in a sign the cyclical hotel recovery is barreling along. (source: The Street) Full Story

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Today's Reported Earnings
Company (Symbol)	Reported	Expected	Last Year
ACE Limited (ACE)	0.54	n/a	1.12
American Power Conversion (APCC)	0.27	0.25	0.29
Ask Jeeves (ASKJ)	0.35	0.32	0.14
BMC Software (BMC)	0.22	0.2	0.19
Century Telephone (CTL)	0.62	0.6	0.61
Comcast (CMCSA)	0.19	0.13	0.17
Cray (CRAY)	-0.34	-0.15	0.09
DoubleClick (DCLK)	0.08	0.06	0.03
Ecolab (ECL)	0.27	0.28	0.26
Equity Office Properties (EOP)	0.62	0.63	0.45
Gillette (G)	0.41	0.41	0.35
ICOS (ICOS)	-0.53	-0.5	-0.54
International Paper (IP)	0.42	0.42	0.23
j2 Global Communications (JCOM)	0.37	0.34	0.32
K-Swiss (KSWS)	0.23	0.21	0.2
Lyondell Chemical (LYO)	0.33	0.28	-0.41
Maxtor (MXO)	-0.28	-0.18	0.24
MedImmune (MEDI)	0.21	0.17	0.32
Mylan Laboratories (MYL)	0.13	0.18	0.31
Penn National Gaming (PENN)	0.44	0.42	0.32
PepsiCo (PEP)	0.59	0.58	0.52
Public Service Enterprise Grou (PEG)	0.48	0.52	0.69
Raytheon (RTN)	0.54	0.46	0.55
SEI Investments (SEIC)	0.41	0.4	0.36
Sherwin Williams (SHW)	0.57	0.57	0.48
Snap On (SNA)	0.44	0.37	0.37
Sprint FON Group (FON)	0.31	0.32	0.39
Starwood Hotel & Resorts (HOT)	0.57	0.45	0.42
Tesoro Petroleum (TSO)	0.15	0.17	-0.02
Tractor Supply (TSCO)	0.55	0.5	0.41

Tomorrow's Expected Earnings
Company (Symbol)	Expected	Last Year
Cardinal Health (CAH)	0.77	0.86
Ryder System (R)	0.79	0.64
Time Warner (TWX)	0.16	0.24
Wendys (WEN)	0.45	0.56

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Company (Symbol)	Analyst	Rating	Target
Amazon.com (AMZN)	Smith Barney Citigroup	Hold	$36
Boeing Corp. (BA)	Banc of America	Buy
Cardinal Health (CAH)	JP Morgan	Overweight
Colgate-Palmolive (CL)	Prudential	Neutral	$56
Duke Energy (DUK)	Wachovia	Mkt Perform
Eclipsys (ECLP)	Piper Jaffray	Outperform	$25
Family Dollars (FDO)	CIBC	Sector Perform
General Growth (GGP)	Smith Barney Citigroup	Hold
Hewlett Packard (HPQ)	Lehman Brothers	Overweight	$25
McKesson Corp. (MCK)	JP Morgan	Overweight
Mercury Interact. (MERQ)	Wachovia	Outperform
Novell (NOVL)	Prudential	Neutral
SBC Comm. (SBC)	JP Morgan	Overweight

Top Analyst Downgrades
Company (Symbol)	Analyst	Rating	Target
Amazon.com (AMZN)	CSFB	Neutral
BMC Software (BMC)	Legg Mason	Hold
Owens & Minor (OMI)	Lehman Brothers	Underweight	$27
Starbucks (SBUX)	Smith Barney Citigroup	Hold
Thermo Electron (TMO)	JP Morgan	Neutral
TXU Corp. (TXU)	Smith Barney Citigroup	Hold

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MCI (MCIP) in Merger Talks With Qwest

2005-02-03T14:36:00.000-08:00

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MCI (MCIP)

MCI in Merger Talks With Qwest

In what could be the telecom industry's second blockbuster merger in a week, MCI, the No. 2 U.S. long-distance telephone company, was revealed to be in talks with Qwest Communications International. According to sources familiar with the matter, Qwest offered $6.3 billion for the company with which Verizon has already had preliminary merger talks.

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Ashburn, Virginia-based MCI emerged from bankruptcy last April, changing its name from WorldCom in the process. Although it has been looking for a buyer since then, interest in the long-distance carrier intensified after leader and rival AT&T agreed last week to be acquired by SBC Communications. MCI would give Denver-based Qwest, the No. 4 local-phone carrier, access to a global long-distance phone and Internet network spanning 98,000 miles in six continents.

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MCI used its national networks to serve the high-spending corporate customers but has been suffering as demand and prices slumped. Qwest would benefit from the merger as it would be acquiring a company with a much better balance sheet. Qwest is already burdened with $17.2b in debt, and would benefit from MCI's cash flow. The latter generated $20b in sales and has $5.6b in cash, according to estimates.

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Industry stalwart Verizon is also reportedly in talks with MCI, while Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, MCI's biggest individual investor, is also considering a plan to take MCI private. Slim owned a 13.4% stake in the company as of last April. Last year Leucadia National, owner of long-distance provider WilTel Communications, considered a bid before selling its shares in the company. Many believe the bartering between MCI and Qwest may be a ploy by the former to attract more interest from Verizon and BellSouth, and start a bidding war.

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MCI and Qwest have both been tainted by scandals in the collapse of the telecom bubble. MCI was forced into bankruptcy in 2002 after an $11b fraud, while Qwest CEO Richard Notebaert agreed in October to pay a $250 million fine to resolve probes by U.S. regulators. Having spent the last three years resolving accounting missteps, it seems a good time for them to talk of getting together.

In an industry where bottom-line growth is stagnant, a merger may be just what the doctor ordered to squeeze out costs. MCI has already done a commendable job since its bankruptcy days, slashing 18,000 jobs, and cutting down $41b in liabilities to just about $5.7b in debt. Despite its reputation being scarred from the accounting fraud, MCI is still very attractive for its national network infrastructure and roster of corporate clients. Marrying the two companies would ease the price wars, and perhaps continue the recent wave of telecom mergers. With so many potential suitors, MCI could soon be in the middle of a heated bidding war, and promises to be an exciting stock to watch.

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MCI, Inc., whose predecessor was WorldCom, Inc., is a global communication company, providing a range of communication services in over 200 countries on six continents. It operates a communications network that is composed of approximately 100,000 route miles of network connections linking metropolitan centers and various regions across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. It owns an Internet protocol backbone and is a carrier of international voice traffic. Since April 2003, its business has been conducted using the brand name MCI. The Company operates primarily through three business units: Business Markets, Mass Markets and International. On April 20, 2004, WorldCom merged with and into MCI, as a part of transactions contemplated by a Plan of Reorganization of WorldCom and certain of its subsidiaries under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.

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NBC said Tuesday it would broadcast an additional version of the hit reality show "The Apprentice" featuring Martha Stewart as host.

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Media conglomerate News Corp. on Wednesday said its quarterly profit rose 80 percent, boosted by strong DVD sales of the film "Day After Tomorrow" and advertising sales at its cable networks.

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The Federal Reserve increased a pivotal short-term interest rate that banks use to determine rates for many loans by a quarter-point Wednesday to 2.5 percent.

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The Fed's Open Market Committee added in a statement that it plans to maintain a "measured" stance towards boosting rates, which market observers interpret to mean that the Fed is likely to keep raising rates at quarter-point increments as opposed to taking more drastic action to combat inflation.

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Amazon.com (AMZN)	$0.35	$0.40	$0.29
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Barr Laboratories (BRL)	$0.56	$0.56	$0.54
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Equity Residential (EQR)	$0.56	$0.56	$0.33
Fluor (FLR)	$0.57	$0.57	$0.63
Fox Entertainment (FOX)	$0.44	$0.39	$0.36
Harrahs Entertainment (HET)	$0.72	$0.67	$0.50
J.B. Hunt Transport (JBHT)	$0.64	$0.59	$0.32
News Corporation (NWS)	$0.13	$0.18	$0.15
NICE-Systems (NICE)	$0.47	$0.45	$0.42
Northrop Grumman (NOC)	$0.81	$0.80	$0.56
Pitney Bowes (PBI)	$0.71	$0.68	$0.66
Polo Ralph Lauren (RL)	$0.72	$0.71	$0.47
PP&L Resources (PPL)	$0.93	$0.92	$0.98
Quest Software (QSFT)	$0.23	$0.15	$0.16
Rohm and Haas (ROH)	$0.61	$0.54	$0.45
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TXU Corporation (TXU)	$0.67	$0.43	$0.20

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Alcatel (ALA)	$0.22	$1.40
American Power Conversion (APCC)	$0.25	$0.29
Ask Jeeves (ASKJ)	$0.32	$0.14
BMC Software (BMC)	$0.20	$0.19
Century Telephone (CTL)	$0.60	$0.61
Comcast (CMCSA)	$0.13	$0.17
Cray (CRAY)	-$0.15	$0.09
DoubleClick (DCLK)	$0.06	$0.03
Ecolab (ECL)	$0.28	$0.26
Equity Office Properties (EOP)	$0.63	$0.45
Gillette (G)	$0.41	$0.35
ICOS (ICOS)	-$0.49	-$0.54
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j2 Global Communications (JCOM)	$0.34	$0.32
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Maxtor (MXO)	-$0.18	$0.24
MedImmune (MEDI)	$0.17	$0.32
Mylan Laboratories (MYL)	$0.18	$0.31
Penn National Gaming (PENN)	$0.42	$0.32
PepsiCo (PEP)	$0.58	$0.52
Public Service Enterprise Grou (PEG)	$0.52	$0.69
Raytheon (RTN)	$0.46	$0.55
SEI Investments (SEIC)	$0.40	$0.36
Sherwin Williams (SHW)	$0.57	$0.48
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Starwood Hotel & Resorts (HOT)	$0.45	$0.42
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Aeropostale (ARO)	Merrill Lynch	Buy
American Express (AXP)	Wachovia	Outperform
AT&T Corp. (T)	Deutsche Securities	Hold	$18
CenterPoint Energy (CNP)	Banc of America	Buy
DaimlerChrysler (DCX)	JP Morgan	Overweight
Exxon Mobil (XOM)	Bear Stearns	Outperform
Inco Ltd. (N)	Prudential	Overweight
McKesson Corp. (MCK)	UBS	Buy

Top Analyst Downgrades
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Mcdonalds Corp. (MCD)	Piper Jaffray	Market Perform
McKesson Corp. (MCK)	Piper Jaffray	Market Perform
Mellon Financial (MEL)	Merrill Lynch	Neutral
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THQ Shares (THQI) Rise on Incredible Quarter

2005-02-02T12:35:00.000-08:00

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THQ (THQI)

THQ Shares Rise on Incredible Quarter

The major video game publisher posted fiscal third quarter results late Tuesday that far exceeded analysts expectations. Several of the companys games turned out to be holiday hits, evidenced by the 4 million copies of The Incredibles shipped during the quarter. The astounding earnings report coupled with several analyst upgrades caused the share price to catapult to over $28, up more than 25 percent early on Wednesday.

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THQ earned $62.9 million for the fiscal third quarter, or $1.58 a share. While this includes a $7.8 million tax credit, the resultant $1.38 per share earnings still shattered analyst expectations. Consensus estimates had the company earning $1.15 a share. Two major research firms, Wedbush Morgan and Piper Jaffray upgraded THQ to buy and outperform respectively. Michael Pachter, a Wedbush Morgan analyst explained, This is a really nice result. My hats off to them - they did what they said they'd do and more, they're still inexpensive at this price given the cash position they have. Sales were up on the performance of several of the companys most popular childrens games, including The Incredibles and Finding Nemo.

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While the companys current status has investors scrambling to pick up shares, there have been some concerns over THQs future expectations. The video game publisher expects earnings of 21 cents a share for the fourth quarter on revenue of $165 million. This is a step up from earnings during the same quarter last year, but is just in-line with analyst expectations. THQs expectations for the 2006 fiscal year may also be disappointing to shareholders, as they once again come in-line with analyst estimates. The delay of Cars, one of the companys major titles, is cause for these lowered estimates, and is due for release in 2007, as opposed to 2006 as originally planned.

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THQ Incorporated is a developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment software for the leading hardware platforms in the home video game market. The company publishes titles for several home video game systems and personal computers in most interactive software genres, including action, adventure, driving, fighting, puzzle, role playing, simulation, sports and strategy.

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