There is a report out of the Wall Street Journal that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) may be close to inking a deal that would potentially combine Internet operations…
Sotheby’s Holdings (BID) Market is turning against companies with rick customers are they become poor. Fallst to $24.37 from 52-week high of $61.40. Aventine Renewable Energy (AVR) Crop prices go up, ethanol stocks down.…
According to The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will start to test search advertising from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). The agreement could grow. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is not going to be happy. Douglas A.…
There were four separate filings today showing that co-founder and Chairman Philip Knight of Nike, Inc. (NYSE: NKE) filed to sell shares. The trade dates were listed as April 8, 2008. The four separate…
The high price of food is not an aberration. According to the World Bank crop prices are likely to stay above 2004 levels until 2015. Reuters writes the "World Bank said food prices are…
Globalstar Inc. (NASDAQ: GSAT) is apparently set to price its (up to) $135 million securities offering tonight. In a previous article, we discussed the terms of the offering, including the fact that underwriter Merrill…
Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) is set to report earnings for its Feb-2008 fiscal fourth quarter today after the close. First Call has estimates at $0.65 EPS on $1.96 Billion in revenues…
Oncothyreon Inc. (NASDAQ: ONTY), a therapeutic cancer treatment biotech firm, announced today that the SEC has made their filing for periodic offering of up to $50,000,000 in securities effective. The offering was filed March…
Behringer Harvard REIT II, Inc., a REIT, or real estate investment trust, submitted a filing to allow for a share offering today. The offering shows a $10 price per share for 200 million shares…
Wall St. is beginning to think Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) will give up the ghost soon. And, no wonder. The company has not made a product anyone wants in years. According to Barron’s an analyst…
Apollo Global Management, LLC, appears to be planning to become fully public as it submitted an S-1 filing with the SEC. The company is currently semi-public on the Goldman Sachs GSTruE over-the-counter private market…
Nothing ever goes wrong at Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS). Their uncanny ability to do well irratates thei competitors to the point of distraction. Due to the company’s performance its shares have done better so…
Many people think of Jim Cramer as being MAD MONEY on CNBC now, but his full-time gig is still at TheStreet.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSCM). The company gave an SEC filing this morning that shows…
Goldman Sachs has made some changes in coverage to its consumer products universe. The bulge bracket brokerage firm favors Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) and Colgate-Polmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) and gave both companies some…
Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE: CC) announced something this morning that many thought could not be done. The company is posting a profit. It posted a profit of $4.85 million shares, or $0.03 EPS,…
As expected by many and hoped for by few, Boeing (NYSE: BA) delay, once again, the launch date of its 787 Dreamliner. It may want to drop the "Dreamliner" part of the name. Boeing…
Antigenics Inc. (NASDAQ: AGEN) has announced this morning that it has entered into definitive agreements to sell 7 million shares of its common stock at a price of $3.00 per share in a private…
Below are the top analyst calls we are focusing on this Wednesday morning in pre-market trading: AthenaHealth (NASDAQ: ATHN) started as Outperform at JMP Securities. Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY) cut to Sell…
Citigroup (NYSE: C) seems to have come up with a deal to sell over $12 billion in problem corporate debt, some of it likely from LBO transactions. The buyers are the astute private equity…
Oasis Airlines in Hong Kong is shutting down. According to MarketWatch "Oasis Chief Executive Stephen Miller told a news conference all flights were being canceled immediately." Oasis gets to join a growing list of…