By Ryan Barnes. Edited By Douglas A. McIntyre Alcoa Aluminum, Inc. (AA) – Price $32.15; Break-up Value $46 Alcoa is another company that has brought about some rumblings from the private equity community, both…
By Ryan Barnes. Edited By Douglas A. McIntyre Halliburton Company (HAL) – Price $29.64; Break-up Value $59 Just to acknowledge the pink elephant in the room, yes, the former CEO of the company happens…
Stocks: (BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UN)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(SAP)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(STM)(V) Markets in Europe were slightly lower at 5.55 AM New York time. The FTSE was off .1% to 6,362. Barclays was up .7% to 768. BP was down .8% to 534. BT…
The large internet companies in China are facing two problems. The first is that they are not very large. The second is that they are making less money. Sina.com (SINA), the company that owns…
Don’t start a fight you can’t finish. The music industry did not capitulate to Apple’s (AAPL) suggestion that it allow music to be downloaded without digital rights management. It countered by saying that Apple’s…
According to Reuters Imperial Tobacco (ITY) will by US tobacco company CBHC for $1.9 billion. Reuters writes that Unilever (UN) topped forecasts with an increase in profit of 27%. Reuters reports that shares of…
Asian markets were fairly flat. The Nikkei was flat at 17,292. Bridgestone was down .6% to 2430. Canon was up .8% to 6170. Fuji Film was up 3% to 5150. Hitachi was up 1.1%…
By Ryan Barnes. Edited By Douglas A. McIntyre Dow Chemical (DOW) – Price $41.84; Break-up Value $52.50 Investors know Dow to be a highly cyclical company, one that many use as a proxy for…
According to TechCruch, Yahoo! has launched a new application called Pipes. The application is, according to Yahoo! "an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator". TechCrunch also reports that Jobster has changed its business model to…
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas I came across an interesting report pertaining to ideas that MS believes will do well in 07. In the coming days I’ll post what they talk…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Small-cap Watch List member Pinnacle Airlines (PNCL) issued its January traffic data: During January, Pinnacle transported 690,559 Customers, 5.6% more than the same period in 2006.…
By Chad Brand Of The Peridot Capitalist Eastman Kodak (EK) stock has been a value trap for years as increased sales of low margin digital photo products have struggled to make up the…
From Ticker Sense On January 22nd, we highlighted that crude oil was trading at the bottom of its downtrend and pointed out it may be due for a bounce. Since then the commodity has…
From Ticker Sense So why are the comparatively cheap mega-stocks cheap? The 26 companies that make up the top 30 percent of the MSCI Europe Index include 12 financial institutions, five energy companies and…
From Ticker Sense The following charts highlight how each of the major brokerage firms rank in terms of the number of stocks their analysts rate as buys and sells (data courtesy of Bloomberg). Since…
From AAO Weblog When FIN 48 starts popping up in 2007 financials, it’s reasonable to expect that it will result in charges being taken to wring water out of existing tax assets on balance…
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology DYAX CORP +9.51% FERMAVIR PHARMACEUTL +8.57% ZIOPHARM ONCOLOGY IN +7.30% ALNYLAM PHARMACEUT +6.75% GENITOPE CORPORATION +5.85% Diagnostic Substances EPICEPT CORPORATION +11.76% GENELABS TECH INC +5.00% DIGENE CP +4.09% MONOGRAM BIOSCIENCES…
by H.S. AyoubBioHealth Investor.com Due to federal budget constraints some 3000 patients could possibly be prevented from taking part in cancer trials nationwide, according to Robert L. Comis, president of the Coalition of Cancer…
One strategy that I like to follow when looking at smaller capped stocks is to keep an eye on company insiders, especially those whose investing history is almost perfect. One such investor is Phillip…
From The StockMasters In America hotels make up a gigantic business and we know this ad better than we know the Pledge of Allegiance:"At Motel 6. We’ll leave the light on for you."The Marriot…