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Market highlights for the week: ORCL, RIMM and PALM to report earnings

Eric Buscemi — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:15:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Forecasts, Conventions and Conferences, Annual Meetings, Walgreen Co (WAG), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Research in Motion (RIMM), NIKE, Inc'B' (NKE), Oracle Corp (ORCL), Palm Inc (PALM), Lilly (Eli) (LLY), Federal Reserve

Monday, June 23

Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) to report Q3 earnings; conference call at 8:30am.

Tuesday, June 24

FOMC to hold two-day meeting.
Jabil Circuits (NYSE: JBL) to report Q3 earnings; conference call at 4:30pm.
3Com (NASDAQ: COMS) to report Q4 earnings; conference call at 5:00pm.

Wednesday, June 25

Second day of two-day FOMC meeting; announcement at 2:15pm.
Thornburg Mortgage (NYSE: TMA) to discuss valuation and accounting for recent financing transaction at 10:00am.
Nike (NYSE: NKE) to report Q4 earnings; conference call at 5:00pm.
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) to report Q4 earnings; conference call at 5:00pm.
Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 5:00pm.

Thursday, June 26

PDUFA date for Eli Lilly & Co's (NYSE: LLY) and Daiichi Sankyo's new drug application for Prasugrel.
Palm Inc (NASDAQ: PALM) to report Q4 earnings; conference call at 4:30pm.
Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) to report Q3 earnings; conference call at 4:30pm.

Friday, June 27

PDUFA date for Indevus Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ: IDEV) New Drug Application for Nebido for treatment of male hypogonadism.
PDUFA date for Johnson & Johnson's (NYSE: JNJ) and Eisai Co's (OTC: ESALY) Aciphex.

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Market highlights for next week: Dell and TiVo reporting earnings

Eric Buscemi — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:56:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Conventions and Conferences, Annual Meetings, Dell (DELL), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), Polo Ralph Lauren'A' (RL)

Monday, May 26

Markets closed for Memorial Day holiday.

Tuesday, May 27

Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) (NYSE: VOD) to report preliminary earnings results for the year ending 3/13/08, conference call at 5:00am.
Modine Manufacturing Co. (NYSE: MOD) to report Q4 earnings; conference call at 11:00am.

Wednesday, May 28

Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE: RL) to report Q4 earnings; conference call at 9:00am.
TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 5:00pm.

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Market highlights for next week: Lowe's, Hewlett-Packard reporting earnings

Eric Buscemi — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:05:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Conventions and Conferences, Annual Meetings, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Campbell Soup (CPB), Lowe's Cos (LOW), CA Inc (CA)

Monday, May 19

Lowe's Companies (NYSE: LOW) to report Q1 earnings; conference call scheduled for 9:00am.
Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB) to report Q3 earnings; Conference call scheduled for 10:00am.

Tuesday, May 20

Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Global Internet Freedom & Corporate Responsibilty at 10:00am. Appearing: Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO).
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) to report Q4 earnings; conference call scheduled for 8:00am.
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) to report Q2 earnings; conference call scheduled for 5:00pm.

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Market highlights for next week: Wal-Mart and Hewlett-Packard reporting

Eric Buscemi — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:17:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Conventions and Conferences, Annual Meetings, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Wal-Mart (WMT), XM Satellite Radio (XMSR), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), Sprint Nextel Corp (S), Agilent Technologies (A), Applied Materials (AMAT), Toll Brothers (TOL), Economic Data

Monday, May 12

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 8:00am.
W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW) to hold sales conference call at 8:00am.
XM Satellite Radio Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: XMSR) and Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) to report quarterly earnings; the conference call is at 10:00am for XM and at 4:30pm for Sirius.

Tuesday, May 13

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 7:30am.
Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE: TOL) to report preliminary Q2 results and outlook at 2pm.
Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) to report Q2 earnings; conference call at 4:30pm.

Wednesday, May 14

FCC Open Commission Meeting at 9:30am.
SEC Open Commission Meeting at 10:00am.
Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 10:30am.
Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) to report Q2 earnings; conference call at 4:30pm.

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Is the music industry different now than 50 years ago?

Richard Driver — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:01:00 EST

Filed under: Products and Services, Consumer Experience, Marketing and Advertising, Columns

Today marks the 50th anniversary (July 6, 1957) of Paul McCartney meeting John Lennon in a church fete (fair) in Liverpool to form the core partnership that would become The Beatles. In 2007, there has been no "official" Beatles release or related material, but the world still looks on and music fans still buy up products by and related to the four members. Last month, Paul McCartney's 21st solo album Memory Almost Full debuted at #3 in the Billboard 200, while the collected works of the George Harrison supergroup Traveling Wilburys debuted at #9. Meanwhile, the John Lennon-fueled, various contemporary artists-filled Instant Karma compilation designed to aid Darfur debuted at #15.

While these numbers may be impressive for the products of the former Beatles more than 37 years after the band broke up, the music industry slowly and loudly falls apart in self-defeating decline. Luckily, we do not (and frankly cannot) look to The Beatles to save the industry. It's likely the band could not anyhow, despite the potential sales the digital catalog that may one day see light of day might pull in. With the uncertainty of that release on the horizon, all that is left now is the current state of the music industry, but it is not unlike the music industry that The Beatles entered. True, the early 1960s were not a state of decline, but when The Beatles started, the emphasis was not on albums. It was on singles. Is there any difference in the digital tracks that see higher downloads than albums? There might be, but fundamentally there is not.

If The Beatles catalog is ever released it will likely sell the same way many albums today sell. Yes, fans will buy the newest remastered versions from digital stores and relish in the joy of buying a Beatles album in a new way for the first time (akin to 1987's CD versions?), but new listeners (and maybe even some fans) will buy up their favorite tracks, destroying the core albums in the same way that albums are not bought today. Everyone says the album is dying, but in the industry it may never have been meant to be.

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Market highlights for next week: Monthly sales numbers coming

Eric Buscemi — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:00:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Conventions and Conferences, Microsoft (MSFT), Wal-Mart (WMT), Home Depot (HD), Penney (J.C.) (JCP), Alcoa Inc (AA), Chicago Merc Exch Hld'A' (CME), Oracle Corp (ORCL)

Monday July 9

The Chicago Board of Trade (NYSE: BOT) and Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc (NYSE: CME) to hold a special shareholder meeting in Chicago about merging at 4pm.
Take-Two Interactive Software (NASDAQ: TTWO) to hold a business update at 4:30pm.
Alcoa Inc (NYSE: AA) to report Q2 earnings; conference call at 5pm.

Tuesday July 10

Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, to be held from July 10-July 13 in Santa Monica, California.
The Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) to release a 2007 Sales Update at 9am.
Sealy Corporation (NYSE: ZZ) to report Q2 earnings; conference call at 5pm.

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Yahoo! shareholders send a message

Eric Buscemi — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:00:00 EST

Filed under: Management, Annual Meetings, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO)

Yahoo Inc (NASDAQ: YHOO) shareholders sent a symbolic message yesterday about the heft of Chief Executive Terry Semel's $71.7 million paycheck, which was more than double that of any other Silicon Valley CEO last year, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

Three top advisory firms have been urging institutional shareholders to vote against three members of Yahoo's compensation committee, one-third of the investors voted against the slate of directors at the annual meeting, up significantly from 2005, when nearly one-fifth of the investors withheld their votes for directors after a similar campaign.

About one-third of investors also backed a union pension fund's proposal to tie pay more closely to performance.

Reacting in part to shareholder discontent, Yahoo's board approved a controversial package in May 2006 that slashed Semel's salary from $600,000 to $1 but awarded him 6 million options to carry him through a three-year period. Those options were valued at more than $71 million.

Semel has cashed in a total of $446 million in gains since taking charge in 2001. During this time, Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) has come to dominate many aspects of Internet searching and advertising.

Meanwhile, investors continue to look for any signs of success from Project Panama.

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Market highlights for next week: Google and Yahoo reporting

Eric Buscemi — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:10:00 EST

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Conventions and Conferences, Annual Meetings, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Pfizer (PFE), Motorola (MOT), XM Satellite Radio (XMSR), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), International Business Machines (IBM), Caterpillar (CAT), Citigroup Inc. (C), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Penney (J.C.) (JCP), United Technologies (UTX)

Monday April 16

Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 10am.
PDUFA date for Neurochem Inc's (NASDAQ: NRMX) Eprodisate extended from today to 7/16.

Tuesday April 17

Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Hearing on XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: XMSR) / Sirius Satellite Radio Inc (NASDAQ: SIRI); Webcast at 10am.
J.C. Penney Co Inc (NYSE: JCP) 2-day Analyst Meeting.
Technology giants International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) and Yahoo Inc (NASDAQ: YHOO) to report after the market close.

Wednesday April 18

United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 9:30am.
Motorola Inc (NYSE: MOT) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 5pm.

Thursday April 19

Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 4:30pm.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NYSE: AMD) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 5:30pm.

Friday April 20

Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 9:30am.
Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) to hold Analyst Meeting.

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Ford and Toyota hold meeting

Eric Buscemi — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:04:00 EST

Filed under: Before the Bell, Deals, Good news, Rumors, Industry, Ford Motor (F), Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Boeing Co (BA)

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is essentially a rounding error when compared to Toyota Motor Corp.'s (NYSE: TM) market capitalization. Ford's market cap is about $14 billion versus $211 billion for Toyota. However, Ford is not so insignificant when it comes to revenue, generating about $166 billion versus Toyota's $190 billion, according to data from Reuters.

There is little doubt that there is a ton of upside if Ford could ever get its act together. To that end, Alan Mulally, who came to Ford after successfully running Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), supposedly held talks with Toyota on improving procurement costs and fuel cell technology.

Toyota management can tell Ford everything they need to know about running a successful automobile company. However, history tells us that even with U.S. manufacturers having the knowledge, it still does not mean they will listen. Mulally may be different though. He comes from a manufacturing industry that has a strong union employee base.

Ford is one stock to watch in 2007. If the fundamentals stop deteriorating, it could be worth getting into this stock.

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Highlights for next week

Eric Buscemi — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:35:00 EST

Filed under: Press Releases, Conventions and Conferences, Annual Meetings, Circuit City Stores (CC), Research in Motion (RIMM)

Monday December 18

* Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) to hold 5 p.m. earnings conference call
* BluePhoenix Solutions, Ltd (NASDAQ: BPHX) to hold 10 a.m. conference call on the acquisition of CodeStream Software
* Bank of Japan to hold a 2-Day monetary policy meeting

Tuesday December 19

* Bally Total Fitness Holdings Corp. (NYSE: BFT) to hold 10 a.m. shareholder meeting
* Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE: CC) to hold 11 a.m. earnings conference call
* Input/Output Inc. (NYSE: IO) to hold conference call to review financial outlook for 2007

Wednesday December 20

* The Pepsi Bottling Group (NYSE: PBG) to hold an 8 a.m. 2007 financial guidance conference call
* Biomet (NASDAQ: BMET) to hold 10 a.m. earnings conference call
* Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to hold meeting at 10 a.m.

Thursday December 21

* Research in Motion Ltd.(NASDAQ: RIMM) to hold 5 p.m. earnings conference call
* Discovery Laboratories (NASDAQ: DSCO) to meet with FDA on way to getting Surfaxin approved

Friday December 22
* PDUFA date for Schering-Plough Corp.'s (NYSE: SGP) Noxafi
* Final Deadline for European Union Jurisdiciton in Ryanair (NASDAQ: RYAAY) Bid for Aer Lingus

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