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Monthly Archives: September 2007

AMEX Lists Uranium Energy Corp (UEC, URME)

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 11:12 am

Uranium Energy Corp (AMEX: UEC) has begun trading on the American Stock Exchange.  This was previously trading OTC under the "URME" ticker.  The company is a US-based junior resource company ...
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INVESCO PowerShares Launched Five New Foreign ETF’s (PDQ, PDN, PXH, PWD, PFP, IVZ)

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 10:46 am

There were five new ETF's that hit the American Stock Exchange, which now counts 342 listed ETF's at the exchange.PowerShares FTSE RAFI Asia Pacific ex-Japan Small-Mid Portfolio (Amex: PDQ) aims ...
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Duff & Phelps Gets A Welcome Mat From Wall Street (DUF)

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 9:58 am

Duff & Phelps Corporation (NYSE:DUF) priced its initial public offering of 8,300,000 shares of common stock at $16.00 per share, and Wall Street is greeting it with open arms.  This ...
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3Com Bailout Confirmed (COMS, NT, CSCO, JNPR)

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 9:30 am

3Com did confirm the reports of a $2.2 Billion buyout from Bain and Huawei this morning at $5.30 per share.  Why $5.30?  It wasn't based on the stellar valuation nor ...
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CGM’s Ken Heeber Talks Oil Services (SLB, BHI, VIP, POT, OIH)

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 8:52 am

If you know market pundits, you know Ken Heebner of CGM Realty.  He made a fortune for investors on investing in real estate and he ditched that las year in ...
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Memo To BigBand (BBND) Board: Fire The CEO

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 8:45 am

TO: Lloyd Carney, Dean Gilbert , Ken Goldman, Gal Israely, Bruce Sachs, Robert Sachs, Geoff YangRE: Amir Bassan-Eskenazi, BigBand CEOAs members of the BigBand (BBND) board of directors, it would ...
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SPAC IPO FILING: Sports Properties Acquisition Corp. (HMR, TAXI)

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 8:14 am

Sports Properties Acquisition Corp. filed to sell 20 million units at the traditional $10.00 per unit, and the company is granting an overallotment allowance of 3 million more shares.  Sports ...
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AMD Gets A Downgrade

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 7:56 am

Research firm AmTech has downgraded shares of AMD (AMD) over concerns of late introduction of its new Barcelona chips and poor uptake. The report indicated that Q3 and next year ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (September 28, 2007)

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 7:39 am

(BBND) BigBand Networks traded down almost 30% on earnings and revenue warning.(CBS) CBS has created CBS EyeLab, a site of short clips from its shows to attract web views who ...
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3Com’s Rescue Plan….A Sale (COMS)

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 7:31 am

3Com (NASDAQ:COMS) may be a long-standing disaster story on its own, but shares are up 30% pre-market.  The Wall Street Journal has reported that 3Com is about to be acquired ...
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Will Ford (F) Kill UAW Deal?

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 7:08 am

The Detroit News is reporting that Ford (F) does not want the same deal that the UAW offered GM (GM). It wants a much better one. That might PO the ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (September 28, 2007)

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 7:00 am

BIDZ started as Buy at Roth Capital.BBND cut to Mkt Perform at Morgan Keegan.CMG cut to Hold at Citigroup.CNO raised to Outperform at FBR.CRAI raised to Outperform at William Blair.CFR ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) To Keep XP Shipping: Bad News For Vista?

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 6:59 am

Microsoft (MSFT) says it will continue to ship is old-world OS, XP, for another six months. It is the product which was to be replaced by Vista.Does that mean that ...
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Bone Head Research Call Of The Day: Morgan Keegan On BigBand (BBND)

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 6:07 am

The folks at investment house Morgan Keegan were good enough to downgrade broadband infrastructure company BigBand (BBND), a recent IPO.The bank dropped its rating from "outperform" to "market perform". The ...
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M&A Falls 43% In Q3

Posted: September 28, 2007 at 5:57 am

There was some hope that as mortgage problems and hedge fund headaches took down shares and earnings of investment banks like Lehman (LEH) and Morgan Stanley (MS) that global M&A ...
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