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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Major Wave of Secondaries Hitting Market (DHR, VELT, BBEP, KMP, CPF, MHR, TCO, FVE)

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 10:28 am

Secondaries, Secondaries, and more Secondaries!!! Companies must be nervous about the market and picking up capital when and where they can after a large move in the market.  We are ...
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Better Late Than Never? Gov’t Finally Penalizes Major Banks for Mortgage Mod Failures

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 9:59 am

by Paul Kiel ProPublica, June 10, 2011, 10:22 a.m. The Obama administration’s mortgage modification program is more than two years old. From the beginning, it’s been apparent that the participating ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (BBEP, SPWRA, VELT)

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 9:00 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Brietburn Energy Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBEP), Sunpower Corporation (NASDAQ: ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (6/15/2011) Greek Strikes, Pandora IPO

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 8:37 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 225 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/15/2011) AMD CEO, Obama Tax Cuts

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 8:27 am

Updated throughout the day The Administration will try to get business leaders to support concerns that failure to raise the debt cap could be dangerous for the economy (Reuters) Obama ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARUN, CMI, DMND, ENZN, FCEL, FIG, HLF, KFT, MYGN, NTAP, OIS, PMTC, PTR, PETD, SWFT)

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 8:23 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN) Started as Buy at UBS. ...
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S&P Just Now Downgrades NBG & Greek Banks, From The Land of Duh (NBG)

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 7:40 am

If you want to know what happens to the credit ratings of large banks in lands of the PIIGS when the underlying country ratings have been cut over and over, ...
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The Most Unhealthy Meals Served By America’s Fast Food Chains

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 7:12 am

From California, to the New York Island; from the redwood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters, this land is filled with fatties, lard butts and people large enough to have ...
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Pandora Value Trick in Double-Premium IPO (P, SIRI, LNKD)

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 7:05 am

Pandora Media, Inc. (NYSE: P) was already getting a premium price after the underwriters lifted the price range once.  Word had been out that another premium was coming after the ...
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The Small Business Economy Falls Apart

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 7:00 am

Small businesses are supposed to be a major engine of the US economy. Some experts believe that companies with under 500 workers use more than half the people who work ...
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Company Profits Cure To US Financial Woes

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 6:59 am

If only American companies were more profitable, many of the problems with the economy and access to social services would disappear. That is the claim of a new research document ...
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When No One Can Afford To Retire

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 6:57 am

Every American should be able to retire with money in the bank, and an IRA with hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in it, or instead a large ...
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Media Digest (6/15/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 15, 2011 at 6:52 am

Obama has tried to get the business community to support his concern that the lack of approval of an increase in the debt cap would be a catastrophe (Reuters) A ...
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Trading Stocks in One-Billionth of a Second

Posted: June 14, 2011 at 6:09 pm

The pace at which the market trades stocks, bonds, currencies, and futures seems to have once again become faster than anyone could have ever imagined.  Forget a few hundred automated ...
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Glencore Earnings Take It To Post-IPO Lows

Posted: June 14, 2011 at 4:04 pm

Glencore International (LSE: GLEN) was supposed to be a hot IPO in the world of commodities.  It turned out that it caught a serious downward trend in the stock market, ...
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