Nike Stock Stuck In Channel Ahead of Earnings (NKE)
After today’s close of trading, we’ll get to see the earnings report out of Nike (NYSE: NKE). First Call has estimates at $0.81 EPS and $4.36 Billion in revenues. Next quarter is also its…
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Globalstar Inc. (NASDAQ: GSAT) filed for a shelf registration of mixed securities this morning that would allow it to sell up to $700 million. The registration will allow it to sell debt securities, common…
SPAC Warrant Separation: GHL Acquisition Corp. (GHL, GHQ, GHQ-U, GHQ-WS)
GHL Acquisition Corp. (Amex: GHQ-U), a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC, has announced that it has allowed for the separation in trading of its common stock and warrants. This SPAC will thus no…
CardioNet Priced At Bottom of Range, Trades Lower From Start (BEAT)
CardioNet Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAT) priced its 4.5 million share IPO at a price of $18.00 per share. The San Diego, California-based provider of real-time patient heart monitoring systems had originally set the range at…
ETF LAUNCH: Foreign Government Inflation-Index Bonds
There is a new ETF launching today, and this one is a foreign government bond inflation-protected ETF. State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced that the…
Visa Opens For Trading
Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) has just opened for trading after its record IPO for a US-listing. The buy interest has been increasing all morning. Visa shares have just opened for trading at what looked…
Thornburg Financing Conditions Hinder Shares (TMA)
Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. (NYSE:TMA) is seeing shares get hit this morning. While new financing may be a reprieve, it looks like it is coming at a high price with conditions that will be difficult…
3Com Sets Stage To Pursue Merger Break-Up Fee (COMS)
3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) intends to proceed with its currently scheduled shareholder meeting on Friday, March 21, 2008 to enable 3Com shareholders to vote on the company’s existing merger agreement with affiliates of Bain…
E*Trade, Still Growing Account Base (ETFC)
E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has noted that customer cash and depositsincreased by nearly $1 billion in February, although total retail customer assets including customer cash and securities fell 1.7% month over month to…
Visa Taking $17.9 Billion in Market Trading Capital (V)
Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) will trade this morning. The deal has priced at $44.00 per share, which is $2.00 above the range of $37.00 to $42.00 per share. That is also what we noted…
Morgan Stanley (MS) Results Poor, But Investors Relieved
Morgan Stanley (MS) followed other Wall St. firms with poor results and the company said the future was doubtul. But, the numbers were good enough to keep the horses in the barn. The company…
Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AZN, BG, CCJ, CFC, DWSN, INAP, LAMR, MNST, NCC, SGEN)
Below are the ten analyst calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on in pre-market trading this Wednesday morning: AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) raised to Overweight at HSBC Securities. Bunge (NYSE: BG) raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.…
Sony Ericsson Warning Bad For Motorola (MOT) And Nokia (NOK)
Large handset company Sony Ericsson said it would miss Q1 earnings because of lack of handset demand. The company said it will only ship 22 million handsets for the period, which would be flat…
Microsoft (MSFT) And Intel (INTC) To Reinvent The Wheel
With the performance of the PC reaching its natural limits, the companies with the most at stake, Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) are hoping to take computing in directions which users can only imagine.…
Fannie Mae (FNM) And Freddie Mac (FRE) Get New Rules
Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) are about to get less strict capital rules and that should put $200 billion into the mortgage market. According to Reuters "Under the agreed-to plan, the two…