Blockbuster Inc. is going bust. The struggling movie rental outfit is set to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy tomorrow and receive $125 million in debtor-in-possession financing to forestall the inevitable liquidation, according…
Douglas A. McIntyre In breathless prose that it does so well, CNBC sounded the alarm bell about the future of television. Check out the first paragraph: “An alarming survey by Credit Suisse should serve as…
Barclays raised Ford (NYSE: F) to “overweight” from “equal weight” with a $16 target. Credit Suisse upgraded NetFlix (NASDAQ: NFLX) to “neutral” from “underperform” Morgan Stanley downgraded BT Group from “overweight” to…
There are many key stocks to watch for The Unusual Suspects for the week ahead. Barron’s was rather influential, we have several carry-over issues from last week that are unresolved, there are…
The cast of characters in this week’s Unusual Suspects is not any ordinary group of companies. There are many key stocks to watch for investors that have carryover issues from last week…
Reuters: China has approached a Canadian fund about a rival bid for Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters: The cost of Gulf clean-up hit $8 billion. Reuters: China said that its $2.45 trillion currency…
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (NASDAQ: AMCC) Cut to Sell at S&P Equity Research (late…
Updated throughout the day. Burger King (NYSE: BKC) is for sale (WSJ) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will team up with a partner in China to expand its search operations. (WSJ) JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:…
Many stocks are on the move this Wednesday morning. Active traders and day traders are likely to be watching the moves seen in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Burger King Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:…
The race to sell TV and films on internet connections to the home and wireless connections to the smartphone has grown more fierce. In just the last day it has been rumored…
WSJ: Burger King (NYSE: BKC) is considering a private equity buyout. Reuters: China’s manufacturing sector grew. Reuters: China may probe the BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) buyout offer for Potash (NYSE: POT). Reuters: …
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has almost certainly led to the downfall of the Blockbuster empire. Then Netflix (and Blockbuster) had to face competition from Coinstar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR) over the Redbox video…
Patent wars in technology are nothing new. Sometimes they are promising, sometimes they are just noise-making events. Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing LLC has filed a complaint today in the U.S. District Court…
Active traders and day traders have several big movers to choose from this morning. Stocks on the move are 3PAR, Inc. (NYSE: PAR), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), Guess? Inc. (NYSE: GES), Momenta…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: APPL), which revolutionized the music business with 99 cent digital downloads, is poised to do the same thing with television. The idiot box may never be the same. According…
