BMTI started as Outperform at Wachovia.BSC downgraded to Neutral at Merrill Lynch.C downgraded to Neutral at Merrill Lynch.DISCA started as Neutral at JPMorgan.DTE downgraded to Hold at KeyBanc/McDonald.GPS raised to Positive at Susquehanna.LEH downgraded…
Hewlett=Packard (HPQ) has set out on a big campaign to get Web 2.0 users to make greater use of its printers. HP’s printer business is not only large, it’s profitable. In the last quarter,…
Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADLS) has announced that the FDA has granted an ‘Orphan Drug Designation’ to its oncology product, ALS-357, for the topical treatment of metastatic melanoma. ALS-357 is entering phase I/II…
Shares of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. (NYSE:BNI) are indicated higher Tuesday after Warrner Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A) upped its stake in the railroad company. In a filing from Monday evening, it was seen…
Maybe the hedge fund business is not so bad off after all. Or perhaps the management of some of the larger funds see the current turmoil in the markets as a way to pick…
Markets in Europe are lower at 6 AM New York time. The FTSE is off .5% to 6,187. Barclays (BCS) is down 2.4% to 596.5. Pearson (PSO) is down 1.5% to 737.5. The DAXX…
If Wall St. keeps downgrading AMD (AMD), there will be nothing but "sells" on the stock and analysts will have no place to go if things at the chip company get worse. Barron’s writes…
Barron’s has floated the idea that Qualcomm (QCOM) may want to break itself into two pieces. Almost all of its rivals and its largest customer, Nokia (NOK), are in legal battles with the chip…
Reuters reports that NYSE Euronext (NYX) might want to buy the Nasdaq (NDAQ) 31% ownership in The London Stock Exchange. It would be a humiliation for Nasdaq since its rival was able to land…
Dell (DELL) gave the market some bad news this week. A number of its new PCs are shipping late during the critical "back to school" period because of problems with paint and late components.…
YouTube has come out with its own system to put video advertising onto its site. And, Google (GOOG) is hoping its works. After paying $1.6 billion plus for the world’s largest video sharing site,…
It looks like the Linux open-source guys have lost another round to Microsoft (MSFT). According to TheStreet.com "Microsoft picked up 2 percentage points, bringing its market share to 67.1% of servers shipped during the…
The FT believes that search engines and web portals will be hurt by the fall-out from the mortgage and credit card industries. Companies like Countrywide (CFC) and Bank One are big advertisers on Google…
According to Reuters, State Street (STT) faces $22 billion exposure to asset-backed commercial paper conduits, the off-balance sheet vehicles that have caused problems for rivals in recent weeks. Reuters writes that social networks are…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .1% to 16,287. NTT (NTT) rose 1.2% to 526000. Toyota (TM) fell .7% to 6660. The Hang Seng fell .2% to 23,541. China Mobile (CHL) rose…
AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC. has filed to come back as a listed company in the US, and for filing purposes the water giant has indicated a sale of up to $1.5 Billion in…
Not all of these are low closes but these hit new 52-week lows if not…… Candela (CLZR) keeps hitting the list…. Carmike Cinema’s (CKEC)…if movies hit $4 Billion and they can’t make money then…
Sun Microsystems (JAVA) picked up its new JAVA ticker symbol today, and it has been able to do what the company’s performance and share buy-back haven’t. Get the price up. JAVA is up today…
Sprint (S) has contracted with Samsung to build out its WiMax network in New York. It is part of the $5 billion investment that the cellular carrier plans to make in the tech between…
After running a screen of new highs and lows this morning, a surprise came up on the list: Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) was on today’s list of 52-week highs. This was a head scratcher when you…