Nasdaq (NDAQ) and Borse Dubai are both bidding for the Nordic exchange owner OMX. And, the price is up to about $4 billion. At the same time NDAQ is trying to sell…
Douglas A. McIntyre Watch out Dell (DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). Gateway (GTW) was bought by the third largest PC company in the world, Acer. The deal is for $710 million, or $1.90 a share, Gateway…
A couple of years ago, no one had heard of virtualization. Now, the leading company in the field, VMWare (VMW) has gone public. And, the service is moving into the core business…
Markets in Europe were up at 5.15 AM New York time. The DAXX was up .3% to 7,531. Daimler (DCX) was up 1.3% to 63.91. Deutsche Bank (DB) was up 1.5% to…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, US Steel (X) will buy Canadian steel company Stelco for $1.1 billion. Reuters writes that Singapore’s state-owned Temasek Holdings has approached Nasdaq (NDAQ) about buying its stake in the…
Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose .3% to 16,301. Honda (HMC) was up 2.4% to 3790. Docomo (DCM) was up 3.5% to 177000. Hong Kong was up 2.3% to 23,455.…
For Home Depot (HD), it is the worst of all worlds. After getting private equity interests to agree to buy the company’s wholesales unit, Home Depot Supply, for $10.3 billion, the deal…
Douglas A. McIntyre Below is the short interest for major company stocks traded on the Nasdaq. The figures are from August 15 and compare to numbers from July 13, 2007. Investors were not willing to…
According to The New York Post, Apple (AAPL) "get 10 percent of the revenue from voice calls and data usage" in the new deal it has cut with T-Mobile to sell the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Privately held Hearst Corp is bidding for the portion of Heart-Argyle (HTV) that it does not already own. Hearst owns just over 50% of HTV and has offered $23.50. According to The…
Douglas A. McIntyre Home Depot (HD) seems desperate to get rid of its HD Supply unit which handles wholesaling of its products to builders. The deal was set for private equity interests Bain Capital, Carlyle…
Douglas A. McIntyre This week, Altria (MO) will probably announce that it will split its domestic and international operations into separate companies. The reason would be to allow the overseas operations to be "unfettered by…
Douglas A. McIntyre The UAW is being threatened by Ford (F) and GM (GM). Agree to cost cuts, or we move production overseas. The sight of the gallows focuses the mind.The UAW is being asked…
From Silicon Alley Insider Sanford Bernstein cable and satellite analyst Craig Moffett foresees bad news for TV giants like Comcast (CMCSA), Cablevision (CVC), Time Warner Cable (TWC), and DirecTV (DTV): the depressed…
Douglas A. McIntyre Publisher, executive editor Darin Diehl invited (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=20110) StockHouse members to discover their inner journalist. User generated content is going to be a big part of the new StockHouse. Check out the article,…
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