日期：2007-10-24 23:15:35 点击：0 评论：0

Amazon.com's biggest percentage sales hike since early 2004 sparked a 280% jump in third-quarter profit, but a decline in profit margin worried investors. Late Tuesday, Amazon (NasdaqGS: - ) said it earned 19 cents a share last quarter, up from 5 cen

日期：2007-10-24 23:15:14 点击：0 评论：0

Can the sins of the past now be forgiven? Last October Schneider Electric shocked investors by paying an enterprise value of EU4.1bn, or over 40 times operating profit, for APC, the US critical power supply company. It received a warmer response from

日期：2007-10-20 07:39:12 点击：0 评论：0

It's rare to want to invest in a sinking ship - especially one that last year reported a loss equivalent to 77 per cent of book equity. Its website () warns that its "business is extremely speculative and of exceptionally high risk" and it has just h

日期：2007-10-20 07:38:58 点击：0 评论：0

With the World Series a week away, we've decided to get in the mix by taking a swing at specialty retailer Finish Line (NasdaqGS: - ). We believe this stock has home-run potential. As we discussed in our first article, "Bat Like Babe Ruth," swatting

日期：2007-10-20 07:38:42 点击：0 评论：0

Stocks opened broadly lower Friday morning following another round of mostly disappointing earnings. Shortly after the opening bell on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average () was down 125 points and the NASDAQ () had lost more than 20. Cate

日期：2007-10-20 07:38:28 点击：0 评论：0

Google's engine continues to run on all cylinders. After a rare miss in the second quarter, the Web's No. 1 search service beat third-quarter forecasts late Thursday. Google earned $3.91 a share, up 49% vs. a year earlier. Analysts expected $3.78. Re

日期：2007-10-18 08:07:48 点击：0 评论：0

Last month I showed how investors can generate investment ideas by using the Producer Price Index (PPI) report prepared monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The idea is that industries in which prices are rising may contain companies where reve

日期：2007-10-18 08:07:00 点击：0 评论：0

Computers are built to understand zeros and ones--digital data. But for you and me, these digital bits are pure gobbledygook. The interface between the computer world and the real world comes in the form of analog chips. Analog chips take real-world

日期：2007-10-17 10:20:58 点击：0 评论：0

Yesterday, Broadcom announced a new chip to much fanfare, driving the shares up 4.4% in a down market. It purports to solve what I consider a major issue with next-generation mobile phones: Until recently, a 3G device running on a GSM network require

日期：2007-10-17 10:20:36 点击：0 评论：0

Carl Icahn has struck yet another match in the US drugs sector, knowing that desperate pharmaceutical companies will circle the flame. Biogen Idec (NASDAQ:BIIB), Icahn's latest activist target, has now agreed to entertain takeover offers. Given Big P

日期：2007-10-17 10:20:14 点击：0 评论：0

The rally in emerging markets just won't quit. Sure, there have been a few alarming declines along the way--most recently just two months ago--but they didn't last long. For the overwhelming majority of the time, indexes in emerging markets have been

日期：2007-10-17 10:19:55 点击：0 评论：0

Following is a sampling of stocks that recently jumped to 5 stars. By way of background, we award a stock 5 stars when it trades at a suitably large discount--i.e., a margin of safety--to our fair value estimate. Thus, when a stock hits 5-star territ

日期：2007-10-17 10:19:20 点击：0 评论：0

It's not just about making money -- it's about keeping it. Doug Pyle, a managing director who heads up $850 million Excelsior Small Cap Fund (NASDAQ: - ), finds that most investors are more concerned about losing money than about making more. And sin

日期：2007-10-17 10:16:56 点击：0 评论：0

In ancient Arabia, Alibaba became rich when he discovered the 40 thieves' secret treasure trove. In modern times humble labourers find wealth by tapping Chinese initial public offerings. As such, a stampede for shares in Alibaba.com - a near-magical

日期：2007-10-16 07:01:43 点击：0 评论：0

The Business Press Maven almost had to delay production of this column for several months. The "j" key is missing from my keyboard, and there was a worldwide shortage of "j" keys. Don't believe me? Good instincts. The truth is I was too tired, too be