Eric Savitz(Barron's) submits: Cowen?s Louis MisciosciaFriday morning launched coverage of EMC (EMC),taking a more conservative view than other analysts on the Street onthe growth of the storage industry. Miscioscia says growth will becloser to 6% than other estimates of 8%. Miscioscia gave five reasonsfor his more cautious view:Complete Story »
Baron Phillippe de Rothschild once famously said that the time to buy is when there's 'blood in the streets'. Housing sector investors are waiting for that moment to re-enter the market.Complete Story »
Last week, government-backed mortgage financier Freddie Mac announced a $2 billion mortgage securities write-down. Freddie said it wants to sell off some of its preferred shares ASAP to raise liquidity.Complete Story »
Computer game retailer GameStop (GME)may pull off an estimate-beating holiday sales season even as spending on corporate IT and other areas of retail falters, Barron's Mark Veverka says.Complete Story »
Alan Brochstein, CFA submits: As I had anticipated earlierthis month, Whole Foods (WFMI) (40.75, $5.7 billion, S&P 500 member)disappointed investors yet again.Complete Story »
Barron'ssays arbitrage spreads on pending buyout deals are wide, offering traders willing to bet the deals will close a healthy return, as the markets continue to worry deals may fall through.Complete Story »
Paul Kedroskysubmits: One hundred pages of high-level gloss from me, the FT, the WSJ, andeverywhere else on the mortgage market don't beat one good I-Was-Therepiece from someone currently trying to get a mortgage.Complete Story »
Clyde Miltonsubmits: We viewed a recent pullback in the price of tiny Avalon Holdings(AWX)as an attractive entry point and initiated a position.Complete Story »
Casper Livermore submits:A couple of Solar Technology firms have resisted the pull of gravity that has plagued the sector the past few weeks.Complete Story »
Ryan Freundsubmits:Safety Insurance Group, Inc.(NasdaqGS: SAFT)provides private passenger automobile insurance to the commonwealth ofMassachusetts. Safety offers property and casualty, homeowners,commercial automobile, fire, umbrella and business owner policies.Safety was founded in 1979 in Boston, Massachusetts.Complete Story »
Palma Researchsubmits: In our previous post on Perficient Inc. (NASDAQ:PRFT), Perficient 3Q Indicates Good Upside Potential,we spoke about how the company is in a strong position to "boldly move ahead with its acquisitive growth strategy."Complete Story »
