Stock Tickers: AMTD, ETFC, SCHW, IBKR S.A.C. and JANA have issued a response to TD AMERITRADE’s (AMTD-NASDAQ) noting that this was not necessarily the best time to pursue a combination. Of course they are…
McDonald’s (MCD) credited much of its same store improvement to it co-promotion with animated hit movie "Shrek III". The fast food chain said global sales at stores open over a year were up 8.7%.…
This morning shares of Genentech (DNA-NYSE) are trading up 1.3% at just under $76.00 after a Deutsche Bank upgrade on the stock. Shares closed at $74.90 yesterday and even traded as low as $74.32…
Limelight Networks (LLNW-NASDAQ) did price its widely anticipated IPO. It sold 16 million shares at $15.00, but this is a higher share count than the 14.4 million expected and the pricing itself was well…
(ACOR) Acordia Therapeutics priced 3.75 million shares in a secondary at $18.50 per share.(BAGL) Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc. sold 5 million shares at$18.00 per share; this was NWRG-PinkSheets as New World Restaurant Group.(BRCM)…
last night, Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc. today announced the pricing of a public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at $18.00 per share. This is the old New World Restaurant Group…
ASTI started as Buy at Merriman Curhan Ford.BRCM raised to Outperform at JMP Securities.CBB raised to Neutral at B of A.CBG started as Outperform at Wachovia.END cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.HF started as market…
Shares in Sun Microsystems (SUNW) have not traded below $5 since October 2006. The company keeps introducing new blade servers and in late May, Matrix Research joined the list of research firms that have…
European markets were faliing at 6.40 AM New York time. The FTSE was off .8% to 6,453. Barclays (BCS) was down 1.5% to 714.5. Rio Tinto (RTP) was down 1.8% to 3478. The DAXX…
Sprint (S) has been gambling that the next generation of cell service in the US can be driven by WiMax technology. With help from tech heavyweights including Motorola (MOT) and Intel (INTC), Sprint is…
Qualcomm (QCOM) is one of the few large US companies that has been in a running dispute with its largest customer. The cell phone chip-set company has been feuding with Nokia (NOK) over licensing…
Boone Picken’s vision of the future is coming to pass. Oil stands at $66 a barrel. A hurricane, trouble in the Middle East, worsening unrest in Nigeria could all take it up. OPEC says…
Reuters reports that PC companies including Sony (SNE) and Lenovo are building smaller and smaller laptops in the hope of tapping a new market. Reuters writes that Qualcomm (QCOM) lost a ruling with the…
Most markets in Asia fell sharply, but Shanghai was up .6% to 3,913. The Nikkei fell 1.5% to 17,779. Daiwa Securities fell 2.6% to 1347. Honda (HMC) fell 2.8% to 4160. NTT (NTT) fell…
Tonight was Cramer’s big weekly SELL BLOCK feature. He briefly mnoted some stocks but said those don’t really matter in the big picture. He said he missed the really big call for the stock…
Cramer has said he’s been a big backer of NYSE Euronext (NYX-NYSE) and was up on it early, but it has been a disaster since he named it his #1 Growth stock of the…
Jim Cramer on tonight’s MAD MONEY has an oil stock pick since the energy companies are not reinvesting in exploration and wildcatting. One oil company that exploits higher oil prices is XTO Energy (XTO-NYSE). …
Qualcomm (QCOM) played with fire one too many times. Whether it was disputes over IP with its largest customer Nokia (NOK) or fights with rival Texas Instruments (TXN). Today, its ongoing battle with Broadcom…
A rate call, not just actual rates, is what nailed the markets today. You can thank PIMCO’s Bill Gross for much of the sell-off today in equities and in longer-term bonds. If this continues,…
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer didn’t spend too much time talking about the big drops we have seen in the markets in the last 3 days. He does have picks:…