According to Reuters, Roche has offered to buy-out Genentech (DNA) for $42.7 billion. Retuers reports that one of Yahoo!’s (YHOO) activist investors has called for a compromise which would put some of…
We’ve had essentially a 500 point rally in the DJIA in just the last two days and oil is starting to lose its mo-mo. Yet some companies just refuse to participate in…
These are some of the top downgrades or negative analyst calls we have seen this Tuesday morning in early pre-market trading hours: AIG (NYSE: AIG) Cut to Market Perform from Outperform at…
Apple (AAPL) is not sold out of the new 3G iPhones. Based on data from the company, consumers can find them in almost every Apple store. Reports are that Apple’s carrier partner…
Most Wall St. observers now think that the merger between Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) will go through. The FCC, pushed by some members of Congress and the…
Sprint (S) has taken to the airwaves to try to keep customers and get old customers back. The marketing effort ignores that fact that Sprint has, by some measurements, the worst customer…
The market took big dips in 2001 and 1987. One was due to a national catastrophe and another was focused on Wall St.’s impression that the market had run too far, too…
According to Reuters, US car sales hit a 15 year low. Reuters writes that Paulson said the US is facing a tough Q2. Reuters reports that Starbucks (SBUX) will close 600 stores…
Whether AT&T (T) makes a lot of money on the new Apple (AAPL) iPhone may not matter to Sprint (S). What does matter is that the market thinks the No.3 cellular provider…
AT&T (T) announced its pricing plan for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone today. The plan is extremely confusing. That may make it harder to sell to the average customer, both for those who…
We have been running through many companies to determine which dividends appear safe. Investors chase high dividend stocks with stable earnings when they are concerned about where to put their money. We…
Most of the focus in the smartphone business over the last month has passed Palm (PALM) by. The new 3G Apple (AAPL) iPhone, RIM’s (RIMM) earnings, the Nokia (NOK) purchase of the…
These are not all of the calls we are seeing in pre-market coverage, but these are ten of the calls impacting shares this Wednesday morning: Allied Capital (NYSE: ALD) Started as Underweight…
Wall St. is getting nervous that RIM (RIMM) could lose its luster as it moves from providing handsets for business into the consumer market. Apple (AAPL) is sitting there along with Nokia…
Google (GOOG) is trying to get out a bunch of wireless handsets with its Android software. But, log-jams and competing agendas are hurting that. The first products were supposed to to be…
