According to Reuters, Spanish bank BBVA is taking over Compass Banschares (CBSS) for $9.6 billion. Reuters writes that Japanese beer company Sapporo Holdings has received a merger proposal from Asahi Breweries. Sapporo was being…
By the StockHouse Editorial Staff This week StockHouse launched a new health sciences column (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19325). Leon Hamerling and J. Paul reported from the BioCEO and Investor conference about an anti-cancer drug with great potential,…
Cramer on MAD MONEY has a telecom pick tonight he says is even better than Level 3 (LVLT). There is a money-maker, and that is Craig McCaw. He is the head of ClearWire (CLWR-NASDAQ)…
Yahoo! Finance kept its huge lead in pageviews. Top Financial News and Information Sites for January 2007 Brand or Channel Unique Audience (000) Web Page Views (000) TimePerPerson(hh:mm:ss) Yahoo! Finance …
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer said BUY on all of these: Safeway (SWY), Deere (DE), Qwest (Q), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Caterpillar (CAT), UnionPacific (UNP), and Aetna (AET) is good. Eli…
Opnext (OPXT-NASDAQ) has come public today, and shares are up roughly $2.00 from its $15.00 pricing. This was already at the higher end of the $13.00 to $15.00 range. After searching around for pre-market…
According to Reuters, DaimlerChrysler (DCX) will cut 13,000 at its Chrysler unit and may offer the business for sale. Reuters writes that revenue at Chinese search engine Baidu (BIDU) soared. Reuters writes that radio…
According to Engadget, a recent Jupiter Research poll shows that 62% of music executives surveyed in Europe think dropping digital rights management would improve "take up" of digital music.Seventy percent felt that a system…
Cramer likes companies that make money outside the US It used to be all BRIC, Brazil, Russia, India and China Now, it’s ROW. The Rest of the World. Cramer like three companies. One huge…
On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer was out on Chrysler (DCX) saying that autos can win if they’ll contract and worry about profitability rather than market share. On First Solar (FSLR)…
On todays Wall Street Confidential video on TheStreet.com Cramer said that Bernanke’s verbage today is laying the groundwork for what may be a fed cut in May. On Chrysler: The demand for autos is…
The BusinessWeek headline reads "Belgian Court Deals Google A Bombsheel". Hardly. A court in Belgium has ruled that Google (GOOG) needs to take down news titles and summaries that are covered by copyright and…
According to Reuters, the FDA is trying to promote a culture that will allow dissenting opinions within the agency when it reviews new drugs. Reuters writes that Wall St. is skeptical about an acqusition…
Warner Music (WMG) which has been thrashed for poor earnings, announced that it would team up with Egypt mobile provider Orascom to provide music and ringtones to 60 million cell customers in markets including…
Cramer said that private equity has a ton of money tied up, with Goldman Sachs alone raising $19 Billion. Cramer said they can borrow up to 10-times and they are willing to pay big…