Home Depot (HD) got much less for its wholesale outfit than it had hoped and it had to guarantee part of the buyers’ debts. The company still plans to buy-back 550 million…
Douglas A. McIntyre Wal-Mart’s (WMT) shares are already near a 52-week low. But, now word comes, by way of The Wall Street Journal, the the financially hard-hit Hispanic communities in the Southeast US and Mexico…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Isuzu and GM (GM) will increase their cooperation in South America to improve their share in the truck market. Reuters writes that Knight Capital (NITE) may have to refund…
Markets in Ais fell. The Nikkei was down 1.7% to 16,013. Sony (SNE) was down 2.8% to 5230. Toyota (TM) was down 2% to 6530. The Hang Seng fell 2% to 22,890.…
Neurochem (NRMX) Continues to race for the bottom. On Monday, the company said its Alzheimer’s disease treatment candidate, Alzhemed, failed a late-stage trial. The NRMX says it has 15 to 18 months…
When MySpace "founder" Brad Greenspan tried to buy Dow Jones (DJ) he suggested that the company could start a competitor to Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance. In his letter to the DJ board, he…
A new medical study shows that people who take statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs, appear to be less likely to develope Alzheimer’s, one of the most damaging and fastest growing diseases. Pfizer’s (PFE) Lipitor…
It is very old news that Motorola’s handset business is broken, and, with competitors like Samsung, may never fully recover. In the June quarter, revenue for that business fell from over $7.1…
Douglas A. McIntyre Biopharmaceutical company Xoma (XOMA) is having its luck day. After its stock traded down as low as $2.24, its shares are up almost 20% today on news that it bacterial cell expression…
Tyco International Ltd. (NYSE:TYC) is one of those strange spin-off and restructuring stocks that has not done well since the company broke itself up. The Tyco Electronics (NYSE:TEL) and Covidien (NYSE:COV) stocks…
Douglas A. McIntyre Google (GOOG) has signed an exclusive deal with Time Warner’s (TWX) CNN to use the search engine’s AdSense advertising program for text-based ads. According to GOOG: "Through this collaboration, the AdSense service…
(ADLS) Adbvanced Life Sciences gets orphan drug designation from FDA for its metastatic melanoma indicated treatment.(BCS) Barclays indicated down 2% pre-market on loss exposure to outside loans.(BNI) Burlington Nothern Santa Fe stake…
Douglas A. McIntyre BMTI started as Outperform at Wachovia.BSC downgraded to Neutral at Merrill Lynch.C downgraded to Neutral at Merrill Lynch.DISCA started as Neutral at JPMorgan.DTE downgraded to Hold at KeyBanc/McDonald.GPS raised to Positive at…
Douglas A. McIntyre Hewlett=Packard (HPQ) has set out on a big campaign to get Web 2.0 users to make greater use of its printers. HP’s printer business is not only large, it’s profitable. In the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADLS) has announced that the FDA has granted an ‘Orphan Drug Designation’ to its oncology product, ALS-357, for the topical treatment of metastatic melanoma. ALS-357 is entering…
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