Northern Trust Corp. (NASDAQ: NTRS) has announced that its Global Investments asset management arm of Northern Trust, has launched the first U.S. listed ETF tracking the ISEQ 20(TM) Index. This is the leading investment…
Citigroup (C) came clean about what everyone with any sense already expected. Write-offs at the money center bank are not over. According to The Wall Street Journal, the "bank will see a fresh round…
Over at "VOLUME SPIKE" (vsinvestor.com) we were running some screens today and found two unusual option and stock movers worth noting today. These two moves come from companies as different from each other as…
Nielsen Online has a report out for MAY 2008 data on the top U.S. SEARCH PROVIDERS. As a reminder, this is "US SEARCH" rather than global search. But it shows that Google Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Pier 1 Imports Inc. (NYSE: PIR) is seeing its stock butchered by more than 16% in the first 30 minutes of trading this morning and it has already surpassed its average daily trading volume. …
Wall St. is tearing into Motorola (MOT) today. The shares are down 5% to a new 52-week low at $8.14. Part of the trouble is that Sprint (S) is launching a new smartphone from…
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is far from having its woes behind it. Shares have slid from over $7.80 just two days ago down to $7.25 shortly after the open today. There is…
Goldman Sachs has been negative on Sirius Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) and on XM Satellite Radio Holdings inc. (NASDAQ: XMSR) on a basis that is with or without the companies merging together. …
Galiot Capital Corporation has filed with the SEC for its 16,666,666 shares of common stock in an IPO at $15.00 per share. The company will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the…
We already noted how Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) has raised its average oil prices for the years ahead, but the firm has also raised its OIL SERVICES Sector ratings this morning to "Attractive"…
Circuit City Stores Inc. (NYSE: CC) has reported earnings this morning but the company is also giving some language as though it might not be all that gung-ho on proceeding with the merger intentions. …
Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) has a proposed $400 million offering of senior notes broken up int two groups of $200 million each this morning. Both tranches are unregistered as 144A placements. One…
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) has raised its Brent Crude average oil prices for the years ahead. The firm has increased its price forecasts to reflect a continued tightening of global crude oil supply…
These are ten of the analyst calls we are seeing early this Thursday morning in early bird pre-market trading hours: American International Group (NYSE: AIG) raised to Buy at Citigroup. Bare Escentuals (NASDAQ: BARE)…
Shell has shut some of its oil production in Nigeria. According to CNN Money "it shut down production from an offshore oil field that produces about 200,000 barrels per day after the most powerful…
Thornburg Mortgage (TMA) may not make it. The mortgage lender once has a market cap of well over $5 billion. Its shares are down to $.65 and its market value is only about $100…
Verizon (VZ) is going to make its FiOS fiber-to-the-home product deliver even faster broadband speeds. It is hard to imagine that their customers will even know. The new product will run at 50 Mbps.…
The private equity dance always looks the same now. In 2006 or early 2007, when credit was plentiful and the stock market was up 100% a year, funds would offer buy-outs of public companies…
Elvis has left the building but that does not seem to matter to GM. The company is cutting back on new designs for future SUVs, the same SUVs that no one will buy. The…
The cries of desperation can still be heard from the Sprint (S) headquarters. The company continues to lose money and subscribers. It is now a distant third in the cellular market behind Verzion Wireless…