AOL Money Moves To Lead Among Finance Sites
AOL Money & Finance (TWX) moved ahead of Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance in both total visits and page views during March. For the period, AOL had 409 million page views and 85.3 million visits. Yahoo!’s…
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Newest first · Page 26Sirius (SIRI) Hits New Low, Waiting For Word
Sirius (NASDAQ: SIRI) hit a new 52-week low today at $2.45. While The Justice Department gave its plan to merge with XM Satellite (NASDAQ: XMSR) an OK, there has been no news from the…
GE’s New 2008 Fair Value: $33.75… Conglomerates Head Lower (GE, MMM, UTX, HON)
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) poor earnings report may be a shock to most. When you consider that the annual preview was just given one month ago, this flies in the face of the…
And The Government Says Inflation Is WHAT?
Import prices surged in March and some of the price jumps are a record for modern trading history. Even the Labor Department’s reputation for under-reporting inflation statistics can’t mask the high inflation. Oil is…
TriZetto Gets Apax Private Equity Buyout (TZIX)
TriZetto Group Inc. (NASDAQ: TZIX) is being acquired. Private equity firm Apax Partners will acquire health-care software company for $1.4 billion, or $22.00 per share. This represents a 25% premium to Thursday’s closing price,…
Morgan Stanley Already Filing To Lower MSCI Stake (MXB, MS)
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MXB) has filed to sell up to 30,861,235 shares in a secondary offering. Unfortunately, all of the shares are from selling holders. Those selling holders are Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) and…
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ANF, BLK, BP, CKR, DO, G, RRGB, SPR, WMGI, ZRAN)
Below are the top 10 pre-market analyst calls that 247wallst.com is focusing on: Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) cut to Neutral at JP Morgan. BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) Cut to Market Perform from Outperform at…
GE (GE) Falls Over
It is time for Jeff Immelt to leave. His plans for GE’s long-term future are a wreak. GE’s pitch that being in many businesses is better than one and being in businesses in many…
New Refineries Could Help Push Up Price Of Oil
New refineries will be opening soon in China and some countries in the Middle East. This may force other facilities in the US and Europe out of the business. The older plants are not…
Verizon (VZ) And Time Warner Cable (TWC) Have At It
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) went sniveling into US District Court to complain that Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) was running misleading ads about the phone company’s new fiber optic TV and broadband product. TWC better…
As Frontier (FRNT) Goes Down, AMR (AMR) Can’t Stay Afloat
Frontier (NASDAQ: FRNT) filed for Chapter 11 joining ATA and Aloha Air. According to MarketWatch "The airline said the decision was taken after its principal credit-card processor unexpectedly said it would start withholding "significant…
Streaming Media Names Industry Hall Of Fame, 24/7 Wall St. Editor Lands A Spot (MSFT)(RNWK)(AKAM)(GE)(CMCSA)
Streaming Media Magazine and Streamingmediia.com have released their list of the twenty-five most important people in in the streaming media industry over the last decade. “I suppose if you extend the baseball metaphor, these…
Media Digest 4/11/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Bernanke says that the current financial system can be fixed. Reuters writes that Google (GOOG) is using Frank Quattrone as its investment bank advisor. Reuters reports that banks involved in the…
Asia Markets 4/11/2008 (TM)(CN)(PTR)
Markets in Asia were mostly higher. The Nikkei rose 2.9% to 13,324. Mazda was up 8.9% to 367. Toyota (TM) was up 2.5% to 4950. The Hang Seng rose 1.6% to 24,580. China Netcom…
Radio One & Ethnic Social Networking Acquisition (ROIAK, ROIA)
After the close this evening, ethnic media player Radio One, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROIAK) (NASDAQ: ROIA) announced it was acquiring a social networking company called Community Connect for around $38 million. Interestingly enough Radio One…