Comcast (CMCSA) gave bad news yesterday. It earnings were poor and the growth of its digital cable and VoIP customers were more modest than expected. Comcast is the largest cable company in…
Below are the short positions for major companies traded on the Nasdaq as of October 15. The figures compare to numbers on September 28, 2007 Traders bet big on Sun’s turnaround, dropping…
Cablevision (CVC) is supposed to go private in a transaction lead by the company’s founding Dolan family. The shares currently trade at $34. Uber-fund manager Maria Gabelli, whose investment companies hold 8%…
Below is the short interest for selected stocks traded on the Nasdaq. The figures are as of September 28 and compare to numbers as of September 14, 2007. Largest Short Positions Company …
AMR cut to Hold at Citigroup.ALVR raised to positive at Susquehanna.CHTR started as Overweight at JPMorgan.CME raised to Outperform at Wachovia.COMS cut to Neutral at UBS.COP cut to Sell at Deutsche Bank.CTXS…
Just a year ago, it would have been unthinkable that a major newspaper chain could miss its debt payments, But, that has now become a possibility at two of the larger public…
Douglas A. McIntyre Short interest in several large Nasdaq traded companies fell sharply in September. The figures are calculated as of September 14 and are compared to numbers from August 15, 2007. Short interest in…
Forbes has released its list of the 400 wealthiest Americans. We really wanted to see the corporate impact of the wealthy. What is interesting is to compare how these companies tied to…
Recent comments from Comcast (CMCSA)t about the emerging strength of high speed fiber products being sold by Verizon (VZ) and AT&T (T) has pushed the shares of the largest US cable company…
Below is the short interest for major company stocks traded on the Nasdaq. The figures are from August 15 and compare to numbers from July 13, 2007. Investors were not willing to…
The market seems to agree with what 24/7 Wall St. wrote lates yesterday. No one will buy debt-laden Charter Communications (CHTR) and even controlling shareholder and billionaire Paul Allen does not have…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, China Mobile’s (CHL) net rose 28%. Reuters writes that Amgen (AMGN) will fire 14% of its sales force. Reuters reports that Hasbro (HAS) will increase inspection of products from…
Billionaire Paul Allen disclosed that he was looking that the possibility of taking Charter Communications (CHTR) private or "a recapitalization or restructuring designed to reduce Charter’s leverage", according to The Wall Street…
Charter Communications (CHTR) is trading off as much as 7% today. That brings it down to $2.75. The stock was as high as $4.93 three weeks ago. The company suffers from having…
Douglas A. McIntyre Charter (CHTR) just kept going up and up. At one point in July it was up over 275% from where it had traded a year earlier. The premise was simple. The company’s…
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