Sun Microsystems (JAVA) Wall St. expects bad earnings and is trading the stock that way. Drops to $10.33 from 52-week high of $25.04. VMWare (VMW) Lowers guidance and lets CEO go. Falls to $36.41…
The fight between Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. (NYSE: BUD) and InBev over the proposed $65.00 merger is one that is about to get more heated rather than one that looks more amicable. Anheuser-Busch doesn’t want…
We have run a full feature story over at BioHealthInvestor.com after reading a study that came off the Mayo Clinic site. The study showed that a combination of fish oil and red rice yeast…
Siemens (SI) today said it will cut nearly 17,000 jobs. It gave the economic downturn as the major reason for the move. Since Siemens and GE (GE) are in a number of related businesses…
Many observers who look at Microsoft’s (MSFT) move into server-based software think that the company will fall. Google (GOOG) already markets Google Apps which offers word processing, spreadsheet, e-mail, and presentation products. This software…
VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) has made an announcement of a significant management change this morning. Diane Greene is departing as the company’s President and CEO. VMware’s Board of Directors has appointed Paul Maritz as…
Premier Exhibitions, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRXI) has announced this morning that its RMS Titanic, Inc. subsidiary has entered into an agreement to present a new Titanic exhibition and tour sponsored by a major financial services…
Most Wall St. observers now think that the merger between Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) will go through. The FCC, pushed by some members of Congress and the radio industry,…
Oil Baron T. Boone Pickens has been on CNBC this morning touting his new energy plan. While his plan does call on several domestic solutions to lower our $700 Billion deficit we are sending…
These aren’t all of the analyst calls out there today, but these are ten of the calls impacting shares early this Tuesday morning: ACADIA Pharmaceuticals (ACAD) Raised to Neutral at Banc of America. ACE…
Sprint (S) has taken to the airwaves to try to keep customers and get old customers back. The marketing effort ignores that fact that Sprint has, by some measurements, the worst customer service of…
AMD (AMD) should sign up to be in the World Wrestling Federation.At least when an opponent hits it with a chair, it can get paid. Dreamworks, an account of modest size but huge PR…
Sales of vehicles sold in China by Ford (F) and its partners rose 21% in the first half to 172,411, according to Reuters. That sounds good, and, to some extent, it is. Ford sold…
Rules are made to be broken, or, at least altered when necessary. Shares in Freddie Mac (FRE) and Fannie Mae (FNM) hit multi-year lows yesterday, falling, at one point, almost 20%. The drop was…
Inflation in China during the month of June was "only" 7.1%. That was slightly better than the two months before, but, according to Reuters, "consumer prices were 7.9 percent higher than a year earlier…
According to Reuters, Microsoft (MSFT) is willing to start buy-out talks with Yahoo! (YHOO) if the portal company will replace its board. Reuters writes that the CEO of JP Morgan (JPM) said the SEC…
Most markets in Asia fell sharply. The Nikkei was off 2.5% to 13,033. Sharp was down 4.4% to 1,683. Sony (SNE) was down 4.1% to 4420. The Hang Seng was down 3% to 21,255.…
Goodrich Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: GDP) has announced that it has commenced an underwritten public secondary offering of 3 million shares of its common stock. J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. is acting as sole book-running…
Fannie Mae (FNM) hit by rumors that it and Freddie Mac may have to raise $75 billion. Drops to $14.65 from 52-week high of $70.57. Freddie Mac (FRE) sells down to $10.28 from 52-week…
Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) is set to lead off Q2-2008 earnings season. After looking around at many last minute sources, we’d caution against you falling for tying the overall bias of earnings season to…