CardioNet Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAT) priced its 4.5 million share IPO at a price of $18.00 per share. The San Diego, California-based provider of real-time patient heart monitoring systems had originally set the range at…
There is a new ETF launching today, and this one is a foreign government bond inflation-protected ETF. State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced that the…
Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) has just opened for trading after its record IPO for a US-listing. The buy interest has been increasing all morning. Visa shares have just opened for trading at what looked…
Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. (NYSE:TMA) is seeing shares get hit this morning. While new financing may be a reprieve, it looks like it is coming at a high price with conditions that will be difficult…
3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) intends to proceed with its currently scheduled shareholder meeting on Friday, March 21, 2008 to enable 3Com shareholders to vote on the company’s existing merger agreement with affiliates of Bain…
E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has noted that customer cash and depositsincreased by nearly $1 billion in February, although total retail customer assets including customer cash and securities fell 1.7% month over month to…
Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) will trade this morning. The deal has priced at $44.00 per share, which is $2.00 above the range of $37.00 to $42.00 per share. That is also what we noted…
Morgan Stanley (MS) followed other Wall St. firms with poor results and the company said the future was doubtul. But, the numbers were good enough to keep the horses in the barn. The company…
Below are the ten analyst calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on in pre-market trading this Wednesday morning: AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) raised to Overweight at HSBC Securities. Bunge (NYSE: BG) raised to Overweight at JPMorgan.…
Large handset company Sony Ericsson said it would miss Q1 earnings because of lack of handset demand. The company said it will only ship 22 million handsets for the period, which would be flat…
With the performance of the PC reaching its natural limits, the companies with the most at stake, Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) are hoping to take computing in directions which users can only imagine.…
Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) are about to get less strict capital rules and that should put $200 billion into the mortgage market. According to Reuters "Under the agreed-to plan, the two…
Boeing (NYSE:BA) talks as if it can reverse the Air Force decision to give a $35 billion tanker contract to Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) and EADS, parent of Airbus. According to Reuters Mark McGraw, a…
It was the cleanest theft since the Great Brink’s Robbery in 1950. The Fed and JP Morgan (JPM) got the Bear Stearns (BSC) management is a room over the weekend and beat the ownership…
According to Reuters, the Fed cut rates .75%. Reuters writes that Visa raised $17.9 billion in its IPO. Reuters writes that New York City will probe whether Bear Streans (BSC) misled investors. Reuters writes…
Markets in Asia rose. The Nikkei was up 2.5% t 12,260. Honda (HMC) was up 5.3% to 2770. Sony (SNE) was up 6,8% to 4240. The Hang Seng rose 3% to 22,028. China Life…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is in conversations with the music industry about offering its entire iTunes library free. It would recoup the loss of revenue by changing more for its iPod hardware. According to the…
New data from ChangeWave Research point to a huge drop in spending on consumer electronics. The most recent data was taken from a survey of 4,427 consumers between February 19th and 25th. Only 19%…
Uranerz Energy Corporation (AMEX: URZ)announced that it will raise approximately $23.676 million (US Dollars) in funds via a brokered private placement of 4 million units and via a non-brokered private placement of 5.865 million…
Xerium Technologies (XRM) delays 10-K and risk of default. Falls to $1.16 from 52-week high of $9.20. Moneygram (MGI) is taken out of one of the S&P indexes. Down to $1.62 from 52-week high…