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The Day Ahead: Is Wall Street's summer lull already over?
News Wall Street, which is usually ahead of the curve, has investors wondering if the usual summer lull already happened -- in the spring. June 28/29: The Federal Reserve holds a two-day meeting and decides on its next interest rate move.
[June 5, 2000, 12:36]
The Day Ahead: Is too much of Oracle's Ellison a bad thing?
News The translation: Ellison is more immersed in Oracle's day-to-day operations than ever -- and that's bad news to some investors. In a terse statement ahead of a long weekend, Oracle announced Lane was departing as the company's operating chief.
[July 6, 2000, 13:55]
The Day Ahead: EMachines' Greenspan excuse doesn't fly
News What can a PC company do when it guesses wrong on inventory and sees hefty losses ahead due to its low-margin business model? To the many investors who were skeptical about eMachines from day one, the profit warning isn't that surprising.
[June 20, 2000, 11:34]
The Day Ahead: Let Lycos be acquired in peace
News The companies said they will be able to generate pro forma 2000 revenue of about $500m with a combined 50m unique users and 175m page views per day. Lycos' biggest problem -- with USA Networks and Terra -- is that it thinks ahead, sometimes too much.
[May 18, 2000, 12:21]
The Day Ahead: Dell puts Y2K hangover to rest
News The corporate sales outlook was topic of the day on Dell's first quarter conference call. Dell spotted the Intel glitches ahead of time and adjusted accordingly. In the fourth quarter, Dell said a Y2K spending freeze dinged the direct PC maker.
[May 12, 2000, 11:58]
The Day Ahead: Dump those tech shares, make a trader's day
News Go ahead; sell your shares of those quality tech companies. The Dow Jones industrial average also saw its worst one-day point loss ever as it staggered to a close of 10,305.77 Friday. We heard from a day trader who's talking about playing the index...
[April 17, 2000, 12:30]
The Day Ahead: Can Pets.com's sock puppet save its stock?
News Yes, the famous Pets.com sock puppet, who has appeared in ads during the Super Bowl and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Pets.com, which was a dog from day one, is trading down about 80 percent from its February IPO.
[June 6, 2000, 11:23]
The Day Ahead: Intel call boosts Kumar's cachet
News Commentary: I've been back from a scenic vacation in Nova Scotia one day and I'm ready to run back to the highlands after hearing about all the handwringing over how analysts missed the boat on Intel's revenue warning.
[September 26, 2000, 13:11]
The Day Ahead: Time, appeals on Microsoft's side
News The government said it was a great day for competition. It was selling ahead of the news. Hey investors, where do you want to go today? As expected, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his findings of law against Microsoft in the ongoing antitrust...
[April 4, 2000, 11:31]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms search for happy medium
News No future ahead, bankruptcies, massive layoffs are common themes. But is a company with strong year-over-year growth and two million page views every day a failure? Now friends ask you about layoffs every other day.
[October 9, 2000, 12:18]
The Day Ahead: DoubleClick may win expectations game
News In a research note ahead of DoubleClick's conference call, Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget said he never saw a company schedule a negative preannouncement conference call a day ahead of time (the release came out Friday).
[December 12, 2000, 12:43]
The Day Ahead: Applied Materials sees big profits in 2Q
News But, more importantly, the company reported orders of $2.36bn (£1.5bn) ahead of Wall Street expectations. These results were better than the consensus and well ahead of totals from a year ago. Worldwide traffic grew to 122 million page views per...
[February 16, 2000, 12:14]
The Day Ahead: Economy at a crossroads
News Thanks to the Internet and the technological innovations that have impacted every conceivable aspect of our lives, things that were simply out of the realm of possibility just 10 years ago seem to happen with regularity every day.
[March 8, 2000, 11:33]
The Day Ahead: Web brokers' profits can't buy Wall Street's love
News The company has entered continuing operations profitability six quarters ahead of schedule, flexing its blue-chip Internet business model. E*Trade closed at $22 3/4 on April 12, the day of the earnings report, and hit $18 two days later in the tech...
[May 2, 2000, 11:42]
The Day Ahead: Cisco puts face on economic slowdown
News Commentary: You know Cisco Systems was having a bad earnings day when the company's Web cast for its analyst conference call didn't work and the dial-in number produced sounds that sounded like an alien life form took it over.
[February 7, 2001, 13:01]
The Day Ahead: Amid slowdown, Oracle trumps Microsoft
News Connors: At the end of the day, the PC is the most important asset for the knowledge worker. In all geographies -- including a sluggish Europe -- Oracle came out ahead in its quarter. To no one's surprise, Microsoft issued a profit warning for its...
[December 15, 2000, 14:18]
The Day Ahead: AOL Time Warner's $1tn dream
News Maybe Case was smoking too much synergy Wednesday at the company's first investor day. Slightly ahead of our time That's why he was only half-joking that AOL Time Warner could be a company with $100bn in revenue and a $1tn market capitalisation.
[February 1, 2001, 13:01]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo!: Slowdown? What slowdown?
News Page views came in a little better at 780 million a day in September. Ahead of Yahoo! Arthur Newman, an analyst at ABN Amro, said in a note ahead of Yahoo! easily beat the over-under revenue number of $290m in the third quarter.
[October 11, 2000, 11:51]
The Day Ahead: Will Rediff.com be an IPO hit?
Talkback I am or rather was one of your costumers. I had booked an Aiwa phone & had also received it, but the same was defective. Got in touch with the consumer support one Neeta Bhambri sent a reply back saying that send us the phone back & the same will...
[July 25, 2006, 6:26]
The Day Ahead: CMGI lessens dependence on IPO market
News The day is coming when CMGI won't need stock sales to report a profit. Now CMGI is distancing itself from that image and the perception that it depends on the health of the IPO market. There's a good reason for that -- the IPO market stinks for the...
[June 15, 2000, 11:52]
