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Monthly Archives: June 2007

VeraSun (VSE), BioFuel Energy (BIOF): More Corn To The Rescue

Several recent ethanol IPOs have had a tough time as concerns mount that a lack of corn supply could drive their cost of revenue up. The four companies the represent ...
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Apple (AAPL) iPhone: Five Reasons It Won’t Sell

Now that the Apple (AAPL) iPhone has been out 24 hours and the reviews have been fairly good, the question is whether it will sell the ten million units in ...
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BCE (BCE) Gets Bought

Canadian phone giant BCE (BCE) is being taken private by an investor group led by Teachers Private Capital, the private investment arm of the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, Providence Equity ...
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Blackstone (BX) Leads The 52-Week Low Club

Blackstone (BX) Investors still worry about slowing private equity and tax issues. Shares fall to $28.75 from post-IPO high of $38.American Home Mtg (AHM) Forecasts second quarter loss on delinquent ...
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Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) Withdraws Drug Which Can Cause Suicidal Thinking

Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) is withdrawing its application to sell its drug rimonabant in the US as a treatment for obesity. The drug has been found to have psychiatric sides effects. This ...
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Dell (DELL) Makes A 52-Week High

Dell (DELL) hit $28.86, a 52-week high, which also puts the stock up 20% during the last year, a better performance than the S&P.Some of the increase comes indirectly from ...
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CryoCor (CRYO): Another Small Med Company Rallies Like Mad

CryoCor (CRYO) had revenue of $540,000 last year, and a loss of over $15 million. It did not do much better in 2004 or 2005. But, as of this morning, ...
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AMD’s (AMD) New Chip: Slower Than Expected

Industry experts expected that AMD's (AMD) last best hope for getting back into competition with Intel (INTC) for server market share would have a clock speed of 2.7 gigahertz to ...
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China Stock Market: 300,000 New Accounts A Day Plus A 45 P/E

Bloomberg has put out some interesting statistics. The current market P/E for China is 45. The S&P stands at 18. More amazing still, since April, investors are opening 300,000 new ...
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Does Motorola’s (MOT) Resurrection Begin In Korea

The RAZR 2. Motorola's (MOT) next big thing. Better screen than the old RAZR. Better call quality. The works. Can its sell 50 million units worldwide each quarter? No one ...
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GE (GE) Checks It Courage At The Door

NBC chief Jeff Zuckerman was quoted in the FT as saying that his company did not bid for Dow Jones (DJ) because "When you have shareholders who you have to ...
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Europe Markets 6/29/2007

Markets in Europe were down at 7 AM New York time.The FTSE was off .6% to 6,532. Barclays (BCS) was down 1.3% to 687.5. The DAXX was down .2% to ...
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$70 Oil: Who Gets Hurt

With oil hanging around $70, and gas likely to move above $3 for all of the summer, it bears looking at who gets hurt:Airlines: It looked like they might get ...
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Research In Motion (RIMM) May Dodge The iPhone

Research In Motion's (RIMM) stock is up over 150% during the last year. That is much better than Apple's (AAPL) 110%.In RIMM's last quarter, revenue was up 76% to $1.1 ...
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Qualcomm (QCOM) Rejects Broadcom (BRCM)

Qualcomm (QCOM) has rejected a proposal for paying rival Broadcom (BRCM) about $1.5 billion to settle their patent dispute. The fight is keeping a number of new handsets, with Qualcomm ...
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