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Daily Archives: September 11, 2007

Companies That Management Can’t Fix: Warner Music

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 9:25 am

Now that results for the first half of the year are out, 24/7 Wall St. is revisiting its features on companies that management cannot fix. These firms have lost the ...
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IPO FILING: ArcSight, Inc., A Data Security Play (ARST)

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 9:11 am

ArcSight, Inc. has filed to come public via an IPO and has proposed the sale of up to $74.75 million for filing purposes.  The company will take the proposed ticker ...
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TradeKing Looks At Its Place In Brokerage Industry

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 8:55 am

TradeKing CEO, Don Montanaro, has been around. He started at Quick & Reilly which was famous as a pioneer in customer service at discount brokerage firms. And, the lessons he ...
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VMware, Already An Acquirer (VMW, EMC)

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 8:20 am

VMware (NYSE:VMW) is not wasting any time and not resting on its laurels.  The virtualization leader has been public not even one month yet.  The company today announced at its ...
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Amgen: Today’s Review Critical For Anemia Reimbursements (AMGN)

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 7:44 am

Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) has a huge day ahead of it.  The biotech giant is presenting data today on the appropriateuse of Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents in Chronic RenalFailure patients to a joint ...
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Imclone’s ERBITUX Extends Life in Lung Cancer Patients (IMCL, BMY, DNA)

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 7:22 am

Shares of Imclone Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:IMCL) are screaming higher this morning on it meeting its primary endpoint of increasing survival in its Phase III lung cancer studies.  Imclone and partner ...
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McDonald’s Kicks A– Again

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 7:07 am

Every man, woman, and child in most developed countries must be eating at McDonald's (MCD). August same-store sales rose 8.1% in August. The company showed impressive strength in the US, ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (September 11, 2007)

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 7:03 am

NYSE will hold a moment of silence for the September 11 anniversary from 9:29 AM to 9:30 AM EST.(AINV) Apollo Investment will sell 13 million shares of common stock in ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (September 11, 2007)

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 6:51 am

ALNY raised to Buy at Cantor Fitzgerald.CCL started as Hold at Citigroup.CHTR started as Underweight at Lehman.CMVT raised to Buy at Merriman Curhan Ford.CVG started as Outperform at Wachovia.DM started ...
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New AMD Product Does Not Support VMWare (VMW)

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 6:32 am

According to The Inquirer, there may be a little hang-up in terms of AMD's (AMD) sales of its new Barcelona chip. VMware (VMW) does not support Nested Paging, one of ...
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Europe Markets 9/11/2007

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 6:01 am

Markets in Europe were higher.The FTSE rose 1.6% to 6,230. Barclays (BCS) was up 3% to 597.5. Rio Tinto (RTP) was up 2.1% to 3620. The DAXX rose 1.3% to ...
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Bank Of American Slams Newspaper Industry

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 5:35 am

Bank of America initiated coverage on several newspaper companies and the news for them was not good.Gannett (GCI), McClathchy (MNI), The New York Times (NYT), and EW Scripps (SSP) were ...
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A Second Bail-Out For Countrywide

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 5:17 am

Countrywide (CFC) Financial has hired Goldman Sachs and law firm Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to arrange another multi-billion investment in the company, just weeks after Bank of America (BAC) ...
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A Black Eye For Biofuels

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 4:56 am

All those "green" people out there may want to take into consideration the fact that biofuels are unlikely to have a significant affect on the need for oil, and government ...
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As Crude Moves Above $78, Recession Shadow Grows

Posted: September 11, 2007 at 4:46 am

Oil traded above $78 today. Explosions on Mexican pipelines and a tight-fisted OPEC has driven prices higher. An unstable government in Nigeria and an equally unstable president in Venezuela have ...
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