General Electric (NYSE: GE) issued its annual report, which Wall Street considers as a Bible for public companies. We normally peruse 10-k filings (annual reports) for all sorts of tidbits on companies and use…
Boeing (NYSE: BA) calls it the Dreamliner but a name with "nightmare" in it would have been more appropriate. After two major delays, there are now press reports that Boeing will only deliver 45…
J.W. Childs Acquisition I Corp., yet another SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, has submitted an IPO filing. The filing shows a $200 million target for 20,000,000 units at $10 each. Each unit will…
Mel Karmazin, CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI), has commented at the Bear Stearns Media Conference that he continues to be "very optimistic" over receiving proper regulatory approval for its pending merger…
If gasoline prices move from their current average price of $3.20 to $5, the cost of fuel for a family that spends $50 a week for gas would move up over $1,000 a year.…
Heritage-Crystal Clean Inc. (NASDAQ: HCCI) has priced its initial public offering for 1.9 million shares priced at $11.50. This was in the mid-point of its IPO range that had been designated as $10.50 to…
Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MHS) has just made an SEC Filing that will allow the company to raise capital in the near future if it chooses. While this could be a large offering,…
First we saw an earnings warning out of WellPoint (NYSE: WLP) which hurt that stock and most shares in the health insurance field yesterday. WellPoint cited several factors, including medical costs, lower fully insured…
TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) has reached an agreement with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to bring videos from YouTube to the television set. It will offer access to videos stored on YouTube directly to televisions that…
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP) has priced $500 million of 3.00% Convertible Senior Notes that are due in 2013 in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers. What is interesting about the…
Now that Google (GOOG) has a green light to buy ad serving firm DoubleClick, it is making a foray into display advertising. Currently the company makes almost all of its money off text links…
Goldman Sachs is panning the coal sector again this morning. It sees downside to coal stocks after a run since the start of 2008 as coal production will come online faster than many bulls…
Below are the top calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on in pre-market trading this Wednesday: Cal Dive International (NYSE: DVR) Raised To Overweight at JP Morgan. Genomic Health (NASDAQ: GHDX) Cut To Neutral at…
OPEC President Chakib Khelil says that petroleum prices will stay at the current levels until the end of the year. Call him an optimist. For the US, that means $108 crude and gas prices…
People who believe in conspiracies are nuts in need of powerful anti-psychotic drugs. That is until their theories prove true. They then morph into prophets and sages. Agoraphobic men wearing aluminum foil hats to…