Thornburg Mortgage Inc. (NYSE: TMA) has filed an open shelf registration with the SEC to sell securities from time to time in the form of debt securities, common stock, preferred stock, warrants and shareholder…
A newly created firm called American Capital Agency Corp. has filed to come public. This is a newly-organized Delaware corporation that was formed to invest exclusively in single-family residential mortgage pass-through securities and collateralized…
Tuesday morning we’ll get to see earnings out of GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME). The estimates for the largest pure-play video game retailer from First Call are $1.12 EPS on $2.89 billion in revenues. Next…
The NYSE today launched the first two Morgan Stanley Exchange-Traded Notes (ETNs) with Van Eck Securities Corporation as the exclusive marketer. These ETN launches are under the market Vectors, which are based on local…
Bear Stearns (BSC) For those not on the planet today, firm was bought out by JP Morgan (JPM). Shares fall to $2.84 from 52-week high of $159.36. Lehman Brothers (LEH) Fall out from banking…
Renewable Energy Group has withdrawn its application to come public via an IPO. You can probably guess the culprit: "….current market conditions do not support a public offering of the Registrant’s Common Stock at…
Wall St. has gone from hating financial firms with bad balance sheets to hating all companies with big pools of debt. With the crisis which has evolved over the last few day, debtophobia has…
Biotech’s are sliding along with all the others today. A look at the highlights and outliers: Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) and Wyeth (NYSE: WYE) announced that arthritis and psoriasis drug Enbrel will now have a…
Billionaire Joe Lewis invested in Bear Stearns (NYSE BSC), buying as much as 10% of the brokerage firm. Now, he may be out over $1 billion. On Sunday, the Times wrote that Lewis has…
Cardiome Pharma (NASDAQ: CRME) picked a bad day for good news. According to the AP the company announced "interim midstage data showed its experimental drug vernakalant was safe and effective in treating abnormal heart…
Another blank check company has joined the list of pending IPO’s. National Security Solutions Inc. is the next SPAC or special purpose acquisition company to submit an IPO filing. The offering is targeting $200…
Shares of Ascent Solar Technologies (NASDAQ: ASTI) are down over 13% this morning after the company filed with the SEC Friday to sell common stock worth $80 million. $80 million doesn’t sound like much…
Investors usually try to find stocks where they run for cover when the stock market is in turmoil. This Monday is no exception after seeing the Bear Stearns implosion "takeunder" and the related fall…
For those intrepid enough to go into the market today, there are some stocks that are down under 1%. Some are even up slightly. A shopping list for the insane: Micrsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), GE (NYSE:GE),…
Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM) has announced that it has received a revised unsolicited non-binding indication of interest from EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC – News) over its prior unsolicited buyout offer. EMC has indicated that…
Just a few months ago, sovereign funds could not get enough stock and debt in financial firms like Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER). When the time came to bail-out Bear Stearns…
CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) has made several announcements this morning for shareholder initiatives. The railroad giant sees first quarter 2008 EPS at $0.74 to $0.77 EPS and put full-year EPS at $3.40 to $3.60…
BMC Software (NYSE:BMC) has announced that it will acquire BladeLogic (NASDAQ:BLOG) for $28.00 per share of BladeLogic common stock. The data center automation company acquisition is valued at $800 million, net of cash acquired. …
It’s official. The CME Group Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: CME) is acquiring NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX). The commodities and futures exchanges announced a definitive agreement where CME will acquire NYMEX on the terms previously…
These are not the only research calls this morning affecting stock, particularly as the world is focused on the fleecing that has occurred at Bear Stearns this morning. But these are other brokerage firm…