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Thursday, 13 July 2006
Wall Street to Main Street: News, Views and Commentary: July 13, 2006
(NAMC) - It’s Thursday July 13, 2006, and in India the authorities rounded up over 350 people in connection with the train bombing that took the lives of at least 183 people. The Indian government suspects that the bombings are linked to Kashmiri militants.
Now from India to North Korea, it looks like North Korea is not interested in continuing talks as it relates to their missile testing. China sent over officials to try and convince North Korean officials to continue the talks to keep the lines of communication open, but apparently North Korea shut China Down. So as we speak the United States, Russia and China are on the same side and are willing to back a legally binding UN Security Council resolution.
The situation in North Korea, Iran, Nigeria and now the bombing by Israeli forces of the Beirut Airport has put oil in high focus once again. Oil is moving closer to the $80 a barrel mark as it inches in on $76 a barrel.
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) was hit with a stiff penalty from the European Union but it wasn’t as bad as the street anticipated, they were slapped with a US$356 million penalty for failing to comply with a two-year antitrust ruling. Microsoft has billions in the bank and this just may lead up to it being the price of doing business but it would make sense for Microsoft to work with the European Union to settle this before the US$3.8 million a day fines start kicking in. Now lets switch gears a bit, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is following the marketing guidelines of the auto industry as it looks like they will start to offer employee discounts to everyone, so this would mean reduced prices on their product line and reduced profit margins. As we mentioned in other editions of Wall Street to Main Street it would make more sense for Dell to tie in with a company like RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) to tap the billion dollar retail market as opposed to sticking with online sales and offering heavy discounts. This move could drive down the market not only for Dell but also for Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and others.
Now since we are on the Dell subject lets touch on Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), it looks like they are coming after Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) will all oars in the water as they are answering the question that was posed by the street and that was can AMD handle the volume?
Well AMD did something unique and instead of them puffing out their chest and trying to do it themselves, they actually started selling chips that are made by Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (NASDAQ: CHRT). This should hush down the crowd as AMD is working diligently to surpass the 20% market share that they snatched from Intel to date.
PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) posted a 14% rise in profits this morning and they attribute this to the sales of non-carbonated drinks such as Gatorade. According to the company profit for the 2nd quarter surged by 14 percent to $1.36 billion, or 80 cents per share, from $1.19 billion, or 70 cents per share, for the same period a year ago. The non-carbonated drink trend is not going to stop anytime soon as more kids as reaching for the flavored waters and energy drinks as opposed to the carbonated drinks, so PepsiCo is on the right course. We mentioned companies such as National Beverage (AMEX: FIZ) and Jones Soda (NASDAQ: JSDA) in this arena as well, so these are two companies along with Pepsi that investors should look at if they are in search of an energy drink play.
Now lets take a look at some other stocks that you should know about.
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