Late-Night Headlines
Bloomberg:
- China Investment Corp., the nation’s $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, wants to stabilize financial markets, which have been rocked by subprime mortgage defaults. “CIC wants to be a stabilizing force in the international capital markets,” Chairman Lou Jiwei told a conference in
- National Australia Bank, the nation’s largest, agreed to buy US-based Great Western Bancorporation for $798 million, its biggest acquisition since the 1998 purchase of HomeSide Lending.
- Radiation from CT scans may be responsible for up to 2% of cancers in the US, a report in the New England Journal of Medicine found. “If a physician chooses not to order a CT scan on you today to save you the radiation exposure, the physician takes on the risk of missing something, and if something is missed, there is a good chance you’ll sue the physician for not finding it,” said Elaine Rabin, an emergency room physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. GE(GE) plans to begin selling a high-definition CT scanner next year that provides clearer images than conventional CT machines using half the radiation.
- EBay Inc.(EBAY) and Amazon.com(AMZN) may “exceed” Sanford C. Bernstein’s earnings estimates, the brokerage wrote.
- Zinc, the worst-performer on the London Metal Exchange this year, will drop another 11% in 2008 as the market returns to surplus, National Australia Bank Ltd. said.
- Crude oil prices aren’t fundamentally sustainable at $90 per barrel, said Thomas Petrie, vice chairman of Merrill Lynch(MER). Petrie, in an interview today, responded to comments made earlier by Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi, who said there is “no relationship” between today’s price and fundamental supply and demand.
- Kellogg(K) and chemical maker DuPont(DD) led 13 borrowers into the
Wall Street Journal:
- In a sign of continuing woes for hedge funds that use computer models to trade, GMN Capital closed shop, CEO and Managing Partner James Claus confirmed.
NY Times:
- For Toddlers, Toy of Choice Is Tech Device.
- Qualcomm Chief Welcomes iPhone’s Spread.
MarketWatch.com:
- Nine-to-one. Up volume swamped down volume in Wednesday’s trading.
- Trash Talk. Not convinced we are succumbing to fear-mongering? US consumers have taken $3-a-gallon gas and a drop in our home equity in stride. Yet the media seems hell-bent on convincing us multinational banks’ subprime mortgage losses and a weak dollar will torpedo the economy in a way the stock market’s collapse, mass layoffs and 9/11 scarcely did in 2001. Five signs we’re jawboning ourselves into a recession.
BusinessWeek:
- Clear Skies for Airline Stocks.
- Tech Holiday Gift Guide. Tips help navigate the tech-buying maze.
- Resale values for Detroit makers’ vehicles go up.
- Robots dazzle at Japanese exhibit.
Reuters:
- Freddie Mac(FRE) shares post biggest gain in 19 years.
- Hedge fund firm Pequot Capital Management, whose flagship fund gained 37% this year, will soon shut down three smaller portfolios due to “poor” performance and meager assets.
Financial Times:
- The four US television networks in a pay dispute with Hollywood television writers over online video advertising are in line to generate $120 million of revenues in 2007 from free web streaming of their content, according to a leading media buyer.
- A Hong Kong-based maker of bead toys that caused recalls in the
Late Buy/Sell Recommendations
Citigroup:
- Reiterated Buy on (NRGY), target $39.
- Reiterated Buy on (VMW), target $134. VMW’s recently introduced ESX Server 3i, is a thin hypervisor, that six of the leading OEMs(Dell, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP, IBM and NEC) will pre-install on servers. We believe this is a significant step towards enhancing VMW’s already dominant position in the virtualization industry and is a pre-emptive strike against future Microsoft and Citrix/Xen releases in the battle for control of the x86 server virtualization market.
Night Trading
Asian Indices are +1.5% to +3.0% on average.
S&P 500 futures -.03%.
NASDAQ 100 futures -.18%.
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Earnings of Note
Company/EPS Estimate
- (SFD)/.23
- (GRB)/.13
- (DLM)/.17
- (WMG)/.04
- (SHLD)/.53
- (AMWD)/.37
- (LULU)/.08
- (BF/B)/1.00
- (JCG)/.36
- (OVTI)/.32
- (BRCD)/.13
- (MENT)/-.02
- (HNZ)/.67
- (VIP)/.42
- (GCO)/.57
- (ZOLT)/.23
- (DELL)/.35
- (FRED)/.14
- (MIK)/.30
- (ZUMZ)/.28
Upcoming Splits
- None of note
Economic Releases
8:30 am EST
- Preliminary 3Q GDP is estimated to rise 4.9% versus prior estimates of a 3.9% increase.
- Preliminary 3Q Personal Consumption is estimated to rise 2.9% versus a prior estimate of a 3.0% gain.
- Preliminary 3Q GDP Price Index is estimated to rise .8% versus prior estimates of a .8% gain.
- Preliminary 3Q Core PCE is estimated to rise 1.8% versus prior estimates of a 1.8% gain.
- Initial Jobless Claims for this week are estimated at 330K versus 330K the prior week.
- Continuing Claims are estimated to rise to 2575K versus 2566K prior.
10:00 am EST
- New Home Sales for October are estimated to fall to 750K versus 770K in September.
Other Potential Market Movers
- The Fed’s Bernanke speaking, 3Q House Price Index, weekly EIA natural gas inventories report, (SAF) analyst day, (GPRO) analyst day, (STEC) analyst day, Bear Stearns Commodities & Capital Goods Conference, UBS Global Real Estate Conference, CSFB Tech Conference and the CSFB Aviation Conference could also impact trading today.
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