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Buffett’s Berkshire Buys Marmon Holdings
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway announced that it will pay $4.5 billion for 60 percent of Marmon Holdings Inc., a private company of more than 125 manufacturing and service businesses. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. plans to acquire the remaining ...
RIM 3Q Earnings Soar
Research in Motion’s fiscal third-quarter profit more than doubled on strong demand for its BlackBerry smart phones by consumers and businesses. The company’s shares jumped more than 11 percent in after hours. For the quarter ended Dec....
RIMM Reports
The maker of the popular BlackBerry, Research In Motion (RIMM), reports earnings Thursday after the bell. That leaves you tomorrow’s trading day to make your move…the question is, how should you play it? The following is a synopsis of Jim Gol...
The Next Baidu?
Cramer has found what could be the next Baidu (BIDU) or Google (GOOG). Investors that want to seek shelter in a foreign stock should look at Mercadolibre (MELI).This company, Cramer said, processes ecommerce transactions, which have been a good bu...
XM CEO Says He Is Hopeful Merger Will Happen
The chairman of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said Wednesday he remains “hopeful” that the company’s $5 billion acquisition by rival Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. will close this year, although he acknowledged that time is running ...
Cramer Backs NYSE Euronext (NYX) Again
The entire year has been an uphill battle for Cramer with NYSE Euronex. Cramer pointed out that this last year the stock has traded worse than any other stock he has ever seen in his 26 years of trading. When all other stocks went up, this one went d...
McDonald’s Upcoming Meeting
McDonald’s (MCD), which Cramer owns for Actions Alerts Plus is “loaded with American growth and European growth.” These factors plus the catalyst of The analysts’ meeting next Tuesday make McDonald’s one of Cramer’...
Is Brocade The Next Horsemen?
Cramer’s three horsemen of tech, RIMM, AAPL and GOOG (AMZN was dropped) may be joined with a new member, Brocade. Brocade is an overlooked tech which has a “happy duopoly” with CSCO and is due for more exposure, since it makes the...
Alibaba.com Raises $1.5B in IPO
HONG KONG (AP) — Alibaba.com Ltd., one of China’s fastest-growing technology companies, reached its goal of raising $1.5 billion in its initial public offering Saturday, people close to the deal said. Alibaba, an e-commerce portal, sold...
Microsoft Skyrockets Tech Sector
Microsoft’s stock topped the $36 mark in early morning (a level not seen since the summer of 2001). The shares later cooled slightly, closing at $35.03, up 9.5% up from the previous close. Today marked Microsoft’s biggest single day since...
Microsoft Buys Facebook Stake
Facebook has sold 1.6% stake of the company to Microsoft for $240 million after fighting off a competing offer from online search leader Google. The deal announced today after several weeks of negotiation values Palo Alto-based Facebook at $15 bil...
Apple Beats The Street
Apple’s fourth-quarter profits jumped 67 percent on its Macintosh computer business, continued iPods sales and the amazing launch of the iPhone. For the forth quarter that ended Sept. 30, Apple earned $904 million, or $1.01 per share, comp...
Microsoft Cuts Royalties
Microsoft has reached an agreement with the European Commission and had agreed to three substantial changes: The company will now charge a one-time fee of 10,000 euros ($14,310) for companies that want “complete and accurate” technic...
NYSE Euronext Joins S&P 500
Its a Big Day for the Big Board. NYSE Euronext joins the S&P 500 replacing Hilton Hotels after the closing bell on Oct 24. The index also said NYSE Euronext will replace retailer Limited Brands Inc. in the S&P 100. Limited’s mark...
Googles 3Q Jumps
Google Inc. has another fantastic quarter, justifying the investor confidence that lifted its stock price by more than $100 during past month. Google has been able to quickly establish itself as a leader in Silicon Valley. Overcoming a...
Charter Communications
Charter Communications (CHTR) provides cable, broadband, and telephony services to more than 10 million customers. The chairman and largest beneficial shareholder is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. There have been ongoing investigations by the FBI,...
Nuance Communications A Buyout?
Brent Thill, a Citi analyst, downgraded Nuance Communications Inc., which makes speech and imaging products because he stated that the share price is too high. The stock has gained 92 percent year-to-date and is now approaching the $22 mark. Thi...
Fair Value For Sirius When Merger Goes Through
Cramer has gone on the record as saying SIRI could get to $5.00. He was on Stop Trading today saying buy Sirius. Our conservative projections for both the companies yield DCF-based target prices of $4 for Sirius and $16.50 for XM at 2008 year-end...
Will EMC Go Higher?
There has been a lot of talk about EMC and its value based on VMware. With VMware continuing to soar I can’t help but wonder how long until EMC hits $25? The Wall Street Journal recently reported that, “traders turned to data-storage g...
Alibaba.com IPO Coming Up
Alibaba.com is the next big Chinese IPO coming up. Alibaba.com is the leader in B2B business. With Yahoo’s backup, it’s easier for the company to gain market share,” said Kelvin Wu, principal partner at private equity firm AID P...
Prince Out At Citigroup?
Cramer said on Friday’s show that, “his sources indicate Citigroup (C) CEO Chuck Prince could be out of his position next week”. Wow! That being said investors should back up the truck on Citigroup in the upcoming week. We will...
Icahn Eyeing Motorola
Activist investor Carl Icahn recently was buying BEA Systems in increasing amounts just as the takeover talks with Oracle surfaced. Now Icahn has said that he feels Motorola (MOT) has “great value” and should be split up. One ca...
Corning (GLW) Going To $30?
Cramer has gone on the record as saying he believes that Corning is going to $30 by the end of the year. With an increase in the use of fiber technology and the boom in LCDs this stock is poised for major gains. Corning is now shipping bendabl...
Will Google Go To $700?
Cramer has raised his estimates on Google. He has gone on the record as saying that even though this estimate might seem overly exuberant, he believes that the stock will go to $750 based on genuine arithmetic. “If Google earns $20 a share...
ValueClick Next To Be Bought Out
On Monday’s show Cramer discussed the buyout of aQuantive. One of the companies he believes is next in line to get bought out is online marketing firm ValueClick (VCLK). ValueClick, he said, belongs to the same family of stocks as DoubleClick...
NYX Continues Its Charge
NYSE Euronext was up again today on news that Lehman Brothers put out a progression of numbers that show why this is such a great company. Here is the progression of earnings according to Lehman Brothers: 2005: 58 cents 2006: $1.63 2007: $2.48 2...
China Digital TV’s IPO
China Digital TV (STV) was up as high as 35% today. The IPO debuted on Friday at $16 and closed its first trading day at $28 up 75%. The stock continued its climb today reaching as high as 39.99. China Digital TV provides systems that allow dig...
XM Sirius Merger
Shareholders of the nation’s only two satellite radio companies are scheduled to vote Nov. 13 on Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.’s proposed multibillion-dollar acquisition of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.The deal still requires approvals f...
Masimo Corporation is Hot
Cramer has gone on the record as saying that Masimo (MASI) could be the next Omiture. The company went public in August, when the market was poor, and the IPO priced low. The stock should go higher. Masimo makes medical devices that allow for n...
New Zune Rocks
Microsoft released its new Zunes today and they are great. The new Zunes come in three versions. The first new model (available in black) has an 80-gigabyte hard drive and a 3.2-inch screen. It’s slimmer than last year’s Zune,...
