Monday Morning Coffee with TradingMarkets

  • July 21, 2008
  • David Penn

Good Morning!


Teva’s King-Making Acquisition … Ericsson’s Earnings in Spotlight … Will the Dollar Move Higher? … Can Good Earnings Boost Bad News
Quarter for Merck? … AT&T Straddles Telecom’s Past and Future

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Teva: The New Giant in Generics – Financial Times

With its acquisition of Barr Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries makes itself the major player in generic drugmaking worldwide.

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Profits Ebbing at Ericsson? – Bloomberg

Reporting earnings on Tuesday, Ericsson hopes to sway analysts who suspect that waning demand may impact net income at one of the world’s largest mobile phonemakers.

Driving Miss Dollar? – DailyFX

DailyFX’s currency strategist team of Schlossberg, Belkas, Kicklighter, Rodriguez,Rivera, and Spivak weigh the odds on whether or not the U.S.
dollar will continue its frentic move higher off the spring lows.

BloggingStocks

An earnings beat from Merck would go a long way toward putting the bad news of the quarter behind it, as this Blogging Stocks Earnings Preview
suggests.


AT&T Earnings on Wednesday – Wall Street Journal

Emphasis on the past and slowness in adopting the future helps explain the worries that AT&T’s revenue sources are not strong enough in wireless
– and not weak enough on landlines.

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Pioneer Drilling Company PDC 9
Consolidated Energy Inc. CNX 9
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