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…
The venture backers and the officers and insiders Genoptix (NASDAQ: GXDX) have filed to sell 4.2 million shares of common stock in a secondary offering, which could be up to 4.83 million shares of…
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…
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…
Below are the top 10 pre-market analyst we are looking at this Thursday morning: American Tower (NYSE: AMT), Crown Castle (NYSE: CCI), and SBA Communications (NASDAQ: SBAC) all initiated as BUY at Jefferies. Baidu.com…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is in talks with News Corp (NWS) about an M&A deal but analysts say it is unlikely to work. Reuters writes that Paulson thinks the US economy will not…
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.…
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. …
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…