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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
The Week Ahead	The Economic Calendar is fairly active this week. PPI (Tuesday) - Look for my usual breakdown of the industries with pricing power Industrial Production (Tuesday) - Let’s see if businesses really are picking up steam CPI (Wednesday) - We know food costs more. What else does? Housing Starts (Wednesday) - Preview: They will be bad, and if not it will be bad news. Leading Indicators (Thursday) The Earnings Calendar is going into overdrive this week. Some names I’ll be watching: Tata...	July 15, 2007
ASD: American Standard Spins Wheels	Large Cap Watch List (Track at Marketocracy) member American Standard Companies Inc. (ASD) approved the tax-free spinoff of its Vehicle Control Systems business into a new publicly traded company to be called WABCO (WBC). WABCO is a leading global producer of electronic braking, stability, suspension and transmission control systems for commercial vehicles and was originally part of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company founded in 1869. As part of its approval, the board authorized a dividend on it...	July 12, 2007
Short Sellers Attack Restructure & Re-Org Stocks (June 2007)	Stock Tickers: TYC, MS, F, CY, SPWR, TRB, KFT, MO, HB, ASD, EMC, DJ, AA, WY It is always interesting to see how short sellers treat shares of stocks that are undergoing a spin-off, a restructuring, or an organizational change. Frequently you see large changes upand down as shareholder initiatives such as a spin-off, a corporate break-up, a questionable acquisition breaking apart, or a recapitalization can affect the street perception. These also often take months or longer to come...	June 22, 2007
Short Selling: Warren Buffett Holdings (June 2007)	BRK/A, BNI, KO, PG, WMT, USG, AXP, WFC, MCO, JNJ, COP, UNP, USB, MTB, ASD, NSC, WLP, UNH, IR, HRB It is always interesting to see how Wall Street bets with or against Warren Buffett's stock holdings. These are among the most recent holdings of the great Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A-NYSE) and you'll be able to see how there was more of an increase in short selling in the Buffett holdings. Keep in mind that by now many of these will no longer be current holdings because these public co...	June 22, 2007
Jim Cramer On Playing Offf Warren Buffett	ConocoPhillips (COP) and Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) are both Buffett-owned stocks Cramer wants market players to buy. UNP, which he owns for his charitable trust, is his rail of choice for value, and COP is a triple-buy, he said. Jim is also bullish on US Bancorp (USB) because of the stock's great yield, big buybacks and because the company keeps raising the dividend. Jim would get out of M&T Bank Corporation (MTB) a Buffett stock he called scary. Jim thinks that American Standard Compa...	June 21, 2007
Cramer Reviews 10 More Warren Buffett Stock Picks	Stock Tickers: BRK/A, UNP, USB, MTB, ASD, NSC, WLP, UNH, IR, HRB On CNBC's Mad Money tonight, Jim Cramer reviewed stock picks from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A) to what is good in there and what isn't. He already gave 10 other picks earlier, and here is his second list of reviews for Buffet's picks: Union Pacific (UNP)...Cramer loves it, even after the run he thinks the rail company can make you money. US Bancorp (USB)....Cramer thinks it's a serious buy for the high...	June 21, 2007
Pre-Market Stock News (May 21, 2007)	(ASD) American Standard is reaffirming guidance.(AT) Alltel agreed to a $27.5 Billion buyout offer, or $71.50 per share.(CATT) Catapult believes it will miss its earnings estimates for the quarter.(CRM) Salesforce.com in talks for another technology integration pact with Google.(CYTC) Cytyc being acquired by Hologic for $46.46 in cash and stock; stock up almost 30%.(DNDN) Dendreon announces presentation of data at American Urological Association annual meeting; stock up 8%.(EAGL) EGL announced t...	May 21, 2007
Warren Buffett Rides More Railroads (BNI, NSC, UNP), Plus Other Holdings	This is an edited version of the first story to run an expanded list. Last month we all found out that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway decided to take a ride on the Reading by investing in Burlington Northern (BNI-NYSE). He also said that he had invested in two others, and now we know the holdings out of today's larger filing. Here are the positions noted in the filing. Here is a full list out of the SEC FILING: Here are the rail positions: Burlington Northern (BN...	May 15, 2007
Cramer's 'Must Own' List	Stock Tickers: WHR, BDK, ATI, BGC, HON, ASD, JCI, MDR, FWLT, CAT, TEX, DE, QCOM On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC Jim Cramer addressed the opportunity created by the big down day. He thinks some stocks are so loved that hedge funds and mutual funds just keep buying. These funds can't buy what they want all at once any longer, so they just keep buying and then the smaller funds jump on board. The other change is that the companies are shrinking because of buybacks. On days...	May 10, 2007
Cramer's 'must own list' of short supply stocks	Filed under: After the bellOn tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC Jim Cramer addressed the opportunity created by the big down day. He thinks some stocks are so loved that hedge funds and mutual funds just keep buying. These funds can't buy what they want all at once any longer, so they just keep buying and then the smaller funds jump on board. The other change is that the companies are shrinking because of buybacks. On days like today they sold off and that's an opportunity for you to buy. The floats o...	May 10, 2007

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