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No Nasty Surprises in GE’s Annual Report (GE)

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Boeing (BA) Slows Deliveries Of Dreamliner

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

SPAC IPO FILING: J.W.Childs Acquisition I

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Karmazin Optimistic On Merger Approval (SIRI, XMSR)

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

$5 Gas By Labor Day

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.…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Heritage-Crystal Clean IPO Set For Trading (HCCI)

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Medco Health Solutions Files Shelf Registration (MHS)

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,…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

TiVo Bringing YouTube to TV (TIVO, GOOG)

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Suntech Power Hikes Raised Funds in Convertible Offering (STP)

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Goldman Sachs Shovels Coal (ACI, CNX, KOL)

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Cutting Oil Prices, Open The Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

China’s Secret Secret Stealing

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…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago