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Year: 2008

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West Texas Wind Farm Funded (BP, NRG)

Fortis Merchant Banking has successfully closed syndication of a $280 million senior secured financing for Sherbino I Wind Farm LLC.  This west-Texas wind farm is a joint venture owned by BP plc’s (NYSE: BP)…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Cisco & Juniper Initiated By FBR (CSCO, JNPR)

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) was started as an Outperform rating this morning at FBR.  The assigned target price was  $31.00 per share.  This follows the UBS downgrade from yesterday morning, which helped send Cisco…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Moody’s Downgrades Countrywide (CFC): What About BAC?

Moody’s cut the credit rating of Countrywide (CFC) to "D" for default, over worries about liquidty. According to Reuters "The downgrade does not reflect Countrywide’s planned acquisition by Bank of America (BAC)." It does…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Why Did Motorola’s (MOT) Job Cuts Come So Late?

The beatings will continue until morale improves. Motorola (MOT) cut another 2,600 jobs bringing the total since the beginning of last year to 10,000. According to The Wall Street Journal "Motorola, which is struggling…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Chasing A Top In Nike (NKE)

Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) is one of the ubiquitous brands of today’s world.  As long as it keeps doing what it is doing now and as long as it keeps its endorsements strong, it’s…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Verizon (VZ) And AT&T (T) Go After Cable And WiMax

Now that AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless have picked up oodles of spectrum at the FCC auctions, investors want to know what all that money went for. The answer is that both companies plan…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Northwest (NWA) Raises Fares, But Will Anyone Pay Them?

The management at Northwest (NWA) knows when it is in a pickle. Fuel prices are moving up and passenger traffic is likely slowing as the recession keeps people off airplanes. The only way to…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Bad News For Vista: Microsoft (MSFT) Keeps XP

Vista, the new OS from Microsoft (MSFT) was supposed to be so good that every customer and business using Windows would want to upgrade as soon as possible. But, a number of critics of…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Microsoft (MSFT) And Yahoo! (YHOO) Meet

Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO) management met this week to discuss a possible merger. Redmond made it clear that it would not raise its bid, according to The Wall Street Journal. Everyone left the…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

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

According to Reuters,US non-farm pay-rolls are likely to fall by 60,000. Reuters reports that Fed official are playingt down rate cut expectations. Reuters writes that the ex-ceo of UBS (UBS) wants to breakup the…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Asia Markets 4/4/2008 (HMC)(DCM)

Many markets in Asia were closed for a holiday. The Nikkei was down.7% to 13,293. Honda (HMC) was down 5.2% to 2920. KDDI was up 3.1% to 664000. Docomo (DCM) was down 2.5% to…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago