Carol Bartz New Yahoo YHOO CEO 1/13/09

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Carol Bartz will take over for Jerry Yang as the new Yahoo ( YHOO ) CEO. Yahoo stock is holding up today despite some weakness in the technology sector from the likes of Apple ( AAPL ). Microsft ( MSFT ) is pretty much keeping the Nasdaq in the green today.

Carol Bartz was the old Autodesk ( ADSK ) CEO and I think she is a real Gem in the industry. The key problem she may have is turning around Yahoo which is no easy task! Google ( GOOG ) is a giant and there are no signs of this giant falling any time soon. The fact is, Google just gives great search results. New websites get added fast and in Yahoo's search engine, it can take up to six months! In the new Internet age we live in, this is not acceptable. Why would we want to use Yahoo when we can't even get indexed?

From Forbes:

Carol A. Bartz joined Autodesk in April 1992 and serves as Executive Chairman of our Board of Directors. Ms. Bartz"s present duties include enhancing relationships with Autodesk"s key customers, partners, governments and investors along with focusing on activities designed to improve the business climate for Autodesk. From April 1992 to April 2006, Ms. Bartz served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President. Ms. Bartz is a director of Cisco Systems, Inc., Intel Corporation and Network Appliance, Inc.

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7/21 Pre Market Stock Gainers, DNA, FNM, FRE, ABK

This morning the Pre Market Gainers in the Stock Market are going to be:
DNA
FRE
FNM
ABK
WM
BAC

DNA is getting a buyout offer, Bank of America reported better then expected earnings, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are going up in sympathy to B of A.

Other Pre Market News.... Carl Ichan has been accepted to the Yahoo( YHOO ) board.

Earnings: 7/21 Apple AAPL CME

Next week is going to be a very busy earnings week. The drug make Merck kicks things off early Monday morning with expected earnings to be .83 cents per share.

Apple Computer also reports after the bell Monday....estimates are for AAPL for report $1.08 per share. I'm thinking they should come in at around $1.15. Anything less then this for me is a big disappointment. If Apple would miss $1.08, you would see it trade quickly into the $150's. Just look what they did to Google ( GOOG ). Google came in with $4.63 vs $4.74. This is equivalent to a company coming in with earnings of $1.54 when $1.58 was expected. It is very cut throat out there right now, especially with " safe haven " technology stocks. The market will kill a stock when they miss.

Moving on.......

One stock to watch Tuesday morning is CME Group( CME ). This stock has gotten absolutely obliterated over the past six months due to the government wanting to step in and regular the commodities exchanges. ICE is another one that is taking a beating because of this. If they report a solid number....look for this stock to move up in a big way. Analysts are looking for .43 cents per share on CME Group

More 7/22 Earnings - VMW, YHOO, ISRG

Tuesday 7/23 Earnings - Watch Baidu.com, one of my favorite Internet companies for the future. Expecting .96 cents per share. BIDU trades at a VERY high premium but you are paying for growth. In this type of market, if a company like this down not beat earnings every quarter the market will kill it. Look at what they did to MELI over the past two months. Watch BIDU closely.

Also, Amazon.com AMZN reports earnings.