American Campus Communities (NYSE: ACC) priced its public offering of 8 million shares of common stock at $28.75 per share. The underwriters, Merrill Lynch, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Deutsche Bank Securities, and JP Morgan, are…
Epocrates Inc. submitted an SEC filing to come public via an IPO Thursday night. The filing shows a proposed maximum aggregate offering price of $75 million, although this number is for filing purposes only.…
BGC Partners (NASDAQ: BGCP), formerly eSpeed, has made a shelf filing with the SEC. It intends to offer up to $460 million additional Class A Common Stock. Interestingly enough, the he global inter-dealer broker…
VeriFone Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PAY) made an SEC filing showing that its wholly owned subsidiary, VeriFone, Inc., has scheduled a meeting with the lenders party to its Credit Agreement that was dated as of…
On Monday, Don Turkleson, SVP & CFO of Cheniere Energy inc. (AMEX: LNG) owned 573,163 shares of common stock in the company. As of now, he owns 147,063. He sold 426,100 shares for what…
An SEC Filing this morning shows activists are going to go after Wendy’s International Inc. (NYSE: WEN) with a little more publicity than mere private letters. Trian Fund Management, L.P., Triarc Companies, Inc. (NYSE:…
These are not all of the analyst calls affecting shares, but these are the initial calls we are focusing on early this Friday morning: Alliance Data Systems (NYSE: ADS) Raised to Buy From Neutral…
Of all the financial firms which are to report earnings this season, Citigroup (NYSE: C) may have been the most important. The rumors about the bank have been crazy. Projections about losses have been…
Markets in Europe were up modestly at 6.25 AM New York time. The FTSE rose .6% to 6,013. Barclays (BCS) fell 1.1% to 473.5. Lloyds fell 2.6% to 431.25. The DAXX was up .8%…
The Wall Street Journal was good enough to point out that the price of natural gas in the US is up 93% since last August. Part of the reason is international demand. The paper…
The good news about AMD’s (AMD) first quarter news was that the bad news was not worse. The Intel-Jr. of the chip world reported Q1 2008 revenue of $1.505 billion and a net loss…
The FBI is looking into why the subprime market fell apart. As a matter of fact, it wants those who are guilty to turn themselves in so they do not have to be pursued…
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants the job his father used to have. He wants to be governor of the Empire State. He wants to fight evil. He want to bring the…
According to Reuters, RBS (RBS) plans a rights offering next week to raise capital. Reuters reports that Google (GOOG) beat Wall St. expectation. Reuters reports that NY State will investigation the auction-rate securities debacle.…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .6% to 13,476. Casio rose 4.9% to 1423. Hitachi rose 2.3% to 667. The Hang Seng fell .4% to 24,168. China Mobile (CHL) rose 2.5% to…
Intrepid Potash Inc. is soon to be pricing an IPO, and the "hot status" was just confirmed. With all the hype and pricing power of anything tied to potash, nitrates, fertilizer, and anything tied…
Almost no one knows what an algorithm is. The management at Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) doesn’t care. The company’s shares are up almost 20% after hours. Those who doubted the firm’s ability to improve its business…
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is somehow managing to hang in there, despite waves of bad internal news. The number two processor company said its first quarter losses narrowed to $358 million, but its…
E*TRADE (NASDAQ: ETFC) has posted earnings of -$0.20 EPS on a net loss of $91.2 million, and its net revenues were nearly $316 million and estimates from First Call were -$0.10 EPS on $363.94…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) sold off slightly, just over 1%, into the close. Then, all hell broke out. Shares moved up 17% immediately after earnings hit. Google reported revenues of $5.19 billion for the quarter…