Sete momentos mais marcantes de Centeno no Banco de Portugal

[The Mechanic]

Bons dias !!

Isto hoje está feio , como o dia .

Depois de um dia até , agradável , ontem , a Asia fecha hoje em sopas , vermelha como as camisolas do Benfica, mas apesar disso ,com melhores resultados e sem o Nuno Gomes , o que já é uma vantagem .

A Europa não lhe ficou atrás e abriu vermelhinha , com o PSI-20 atrás ( que já há alguns dias que anda com , pelo menos, uma grande predisposição pra cair - o volume de ontem foi algo baixo . Tive cafés na minha zona a fazer mais caixa que o que foi movimentado pelo PSI. ).
Depois , a Home Depot ( ver em baixo )apresentou resultados e isto ainda caiu mais .
O Indice de confiança dos Investidores Alemães , veio acabar com o resto ao revelar-se que caíu pelo 2º mês consecutivo . Diz que a malta tem medo da Inflacção , do Euroforte x Dolar fraco e , sim, ainda a Subprime .

Os Futuros estão vermelhos e assemelha-se aqui um fim de semana no encarnado depois de tantos dias no verde.

Os EUA estão com os Futuros tambem vermelhos e à espera do Indice de preços do Produtor .

Por isso ... isto ainda pode virar !
Continuamos em cima de numeros importantes em Indices como o S&P500 e ainda há tudo pra definir .Se pra Touro , se pra Urso . Eu começo a ver o Urso a chegar sorrateiro e espero que o Touro tenha muita força, porque isto ainda vái haver porrada à séria .


Em Portugal , a Galp Energia divulga hoje resultados do primeiro trimestre de 2008 .

Na Europa , a Britanica Marks & Spencer divulgou tambem resultados do primeiro trimestre de 2008 e até foram jeitosos .

Os lucros da Marks & Spencer aumentaram 25% para valores recorde de mais de uma década, depois da empresa ter remodelado lojas e "outlets" para impulsionar as vendas de alimentação e roupa de mulher.

Os resultados líquidos da retalhista ascenderam a 821,7 milhões de libras, ou 48,7 pence por acção, no ano fiscal que terminou dia 31 de Março, contra 659,9 milhões de libras, ou 38,5 pence por acção de igual período do ano anterior.

Nos EUA :

A história entre a Microsoft e a Yahoo ainda não terminou e qualquer noticia pode fazer mexer os Mercados , mas certo, certo hoje, é isto :

Home Depot reports 66 pct drop in first-quarter profit on housing weakness, one-time charge


ATLANTA (AP) -- The Home Depot Inc. reported a 66 percent drop in first-quarter profit Tuesday due to a large one-time charge and continued weakness in the housing market.The results, excluding the charge, beat Wall Street expectations despite a decline in overall sales and sales at stores open at least a year.

The Atlanta-based company said it earned $356 million, or 21 cents a share, in the three months ending May 4, compared with a profit of $1.05 billion, or 53 cents a share, a year earlier.

Excluding a charge related to store closings and the shrinking of future store growth plans, Home Depot said it earned $697 million, or 41 cents a share.

Analysts were expecting earnings of 37 cents a share excluding one-time items.

Bons resultados nesta empresa , ao baterem o que os analistas esperavam .

Staples 1Q profit rises 1.5 percent after 2 quarterly declines; reaffirms outlook


BOSTON (AP) -- Staples Inc. posted a slim 1.5 percent increase in its first-quarter profit, after posting small declines the previous two quarters amid slow retail sales of office products.
The world's largest office products supplier said Tuesday its profit rose to $212.3 million, or 30 cents per share, in the three months ended May 3. That compares with a profit of $209.1 million, or 29 cents per share, a year earlier.

The latest profit matches analysts expectations.

Staples says sales rose 6 percent to $4.9 billion from $4.59 billion a year ago, slightly beating analysts' forecast of $4.83 billion.

Staples reaffirms its profit and sales forecast for the full year. It expects a weak economic climate throughout 2008.

Hewlett-Packard - Divulga resultados do segundo trimestre fiscal e esperam-se 85 cents de lucro .


História do dia :

Embora os dados da HP sejam tambem muito importantes, o facto de sairem só no fim da sessão , leva-me a dar destaque a isto :

13:30 EUA Índice de preços no produtor em Abril [anterior: 1,1% ; estimativa: 0,4%]

Hoje em dia, quando não se está a falar em Petroleo , cereais ou Tx. de Juro , está-se a falar em Inflacção ou Recessão .
Ora, este Indice , mede a Inflacção ao nivel dos Productores . E é isso que vái fazer mexer os Mercados hoje .



Um abraço ,

The Mechanic

[Robin Citadino]

Carcanhol disse:

"Nos dias que correm já não há noticias com capacidade de abanar os mercados, á séria.

Penso que agor entramos na fase em que os mercados já esperam e já descontaram muita coisa má.

Vejamos na sexta a consumer confidence já tinha sido má em Abril e voltou a ser muito má, se a memória não me falha, já no anúncio anterior tal como na sexta feira passada, de inicio uma má reacção que depois é anulada! "

Estou de acordo e com indicadores a saírem melhor que o esperado (+0,1) é natural que o sentimento de optimismo perdure.

Creio que só voltamos atrás, aos níveis anteriores a meados de Março, se houver um novo "Bear Stearns" e que ninguém esteja contar com ele.
Acredito que vamos consolidar os actuais valores durante o corrente mês.

Apenas o Psi parece não ter força para acompanhar esta recuperação (provavelmente, mais uma vez, o comportamento será o retardador).

Se o petróleo ajudar e descer para níveis mais "simpáticos" (sem ser uma queda brusca, que ao invés de ajudar poderia rebentar uma bolha que teria repercussões) podemos conseguir ultrapassar esta mini-recessão quase incólumes!

Assim os mercados queiram!

Abraços e BN.

[carcanhol]

Nos dias que correm já não há noticias com capacidade de abanar os mercados, á séria.

Penso que agor entramos na fase em que os mercados já esperam e já descontaram muita coisa má.

Vejamos na sexta a consumer confidence já tinha sido má em Abril e voltou a ser muito má, se a memória não me falha, já no anúncio anterior tal como na sexta feira passada, de inicio uma má reacção que depois é anulada!

Não tarda que o termo "subprime" seja uma recordação do passado! Quem sabe até uma invenção (coisa da CIA )para fazer corrigir os mercados, para entalar os mais distraidos e permitir aOs grandas tubarões comprar o que sempre tiveram em carteira mas muito mais barato! E facturar

Ainda não há muito tempo tivemos mínimos, já há gente a pedir 1550 no S&P e os 8000 no Dax.

Convenhamos se de março até agora viemos dos 1270 aos 1425 (2 meses) o resto é caja! 1550 na boa! lá para Julho (dois meses).

"Subprime"? que é isso?

[petar]

19-05-2008 15:00 EUA Indicadores económicos avançados em Abril [anterior: 0,1% ; estimativa: -0,1%]

[crg]

15:00 EUA Índice de confiança dos consumidores medido pela Universidade de Michigan em Maio: 59,5 [anterior: 62,6 pontos ; previsão: 62,5 pontos]
Abraço e BN.

[Robin Citadino]

U.S. Housing Starts Jump on Condos; Houses Drop to 17-Year Low

By Courtney Schlisserman

May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Construction of U.S. single-family houses in April dropped to the lowest level in 17 years, even as building of condominiums and townhouses rebounded.

Builders broke ground on 692,000 single-family homes at an annual rate, down 1.7 percent from March and the fewest since January 1991, the Commerce Department said today in Washington. Total starts jumped 8.2 percent to a 1.032 million pace that was higher than forecast as construction of multi-family units increased 36 percent following a 35 percent drop in March.

Lower prices and bigger incentives have yet to revive demand for houses, indicating builders will need to come up with even more discounts to attract buyers. Stricter lending rules, job losses and growing pessimism about the economy signal sales will not rebound quickly.

``Buyers are asking: `Why buy now when I can buy six months from now at a lower price?''' Avery Shenfeld, a senior economist at CIBC World Markets in Toronto, said before the report. ``There's still a clearing out of inventory of unsold homes that needs some further months to run.''

Building permits, a sign of future construction, rose 4.9 percent to a 978,000 pace, reflecting gains in both single- and multi-family units.

Economists forecast starts would fall to an annual pace of 939,000, according to the median 73 projections in a Bloomberg News survey. Estimates ranged from 875,000 to 1 million.

Building permits were projected to fall to a 915,000 annual rate, according to the Bloomberg survey.

Regional Breakdown

Starts increased in three of four regions, led by a 24 percent jump in the Midwest. Construction rose 19 percent in the West and 3.6 percent in the South. Starts dropped 13 percent in the Northeast.

Residential construction has subtracted from economic growth since the first three months of 2006, culminating in a 27 percent drop at an annual rate in the first quarter. That was the biggest decline since 1981.

Home construction and property values ``seem likely to decline well into 2009,'' Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Janet Yellen said May 13. She also said the risks around her forecasts are ``unusually large because of uncertainty'' about financial markets, housing and commodity prices.



Correu menos mal, um mau outro bom. Mas parece que a reacção é positiva.

[Robin Citadino]

Já dentro de menos de meia-hora vai definir-se o resto do dia (digo eu):

16-05-2008 13:30 EUA Licenças em construção em Abril
16-05-2008 13:30 EUA Construção de casas em Abril
16-05-2008 15:00 EUA Índice de confiança dos consumidores medido pela Universidade de Michigan em Maio [anterior: 62,6 pontos ; previsão: 62,5 pontos]


E quando se fala de casas nos US é sempre perigoso...

Deixo a análise para o Mech

Abraços!

[The Mechanic]

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn threatened to seek control of Yahoo! Inc.'s board if the Internet company doesn't revive takeover talks with Microsoft Corp. over its failed $47.5 billion bid.

Icahn said today that he owns as much as $1.6 billion in Yahoo shares and may buy another $900 million worth. He created a slate of 10 nominees for board seats, including Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team, and former Viacom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Frank Biondi Jr. All 10 of Yahoo's directors are up for re-election at the annual meeting on July 3.

Rói-te aí Joe Berardo , que isto é que é investidor à séria...

Isto do reavivar das conversações da bid da Microsoft sobre a Yahoo , está mais que visto que é pretendido por toda a gente, menos pelos Administradores .
Das duas uma, ou os gajos são lapidados e ficam em tal estado que tem de dar a face após alguns movimentos do tipo " nã...é que não nos interessa mesmo !" ou não voltam atrás e são literalmente empalados ,á boa maneira do Vlad . E nem fazem bico aos postes...!

Dada a dimensão da operação, isto está a mexer com os Mercados .


Um abraço ,

The Mechanic

[The Mechanic]

O dia ontem não fechou mauzito por esse mundo fora , embora por cá as coisas não tenham corrido muito bem .
A Asia , nomeadamente o Nikkei , fechou bem e deixou os Futuros positivos .

A Europa , depois de uma abertura negativa, tem vindo gradualmente e subir e encontra-se em situação "rés-vés-campo-de-ourique-não-sêi-pra-onde-vou " , depois de se saberem bons resultados macro-economicos ( com medalha de ouro para a Alemanha com um crescimento máximos de 12 anos ).

Nos EUA , os Futuros encontram-se ligeiramente positivos à espera dos dados da habitação , com algumas empresas de relativa importancia a apresentarem os seus resultados hoje .



Em Portugal :

A Martifer divulga resultados relativos ao primeiro trimestre de 2008 .

O BCP levou com uma série de downgrades am cima e ainda não sabe muito bem porquê .


Na Europa :


Divulga resultados relativos ao primeiro trimestre de 2008 :

Abertis

Crédit Agricole

Barclays Plc, the U.K.'s third-biggest bank, said first-quarter earnings declined on 1.7 billion pounds ($3.3 billion) of writedowns caused by losses in credit markets.

07:00 Alemanha Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) no primeiro trimestre [anterior: 0,3% ; previsão: 0,7%]

O Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) aumentou 1,5% face ao quarto trimestre de 2007, quando registara um acréscimo de apenas 0,3%. Os dados surpreenderam os analistas, que antecipavam um crescimento em torno de 0,7%. Os números do Gabinete de Estatísticas Oficiais, reportados ao Eurostat, traduzem, aliás, a taxa de crescimento trimestral mais elevada desde o segundo trimestre de 1996, sublinha a agência Bloomberg. Em termos anuais, a economia cresceu 2,6%, se ajustada ao número de dias úteis.

07:00 Alemanha Índice de preços no consumidor em Abril [anterior: 2,4% ; previsão: 2,4%]

09:00 BCE Publica relatório mensal relativo a Maio.

10:00 Eurostat Divulga Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) do primeiro trimestre na Zona Euro [anterior: 0,4% ; previsão: 0,5%]

A Zona Euro parece estar a acomodar-se melhor do que o previsto aos impactos da crise financeira, aliada à alta do euro e dos preços das matérias-primas. De acordo com dados hoje divulgados pelo Eurostat, a área monetária do euro, para a qual Portugal vende quase 80% das suas exportações, cresceu 0,7% nos três primeiros meses do ano, quase duplicando os 0,4% que haviam sido observados no último trimestre de 2007.

10:00 Eurostat Divulga índice de preços no consumidor em Abril na Zona Euro [anterior: 3,6% ; previsão: 3,3%]

12:40 BCE Jean-Claude Trichet fala em Viena.

Sustained growth for now justifies the European Central Bank's decision to hold off cutting interest rates as it tries to conquer inflation, which remained above the ECB's ceiling for an eighth month in April. The bank may still soon face a quandary as evidence mounts that the expansion is weakening, even in Germany.

Provavelmente, é o que Trichet dirá ...



Estados Unidos :

Divulga resultados relativos ao primeiro trimestre de 2008 :

Blackstone
Blockbuster Inc
J.C. Penney Co
Kohl's Corp
Nordstrom Inc


Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reports on mortgage rates.


13:30 Pedidos de subsídio de desemprego na semana passada [anterior: 365 mil ; previsão: 370 mil]

14:15 Produção Industrial em Abril [anterior:0,3% ; previsão: -0,3%]





Contra as aparências ( vermelhas , muito vermelhas ...) , eu apostava numa bela tarde pra hoje , com os dados como estão . No entanto, sabe-se o que os dados relativos às casas nos EUA podem fazer...

Os Indices seguem nos valores de há alguns dias. Tanto pode dar pra ir por aí acima com vir por aí abaixo .

É aguardar, pra ver se aparece algo que defina o quadro geral ...


Um abraço ,

The Mechanic

[The Mechanic]

Robin Citadino

PS: Agora com o Mech "de molho" temos de dar uma ajuda neste tópico muito importante (estávamos habituados à papinha feita) para que o mesmo não fique esquecido!

O puto à noite, parece a sirene dos bombeiros...
( " ...isto não é só fazê-los !! ...há que cria-los , tambem..." )
...aguente-se !Só que escrever alguma coisa antes das 13h tornou-se um bocado dificil...

U.S. Stocks Advance, Sending S&P 500 to Four-Month High

By Michael Patterson

May 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks advanced, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to a four-month high, after consumer prices climbed less than forecast and Freddie Mac's results bolstered speculation the worst credit-market losses are over.

Freddie Mac, the second-largest U.S. mortgage-finance company, rallied the most in the S&P 500 after boosting market share and revenue. Macy's Inc. posted its biggest gain in six weeks on sales that topped estimates. All 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 rose as the Labor Department's April inflation report gave the Federal Reserve more leeway to stimulate the economy.

The S&P 500 added 16.66, or 1.2 percent, to 1,419.7 at 2:33 p.m. in New York, its highest level since Jan. 10.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 149.81, or 1.2 percent, to 12,981.99.
The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 32.21, or 1.3 percent, to 2,527.33.
Almost three stocks advanced for each that fell on the New York Stock Exchange.

``Lower inflation is extraordinarily important for the market,'' said Eric Green, who helps oversee about $4.5 billion as director of research at Penn Capital Management in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. ``It's wonderful news to have an economy that is being stimulated by a lot of things and at the same time prices are not going up. This could allow financial and discretionary stocks to perform in the short term.''

Tá tudo a Bullar hoje...!
S&P500 em máximos de 4 meses e a passar pelos 1,410 pontos à laia de " espera aí que eu vou só ali comprar cigarros..." .

O CPI foi importante, mas o Freddie Mac foi decisivo ( não se quis ficar atrás da Fannie Mae ).

Muito bom .


Um abraço ,

The Mechanic

[Robin Citadino]

Boas,

Nota-se que está tudo em cima do assunto!

Excelente!

E o indicador saiu melhor que o esperado. Muito bom.

Reparem que os índices e os futuros reagiram de imediato. Vamos ver se vai dar suporte para o resto do dia!

Obrigado!

[msoares36]

Cumprimentos.
Soares

[Sulla]

De facto os dados não revelam aumento da pressão inflacionista...DADOS EUA]: CONSUMER PRICE INDEX MoM saiu aos +0.2% com esperado aos +0.3% e anterior +0.3%; // CPI Excluindo FOOD & ENERGY MoM saiu aos +0.1% com esperado aos +0.2% do anterior +0.2%.

Dados EUA - Consumer Price Index (CPI): YoY 3,9%(esp. 4,0%) e ant. 4,0%; Ex-Food & energy 2,3% (esp. 2,4%) e ant. 2,4%; Core IndeSA 214,398 ant. 214,176; NSA 214,823 (esp. 214,715) e ant. 213,528.

Dados plataforma Gobulling

[Onorio]

Consumer Prices in U.S. Rose Less Than Forecast 0.2% in April

By Courtney Schlisserman

May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Prices paid by U.S. consumers rose less than forecast in April, reflecting declining costs for furniture and hotel stays that outweighed the biggest jump in food prices in 18 years.

The consumer price index increased 0.2 percent after a 0.3 percent increase in March, the Labor Department said today in Washington. So-called core prices, which exclude food and energy costs, climbed 0.1 percent, compared with a 0.2 percent rise a month earlier.

[Robin Citadino]

Boas,

Deve estar a sair o CPI (índice de preços no consumidor) que vai provavelmente condicionar o resto do dia.

Esperemos que saia acima das expectativas (3.9).

BN.

PS: Agora com o Mech "de molho" temos de dar uma ajuda neste tópico muito importante (estávamos habituados à papinha feita) para que o mesmo não fique esquecido!

[J.Smith]

U.S. April import prices rise 1.8%, petroleum gains

Prices that U.S. residents paid for imported goods rose 1.8% in April, the Labor Department reported Tuesday, as costs for petroleum and other products gained.

Economists surveyed by MarketWatch were looking for a gain of 1.8%.
The price for imported petroleum rose 4.4%. The price for non-petroleum products rose 1.1% for the second consecutive month -- matching the largest one-month gain for the index since these prices were first published monthly in December 1988.
The price for non-fuel imports rose 1.0% -- matching the prior month's gain -- the largest one-month increase since the index was first published in December 2001.
For the 12 months ended April, prices for imports gained 15.4%. The rise in import prices for March was revised to 2.9% from a prior estimate of 2.8%.
There has been concern that rising import prices and the long upward trend in food and energy commodities are keeping upward pressure on core inflation.
The weak dollar has been boosting exports. However, last week, the Commerce Department reported that both imports and exports fell sharply in March, driving the U.S. trade deficit down to $58.2 billion, in a sign of weaker global growth. Nominal imports fell 2.9% to $206.7 billion, the largest decline in more than six years, despite record oil prices. Nominal exports dropped 1.7% to $148.5 billion, the biggest drop in nearly three years, despite higher prices for U.S. farm products.
Meanwhile, U.S. export prices for April rose 0.3% -- the smallest monthly increase since September 2007.
Prices for agricultural exports fell 2.2%. In the prior month, these products had gained 4.2%, and were up 32% for the 12 months through April. Prices for non-agricultural exports in April rose 0.6%.

U.S. Retail Sales Fall 0.2%; Rise Excluding Autos

Retail sales in the U.S. fell in April, led by a slump in auto purchases that masked stronger- than-forecast gains elsewhere, indicating rising energy bills and a faltering labor market haven't stopped Americans from shopping.

Purchases dropped 0.2 percent last month after a 0.2 percent increase in March, the Commerce Department said. Purchases excluding automobiles increased 0.5 percent, more than twice as much as anticipated.

[J.Smith]

Parece que os mercados estão a reagir à noticia

Wal-Mart profit up 7% on overseas growth, value hunting

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer and discounter, said Tuesday its first-quarter profit rose 7%, driven by international growth and penny-pinching U.S. consumers seeking value.

Net income rose to $3.02 billion, or 76 cents a share, from $2.82 billion, or 68 cents a share. Total revenue in the quarter ended May 2 rose 8.8% to $95.3 billion, the Bentonville, Ark.-based company said last week.
Analysts, on average, estimated Wal-Mart would earn 75 cents a share, according to FactSet. Wal-Mart in April raised its first-quarter profit forecast to 74 cents to 76 cents a share from as much as 74 cents after it said that better inventory management helped to reduce discounts and merchandise theft.

[J.Smith]

Boas tardes,

Para comecar nada melhor que postar uma boa noticia

Bernanke Says Fed to Boost Loans to Banks as Needed

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awr794TeWrew&refer=home

[Navete]

Mais uma vez:

-Comprar no rumor, vender na noticia...

-Pior é dificil...

-Comprar os panicos!

[lutav]

9:41Weaker oil price sends energy stocks lower at open
9:39A sharp drop in oil prices give a lift to airline shares
9:37Retail shares open higher after AnnTaylor raises forecast
9:37[FDX] Fedex down 1.4% to $88.96 in early trading
9:34[MBI] MBIA shares up 5.7% at $9.97
9:33[HBC] HSBC shares up 3% at $86.62 in opening trade
9:33U.S. stocks draw opening lift as price of crude slips

Com prejuizos e acções a subir
Como dizem os outros "Tá bem, táááá!"

Já estava descontado na cotação actual ...

beijos e abraços

[J.Smith]

9:41Weaker oil price sends energy stocks lower at open
9:39A sharp drop in oil prices give a lift to airline shares
9:37Retail shares open higher after AnnTaylor raises forecast
9:37[FDX] Fedex down 1.4% to $88.96 in early trading
9:34[MBI] MBIA shares up 5.7% at $9.97
9:33[HBC] HSBC shares up 3% at $86.62 in opening trade
9:33U.S. stocks draw opening lift as price of crude slips

Com prejuizos e acções a subir
Como dizem os outros "Tá bem, táááá!"

[J.Smith]

Sprint First-Quarter Loss Widens as Customers Defect


Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-biggest U.S. wireless carrier, said it may sell some assets after its first-quarter loss widened and more than 1 million customers canceled their contracts.

The net loss expanded to $505 million, or 18 cents a share, Overland Park, Kansas-based Sprint said today in a statement. The company said it will review its business and report the results in August. As earnings drop, it is considering cutting costs and shedding some assets to meet its obligations to lenders.

Complaints of poor service and dropped calls after the 2005 acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. fueled customer losses, and competition from AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless added to the challenge. Nextel Communications Inc., which the company bought for $36 billion, may be worth as little as $5 billion now, some analysts say.

``Customers are fleeing Sprint,'' Michael Nelson, an analyst at Stanford Group Co., said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio in New York. The loss of contract clients ``represents really an accelerated bleeding of their most profitable subscribers.'' He recommends holding on to the shares.

Sprint fell 28 cents to $9.10 in trading before U.S. exchanges opened after climbing 40 cents to $9.38 May 9 on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock reached a high of $68.88 in November 1999.

Sales Fell

Sales fell 7.5 percent to $9.33 billion, compared with the $9.39 billion average estimate of analysts. The company lost $211 million, or 7 cents a share, a year ago. Analysts predicted a first-quarter net loss of 15 cents a share, or a profit of 2 cents excluding costs from items such as job cuts, according to the average estimates in a Bloomberg survey.

Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse is firing 4,000 workers, closing outlets and discounting wireless phone plans after the stock lost more than half its value in the past year. Sprint had a $29.2 billion loss in the fourth quarter after writing down most of the purchase of Nextel. The company had previously put that loss at $29.5 billion.

Sprint may seek to dispose of Nextel or find a buyer for the entire company, the Wall Street Journal said last week. Nextel may be worth anything from $5 billion to $8 billion now, Cowen & Co. analyst Tom Watts in New York said.

Splitting off the Nextel unit would involve ``significant complexities,'' Hesse told analysts today on a conference call. He declined to say whether the company was considering it, and he wouldn't disclose what assets Sprint might sell.

`All of Our Options'

``Nothing is off the table completely,'' he said. ``We will always periodically reevaluate all of our options.''

Sprint lost 1.07 million contract customers last quarter, compared with the 1.2 million who dropped service in all of 2007. It had forecast 1.2 million defections and said it expects the losses to improve ``marginally'' this quarter.

The company ended the first quarter with 52.8 million total subscribers, including those who pay in advance for service. Contract customer turnover, or churn, rose to 2.45 percent from 2.3 percent a year ago. Contract customers paid about $56 a month for service, down 6 percent from last year.

AT&T added 1.3 million wireless users last quarter, helped by sales of Apple Inc.'s iPhone. Verizon, which sells phones including the Juke by Samsung Electronics Co., gained 1.5 million mobile users.

``Everyone is benefiting from Sprint's demise,'' Nelson said. Nine analysts suggest buying Sprint shares, 23 recommend holding them and none says to sell, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Price War

To stem turnover, Hesse, 54, escalated a price war with AT&T and Verizon, adding an unlimited calling plan for $89.99 a month in February. Since taking over in December, Hesse redid Sprint's advertisements, scrapped the dividend and borrowed $2.5 billion under a credit line. He also plans to close about 125 of Sprint's company-owned stores, or about 8 percent.

Sprint unveiled a plan last week to merge its new high-speed mobile network with Clearwire Corp. to save money and get a leg up on bigger rivals. Sprint will get majority ownership of the first national WiMax network, which will be able to reach speeds up to five times faster than the technology his rivals now use.

[J.Smith]

MBIA teve prejuizos bem acima dos esperado e ag foi a vez XM Satelite radio apresentar os seus prejuizos.
Por este andar os States vao começar a semana no vermelho!

XM Satellite Radio 1st Quarter Loss Widens To $129.3; Revenue Up 17%


XMSR (11.80, -0.49, -4.0%) first-quarter loss widened to $129.3 million, or 42 cents a share, from $122.4 million, or 40 cents a share, a year ago. On average, analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected a loss of 39 cents a share. The Washington, D.C., satellite radio broadcasting company said revenue increased 17% to $308.5 million from $264.1 million a year earlier. At the end of the just-completed period, XM has 9.33 million subscribers, an 18% increase from 7.91 million a year ago. Revenue per subscriber fell to $11.23 from $11.34. First-quarter churn rate was 1.77%, compared to 1.78% in the year-earlier period. Shares of XM closed Friday down 49 cents, or 4%, at $11.80.

[J.Smith]

Grande Mech, não podia deixar de te felicitar pelo o teu novo membro da alcateia, mts parabens e que tenha(m) saude acima de tudo. Ah e ve se o puto traz boas novas para os mercados

MBIA Posts Loss of $2.4 Billion as CDO Slump Deepens

MBIA Inc., the bond insurer whose market value tumbled 87 percent in the past year, posted a net loss of $2.4 billion as the slump in mortgage securities deepened.

MBIA dropped 5.5 percent in early New York Stock Exchange composite trading after reporting a first-quarter operating loss of $3.01 a share, more than twice the average analyst estimate from a Bloomberg survey of $1.21. Unrealized losses from derivatives were $3.58 billion, Armonk, New York-based MBIA said in a statement today.

The loss was MBIA's third straight and comes less than three months after the bond insurer successfully retained its AAA credit rating. MBIA, Ambac Financial Group Inc. and the rest of the industry posted record losses after misjudging the value of collateralized debt obligations and securities backed by home- equity loans they guaranteed. MBIA said today it expects to pay more than $1 billion in additional claims.

``We're not out of the woods yet,'' said Richard Larkin, senior vice president at Herbert J. Sims & Co. in Iselin, New Jersey. ``I'm not sure AAA bond insurers will ever be viewed the same way as in the past.''

MBIA raised $2.6 billion in capital to help convince Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's to preserve its AAA rating. Chief Executive Officer Jay Brown said this week the company won't need to raise more.

[Navete]

Amigo, desculpa.

Tens razão, tenho andado isolado do mundo, os meus W do Nasdaq têm me dado nauseas...

Felicidades para ti!

E já agora, vê lá se fazes isto subir!! Os Mercados... Arranja ai umas noticias boas.