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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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Wal_Mart (WMT): Mr. Coffee

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) will start to sell its own "green" brands of coffee. They will be come from beans planted at carbon-neutral facilities. The brands, will, of course compete with the Maxwell House and…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

The Hedge Fund Industry Begins To Crack

Hedge funds had their worst first quarter on record. Some have already started to fail, and others are likely to . According to the FT "This year has seen a series of hedge fund…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago

Microsoft (MSFT): Why Bother To Raise Yahoo! (YHOO) Bid

The news that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) would not raise its bid for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) came as enough of a surprise that it made the front page of some papers. Microsoft managers "argue that…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 18 years ago