(ADM) ADM is entering the sugarcane ethanol business in Brazil.(ALXN) Alexion Pharmaceuticals was granted marketing approval in Europe for its PNH treatment.(AMN) Ameron announced dividend boost from $0.20 to $0.25e.(BSC) Bear Stearns is planning…
Apple (AAPL) has no doubt been a boon for Apple shareholders. All you have to do is go back to the start of the year when this was just a rumor and look at…
ZAP (ZAAP-NASDAQ/OTC), the electric car maker, is launching a new development program with a completed design for a high-performance electric vehicle that is affordable for consumers. The target price is $30,000.00 and the target…
AAP started as Outperform at Wachovia.ADI cut to Underperform at Piper Jaffray.ALB raised to Buy at B of A.AZO started as Outperform at Wachovia.BGFV cut to Neutral at UBS.BWP started as Outperform at Morgan…
AMD (AMD) was up about 6% yesterday on an analyst upgrade from Stifel Nicolaus. The major reason for the upgrade was that "the worst was behind the company." Maybe not. Later in the day…
According to Reuters, the IPO for Blackstone priced at the high end of its range, raising $4.13 billion. Reuters writes that GE (GE) and Pearson (PSO) have dropped their potential bid for Dow Jones…
Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was off .3% to 18,189. Hitachi (HIT) was down 1.6% to 900. NTT (NTT) was down 1.8% to 554000. The Hang Seng fell .1% to 21,939. China Mobile…
Today was a bit of an oddball day in true media. It was all over the media after the New York Post, a News Corp. (NWS-NYSE) company, reported that General Electric (GE-NYSE) was going…
The NYSE released short interest in stocks traded on the exchange. The figures are as of June 15 and are compared to the comparable numbers at of May 15. Largest Shares Short By Company…
Stock Tickers: BRK/A, UNP, USB, MTB, ASD, NSC, WLP, UNH, IR, HRB On CNBC’s Mad Money tonight, Jim Cramer reviewed stock picks from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A) to what is good in there…
Stock Tickers: BRK/A, BNI, KO, PG, WMT, USG, AXP, WFC, MCO, JNJ, COP On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer reviewed another Warren Buffett strategy by reviewing holdings to see if they are…
After all the hemming and hawing, and all the publicity and tabloid-esque coverage of the deal…..It’s finally happened. The Blackstone Group, L.P. sent out a news bulletin after today’s close with the details of…
Starbucks (SBUX) Management says reaching higher expectations for quarter looks bad. Drops to $26.10 from $40.01. Would you like a latte with your stock certificate? Esco Technologies (ESE) Big client Pacific Gas & Electric…
"Never give a sucker an even break and never wise up a chump" — P.T. Barnum Krafts’s (KFT) shares are up 7% on a rumor that Nelso Peltz has bought 3% of the company…
Stock Tickers: LVLT, CIEN, INTC, NVDA, SNDK, EMC Jim Cramer came out on STOP TRADING on CNBC and noted the "Tech is roaring" trend. He said this is where the money is going today,…
As we have noted several times, SIRIUS Satellite Radio (SIRI-NASDAQ) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR-NASDAQ) are trying to crank up their voice of support at the same time that that National Association of Broadcasters…
Stock Tickers: SMH, INTC, AMD, TXN, AMAT Investors are probably thinking about the old "Sell in May and Go Away" mantra, particularly in tech stocks, with a different mindset than in other years. Amazingly…
GM (GM) management said that industry-wide US sales of cars and light trucks would be about 16.7 million units, down from forecasts of 17 million. But, GM added, almost as an afterthought, that it…
Stock Tickers: PEF, PJO, PAF, PXF INVESCO’s PowerShares are launching four new ETF’s on June 25, 2007. These are geared toward US investors to increase more easily targeted investing in overseas markets without having…
Cheesecake Factory (CAKE-NASDAQ) is trading down more than 7% to $24.80 on almost triple its normal volume after multiple analyst downgrades based upon comments from a growth conference. Yesterday, at a William Blair Growth…