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Higher Rates Are a Clear and Present Danger to Economy

Higher Rates Are a Clear and Present Danger to Economy

Consumers have carried the U.S. economy on their backs for a long time, but lately they are showing signs of fatigue. Consumers' response to higher food prices shows how frail they really are.

IMS Health A Dusty Gem

IMS Health: A Dusty Gem

IMS Health (IMS) is one such gem. On the surface, its financials look very rocky. Its sales and net income have not grown much over the years.

Becton Dickinson Finds ‘Sweet Spot’ Pharmas Have Missed

November 5, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight Predictability of revenue and earnings along with a likely dividend increase make BDX ...

Sara Lee Struggling to Pass on Higher Commodity Prices

October 27, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight Premium consumer brands no longer guarantee pricing power. Sara Lee (SLE) reported earnings ...

First Horizon on the Rise

October 26, 2004 – TheStreet.com: StreetInsight FHN is taking market share in the mortgage business from defunct small players. Management ...

Sirius Has Made a Deal with the Devil …

October 22, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight … and I don’t want to be around when payment is due. Paying ...

GM Bond Rating Downgraded by Fitch, Moody’s

October 14th 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight If an investor was looking for a catalyst to short GM, this is ...

The Perfect Storm Is About To Hit Automotive Stocks

October 6, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight Rising interest rates, incentives, and declining profit margins are swirling around the automakers. ...

Searching for Truth in Stock Options, I Found Veritas

September 30, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight Veritas looked like a bargain, but when I adjust my cash-flow model for ...

Pharmaceutical Industry Went Legit, Distributors Went Down

September 28, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight Channel stuffing by pharmaceutical companies had handicapped the drug distribution industry. Drug distributors ...

Ending Channel Stuffing Will Pressure Drug Companies’ Multiples

September 23, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight The premium valuation multiple that the healthcare industry commanded in the past is ...

Merck – Positioning for a Sum-of-All-Fears Scenario

September 9, 2005 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight September 17, 2005 – Realmoney.com Recent clinical studies on Vioxx and Zocor do ...

Becton, Dickinson Finds ‘Sweet Spot’ Pharmas Have Missed

September 5, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight Predictability of revenue and earnings along with a likely dividend increase make BDX ...

A Contrarian View on Oil Prices

August 28, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight Consensus oil price forecasts are too aggressive, and are not sustainable in the ...

Shedding Some Light on Investing in Russia

August 28, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight Since I am the only contributor on the Street Insight that was born ...

Why Motorola Is Not a Good Play on the Wireless Sector

August 25, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight The real problem for Motorola will come when the growth rate of the ...

TiVo: Being Acquired Might Be the Right Channel

September 9th, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight I canceled my TiVo (TIVO:Nasdaq) subscription last week; the unit went back to ...

Foreign Capital Russian Oil Infrastructure Needs Is Not Coming

August 8, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight In my mind there are two issues that are of concern. First, interruption ...

The Place of No Returns

July 7, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight For the next decade the sign on the door of index funds should ...

BJ’s Wholesale

June 30, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight In this market environment “cash” is one of my favorite stocks. Though it ...

Dollar General: Is Not So General

June 10, 2004 – TheStreet.com: Street Insight DG should be accumulated on any consumer weakness numbers. There is still growth ...