Paul Ausick

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Guesswork Pushes BP Shares All Over the Place (BP, APC, RIG, HAL, CAM, NLC, MOPN)

By Paul Ausick

BP shares are up today after falling more than 15% yesterday on fears that one or more of several pieces of bad news would push the company even lower.

WAG, CVS Drug Store Skirmish Heats Up (WAG, CVS, ESRX, MHS)

By Paul Ausick

WAG shares are down this morning as investors respond to the latest developments in the skirmish between drug store stocks Walgreen Co. (WAG) and CVS Caremark Corp. (CVS).

Another Goldman CDO Under Investigation (GS)

By Paul Ausick

Another Goldman CDO, called Hudson Mezzanine, is now being looked into, according to the Financial Times.

Sprint Reels in Sales Hype on EVO Smartphones (S, AAPL, PALM, VZ, DT, GOOG)

By Paul Ausick

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) got a little too excited over its Friday launch of the EVO 4G smartphone. Maybe it was an attempt to steal even more thunder from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), which announced its own 4G iPhone on Monday. Sprint originally reported that it had sold three times the number of EVOs on launch day as it had sold Samsung Instinct and Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) Pre phones in the first three days of sales of those two phones combined.

HP Sends Mixed Signals on Palm Smartphones (HPQ, PALM, AAPL, RIMM, MOT, GOOG)

By Paul Ausick

When the chairman/CEO/president of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) said that his company wasn't buying Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) in order "to be in the smart phone business," did this mean that HP was going to abandon the smartphone market as soon as it completes its acquisition of Palm? Doesn't the company want to fight it out with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) and Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) for handset supremacy or with Google Inc. (NYSE: GOOG) for operating system bragging rights?

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