Q4 Funding, L.P. and Q Funding III, L.P. which own 10,021,418 units in LP Cedar Fair (NYSE FUN), which constitutes approximately 18.1% of the total number of units outstanding, attacked the public company board and accused…
Exchanges are already too powerful. Now comes word that NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) is in advanced talks with Germany’s Deutsche Boerse. Shares were halted per the NYSE request. The good news for investors is…
Using charts alone is something that may not make sense to most people. Still, thousands of investors make a living at just that. Fundamentals be damned! We do not subscribe to the notion that…
“Until we see a sustained period of stronger job creation, we cannot consider the recovery to be truly established.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, February 9, Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House…
NokiaNokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop is scheduled this Friday to announce a plan to turn the Finnish phone giant around. An internal memo from Elop has hit the street, and it offers…
Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO), a developer and manufacturer of renewable chemicals and biofuels, is coming public today. The initial public offering was for 7.15 million shares at $15.00 per share, making this one price…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), Motricity, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOTR), Photronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLAB), Take-Two Interactive Software…
Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (NYSE: INN) has priced its IPO and is set to begin trading Wednesday morning. The deal has a bit of a mixed win-loss here in the terms and pricing. This…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
Updated throughout the day. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has begun to build the next generation iPad (WSJ) Arcos Dorados, the world’s largest McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) franchisee will file for an IPO (FT) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Raised to Outperform as the Bull of the Day at…
Americans are fat and getting fatter by the year. Recent data reported in medical journal Lancet showed that BMI (Body Mass Index), a recognized measurement of obesity, is higher on average in America than…
Housing prices may not return to pre-credit crisis levels for another five years, so experts say. They may never recover to those levels at all in hard-hit areas such as Las Vegas and South…
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report in 2007 which said that “up to 40 percent of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation.” The report made…
GM (NYSE: GM) workers will probably get about $3,000 in profit-sharing for 2010. The reward would cover 53,000 union members who are also hourly workers. The program is part of a plan to get…