Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) just announced that it has agreed to sell 5,575,000 shares of its common stock in an public secondary offering of its stock. Thomas Weisel Partners ... Read Full Story »
It's always interesting to peruse the 52-week highs and lows for trading ideas. Sometimes you see some head-scratchers and sometimes you get Eureka. A review of the highs today showed ... Read Full Story »
Indevus Pharmaceuticals (IDEV) Bad news on drug trial. Falls to $1.21 from 52-week high of $8.22.Ambac (ABK) Possible downgrade by Moody's. Drops to $2.45 from 52-week high of $89.33.MBIA (MBI) ... Read Full Story »
According to the latest data from Changewave, Research-In-Motion (RIMM) is running away with the US smartphone market. The research firm's May survey was based on data from 2,049 respondents involved ... Read Full Story »
Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance began to offer real-time stock quotes recently. It got around the huge fees changed by NYSE and Nasdaq by pulling the data from the Bats ECN, an ... Read Full Story »
Alltel may soon be acquired by Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), according to a breaking news report from CNBC's David Faber. Faber just noted that the companies are in advanced ... Read Full Story »
JoS. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. (NASDAQ: JOSB) has just announced its quarterly earnings report for its Q1-2008. Earnings rose by 18% to $0.53 EPS, compared to $0.45 EPS for Q1-2007 ... Read Full Story »
MBIA Inc. (NYSE: MBI) and AMBAC Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: ABK) are actually responsible for taking back some of today's market gains. Actually, it is Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO) that ... Read Full Story »
Lear Corporation (NYSE: LEA) has just lowered its guidance this morning based upon announced revisions of industry forecasting services and others which have announced downward revisions in their estimates for ... Read Full Story »
It has been hard to not notice the movement and trading activity in Level 3 Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT). This set up an alert for us over at VOLUME SPIKE ... Read Full Story »
Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) has filed with the SEC to raise up to $345,000,000 in new capital via the sale of common stock. Concurrent with this offering, the company ... Read Full Story »
GCA Acquisition (AMEX:GGA) has received anti-trust clearance related to its proposed $1.3 billion purchase of merchant power generator Complete Energy. Complete Energy owns two natural-gas-fired combined-cycle power plants: the 1,022-megawatt ... Read Full Story »
If US financial companies go shopping for more cash as the credit crisis drags on, Kuwait wants the world to know it has a big bank account. A good deal ... Read Full Story »
The J. M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) and The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) Folgers unit have confirmed yesterday's reports that the two companies are going to merge. The ... Read Full Story »
RBC Capital Markets has issued a downgrade of the cellular and mobile tower sector this morning, which looks like it will weigh somewhat on the shares in the group. Its ... Read Full Story »