Updated throughout the day Astellas Pharma may have competing bids in it effort to takeover OSI Pharmaceuticals (NYT) The FDIC will sell $1.8 billion of guaranteed asset-backed debt (IFR). Diageo could bid as much…
Douglas A. McIntyre Updated throughout the day Greece will sell a 10-year bond next week to raise about $3 billion. (WSJ) GE (GE) will sell a $3.3 billion interest in Turkish bank Garanti (CNBC). Australia’s…
“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.”…
We are hearing more reports about social media combining with email. This has been evolving for a decade or so, and now we have Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) reportedly trying to either…
For the first time, China Investment Corp., the country’s sovereign wealth fund, has filed a Form 13F with the US Securities and Exchange Commission listing details of its investments in companies traded…
The number of videos view online by America internet users has increased steadily over the last three years, primarily due to the success of Google’s (GOOG) YouTube which the search company bought…
GE (GE) and Comcast (CMCSA) have struck a deal for the cable company to take a controlling share in GE’s entertainment unit–NBCU. Opponents of the transaction claim that it will be anticompetitive…
After five quarters of losses, Sony (SNE) has finally turned a profit. The news is not terribly impressive since it is the conglomerate’s financial and insurance divisions that pushed the company into…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts with a brief explanation of the news behind the moves: Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT) up 14% at $12.21 on 28,000…
Reuters: Volcker believes that banks should not be allowed to make risky trades. Reuters: Toyota (NYSE:TM) sales dropped after its recall announcements. Reuters: More US consumers are paying credit cards before mortgages. Reuters: …
Reuters: Obama is looking for ways to cut the deficit. Reuters: Citigroup (NYSE:C) may sell its private equity group. Reuters: Toyota (NYSE:TM) will announce the fix for its gas pedals. Reuters: China…
Glen Back and Bill O’Reilly have not done as much to damage the credibility of Fox News, a part of News Corp (NWS) which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch, as some analysts suspect.…
Douglas A. McIntyre Credit Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer on his way to the International Space Station. AppScout reports that his first tweet was “Hello Twitterverse!”, which may have been less profound that Neil Armstong’s “That’s one…
Reuters: Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) posted strong 2009 results, rejected Kraft’s (NYSE:KFT) bid. Reuters: Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) is in talks to settle with Cuomo. Reuters: The FAA called for inspections of older Boeing…
It seems inevitable that movies about odd aliens, supernatural events, and bizarre figments of writers’ imaginations rise weightlessly to the top of box office receipt lists. “Avatar” became the No.2 grossing film of all time as…
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