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    CrossProfit
    May 08 10:42 AM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Correcting a myth - regarding GM and Toyota Motor (TM).

    Many believe that GM is no. 1 globally as recently published it outsold Toyota by 1000 or 3000 cars in 2007.

    In reality, GM's revenue was $181B in 2007 (01/2007-12/2007) down considerably on YOY. Toyota's revenue was $252B in FY2007 (04/2007-03/2008) up nearly 10%.

    It is high time the U.S. auto industry started dealing with the harsh reality before it is too late. Hype and spin can go just so far...

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    Nielsen
    Netratings
    May 02 09:19 PM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Wow - even we are impressed with comScore's numbers! Good job comScore! Reply
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    SLIA67
    May 02 10:51 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    I'm really liking the earnings reports tacked onto the Wall Street Breakfast. Thanks. Reply
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    Eli Hoffmann
    May 02 09:59 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Thanks. Fixed. Reply
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    User 131645
    May 02 08:46 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Market climbed in Asia Friday. Nikkei +20.5% to 14,049. Is +20.5% a typo? Reply
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    numericalexa
    mple,com
    Apr 06 01:50 PM
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    Are Companies Smart to Reject Takeover Offers? [view article]
    Getty images also got an offer when it was really bottomming in January, just before the current offer, of about 1.5 billion. I don't know whether they have refused it, I think it did not go for other reasons. But really, that offer was so low that they should have refused it. Reply
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    SeekingAlpha
    Editors
    Apr 06 05:17 AM
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    General Discussion on GYI
    Is this a buy or a sell? Reply
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    nyka
    Apr 01 04:45 PM
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    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    Try "Low NUMBER of buy ratings," not low amount. Check Webster's Dictionary to learn how to differentiate amount from number. Reply
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    Healthy
    Mar 25 12:34 PM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    This report is ridiculous. By the same methodology, they would have bought the losers on the way down, and at much higher prices than where they eventually bottommed out. Reply
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    maguro_01
    Mar 12 09:29 PM
    Are Companies Smart to Reject Takeover Offers? [view article]
    Suggesting that the Reily attempted takeover of Transmeta is offering a premium is not correct. Transmeta recently won a $250 million settlement from Intel in a patent suit. $150 million was payable immediately and $20 million/yr for the remainder. Reily proposes to buy Transmeta with its cash on hand and shut it down immediately. The offer values the next payments near zero, the patents that got $250 million out of Intel at zero, the business from Longrun2 royalties now started (from NEC) at zero, and Transmeta's large loss carry forward from its failed processor business at zero.

    At first glance Reilly's offer is just a pirate raid. Transmeta management did fail to have a plan to spend most of it immediately. A small company can no more have that much cash than you or I could walk through a tough section of a city with a tray of $100 bills. So that way Reilly gets a payday but no one else does.

    One even less appetizing possibility remains. Reilly said they represented "affiliated companies". Who might that be? Is it possible that the Intel settlement is to be undone and it all ends up at Intel for much less than the total amount of the award or a normal purchase price? Transmeta's Longrun2 patents, now licensed by Intel as part of the settlement, may be necessary for the 32nm generation of integrated circuits. In fact Intel recently hired Ditzel, one of Transmeta's founders. If this complete conjecture were true then small company patents would be nearly worthless if a big company covets them. Transmeta is not a patent troll, but the actual patenting operating company. Such a series of events would be well beyond playing hardball.
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    carolina
    critter
    Mar 06 09:56 AM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    It's fun to daytrade with Etrade. It's also fun to watch Cramer go ballist and make crazy statements like the $2.00 lottery ticket. Etrade has a lot of loyal clients, me included, because of the great trading platform. And it's also fun to read about such assinine strategies like the one in your column. I wonder if you invest the same way you write. Reply
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    daffy
    Mar 06 07:47 AM
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    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    To all you naysayers . . .

    If the pundits and analyst had their say about the direction of the economy and the media propaganda, T-rexes would be roaming the earth will-nilly and what humans that were left would be scampering around with limbs bleeding due to fear alone.

    Lighten up a bit, and you might make some money. This piece may be a far cry from the more positive recovery spins I would like to see coming out of the pundits and analsyts (has anyone ever noticed the presence of anal in analyst?). All I see is "the sky is falling, you are going to die". I am bored. At least this piece was humorous and gave me a break.

    I even bought ETFC at $3.14. Right when everyone was screaming sell. Oh well, I guess I made the wrong decision there. I don't think they sell $3.14 lottery tickets, do they?     Reply
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    redponydoc
    Mar 06 06:35 AM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    ...I sold out of my position in ETRADE in late '07 at a loss, because all the experts told me to. On 1-7-08, the stock traded at $2.07, and everyone including Jim Cramer ("I'd rather have a $2 lottery ticket than a share of ETRADE"), the CNBC resident geniuses ("Run from this stock as fast as you can!") . If you had done the opposite of what they told you to do, and put every penny you could beg, borrow, or steal into ETRADE on that very day, you could have sold it roughly 6 weeks later at $5.25, a 254% profit.
    That is an annualized profit of 2,209%. I haven't seen any of the stocks Jim Cramer or the other experts recommend to their followers reap 2,200% annual gain for them. I suspect there were none.
    Point is, my limited experience in the market suggests to me that the contrarian approach is at least as good as following the analysts' advice. An even better would be to totally ignore them.     Reply
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    mosteele
    Mar 06 03:23 AM
    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    This article is interesting. It may well work on the short term.

    But I find more interesting the reactions this article causes.


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    Winston
    Kotzan
    Mar 06 02:21 AM
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    Contrarian Indicator: Analyst Buy Ratings [view article]
    How creative... just when I thought people ran out of ideas to loose money faster. Reply
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