11/17/05:
HP Seems To Be Following Turnaround Specialist Mark Hurd's Lead
SUSIE GHARIB: The turnaround is taking hold at Hewlett-
Packard. After the bell, the tech giant reported fiscal fourth quarter
earnings of $0.51 a share excluding charges. That was a nickel ahead of
Street estimates. HP also beat revenue estimates with $22.9 billion in
sales. Hewlett-Packard tapped turnaround specialist Mark Hurd to lead the
company last spring. Since then, the stock is up over 46 percent and is by
far the biggest gainer on the Dow 30 this year. But analysts say Hurd`s
challenges at HP are far from over.
FRANK GILLETT, PRINCIPAL TECH ANALYST, FORRESTER RESEARCH: He`s still
got to shape a new identity for HP, define how it`s going to stand out from
Dell and from IBM and really kind of turn on the afterburners. One
positive sign that I see here is that the software group for the first time
has earned a profit. They`ve been investing in that business for some time
and now it can finally stand on its own two feet.
KANGAS: HP also updated its first quarter outlook today. It now sees
earnings of $0.46 to $0.48 a share. Analysts had been expecting earnings
of $0.44 a share.
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11/17/05: Housing Starts Suffer A Setback
SUSIE GHARIB: America`s red hot love affair with the housing industry
appears to be cooling off. The Commerce Department said today both housing
starts and permits fell sharply last month. As Stephanie Dhue reports,
evidence of the end of the affair is clearly visible.
STEPHANIE DHUE, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: The signs of a
slowdown are everywhere. Many homes for sale, mortgage rates on the rise
and the "price reduced" signs are as frequent as the "sold." D.C. realtor
Mark Hershkowitz says there are fewer speculative buyers in the market.
MARK HERSHKOWITZ, REALTOR, LONG & FOSTER: I used to get on the average
of one or two calls a week from investors who would be looking for
properties and those calls have certainly slowed down.
DHUE: The slowdown is also showing up in the mortgage market.
MICHAEL FRATANTONI, ECONOMIST, MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: For three
straight weeks, our purchase applications have been below where they were
at a similar point last year. And we just see that as clear signs that
we`re past the peak, and we expect further declines in the level of sales
going forward.
DHUE: Homebuilders are clearly reacting to the slowdown. The Commerce
Department says housing starts decreased 5.6 percent in October. Permits
for future groundbreaking dropped 6.7 percent, the biggest monthly drop in
six years. The home builders association chief economist David Seiders
says this is the beginning of a simmering down of the real estate market.
DAVID SEIDERS, CHIEF ECONOMIST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOMEBUILDERS:
I`m looking for an orderly downslide continuing into 2007 to get us
back to what I consider to be a sustainable level of sales and production.
DHUE: The days of double-digit price appreciation appear to be over.
Some hot real estate markets could see prices drop. But overall,
economists expect prices to increase modestly over the next year.
Stephanie Dhue, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, Washington.
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11/17/05: One On One With Daniel Vasella, Chairman & CEO, Novartis
SUSIE GHARIB: Well, Chiron is a key drug company working on a vaccine for
avian or bird flu. And it`s a company that Swiss giant Novartis has agreed
to buy. Novartis has been on a buying spree this year, paying almost $9
billion for drug company acquisitions. This morning I talked with CEO
Daniel Vasella and asked him what Novartis will look like in 10 years.
DR. DANIEL VASELLA, CHAIRMAN & CEO, NOVARTIS: It`s highly likely that
we will be in the drug business, in medicines, and we will hopefully be
continuing to be a leader in innovation, but also a leader in generics and
hopefully in vaccines.
GHARIB: Dr. Vasella, you said that you were still interested in doing
more acquisition. Would you ever consider doing a major pharmaceutical
acquisition or are you just looking for targeted companies?
VASELLA: I will never tell you I won`t do it or I will do it. I think
that would be pretty stupid for me to wanting to lock the company in to any
kind of statement which would curtail our freedom of action.
GHARIB: There are a lot of concerns about a bird flu pandemic. And I
understand that Chiron that you recently made an acquisition in is in the
vaccine business, how realistic is it that Chiron and other drug companies
can come up with a bird flu vaccine rather quickly or is this a process
that takes five or 10 years.
VASELLA: It is absolutely realistic. It depends in which time frame.
So we believe that next year we should have some bulk material available.
But we also need the support of FDA and other regulatory authorities to
approve the new production facilities and methodologies quickly, swiftly,
if we have this threat. Otherwise it won`t happen.
GHARIB: Drug companies always talk about their pipeline. How do you
think that your pipeline compares with others in your industry? And what is
the most exciting new upcoming drug that you are working on?
VASELLA: If you would go around and ask, I think for sure we are being
seen as having one of the richer ones in the industry. And I talked with a
novel diabetes medication we will file next year. We have an absolutely
new anti-hypertension which gives coverage over 24 hours, which is very
important especially during nighttime, which we will also file early next
year. We have a very revolutionary therapy for chronic leukemia we
launched two years ago, Gleevec and we have a follow up, a better newer
Gleevec in development.
GHARIB: A lot of people are watching very carefully this Pfizer case
for its patent protection of Lipitor and I know that Novartis has a big
generic business. What are the implications for Novartis and other drug
companies if Pfizer loses the case?
VASELLA: Patents are the lifeblood for innovation. Without patents
there will be no innovation. Having said that, patents have an end and
have a certain life. And after that, companies having made the returns on
the investment they made and taking the risk they have taken, we have
generics. And so I`m not in favor of artificially prolonging patents. But
I am neither in favor to artificially cut patent life.
GHARIB: I would like to talk to you about Novartis stock. It has been
for most of the year kind of stuck in a trading range. And in the last few
months it`s had a very nice run-up. What`s happened? And what do you think
it is going to take to keep the stock growing over the next 12 months?
VASELLA: Of course the stock has been going up on the good news on the
pipeline, I would say. And we have also seen obviously that these
acquisitions which you mentioned have had no negative impact. So basically
the market has understood the strategy and has acknowledged that the price
we paid was fair. But having said that, you know, one can never make as
easily a fool of one`s self as with predicting stock prices, so I wouldn`t
do this.
GHARIB: Dr. Vasella, thank you very much, we appreciate your time.
VASELLA: Thank you.
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11/17/05: "Las Vegas on a Roll,"-Part 6: Gambling On Casino Stations
SUSIE GHARIB: It is a Las Vegas-based casino company, but
it has no operations on the Las Vegas strip. It hosts thousands of
gamblers each year, yet few are the high-rollers that most casinos covet.
As we wrap up our series "Las Vegas on a Roll," Jeff Yastine looks at
station casinos, a gaming company that has been betting and winning with a
different strategy for success.
YASTINE: You won`t find their name anywhere on the Las Vegas strip.
Instead, you have to drive off the strip to the city`s neighborhoods and
look for the signs -- Boulder Station, Palace Station. Some of the newer
properties look more like the neighborhood retail mall, which just happen
to have an upscale hotel and casino attached. And that`s all by design for
the people who run station casinos, a company that`s grown by attracting
Las Vegas locals, not tourists, to come in and play.
ANN FILON, STATION CASINOS CUSTOMER: It`s like family coming in here.
You go to these other places, it`s cold. Here, it`s warm.
DAVID BENJAMIN, STATION CASINOS CUSTOMER: I know the doorman`s first
name, he knows my name. Every time I come here, I feel like I`m coming
back to Cheer`s, the bar.
YASTINE: That focus on catering to the locals market has been Station
Casino`s not-so-secret weapon, allowing the company to grow from one bingo
hall in 1976, to a network of 13 operating casinos now scattered throughout
the Las Vegas area. Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta are the two brothers who`ve
led the company`s growth in recent years. Between them, they carry four
titles, Frank as chairman and CEO and Lorenzo as vice-chairman and
president. But they both learned the business from their father, Frank,
Sr. When he started the company in the 1970s, Fertitta`s idea of an off-
strip casino aimed at Vegas residents was ahead of its time.
FRANK FERTITTA, CHAIRMAN & CEO, STATION CASIONOS: Most people thought
he was crazy. They`d say, "there`s no way. Why would you build a casino
that`s not on the strip?" But they didn`t understand that his target market
was the people that lived in Las Vegas, not the tourists.
YASTINE: The strategy`s paid off. As new suburbs and expressways
spread around Las Vegas, so did Station Casinos. Green Valley Ranch, which
opened in 2001, incorporates a retail mall concept alongside a casino and
upscale hotel.
LORENZO FERTITTA, VICE CHAIRMAN & PRES, STATION CASINOS: The
phenomenon comes from the fact that its not just a casino. Really what we
develop are entertainment malls. So along with the traditional casino, you
have movie theatres, bowling alleys, ice skating rinks, retail, obviously a
number of food and beverage outlets. So it`s a place where people can come
and do many different things. They don`t have to gamble.
YASTINE: They don`t have to, but most people do.
DAVID SCHWARTZ: Las Vegas is a big gambling city and I think a lot of
the people here do like to gamble for recreation. And I think Station has
really targeted them. Instead of going to someplace on the strip where
you`ve got to drive, you`ve got to face traffic and park, you can go to
someplace that`s maybe only a mile or so from where you live.
YASTINE: And as Las Vegas grows, so does Station Casinos. The company
has been busy acquiring the limited amounts of land, like this parcel zoned
for casino use in the city suburbs. In all, they control almost 600 acres
of undeveloped property.
FRANK FERTITTA: We think very much like real estate developers, very
strategically. Where`s the next interstate going to go? Where are the
rooftops going to be built in the future? We`d better get their first.
We`re a pretty aggressive company. That`s how we got to where we are.
YASTINE: And where they hope to remain ahead of their competitors.
The same can be said for Las Vegas, which is eager to remain
a top tourist destination. But even as the city and its famous
strip has grown, it`s still held on to its outlaw image. What
happens in Las Vegas may stay in Vegas, but the city`s appeal
continues to spread far beyond this valley in the desert.
Jeff Yastine, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, Las Vegas.
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11/17/05: "Tech Talk"-Governing The World Wide Web
SUSIE GHARIB: In our tech talk segment tonight, the worldwide web, the world
inside your computer and getting out of this world. With the details,
here`s our technology maven Scott Gurvey.
SCOTT GURVEY, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: The United
Nations has decided not to take over the Internet, at least not right now.
At a U.N. summit meeting in Tunisia this week, it agreed to create an
Internet governance forum, but did not act on some requests that the United
States give up its Internet management role. The Internet is really made
up of many independent and mostly privately run networks, so it is hard to
understand how anybody, let alone the U.N., could take it over.
What the United States has done since it invented the system in the
1960s, is hand out the numbers for Internet locations and maintain the
directories that map names to those numbers. It does that through a
nonprofit corporation for nominal fees. Other countries could set up
competing systems, but that would in effect isolate them from everybody
else. Some suggest the U.N. sees revenue in the Internet. Taxes on domain
names and e-mail have been proposed.
There was music. There was protest. There was revolution. Felt like
I was back in the `60s. It took only 10 days of consumer revolt for Sony
to recall millions of compact disks with copy protection features many
thought crossed the line. To play them on a computer you had to agree to
the installation of software which prevented some common practices like
downloading the tunes to your Apple iPod. But the software also hid its
files and prevented you from deleting it. Experts say the software also
created security holes that could be used by a virus or worm to do real
damage to your computer. I`ve put the list of 20 Sony titles believed to
contain this software on our web site at nbr.com. If you have any of them,
I recommend you do not play them on your computer.
And finally, there are those who believe the patent office is out of
control, granting virtually any application and leaving challenges to the
courts to sort out. Consider this: U.S. patent number 6,960,975 granted
November 1, 2005. Space vehicle propelled by the pressure of inflationary
vacuum state. It is filled with sketches of a spaceship and diagrams
depicting a space-time anomaly somehow around it. That`s right, "Star
Trek" fans. It`s a warp drive. I thought you actually had to be able to
build something before you were granted patent rights to it. I was wrong.
Scott Gurvey, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, New York.
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11/17/05: "Commentary"-The War Veteran's Labor Pains
SUSIE GHARIB: In tonight`s commentary, a few thoughts on putting our war
veterans to work. Here`s Myron Kandel, founding financial editor at CNN.
MYRON KANDEL, FOUNDING FINANCIAL EDITOR, CNN: I`m a believer in
affirmative action to help redress the legacy of racial bigotry. But now I
would like to see another type of affirmative action to avoid repeating
another example of discrimination, meaning the shameless behavior toward
veterans of the war in Vietnam. What a travesty that was. Some of those
GIs were shunned and even ostracized for doing their duty and had trouble
finding jobs. Sure, much of the country may have opposed that conflict,
but they were serving their country.
Now we`re engaged in another unpopular war. Hundreds of thousands of
men and women have been serving honorably and valiantly. More than 2,000
have died. Thousands more have lost limbs or suffered other serious
wounds. Tours of duty have been extended. National guardsmen and
reservists have been uprooted from their families and jobs. They deserve
our honor and our praise, and also our active support in the workplace.
It`s time for American business, big and small, to offer programs of
affirmative action in jobs and training for those who have served in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Isolated examples of misbehavior should not cloud the
picture. These young men and women -- and some not so young -- deserve
special help as well as our gratitude. I think business should step
forward and lead the way and it should do so affirmatively. I`m Myron
Kandel.
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11/15/05:
"Paul Kangas' Stocks In The News"
PAUL KANGAS: Those signs of a slowdown in housing put Wall Street`s blue
chips on the defensive early today, as did analyst downgrades on Altria and
Deere stocks. But after the Dow fell only 10 points, the market began to
rebound. Tech stocks led the comeback. At noon, the Dow was up 17 points.
NASDAQ rose 16 points. The market went on to close at its best levels of
the day, thanks to a rally in General Motors stock and a drop in the price
of oil. The Dow Industrial Average gained 45 1/2 points closing at
10,720.22. The NASDAQ Composite soared 32 1/2 points to 2220.46. That is a
4 1/2 year closing high. Standard & Poor`s 500 index closed up 11 1/2
points to 1242.80. In the bond market, the 10-year note rose 4/32 to par
and 10/32, putting the yield at 4.46 percent.
New York exchange volume leader on 22.8 million shares was General
Motors (GM) in a nice move up, $1.34 gain. The chief exec said talk of
bankruptcy is overblown and he said the company is still financially
strong. Incidentally, Standard & Poor`s upgraded GM stock from a "strong
sell" to a "hold" rating.
Then came E*trade Financial (ET) moving up $0.96. The company`s in the
midst of a 36.1 million share secondary offering which was priced last
night at $18 a share.
Pfizer (PFE) in there with a $0.02 loss.
Then Ford Motor Co (F) moved up $0.14.
ExxonMobil (XOM) a $0.20 gain, fifth in big board volume.
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) closed up $0.73. As you heard after the close,
fourth quarter earnings $0.51, a nickel above the consensus. I saw the
stock as high in after hours trading as $30.68 a share.
Motorola (MOT) in the strong high tech group up $0.77.
Time Warner (TWX) gained $0.22.
Cypress Semiconductor (CY) fell $0.16, although the company`s Sunpower
unit went public today and did well. We`ll see that in just a moment.
Tyco International (TYC) had a good earnings out yesterday, up $0.56 a
share.
Altria Group (MO), parent of Philip Morris, down $2.09. Goldman Sachs
downgraded the tobacco industry from "attractive" to "neutral" and
downgraded Altria specifically from "outperform" to "in line" because it
sees the company`s proposed break up coming much later than generally
expected.
Disney (DIS) closed up $0.14. After the close, fourth quarter earnings
$0.20, $0.02 above the Street estimate, but the stock fell about $0.50 from
this price after hours on rather disappointing revenues at the company`s
movie studio.
Deere & Co (DE) losing $0.94 a share. UBS financial downgraded it from
"buy" to "neutral" because it sees little upside potential in the stock for
sometime to come.
On the other hand, Union Pacific (UNP) moving up $2.76. Merrill Lynch
upgraded it from "neutral" to "buy."
Then Brady Corp (BRC) doing very well, up $6.70. The company makes
identification and label products. First quarter earnings, $0.60 a share,
$0.18 above the Street estimate, way up from $0.41 last year. Revenues rose
16 percent. The company boosted its 2006 earnings guidance.
Another big gainer was JLG Industries (JLG) up $5.73. This company
makes those aerial work platforms. First quarter earnings of $0.53 versus a
loss of $0.20 last year. Revenues soared 56 percent. The company also
boosted its 2006 earnings guidance.
Biovail Corp (BVF) down another $2.61. As we reported yesterday,
there`s concern that there will be generic competition for the company`s
number one product, Wellbutrin XL, an anti-depressant and today, sure
enough, the FDA reportedly approved Anchen Pharmaceuticals generic version
of Wellbutrin.
Google (GOOG) topped the active list on NASDAQ as it usually does
these days, but it doesn`t usually pierce another century mark. It did
today with ease, up at $403.45 a share, up $5.30, of course a new closing
high
Microsoft (MSFT) $0.23 gain.
Yahoo! (YHOO) up $2.19.
Apple Computer (AAPL) fell $0.43.
Gilead Sciences (GILD) after several days of good gains, down $0.88, a
little profit taking there.
Intel (INTC) was up $0.24.
And then Applied Materials (AMAT) fell $0.43. Applied Materials in
with fourth quarter earnings way down at $0.15 versus $0.27 last year but
that was a penny better than expected and it probably helped to cushion the
drop in the stock.
Cisco Systems (CSCO) up $0.15.
Ebay (EBAY) rose $1.26.
And Dell Computer (DELL) up a dime. That was tenth in big board
volume.
There`s that new issue, Sunpower Corporation (SPWR), which was sold by
Cypress Semiconductor. There were 7.7 million shares offered to the public
at $18, opened at $28, the high $28.01, backed off a little bit, still a
very nice debut.
Taro Pharmaceutical Industry (TARO) plunging $7.50. Third quarter
earnings plunged to $0.07 from $0.14 a year ago and the estimate was for
$0.28 in earnings. Now that was a big miss and a big loss in the stock.
And those are the stocks in the news tonight.
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11/17/05:
Market Stats
NET PERCENT
CLOSE CHANGE CHANGE
DOW CLOSE 10720.22 +45.46 + .4
HIGH 10727.67
LOW 10665.55
NASDAQ COMP. 2220.46 +32.53 +1.5
HIGH 2220.46
LOW 2194.66
VOLUME 1,701.1
PREVIOUS 1,587.4
UP VOLUME 1,369.5
DOWN VOLUME 308.7
DOW TRANSPORTS 4082.39 +80.74 + 2.0
DOW UTILITIES 397.53 +6.08 + 1.6
CLOSING TICK +1060
S&P 500 1242.80 +11.59 + .9
S&P 100 571.17 +4.24 + .8
MIDCAP 400 727.06 +10.18 + 1.4
REUTERS/CRB 313.21 -2.10 - .7
NYSE COMPOSITE 7601.12 +82.14 + 1.1
VALUE LINE 406.01 +5.80 + 1.5
RUSSELL 2000 667.14 +12.50 + 1.9
DJW 5000 12442.36 +134.06 + 1.1
U.S. TREASURIES
5-YEAR NOTE 4.50%
Nov. 15,2010 100 14/32 +3/32 4.40
10-YEAR NOTE 4.50%
Nov. 15,2015 100 10/32 +4/32 4.46
30-YEAR NOTE 5.375%
Feb. 15, 2031 110 23/32 +10/32 4.65
LEHMAN BROS.
LONG BOND INDEX 1756.04 +5.47
DOW CLOSE 10720.22 +45.46 + .4
ADVANCES 2491
DECLINES 823
NEW HIGHS 157
NEW LOWS 162
NET PERCENT
NYSE MOST ACTIVES 4PM CLOSE CHANGE CHANGE
GM GM 22.63 +1.34 +6.3
ET E*Trade Finl 19.14 +.96 +5.3
PFE Pfizer 21.35 -.02 -.1
F Ford Motor Co 7.80 +.14 +1.8
XOM Exxon Mobil 57.38 +.20 +.4
HPQ Hewlett-Packard 29.00 +.73 +2.6
MOT Motorola 23.55 +.77 +3.4
TWX Time Warner 17.82 +.22 +1.3
CY Cypress Semicond 15.91 -.16 -1.0
TYC Tyco Intl 29.06 +.56 +2.0
NASDAQ CLOSE 2220.46 + 32.53 + 1.5
VOLUME 1,878.0
PREVIOUS 1,737.3
ADVANCES 2183
DECLINES 805
NASDAQ ACTIVES
GOOG Google 403.45 +5.30 +1.3
MSFT Microsoft 27.97 +.23 +.8
YHOO Yahoo! 42.23 +2.19 +5.5
AAPL Apple Computer 64.52 -.43 -.7
GILD Gilead Sciences 54.75 -.88 -1.6
INTC Intel 25.11 +.24 +1.0
AMAT Applied Matl 17.34 -.43 -2.4
CSCO Cisco Systems 17.37 +.15 +.9
EBAY eBay 43.80 +1.26 +3.0
DELL Dell 29.87 +.10 +.3
AMEX CLOSE 1700.84 + 11.54 + .7
INDEX SHARES
DIA DIAMONDS TRUST 107.38 +.34 +.3
QQQ NASDAQ 100 41.31 +.54 +1.3
SPY S&P DEP.RECEIPTS 124.57 +1.08 +.9
STOCKS IN THE NEWS
MO Altria Group 71.80 -2.09 -2.8
DIS Disney 25.99 +.14 +.5
DE Deere & Co 62.84 -.94 -1.5
UNP Union Pacific 73.76 +2.76 +3.9
BRC Brady Corp 37.30 +6.70 +21.9
JLG JLG Industries 45.52 +5.73 +14.4
BVF Biovail Corp 22.30 -2.61 -10.5
SPWR SunPower Corp 25.45 +7.45 +41.4
TARO Taro Pharma 14.40 -7.50 -34.3
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