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Stocks Decline in Late Afternoon Trading on News Iran Won't Suspend Uranium Enrichment Program
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street pulled back Thursday as Iran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment rattled investors, stopping short a tech rally spurred by a strong outlook from chip maker Analog Devices Inc.
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Investors were uneasy after a U.N. nuclear chief said Iran did not agree to Security Council demands to suspend its nuclear ambitions. Also hurting stocks was a U.S. government report that showed a larger-than-expected drop in gasoline and heating oil inventories, causing oil prices to bound above $60 a barrel.
This chilled the mood among investors who at first were encouraged by upbeat corporate announcements and a rally in foreign stock markets. Strength among semiconductor stocks initially helped drive the Nasdaq composite index to six-year highs.
Analog Devices Inc., which gave an optimistic outlook about improving business conditions, lent support to chip stocks. Investors were also encouraged about takeover activity so far this year as Whole Foods Market Inc. said it will buy rival Wild Oats Markets Inc. in a $565 million deal.
"With the lack of real market-moving news traders are taking a look at the Iran thing and the technical breakdowns and we're seeing a little bit of a pause on that," said Jody Giraldo, vice president of equities at vFinance.
In late afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 75.30, or 0.59 percent, to 12,663.11.
Broader stock indicators also declined. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down 4.10, or 0.28 percent, at 1,453.53. The Nasdaq dropped 4.72, or 0.19 percent, to 2,513.70; the index had earlier approached the half-way mark of its all-time high of 5,048.62 set on March 10, 2000.
Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average closed up 1.09 percent, making its first foray above 18,000 in nearly seven years. At the close, Britain's FTSE 100 was up 0.37 percent, Germany's DAX index was up 0.46 percent, and France's CAC-40 was up 0.23 percent.
The aftermath of Wednesday's stronger-than-expected consumer inflation figures from the government sent bond yields higher for the second day. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 4.74 percent from 4.70 percent late Wednesday. The dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold prices fell.
Oil rose in an erratic session after the Energy Department reported increased demand for crude-based products. A barrel of light sweet crude rose to a 7-week high, up 88 cents at $60.95 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The market had little reaction to a Labor Department report that said fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week after filings jumped in the prior week by the most since 2005. Jobless claims fell to 332,000.
Ryan Larson, senior equity trader at Voyageur Asset Management, a division of RBC Dain Rauscher, said the markets initially pulled back after word of the diplomatic tensions with Iran -- then dropped further as stocks hit technical resistance levels. Traders believe those levels are 12,760 for the Dow and 2,530 for the Nasdaq.
"I don't think the market was putting much significance into the fact that Iran would suspend because you're not seeing a lot of safe-haven buying like Treasuries," he said. "I think the main story that is starting to unfold is more of a technical aspect to today as we've seen investors digest pretty much most of the news out this morning."
He added that technology stocks were providing some lift to the markets.
Apple Inc. rose 2 cents to $89.22 after a deal with Cisco Systems Inc. will allow it to use the iPhone name when it rolls out the new mobile telephone that is combined with a music player. Cisco dropped 9 cents to $27.29.
Analog Devices said there are improving trends in some of its business segments. Shares surged $3.27, or 9.8 percent, to $36.59.
Google Inc. made a direct challenge to Microsoft Inc.'s Office brand of business computer programs, unveiling its own suite of Web-based products for word processing, e-mail, spread sheets and other programs.
Google fell 6 cents to $475.80, while Microsoft shed 9 cents to $29.26.
Whole Foods jumped $6.17, or 13.5 percent, to $51.87 after it backed its forecast for same-store sales growth between 6 percent and 8 percent. The company, which also unveiled its acquisition of Wild Oats, received a number of analyst upgrades before the opening bell.
Wild Oats share rose $2.72, or 17.3 percent, to $18.441.
Toll Brothers Inc., the largest U.S. luxury-home builder, reported fiscal first-quarter profit tumbled 67 percent on expenses to write down the value of land. Shares fell $1.17, or 3.6 percent, to $31.69.
This cast a shadow over other home builders. Pulte Homes Inc. fell 67 cents, or 2.1 percent, to $31.27; KB Home tumbled $1.60, or 3 percent, to $52.13.
Department stores were also under pressure after J.C. Penney Co. said fourth-quarter profit sank 13 percent. Shares fell $2.70, or 3.1 percent, to $83.65.
Federated Department Stores Inc. rose 8 cents to $44.06, Kohl's Corp. dropped 80 cents to $72.84, Dillard's Inc. slipped 58 cents to $34.96 and Nordstrom Inc. rose 1 cent to $59.18.
Advancing issues outpaced decliners by a 4 to 3 basis on the New York Stock Exchange, as volume came to 1.16 billion.
en fransk aktie, jeg har kigget på længe er steget 44%, men ligger stadig lavt
den ser ud til at have desinvesteret i jernbanevogne og er så nu mest leverandør af boligbyggekomponenter
og de bor vel også i huse i frenkrig, selvom vi bor i ishytter idag i danmark
pippen forstår ikke at jeg ikke havde købt et frimærke i den, men hun er nu også altid så klog (bagklog)
Arbel : près de 20% du capital échangé depuis l'ouverture
jeu 22 fév, 16h50
Le titre Arbel (Paris: FR0000035883 - actualité) progresse désormais de plus de 30% autour de 2,2 Euros dans des volumes d'échange de 1,5 million de titres, soit près de 20% du capital
Les plus gros échanges observés depuis l'ouverture ont porté sur quelques blocs conséquents de 54.696 titres (0,7% du capital), 42.716 titres ou 38.205 titres.
On rappellera que le groupe Arbel va se désengager (avec un accord de recapitalisation) de son activité historique de construction ferroviaire qui reste lourdement déficitaire. Le groupe indiquait dernièrement avoir finalisé les négociations en vue de la cession de l'ensemble des activités de sa filiale Arbel Fauvet Rail (AFR). La société AFR et la société IGF Industries ont structuré cette opération sous la forme d'un Apport Partiel d'Actif par la société AFR à la société IGF Industries, suivi de la cession des nouveaux titres détenus par AFR à IGF Industries.
Eu égard aux délais nécessaires à la mise en place de cet Apport, qui ne pourra intervenir au minimum avant le 31 mars 2007, mais avec effet rétroactif au 1er janvier 2007.La contribution d'AFR dans les comptes semestriels 2006 du Groupe Arbel représentait un chiffre d'affaires de 12,4 ME et une perte nette de 8,9 ME.
Arbel espère donc se concentrer sur deux secteurs de son pôle Bâtiment et Equipement de la maison qui ont retrouvé des résultats proches de l'équilibre au premier semestre 2006, la vente directe aux particulier de fenêtres, stores et volets roulants via 65 agences Fermoba et la rénovation de logements sociaux via la société Fermoba Centre Industries. D'après Arbel, la trésorerie positive générée par ces activités permettrait de couvrir l'échéancier de dettes, fiscales notamment.
Le chiffre d'affaires du pôle Bâtiment d'Arbel a été annoncé à 112,8 ME en 2006 contre 123 ME en 2005, après retraitement du chiffre d'affaires des activités cédées au cours de l'exercice (cession d'Ecran System Industries, des activités de Franciaflex et de ses filiales) et des sociétés Décoglace Industries et Décotherm Industries placées en redressement judiciaire mi-juillet 2006.
de er svære at vurdere de alternative energy aktier, der ikke tjener ret meget eller har høje ps værdier
men den er faldet meget så man kan godt tænke sig at den snart skal stige igen
Semiconductor stocks rallied on Thursday, as investors sprang to action on signs that the battered chip industry is nearing a recovery.
The catalyst was Analog Devices (ADI - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr - Rating), which reported its fiscal first-quarter results after Wednesday's market close.
Analog Devices' financial results were decent , but it was CEO Jerald Fishman's comments about chip demand that carried the most weight with investors.
Pointing to strengthening orders in January, Fishman said it appeared that the inventory correction that has plagued chipmakers for six months may be abating.
"Certainly there's a sense out there that there's more activity than there was a quarter ago," Fishman said in a postearnings conference call.
Fishman said the pickup was broad-based, coming from both the distributors and original equipment manufacturers that Analog Devices sells chips to. And the company's backlog is up 8% sequentially.
ADI's stock surged 10% in midday trading Friday, to $36.65, and carried just about all of its semiconductor kin in its wake.
High-performance analog chip companies were the biggest beneficiaries. National Semiconductor (NSM - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr - Rating) was up 6.3%, Linear Technology (LLTC - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr - Rating) surged 8%, and Maxim Integrated Products (MXIM - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr - Rating) gained 6.5% in midday trading Thursday.
A raft of upgrades added to the momentum. Morgan Stanley upgraded National Semiconductor from equal weight to overweight.
Citigroup and ThinkEquity upgraded Analog Devices to buy and accumulate respectively.
wolverine tube er ved at få fart på
pippen er glad for at hun fik købt lidt i den
medens gumsen er godt sur over at hun ikke havde råd til at købe den
rekonstruktionen kan være svær at gennemskue, men den går jo nok ud på at de ha fået tilført den kapaital der skal til for at overleve
og så kan den jo godt stige til 10 eller 15, så det bliver en rigtig sailor aktie
boligbyggeri
Toll Brothers 1Q Profit Falls 67 Percent
Thursday February 22, 8:48 am ET
Toll Brothers First-Quarter Profit Plunges 67 Percent to $54.3 Million Due to Hefty Writedowns
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Luxury-home builder Toll Brothers Inc. said Thursday its first-quarter profit dropped 67 percent due to hefty writedowns and other costs, and CEO Robert Toll said there are still too many soft markets.
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Quarterly earnings declined to $54.3 million, or 33 cents per share, from $163.9 million, or 98 cents per share, during the same period a year ago.
The latest quarter includes a goodwill impairment charge of $9 million related to Toll's 1999 acquisition of the Silverman Cos. in Detroit. Results also were hurt by $96.9 million in costs to write down the value of land or housing stock the company no longer believes it can sell at a profit, versus writedowns of just $1.1 million in the prior-year period.
Analysts polled by Thomson Financial were looking for net income of 29 cents per share.
Quarterly revenue slipped 19 percent to $1.09 billion versus $1.34 billion in the previous year, meeting Wall Street's expectations.
States in the North showed the biggest decline for Toll, down 32 percent, followed by the West and the Mid-Atlantic states. The South had the smallest dip.
First-quarter net signed contracts slid 34 percent to $748.7 million. The West had the weakest showing, down 59 percent, followed by the Southern states, the Mid-Atlantic and the North.
"There are too many soft markets at this stage of the selling season to call a general upturn in the new home market. Demand varies greatly from week to week in individual markets," Chairman and Chief Executive Robert I. Toll said in a statement.
The company's first-quarter cancellations totaled 436 units, down from 585 units in the 2006 fourth quarter. Toll said its cancellation rate of 29.8 percent was lower than the fourth-quarter's 36.9 percent rate but still well above the company's historical average of about 7 percent.
Looking ahead, Toll expects to deliver between 6,000 to 7,000 homes this year, down from the prior projection of 6,300 to 7,300.
It expects home building revenue of $4.2 billion to $4.96 billion and net income of $240 million to $305 million, or $1.46 to $1.85 per share. Wall Street analysts were expecting profit of $1.46 per share.
But the company cautions that the earnings projection is based on $60 million in estimated writedowns for the remaining three quarters, but the actual figure could be "significantly" higher or lower.
Shares of Toll fell 31 cents, or nearly 1 percent, to $32.55 in pre-market trading. The stock closed at $32.86 on Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange.
japan er steget med næsten 1%
de heavy har haft lidt profittaking efter de store stigninger i går og måske det har noget at gøre med stigende lønninger fordi det indikerer at det går godt, men mange af de almindelige maskinaktier stiger pænt og dem jeg har er steget pænt
især 6317 og et par andre
men det kan jo også være snevejret i københavn
Heavy Machinery Makers Agree To Y1,000 Wage Hike, 1st In 6 Yrs
TOKYO (Nikkei)--Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (7011), Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. (7012) and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. (7013) by Friday offered their unions an average monthly wage hike of 1,000 yen per employee, effective in April.
These hikes, basically accepted by unions, will follow the actions of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. (7003) and Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd. (6302), which had already decided on an average increase of 1,000 yen. These will mark the first wage hikes in six years for the shipbuilding/heavy machinery industry.
To prevent defection of talent and maintain the quality of their products and services, distribution will be skewed toward veteran workers and employees in their 20s and 30s.
Mitsubishi Heavy will raise basic wages for engineers who possess superior skills and for managers. It will also increase some allowances, such as those for trainers and for conducting dangerous work. In addition, it will boost pay for recruits fresh from school. A total of 500 million yen has been earmarked for the wage increase.
Kawasaki Heavy will raise wages for those in their 20s and 30s as well as for those who supervise on-site operations.
At IHI, those aged 21 to 31 will receive a hike of 100 yen to 2,300 yen, while veteran workers between the ages of 56 and 59 will get a raise of 400 yen to 2,700 yen.
Automakers and electronics companies hiked wages last spring. But shipbuilding and heavy machinery firms did not because their earnings were not recovering as quickly as those of automakers and electronics firms.
(The Nihon Keizai
ja, jeg skriver ikke så meget som jeg plejer og det er fordi jeg skal have tid til at vænne mig til 'systemet'
og så er jeg bange for at løbe tør med en begrænsning på 15 indlæg om dagen
en af mine australske aktier som jeg har en ret stor post i stiger 22%
jeg husker ikke om jeg har nævnt den før
http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20070222/pdf/3112n8gzm9bp90.pdf
Japan Shattered 31-Year-Old Shipbuilding Record In '06
TOKYO (Nikkei)--Japanese shipbuilders constructed 18.1 million tons worth of vessels in 2006, scuttling the record set 31 years ago, industry data released Tuesday shows.
South Korea remained No. 1 at 18.84 million tons, defending its title for a fifth straight year, according to data that U.K. insurer Lloyd released through the Shipbuilders' Association of Japan.
Although China built 7.69 million tons of ships, less than half of South Korea and Japan's tally, the country is emerging as a formidable rival, with plans to double its shipbuilding capacity toward 2010.
Global shipbuilding orders shot up roughly 60% to 93.64 million tons in 2006, with South Korea receiving the lion's share. China came in second at 24.32 million tons, surpassing Japan for the first time. Japan received orders totaling 21.25 million tons.
But the shipbuilding association says Japan still exceeded China that year if only signed contracts were counted.
jeg synes guld og sølv, olie og gas samt de fleste metaller fortsat viser styrke, hvor kobber er faldet noget tilbage, men efter ekstreme stigninger og nickel tordner bare derop ad
især synes jeg at guld og sølv viser styrke og det gør oliepisen egentligt også, man skal ikke gå så meget op i at den har været oppe i knapt 80, det er stadig en ekstremt høj oliepris, der ser ud til at kunne stige yderligere
og der vil jeg henvise til min anbefaling af ausmelt i australien, der leverer minemaskiner til mange forskellige metaller, men mest til nickel, hvor de har fået store ordrer i kina
så den sidder på den grønne gren og kan stadig købes selvom den er steget
og danieli i italien stiger også hele tiden, den er blandt verdens tre største producenter af stålmaskiner og anlæg
BOJ Leaves Assessment Of Economy Unchanged In Feb Report
TOKYO (Dow Jones)--The Bank of Japan Wednesday left its core economic assessment in February unchanged from January, repeating that a moderate economic expansion continues.
"Japan's economy is expanding moderately," the BOJ's latest report said, using the same phrase it used last month.
As for the outlook for the economy, the BOJ repeated its optimistic view, saying that "Japan's economy is expected to expand moderately."
The report suggests that the BOJ's view on a sustainable economic recovery and improving prices remains unchanged.
"Private consumption remains solid, " the BOJ report said.
This solid economic view, in addition to strong gross domestic product for the October-December period, which grew 1.2% from the prior quarter, justified the BOJ in raising interest rates earlier Wednesday.
But the report said on-year rises in the core consumer price index may fall close to zero in the coming month due to the recent decline in crude oil prices.
But it added that on-year growth in the core CPI is expected to stay in positive territory, improving the supply/demand gap of the economy.
The BOJ's policy board earlier Wednesday voted 8 to 1 to tighten monetary policy.
The central bank raised the unsecured overnight call loan rate target to 0.50% from 0.25%, the first time for it to raise rates since July 2006.
BOJ Votes 8-1 To Raise Overnight Call Rate To 0.50%
TOKYO (Nikkei)--The Bank of Japan decided to raise interest rates at its policy board meeting Wednesday, lifting the unsecured overnight call loan target rate to 0.5% per annum, up 25 basis points. The decision took effect immediately.
After BOJ Governor Toshihiko Fukui proposed the rate hike, the bank's policy board voted 8 to 1 to boost the key interest rate. The overnight call rate now stands at 0.5% for the first time in eight and a half years. The sole dissenter was Deputy Governor Kazumasa Iwata.
The central bank also increased the base rate on its Lombard-type lending facility -- the official discount rate -- to 0.75% per annum from 0.40%.
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• ANALYSIS: Interest Hike Moves Rates Closer To Normal Levels
Explaining the first rate hike since July, the BOJ said in a statement, "Reviewing the outlook for Japan's economy based on incoming data and information, both on the domestic and overseas economies, the bank judged that our economy is likely to continue its moderate expansion with a virtuous circle of production, income and spending in place."
It also decided to leave the amount of outright purchases of government bonds unchanged, at 1.2 trillion yen monthly.
Fukui will brief reporters Wednesday afternoon on the current state and outlook for the Japanese economy and consumer prices, as well as the reasons for the BOJ's decision to increase rates.
A majority of policy board members voted in favor of raising interest rates after economic indicators released earlier this month convinced them that a drop in consumer spending last summer was temporary. On Feb. 15, the government reported that the nation's gross domestic product rose an annualized 4.8% in real terms for the final quarter of 2006 and personal spending grew 1.1% from the previous quarter, canceling out the decline recorded for the July-September term.
"With respect to private consumption, the weakness observed last summer appears temporary, and it is judged that private consumption is on a moderate increasing trend," the BOJ said.
That apparently led to a general consensus that the economy's positive cycle is still intact, with growth, led by the corporate sector, continuing to lift household spending.
A majority of board members also agreed that consumer prices, which are growing marginally if at all, will continue to rise year on year in the short term, although falling crude oil prices are a deflationary factor.
The central bank also believes that the U.S. economy, whose health has a major impact on Japanese exports, will likely achieve a soft landing, prompting it to conclude that a possible slowdown in overseas economies will pose only a small risk for Japan's economy.
"Uncertainties over the future course of overseas economies, including that of the U.S., are abating, and this is likely to reinforce the prospects for a continued increase in corporate profits and fixed business investment," the bank said.
japan er marginalt i plus med ret store stigninger i de heavy machinery aktier såsom mitsui eng and ship, og en række andre med 10-12% og ellers mange over 5% og de almindelige maskinaktier har også en del pæne stigninger men det er mere på bondeknoldens niveau
Stocks: Nikkei Ends Lower But Topix At 15-Yr High After BOJ Rate Hike
TOKYO (Kyodo)--Tokyo stocks ended Wednesday's erratic session mixed, with the Topix hitting a 15-year, three-month closing high while the Nikkei ended slightly lower after the Bank of Japan raised interest rates.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 25.91 points, or 0.14 percent, to 17,913.21. The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 4.50 points, or 0.25 percent, to 1,787.23, the highest close since Nov. 15, 1991, shortly after the burst of Japan's asset-inflated economic bubble, when it closed at 1,812.17.
The Nikkei index moved in and out of negative territory in the morning. It then lost nearly 90 points on selling of exporters following media reports in the early afternoon that BOJ Governor Toshihiko Fukui proposed an interest rate increase at the central bank's policy meeting, dealers said.
The key index later jumped into positive territory with gains in bank issues, recouping earlier losses that came immediately after the BOJ announced it had voted to raise the key short-term rate to 0.5 percent from the current 0.25 percent, dealers said. But it lost upward momentum just before the closing and ended lower.
shoeshone silver stiger 23%, den har jeg også og
det var en der blev anbefalet og jeg må indrømme at jeg ikke husker hans navn
bortset fra at jeg tror han hed abraksas
men det er længe siden vi har hørt fra ham
en aktie jeg har over 300% på stiger 72% idag, men jeg tror ikke jeg har nævnt den før
http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/070205/113099.html
IWKA som jeg købte omkring 21½ for et par uger siden er begyndt at vise styrke
http://de.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IWK.F
japan stiger marginalt med 2-3 point på topix og der er en række maskinaktier med pæne stigninger, men der er også fald
usa var lukket og jeg synes ikke der er ændringer i aktierne i australien og singapore
så det er lidt kedeligt
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det er jo dig der er eksperten på det område?
hedder vi også cybertrader55 ?
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hello stock lobster
i am a hummer and i am humming all the times with good ideas, but
not so much short term, more strategilly good investments
but welcome to our board
maybe you will learn danish over time
det siger gumsen og pippen også altid, når jeg vil have sex med dem
jo, ja og lidt nej og så nejnej
men som regel siger den ene af dem altid mere ja end den anden siger nej
og når jeg så lover dem en aktie, der stiger, så siger de bare jaja
og så er jeg på røven, når de siger det begge to på een gang
jeg synes ikke du fik nævnt le og le2
en af mine gamle favoritter inden for oil service i canada er også faldet meget og kan være en købschance
desværre har jeg stadig en del, der har tabt hele gevinsten
men jeg fik da solgt en del også på toppen
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GKX.V&t=5y
Spending Wave
Buoys Makers
Of Network Gear
New Web Services Spur
Phone Firms to Invest
In Increasing Capacity
By BOBBY WHITE
February 14, 2007; Page A1
See Corrections & Amplifications item below
After years in the doldrums, the global networking industry is riding a new wave of spending as an explosion in online video and other bandwidth-hungry Internet services forces telecommunications carriers to beef up their capacity.
As consumers have flocked to file-sharing, Internet phone services and online video on Web sites like YouTube, telecom networks have felt the strain. In response, companies ranging from Australia's Telstra Corp. to AT&T Inc. are buying up new gear to upgrade the "plumbing" that carries voice and data traffic around the globe.
"There's been a dramatic change in [network] usage, with consumers wanting much richer content and even faster access," says Claude Tolbert, who oversees network infrastructure for Covad Communications Group Inc., a San Jose, Calif., telecom provider. To handle the increased demands on its network, Covad began a $50 million overhaul about a year ago.
That kind of new spending has been good news for the companies whose hardware forms the backbone of phone networks and the Internet. In recent weeks, Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. have posted annual sales growth of nearly 50%, among their strongest performances in years.
Last week, Cisco reported a 40% increase in quarterly profits and a 27% jump in revenue and also raised its sales forecast for its current quarter ending in late April. In the past six months, Cisco's shares have soared 50%.
Smaller networking companies are also benefiting. Avici Systems Inc.'s stock, for example, has climbed more than 80% in the past year as its revenue has nearly doubled.
"We're definitely at the beginning of a new boom," says Kevin Denuccio, chief executive of Redback Network Inc. "Video takes a lot more infrastructure to deliver. It's a new ballgame."
The good times look likely to continue for at least a while. Overall, North American telecom companies are projected to spend $70 billion on new infrastructure this year. While that's down from the $110 billion they shelled out during the boom year of 2000, it's up 67% from their 2003 total, according to industry tracker Infonetics Research.
World-wide, spending on new telecom infrastructure is expected to rise to $240 billion in 2008, up 19% from 2005. Moreover, a greater proportion of that spending is expected to be plowed into accommodating capacity-hogging Internet traffic like video.
The new files can be clunky and costly to handle. A typical Internet video file eats up 1,000 times as much bandwidth as an average email message. And while sending 100,000 emails costs a telecom company around 20 cents, transmitting 100,000 low-resolution videos costs around $15, and sending 100,000 high-definition movies costs around $10,800, according to Infonetics Research.
Telecom giant Verizon Communications Inc. says transmitting a video file across its network doesn't necessarily cost more than an email, but the cost comes in building up its capacity to handle the larger overall volume.
The new spending telecom providers have earmarked for boosting capacity accounts for a relatively small slice of their capital budgets. But it has provided a crucial boost to Silicon Valley networking companies like Redback. In 2003, Redback, San Jose, Calif., filed for bankruptcy protection. Then, in 2004, Redback introduced a new product called the Smartedge router, a device that helps deliver phone, Internet video and other services through a single "pipe."
Helped by sales of the new router to companies such as BellSouth Corp., which was acquired last year by AT&T, Redback returned to profit. The Smartedge now generates around 80% of Redback's overall revenue. In November, Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson announced it would buy Redback for $2.1 billion, an 18% premium to Redback's then share price.
Some in the networking industry are bulking up again and even laying plans to raise new capital. Equinix Inc., whose stock has jumped 77% in the past six months, recently announced plans to build three new facilities this year, its first expansion in four years. Riverbed Technologies Inc., which provides products and services designed to declog corporate communications networks, filed for an initial public offering late last year.
Other networking equipment makers, mindful of the bust that followed the 2000 boom, are more cautious. "The last time there were far too many spectators on the field," says Scott Kriens, CEO of Juniper. "They are off the field now. This time, we still have a lot of work to do."
Indeed, any new boom isn't expected to hit the same heights as in 2000. That's partly because the networking industry has lost many of its customers. At the peak of the last boom, North America had more than 300 small phone companies and seven Baby Bells to buy the routers and switches used to direct phone and Internet traffic. But after a wave of consolidation, there are now fewer than 100 small phone companies, and AT&T and Verizon account for 56% of the North American industry's infrastructure spending, according to Infonetics.
AT&T and Verizon won't say how much they have spent on buying capacity-boosting networking gear. AT&T estimates its total capital expenditure this year will be "at or below" last year's level. Verizon says its capital spending will reach $17.5 billion to $17.9 billion, up from $17.1 billion in 2006. While those figures include sums budgeted to upgrade their backbone networks, a part of both companies' outlays also will go into expanding their local fiber-optic systems.
This time, any boom also is likely to be more confined to specialized and higher-margin networking gear, rather than the wider range of equipment initially required to connect millions of consumers and businesses to the Internet. Many telecoms still have excess broadband capacity to deal with simple tasks such as email and Web browsing. But their networks, some of which are a hodgepodge of older equipment inherited from mergers, aren't as efficient in handling online video, Internet telephony services like Skype and massive multiplayer online games, such as World of Warcraft, networking companies say.
These days, Cisco, Redback and Ellacoya Networks Inc. are producing new gear aimed not so much at boosting network capacity, but at managing Internet traffic by prioritizing which bits of data are transmitted across the network. That contrasts with older gear, which was designed to fulfill a more basic task of moving vast amounts of data between countries and cities.
"It's very clear that just bumping up capacity to compensate for the bandwidth-heavy stuff will not solve the issue," says Adam Dunstan, president of Active Broadband Networks, a Watertown, Mass., company that monitors clients' communications networks to help them avoid traffic jams. Adding capacity, he says, "only exacerbates the problem. It inspires more people to use it."
Redback's Smartedge router was among the first of the new-style gear. It consolidated functions that control video services and customer management into one box. Juniper, among others, is set to roll out a similar device in coming months. BellSouth network officials who now work for AT&T say they haven't used the Smartedge router to prioritize data traffic, but instead for other capacity-increasing functions.
Overall, telecom spending is shifting away from the older networking equipment to the newer traffic-management products. Spending on older types of gear is projected to drop to $7.7 billion in 2009 from $9 billion this year, while spending on the new products is expected to rise to $16.4 billion in 2009 from $12.1 billion this year, according to Infonetics.
Networking firms that haven't shifted as much into making the new gear, such as Nortel Networks Corp. and Alcatel-Lucent SA, may be left in the cold. Nortel, which primarily makes wireless and fiber-optic gear, last week announced job cuts of 2,900 as it continues to slash costs following the tech bust. Alcatel-Lucent, which inherited a portfolio of old wireline products when it acquired Lucent Technologies last year, also last week reported that it swung to a net loss in its fourth quarter. Alcatel added that it would shed 12,500 jobs, or 16% of its employees, over the next three years.
de er tossede, de kommer da aldrig af med chrysler, med mindre de forærer den væk
Speculation Swirls About Chrysler's Fate
Monday February 19, 10:33 am ET
By Matt Moore, AP Business Writer
Speculation Swirls About Chrysler's Fate, Driving Stock Ever Higher
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The vaunted "merger of equals" that lawsuits could not upset may well be undone by the same simple principle that led to the creation of DaimlerChrysler: cutting costs.
With the company putting all options on the table for its struggling U.S. unit, the auto industry is pondering the fate of Chrysler and whether its parent will jettison a brand that critics say has dulled the sheen of the legendary Mercedes marquee.
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Speculation about potential partners, or even a buyer, jumping in to use Chrysler's expansive parts and dealership network to gain entry to the U.S. market has ranged from a tie-up with Nissan and Renault to talk of a link with Hyundai to a homegrown deal with General Motors.
The possibilities have driven DaimlerChrysler shares up by 12 percent since it first said it was mulling all options for the Chrysler Group. On Monday they gained almost 4 percent more to euro56.26 ($73.88), their highest level since July 2001.
DaimlerChrysler has kept mum on the talk since announcing last week that it had not ruled out any options for Chrysler -- which, until a year ago, had kept the world's fifth-largest automaker profitable amid quality issues at the Mercedes Car Group.
But a failure to discern American consumers' changing tastes for more fuel-efficient models instead of light trucks led the German-American automaker to announce plans to eliminate 13,000 jobs in the U.S. and Canada, or about 16 percent of its work force, and shutter a plant in Delaware in a bid to shave costs.
DaimlerChrysler's fourth-quarter earnings plunged 40 percent on weaker demand at the Chrysler unit, where sales fell 7 percent. Chrysler lost about $162.8 million (euro124 million) in the fourth quarter and had an operating loss of euro1.12 billion ($1.46 billion) for the year, compared to a profit of euro1.53 billion in 2005.
Chairman Dieter Zetsche, who brought Chrysler back from the brink before taking over the entire company at the beginning of 2006, said last week all possibilities were open for the Auburn Hills, Michigan-based unit.
"We do not exclude any option in order to find the best solution for both the Chrysler Group and DaimlerChrysler," he said.
Amid the flurry of reports, a spokeswoman in Stuttgart reiterated Monday that the company was examining all of its choices.
"All we have to say at this point in time was what was said last week," Silke Walters told The AP.
How much the company might ask for Chrysler is not even certain, with estimates ranging from $5 billion to $13.7 billion (euro3.81 billion to euro10.43 billion), depending on factors that include pension liabilities, health care obligations and fair value for plants and material.
In contrast, Daimler-Benz AG paid $36 billion (euro27.41 billion) for the American icon in 1998.
The Times of London reported on its Web site Monday that U.S. investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. would start a 7 billion pound ($13.7 billion) auction for Chrysler and planned to send out memorandums to likely suitors.
The paper, which cited no sources, also reported that several interested bidders had already started due diligence on Chrysler in the weeks ahead of DaimlerChrysler's Feb. 14 announcement.
The Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, reported that DaimlerChrysler was moving ahead with plans to sell or spin off Chrysler, citing two sources it did not identify. The Journal said several large car makers from the U.S., Europe and Asia had approached the company, but did not name them.
Hyundai Motor Co., the world's sixth-largest automaker, said it was not among those. "We are not considering to buy Chrysler because our hands are full," Hyundai spokesman Jake Jang said.
Others have declined to comment, including France's PSA Peugeot-Citroen and Renault SA and Italy's Fiat SpA.
Yves Milliere, who follows the French auto industry for London-based Global Insight, said a tie-up with Renault SA might make sense, at least for the French automaker.
"I would keep options open when it comes to Renault," he said, adding that the Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn, who also oversees Japan's Nissan, could use Chrysler as a way to enter the U.S. market and introduce its models there using Chrysler's manufacturing and sales networks.
"There are some synergies there," Milliere said.
Renault did not comment when called.
German automakers Volkswagen AG, Europe's largest, and BMW AG, already have their own markets in the U.S.
Stephen B. Cheetham, European auto analyst for Sanford Bernstein Ltd. in London, said Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. could be interested, but given their own precarious financial states, would be unlikely to convince shareholders in favor of such a deal.
"(We) see significant synergies with Ford, but its new CEO probably prefers a solo turnaround -- at least thus far," he said. "GM is unlikely to be interested, while vehicle designs and U.S. market access are attractive to an Asian buyer -- but its unionized cost base is not."
GM and Chrysler officials would not comment Friday on a report by Automotive News that they were in talks.
de data jeg har kigget på i tidens løb viser at udbygningen af gas til likvids terminaler
stadig er meget små størrelser
ligesom med vindmøller, og solceller, det er ikke ret meget
men der er ved at væe momentum i det
men energiforbruget stiger meget hurtigere
nu stiger en semi eq aktie fordi de har haft en nedgang i salg og indtjening
de anal-ytikere er lige lovlige tovlige
LTX Gains on Upgrade to "Outperform"
Friday February 16, 5:49 pm ET
Semiconductor Tester LTX Upgraded to "Outperform" by FBR Analyst
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of LTX Corp. rose Friday after a Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst upgraded the semiconductor testing equipment maker's stock.
LTX said Thursday that its fiscal second-quarter met Wall Street expectations. The Norwood, Mass. company reported $34.7 million in sales and a loss of 5 cents per share. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected a loss of 6 cents per share. Revenue dropped 27.5 percent from the same quarter in 2006, and losses more than doubled to $3.1 million.
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Analyst Mehdi Hosseini raised his rating to "outperform" from "market perform," and raised his price target to $7 per share from $4.50. He said the company is rebounding from a low point, and predicted LTX will see higher demand in the second half of 2007, when some of its customers will introduce new products.
"We see minimum downside, risk to estimates; we believe that the worst is behind us," Hosseini said.
LTX stock has increased 28.7 percent since Sept.8, when it reaching an annual low of $4.39.
Shares rose 60 cents, or 10.6 percent, to $6.25 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
jo, men det vil tage noget tid at få opbygget de stationer, der skal omdanne gassen til flydende gas og få det anbragt i et skib
det er kun der, hvor der er pipelines som i europa og i usa, lokalt set, at der er et rimeligt stort marked
europa forsynes jo mest af rusland/CIS, algier og et par andre lande i nordafrike via pipelines og
usa/canada har deres eget marked
der skal nok gå mindst 10 år før infrastrukturen er stærk nok til at supporte transport af flydende gas med skib fra de lande, der har et overskud af gas
danieli stiger også hele tiden selvom den ikke er steget idag
en af mine meget store gevinster
http://de.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=DAN.MI&t=5d
M.A.X. Automation übertrifft Umsatz- und Ertragsziele
Montag 5. Februar 2007, 11:19 Uhr
Düsseldorf (aktiencheck.de AG) - Die M.A.X. Automation AG (ISIN DE0006580905/ WKN 658090) hat nach vorläufigen Berechnungen im Geschäftsjahr 2006 zweistellige Wachstumsraten bei Umsatz und Ergebnis erreicht.
Wie der auf die Automation von Fertigungsprozessen fokussierte Konzern am Montag bekannt gab, verzeichnete er einen Konzernumsatz von rund 180 Mio. Euro und hat damit den Vorjahreswert von 156,9 Mio. Euro um ca. 15 Prozent übertroffen. Damit lag der Umsatz über dem Zielwert von etwa 175 Mio. Euro.
Der Konzernüberschuss vor Anteilen dritter Gesellschafter kletterte von 5,6 Mio. Euro im Vorjahr um mehr als 40 Prozent auf mindestens (Advertisement)
8 Mio. Euro. Auch der Überschuss lag über der Prognose von mindestens 7 Mio. Euro.
Ferner wuchs der kumulierte Auftragseingang auf rund 220 Mio. Euro, was einem Zuwachs um rund 31 Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahreswert von 167,7 Mio. Euro entspricht.
Für 2007 rechnet der Vorstand mit einem Anstieg des Konzernumsatzes auf mehr als 200 Mio. Euro und mit einer weiteren Verbesserung des Konzernüberschusses.
M.A.X. automation i tyskland stiger igen, idag med 6% og jeg har snart 50% på den
dejligt
det tager lige lidt tid at skulle vænne sig til et nyt system, når man skriver så meget som jeg plejer
så jeg har håber i har forståelse for at jeg lige skal ud af starthullerne
jeg synes stadig risikoen for faldende boligpriser er høj, men da renten ikke rigtigt bevæger sig i europa og danmark og inflationen er lav kan huspriserne da godt stige mere
så jeg må sige at jeg ikke ved hvad der skal ske med huspriserne
jeg skal lige prøve igen for at teste
igår kunne jeg ikke skrive mere end 3 indlæg
men så vidt jeg kan se har jeg nu 15 'skud'
og jeg skal jo øve mig lidt
inden jeg kan koncentrere mig om indholdet i det jeg skriver
nu har jeg aldrig haft en svigermor, men kan en grib være værre end pippegøjer, krikkeduller og gumsenumser?
jeg har nu fået mit gamle
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