Arnie Berman
Arnie Berman
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The key question is whether or not business that's not getting closed is representing postponed business or forgone business, ... The anecdotal evidence is indicating that business is probably postponed.
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This recent wave of merger news provides some of the strongest evidence yet that companies are willing to do some long-term planning. The kind of deals getting announced not just bolt-on acquisitions but transformational deals,
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At this point, boring makes for an interesting fourth quarter. I think this year's losers win. The stuff that people chucked from their portfolios is what they will want back.
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If this lasts, the IPO window will open widely enough that more software companies, not just optical technology, will again be participating.
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One week does not a capital markets make.
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nearly as dire as technology stock prices currently reflect.
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Software companies have a nasty habit of doing so much of their business in the last moments of the quarter that they typically only confess once the quarter has come to a close.
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Neither bride nor groom is particularly young, attractive or reeking of potential.
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People were encouraged that the Fed may not have to raise rates August 22.
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LBO candidates have several characteristics in common: healthy businesses, stock prices that reflect little respect, stable cash flows, and potential catalysts to still higher cash flows (cost cutting, asset sales, etc.),
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I think that is clearly helping Microsoft, ... When I look at this big move, I am really thinking that people are afraid of missing out on something. That is what we are seeing here.
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Linux promises to fulfill the promise made by Unix a decade ago -- a truly cheap, powerful and entirely open computing architecture. Sun is digging in its heels fighting the trend. As a result, no self-respecting CIO will say she or he wants to do more business with Sun.
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On the surface, you'll see that the financial momentum delivered by the earnings tonight was more positive than not, and stocks should probably get a little boost off this.
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If Oracle, when it came to crunch time in February, had a tough time getting new business, then companies whose crunch time is this week will have a tougher time still.