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Wachovia Financing Terms Less Dilutive Than Others (WB)

Wachovia Corporation (NYSE: WB) has priced its offerings for common stock and convertible preferred stock right before the open this Monday after a dismal earnings report. They plan to offer 145,833,334 shares of common…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Trina Solar, Profitability Over Internal Expansion (TSL)

Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL) is halting the development of a previously announced polysilicon production facility, which originally had a total estimated cost of some $1 Billion.  Less than two weeks ago, the company…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Goldman Sachs Dumps GE for Lockheed (LMT, GE)

This morning, Goldman Sachs has made a key call to its industrials sector.  It is adding Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to its Industrials Favorite Value List.  Goldman Sachs notes the nature of defense stocks…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

A Big Loss At Wachovia (WB)

According to Reuters, the net loss for Wachovia (NYSE: WB) was $350 million. The loss available to common stockholders, including preferred stock dividends, was $393 million, or 20 cents per share, compared with a…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Deutsche Bank (DB) Has A Deal For You

Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) is in the process of selling $20 billion of LBO loans. If the financial firm thought its earnings were OK and that its balance sheet would allow it to do…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Wachovia (WB) Deal Shows Banks Still In Peril

Wachovia (NYSE: WB) will raise between $6 billion and $7 billion. Will the money come in at $28 where the bank trades now? That is already down by half from the 52-week high of…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Delta (DAL) And Northwest (NWA): A Day Late And A Dollar Short

The revived merger between Delta (DAL) and Northwest (NWA) is based on the premise that, in a airline industry depression, two carriers mashed together work better than if they remained independent. It is an…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Media Digest 4/14/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

According to Reuters, Blockbuster (NYSE:BBI) said it has offered to buy Circuit City (NYSE:CC) for $6 to $8 in cash. Reuters writes that a merger between Delta (NYSE:DAL) and Northwest (NYSE:NWA) could be announced…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Asia Markets 4/14/2008 (SNE)(LFC)(PTR)

Markets in Asia were down sharply. The Nikkei fell 3.1% to 12,918. Canon fell 5% to 4610. KDDI fell 7.8% to 641000. Sony (SNE) fell 4.5% to 4050. The Hang Seng dropped 3.3% to…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Looking At Starbucks (SBUX) Quality, Store By Store

It has been one year since 24/7 Wall St. looked at over 40 Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) from Texas to New York. Since then, the company has replaced its CEO with the company’s founder, Howard…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

China Mobile (CHL) Backs Off Apple (AAPL) iPhone Again

The cat-and-mouse game between China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) over the release of the iPhone in China continues. China Mobile has over 300 million subscribers and that figure is growing rapidly…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Google (GOOG): Thirty-Six Expensive Data Centers?

According to TechCrunch, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has thirty-six huge data centers of which ninteen are in the US. Here are maps of the locations. No wonder Wall St. is worried about Google’s expensives. Douglas…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Delta (DAL) Merger With Northwest (NWA) Could Come In Days

The on-again, off-again merger between Northwest (NYSE: NWA) merger with Delta (NYSE: DAL) appears ready to go through. The deal could be hurt by the fact that the pilots have not signed up for…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago