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More on Gold Manipulation

The central banks care about gold's price because gold over $1000 signifies a lack of faith in the world's monetary system and could be construed as a symbol, symptom or even as a catalyst of a panic situation.

Ten Worthy Technology Stocks

With regard to MSFT,ADI, MXIM, GRMN etc. - Why pick companies that are really struggling now when there are many hi-techs with good balance sheets in better industry niches with brighter futures with better managements and at reasonable stock valuations right now - NTAP, RVBD, GOOG, CSCO, INTC, and AKAM (at a little lower price) to to name a few.

AT&T Sues Verizon Over 'Misleading' Map Ad

AT&Tare even more misleading with their own ads - they advertise that they have the fastest 3G connection around (maybe they achieved the fastest reciordrd time once) where in fact they have the slowest average connection time as compared with Sprint and Verizon

Why I'm Long Uranium and Nuclear / Power Engineering

What about the notion of peak uranium? I've read that there is only a small amount of additional mineable uranium which limits how many nuclear plants that can be built around the world. Anyone care to comment on this question?

Barron's Is Wrong: Solar Offers Good Value

How about you're both wrong - prices on both stocks might be reasonable here with not a lot of upside or downside while the polysilicon mkt sorts itself out for a while.

Gold Approaching 200-Day Moving Average

Gold jewelry demand is also way down

Junk-Rated Financials, Utilities Likely to Lead Next Bull Market - S&P

I don't know - does that mean that CPN, AES, DYN, C, BAC, RF, GNW, HIG, etc. will be leading this market? Could be.

Microsoft Rubs Salt: Asks for Some Severance Back

MSFT hasn't learned much benevolence evidently - so sad.

A Tradable Bottom in Oil?

I'm not smart enough to estimate the short-term but there are a number of countries with declining production rates which should help support oil prices in the longer term.

The author, like so many other analysts who have gotten excited at times the past few months, fails to mention the impact of manipulation and rolling over of the expiring crude oil contract which has impacted prices over the last few expiration periods (March contract expires tomorrow).

The Yahoo Trainwreck

I gotta believe that Balmer is licking his chops and Yang at this point would want to find a face-saving solution that would help Yahoo before it goes under $10. He can blame Yahoo's recent woes (and lack of an effective gameplan) on the recent severe downturn in the economy and maybe agree to a $22 deal now.

Awaiting Apple Earnings and Guidance

Zach,

You are merely guessing as to what might happen on earnings day while the stock could be all over the place and at any price between now and then.

Granted the slow economy could and probably will take down their 4Q 2008 estimates and 2009 estimates but you don't even mention their cash cushion nor factor in the 50%+ drop in AAPL's share price to date.

Why come out now with such a negative, one-sided, simplistic and badly-timed article on APPL ?

The Case for Jamba Juice

I agree with most of the comments made as I have followed Jamba's woes since the stock was above $10.

I too sent an email and made similar comments and suggestions to several Jamba representatives with no response and seemingly little understanding on their part.

It was clear to me then that rather than open up a bunch of new stores, they needed to first make the drink ordering and preparation process more efficient which they still haven't done.

Second, they needed to simplify and tweak their product menu which they have done to some gegree.

Third, they needed to pick better and more profitable locations which I haven't seen much evidence of. There are plenty of them out there!

While the stock is cheap and the potential is there but I haven't seen enough positive moves by current management to make me a serious purchaser of the stock.

WuXi Pharmatech Reports Another Healthy Quarter

The probable reason that WX didn't go up after the good earnings is that investors who know the stock well remember that WX postponed a secondary offering last month due to "poor market conditions" and that if they bid up the price too high, the company would then issue the secondary ADS offering which would then depress the price again.

Jim Cramer's 10 Predictions for 2008

I would think that both stocks should trade by year end at roughly a resonable 25x 09 earnings or 160 for AAPL and 600-620 for GOOG - Cramer I am sure has since disavowed his predictions!

Jim Cramer's 10 Predictions for 2008

GOOG at 1000 and AAPL at 300 - doesn't look promising - my predictions: GOOG 620 and AAPL 160 - we'll see...