Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) has extended the early participation deadline for the pending private offer of its indirect units until 11:59 PM ET on June 27, 2008 and the exchange ratio…
Douglas A. McIntyre Short sellers moved out of Microsoft (MSFT) based on data as of May 15 compared with numbers on April 20. Short interest in the software company fell by 25 million shares to…
Charter Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) managed to post narrower losses for Q1 in 2008. The highly in debt cable company posted a net loss of $358 million, or -$0.97 EPS. This compares…
Douglas A. McIntyre Yesterday, Charter Communications (CHTR) said it would give up to $100 in gas to all new subscribers or existing subscribers that make some upgrades to their service packages. Investors are worried that…
Douglas A. McIntyre Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) has announced a new gimmick tying the coming tax checks with the high gas prices. The company said that new and current customers can stretch their tax…
Douglas A. McIntyre The bets that companies will default on their debts is rising. Financials which own junk bonds or have financed junk deals will be on the hook. One S&P executive told Bloomberg “The…
Douglas A. McIntyre "The current financial crisis is the most serious since the second world war, and perhaps since the Great Depression."–The London Observer, March 23, 2008 Many investors find it hard to believe that…
Wall St. has gone from hating financial firms with bad balance sheets to hating all companies with big pools of debt. With the crisis which has evolved over the last few day,…
Virgin Mobile (NYSE VM) Quaterly loss takes shares down. Falls to $1.90 from 52-week high of $15.69. Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC) Market still believes that company has severe balance sheet problems. Sells…
DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) has hundreds of channels and can offer high-definition programming, but, because satellite signals do not work two-way, getting into the "on demand" business has been impossible. That has given…
Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) raised another tranche of junk debt, about $1 billion. That will sit on top of the $19 billion which the company, controlled by billionaire Paul Allen, already has. Just…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to NASDAQ figures on short selling on February 29, share sold short in tech companies dropped sharply, an indication that investors are not willing to bet that stocks in the companies…
According to Reuters, central banks are uniting to ease the credit crisis. Reuters writes that Google (GOOG) got EU approval to buy DoubleClick and its shares rose. Reuters reports that Caterpillar (CAT)…
These are not the only analyst calls affecting shares this morning, but these are the first ones that 247WallSt.com is focusing on: Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) Cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.…
The Big Six cable companies will team up to sell advertising, targeted by geography and subscriber behavior. It is the fondest hope of television which has seen much of the ability to…