Vital Signs Inc. (NASDAQ: VITL) is going to gap way up this morning. The company is being acquired by General Electric Co. for $860 million in cash, which comes to $74.50 per…
Douglas A. McIntyre On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer came out talking up the aspects of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE). Cramer discussed how it is winning in financial services while others are…
Douglas A. McIntyre Google’s (GOOG) earnings disappointed Wall St. and pushed the stock down nearly 8%, but the message from the numbers is more profound than a little shortfall. Google’s net was up 35%. The…
24/7 Wall St. recently listed The 25 Most Valuable Blogs. Two have been sold. Ars Technica was acquired by Conde Nast for about what we estimated. The 24/7 price tag was $15…
Newly-minted legend says that short-selling put Bear Stearns out of business and has swamped the stock prices of Lehman (LEH), Fannie Mae (FNM), and Freddie Mac (FRE). To keep evil from further…
Robert Noyce, the creator of the big idea that became Intel (INTC), died in 1990 when he was 62. He never saw the company make it to the big time, since the…
Everyone has seen the report from General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) regarding Friday’s earnings. This report and the current situation remains a glass half-full and a glass half-empty depending upon your time…
Douglas A. McIntyre Twenty-seven of the Dow components are down. And, three are playing defense in an brutal market: Coca-Cola (KO), GE (GE), and Caterpillar (CAT). Each of these is up a modest amount. With…
Twenty-seven of the Dow components are down. And, three are playing defense in an brutal market: Coca-Cola (KO), GE (GE), and Caterpillar (CAT). Each of these is up a modest amount. With…
GE (GE) hit Wall St.’s EPS forecast at $.54 and beat revenue estimates coming in at $46.9 billion above the $45.3 billion concensus. The revenue increase was 11% over the same quarter…
Douglas A. McIntyre GE (GE) raised $5.4 billion by selling its Japanese consumer financial unit to Shinsei Bank. GE does not need the capital, but it does need to fuel the perception that it is…
Douglas A. McIntyre The short interest in most financial and industrial companies rose sharply for the period ending June 30. Shares sold short in Washington Mutrual (WM) rose 21.6 million to 276.4 million. Short interest…
According to Reuters, the government is considering taking over Freddie Mac (FRE) and Fannie Mae (FNM). Reuters writes that Google (GOOG) thinks that an independent Yahoo! (YHOO) would be better for the…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is announcing the spin off of lighting and appliances and is exploring alternatives for its consumer and industrial units. This report originally came out on Bloomberg but…
Douglas A. McIntyre Toyota (TM) is planing to sharply cut its SUV and pick-up production in the US. It can see the writing on the wall as well as anyone. Don’t build what you cannot…