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Year: 2008

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TorreyPines Therapeutics: Forget Morale, The Beatings Continue (TPTX)

TorreyPines Therapeutics (NASDAQ: TPTX) has announced its strategic plan for 2008.  Unfortunately it doesn’t look or sound very promising. The company will focus on clinical development activities to maximize the value of the company’s…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Venoco Filed For Spin-Off (VQ, VAC)

Venoco, Inc. (NYSE: VQ) has filed for a spin-off of a unit called VENOCO ACQUISITION Co. via an initial public offering that it has applied to take ticker "VAC" on the NYSE. Venoco Acquisition…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

MAKO Surgical Slashes IPO Terms (MAKO)

MAKO Surgical originally filed to come public back in September 2007.  It filed to sell up to $86.25 million in securities.  Recently it had indicated a price range of $14 to $16 per share…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Comcast (CMCSA) Turns On The After-Burners

Revenue at Comcast (CMCSA) grew 14% in the fourth quarter to over $8 billion and operating income was up 20% to almost $1.5 billion. EPS came in a $.20, up 54%. Analysts had been…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

An FHA Bail-Out Of Bank Mortgage Loans?

It is a time-honored tradition. When big US companies get in trouble, they turn to the US government for financial help. Even Chrysler got big loans from Uncle Sam three decades ago. Cerberus is…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

UBS (UBS): A Canary For US Banks

UBS (UBS) had an awful quarter. The Swiss financial firm reported a fourth-quarter loss of 12.45 billion Swiss francs ($11.3 billion), compared with profit of 3.41 billion francs in the year-earlier period. Worse, according…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Baidu (BIDU) And The Death Of China Internet Growth

By any measure, Baidu (BIDU), the Chinese search engine company had a spectacular quarter. For the three months that ended December 31,the firm earned 219.8 million yuan ($30.1 million), or 6.32 yuan (87 cents)…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Eliot Spitzer And The “Financial Tsunami”. (ABK)(MBI)

Eliot Spitzer, former prosecutor and now governor of New York State, will ape comments made by Deutsche Bank (DB) Chief Executive Josef Ackermann. If bond insurers fail its will create a "financial tsunami". Spitzer…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Baxter (BAX) Takes On Mattel’s (MAT) Mantle

Mattel (NYSE: MAT) may have feared it would wear the China "kick me" sign forever. Until Baxter (NYSE: BAX) came along. The new poster boy for not keeping an eye on China suppliers has…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Asia Markets 2/14/2008 Big Rally (SNE)(SNP)

Markets In Asia were up sharply with the Nikkei making is largest move in five years. The Nikkei rose 4.3% to 13,626. Sony (SNE) rose 4% to 4820. Toppan Printing rose 10.1% to 1111.…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

FMC Corp.: Jim Cramer’s Hidden Agriculture Trade (FMC)

On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer wanted to review a hidden undervalued stock in  the market.  Tonight he noted FMC Corp (NYSE: FMC) as a key undervalued stock in chemicals and agriculture. …

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago

Baxter (BAX) Bleeds Patients Further

Heparin, made Baxter International (NYSE: BAX) is one of the most widely used blood thinners in the world. Today’s disclosure that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it never inspected a Chinese facility…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 19 years ago