The Macro Lunch: Lower Oil Prices Shrinks Trade Deficit
The US trade deficit stood at $40.6 billion in December, up about 6% from $38.3 billion. Comparing the trade deficit data with Oil prices, we can see they moved in lockstep since Oil started…
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Newest first · Page 16Freescale Files IPO Paperwork
Freescale Semiconductor Holdings I, Ltd. has just filed to come public in yet another large private equity re-IPO. The company filing is for up to $1.15 billion in common shares to be sold. While…
IPO Filing: NGL Energy Partners LP
NGL Energy Partners LP has just filed to come public via an initial public offering. Terms have not been disclosed at all for a share count or for a price target range other than…
Apple Working on Cheaper iPhone (AAPL, NOK, MSFT, GOOG)
Leave it to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to grab a headline on the same day that Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) reveals a tie-up with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). Bloomberg cites “people who have been…
Biodiesel Industry Looking Forward to 2011 (GEVO, AMRS, DD, CVX, BP, RDS-A, ADM)
Only a few years ago most of us associated biodiesel with recycling of used cooking oil to produce a transportation fuel that Willie Nelson used on his tour bus. The exhaust smelled an awful…
Food For Thought: Netflix or Amazon Should Buy Blockbuster (BLOAQ, NFLX, AMZN, CSTR)
Reports have been circulating since late yesterday that Blockbuster Inc. (Pink Sheets: BLOAQ) has put itself up for sale rather than trying to emerge as a new operating company that can healthily exit bankruptcy. …
Ackman Pretends To Knuckle Under For JC Penney Board
William A. Ackman, the head of Pershing Capital, has finally joined the JC Penney (NYSE: JCP) board. He has been a buyer of the stock and has agitated for change to improve the retailer’s…
Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (EXPE, MNKD, PNRA)
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE), MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ: MNKD), and Panera Bread Company (NASDAQ: PNRA).…
Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/11/2011) Smaller iPhone, Facebook Private Sale
Updated throughout the day. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is at work on a smaller version of the iPhone (WSJ) Facebook is considering a $1 billion sale of shares by employees (WSJ) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) may…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALU, ALXN, AWK, NILE, CELL, CMG, CSCO, EPOC, EXPE, GDOT, IFF, ONXX, SPR, S, TUP)
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Neutral at Nomura. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALXN) Cut…
Body Central Secondary, Discount Outweighs Dilution (BODY)
Body Central Corp. (NASDAQ: BODY) has a secondary offering which priced at a healthy discount for those who are getting shares. It should have come at a discount since almost the entire sale is…
Molycorp’s Painful Dilution (MCP, REMX, REE, AVL)
Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is finally bringing this secondary offering of common stock for holders and is selling some mandatory convertible preferred shares. The terms of the deal may be surprising to some, and…
Kinder Morgan IPO Premium Price, Still Leaving Some on the Table (KMI, GS, KMR, KMP, AMJ, FMO, KYN, AMLP)
We have been calling for a premium IPO and a higher share count deal for Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) and its highly anticipated IPO. Technically this is a re-IPO and is the largest…
24/7 Wall St./Harris Poll On Tax Cuts & Consumer Spending
Nearly every adult American with a job knows that the “Bush” tax cuts were extended into 2012. The general understanding of most people who have deductions taken out of their pay is that they will take…
Lessons of the Greatest Bull Markets, 1900 to Today
We are in the midst of one of the greatest bull markets ever seen in modern times. Stocks are rising more often than they fall and we have just seen a rally of eight…