According to Reuters, AT&T has made a number of concessions to get the FCC to approve its merger with BellSouth. They would include offering low priced DSL service. The Wall Street Journal writes that…
Asian markets were mixed with the Shanghai Composite up sharply. The Nikkei rose a fraction to 17,226. Hitachi rose 1.8% to 742. NTT rose 2.8% to 586000. Softbank fell 1.7% to 2315. Sony rose…
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas ON tuesday the majority of Euronext shareholders voted to approve the Euronext’s merger with the NYSE Group. Each Euronext share will be exchanged for 0.980 shares…
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Several times we have commented on the transportation names, both for their own investment merits and as an indicator of overall economic activity. Since anything sold…
DJIA 12,501.52; Down 9.05 (0.07%)NASD 2,425.57; Down 5.65 (0.23%)S&P500 1,424.73; Down 2.11 (0.15%)10YR-Bond 4.69%; Up 0.036NYSE Volume 1,469,536,000NASD Volume 1,237,134,000 Consumer confidence unexpectedly showed a higher reading of…
In the PART 3 of Cramer’s "EVEN MORE BULLISH ON THE DOW" Cramer noted several more companies in the DJIA 30. He did discuss Home Depot (HD-NYSE) and while he noted almost every dislike…
Goldman Sachs (GS-NYSE) has raised its ‘first’ GS Infrastructure Partners fund with more than $6.5 billion in committed capital. This is Goldman Sachs’ first fund dedicated to making infrastructure investments and will make such…
As you can tell, most analyst calls are thinning out and research departments are quieting down until next week. AUDC started as Accumulate at ThinkEquity.BBI reitr Buy at Soleil.BMR started as Overweight at Morgan…
(AAPL) Apple’s options that were given to Steve Jobs in 2001 were reportedly falsified and were unapproved by the board, but he later surrendered those options as unexercised (Financial Times); Apple down 3%.(ABMD) Abiomed…
The coverage ratio in Sharper Image for shares held short it 37 days. In December, shares short totalled over 3 million and the stock trades an average of under 82,000 shares a day. The…
Short interest in Jet Blue fell 12.2 million shares to 39.1 million in December. And, that is after the stock has run from $9.25 to $14.62 in the last three months. What gives? The…
Earthlink is a dog of a stock. It has gone from almost $12 two years ago to $7.15 And that is after a small run-up over the last few weeks. Some on Wall St.…
Amgen is a weird stock. The company had excellent news during the year, capped by FDA approval of its Vectibix cancer drug. But the stock trades at $68.46, closer to its 52-week low of…
Stocks: (BCS)(BP)(BT)(GSK)(PUK)(RTRSY)(UL)(VOD)(BAY)(DCX)(DB)(DT)(SI)(ALU)(AXA)(FTE)(V) Markets in Europe were off slightly at 7 AM New York time. The FTSE was down .2% to 6,234. Barclays was up .2% to 736.5 BP was down .9% to 569.5. BT…
The short interest in Dell fell 6.2 million shares to 35.6 mllion shares in December. Dell fell. What happened? A couple of things, perhaps. Dell has brought in former American Airline CEO Don Carty…
Stocks: (YHOO)(GOOG) It would be hard to tell from the company’s stock price, but there is an increasing bet among investors that Yahoo!’s shares could swing up. Short interest in the stock fell 6.2…
Being cynical about Sun Microsystem’s prospects has been a religion of sorts on Wall St. But, some of the faithful have fallen away. After trading at over $14 in late 2001, the stock ran…
Charter Communications, the ultra-troubled cable firm, watched shares short in the company’s stock rise by 14.2 million to 76.2 million shares. It was the largest increase in a short position in December for a…
Between November and December shares short in MSFT feel an extraordinary 41.7 million shares to 102.6 million. What gives? Well, in all probability Vista for one. Programmers have discovered some bugs, but research firm…
Just last December, Sirius shares were near $8. They hit a multi-year low yesterday at $3.50. And, there seems to be no catalyst to turn them back North again. The Motley Fool has even…