Ford (F) Falters
In March, Ford, Lincoln and Mercury sales totaled 213,074, down 14 percent compared with a year ago. Sales to individual retail customers were 17 percent lower than a year ago, with essentially the entire…
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Newest first · Page 40Despite Share Sale Withdrawal, Mercadolibre Takes Heat (MELI)
Mercadolibre, Inc. (NASDAQ: MELI) is in a unique spot as it serves an online payment and e-commerce gateway and platform throughout much of Latin America. The company’s stock is also down close to 50%…
Lazard Maintains Solar Buys (ENER, CSIQ, ESLR)
Lazard Capital Markets analyst Sanjay Shrestha has come out maintaining his Buy recommendation on several names in the alternative energy space. Energy Conversion Devices (NASDAQ: ENER) maintain BUY rating and $40.00 target. Lazard met…
Frontier Airlines (FRNT) Loses Lift
Shares of Frontier Airlines (FRNT) are off 12% today to $2.23. The shares have a 52-week high of $7.46. Early this morning the The International Air Transport Association speaking about industry profits said "This…
Politico: The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs
After 24/7 Wall St. published the Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs we decided to look at some niche content sites which compete with blogs and should have similar valuation data. One of these content sites…
JANA Stays After CNET (CNET)
JANA Partners LLC has released a detailed white paper analysis of CNET Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: CNET). As you can guess, the activist investor group is rather disappointed with CNET. The groups that JANA has…
SPAC Stock/Warrant Separation: BPW Acquisition Corp. (BPW.U, BPW.WS, BPW)
BPW Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: BPW.U) is another one of these special purpose acquisition companies ("SPAC") that came public in recent weeks. The SPAC has announced that, starting today, April 1, 2008, its unit-holders from…
IPO FILING: BioTrove, Inc. (BTRV)
A company called BioTrove, Inc. has filed to come public via an initial public offering this morning. It has applied to take the proposed ticker of "BTRV" on NASDAQ. BioTrove has filed to sell…
Parts Merger: O’Reilly Automotive Buys CSK Auto (ORLY, CAO)
O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: ORLY) has announced that it and CSK Auto Corporation (NYSE: CAO) have signed a definitive merger agreement. O’Reilly will acquire CSK in a transaction valued at approximately $1 Billion, after…
IPO Filing: Energy Recovery Inc.; A Desalination Play (ERII)
Energy Recovery, Inc. has filed to come public via an initial public offering. The company lists that it will sell up to $175 million in stock in the offering, although that is merely for…
Richard Branson & Google Shoot for Mars (GOOG)
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has recently been under fire from critics over its side-operations in going green and its own space-race. It isn’t the coolness factor that is the issue, but the falling share…
Goldman Cuts Estimates On Citigroup (C) And Merrill Lynch (MER)
Goldman Sachs believes that Merrill Lynch (MER) and Citigroup (C) may have to "post $14 billion in writedowns on assets linked to collateralized debt obligations." “If our forecasts are correct, it is likely that…
Worst Banking Crisis In 30 Years
Morgan Stanley writes that the current banking crisis is the worst in 30 years. According to Bloomberg "Credit market turmoil poses the most severe crisis for banks in 30 years, surpassing Black Monday in…
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AKAM, MO, AZN, GSK, HES, LVLT, PEP, PIR, UBS, VMW)
These aren’t the only impact analyst calls this morning, but these are the ones we are focusing the Tuesday in pre-market trading hours: Akamai Tech (NASDAQ: AKAM) Raised to Buy from Neutral at Piper…
Europe Markets 4/1/2008 (BCS)(BP)(DB)(ALU)(AXA)
Markets in Europe were up at 6.40 AM. The FTSE was up .7% to 5,744. Barclays (BCS) was up 4.6% to 474 BP (BP) was down 1.9% to 502.5. The DAXX rose 1.4% to…