MetLife Inc. (NYSE: MET) is joining the other major financial stocks of late with its shares getting clocked this morning to new multi-year lows.  Last night, the insurer said earnings would be...
After Citigroup (C) and Merrill Lynch (MER) have announced their earnings, Wall St. will probably see what it expected. The estimates for write-offs, lay-offs, and new capital infusions are already...
Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) has issued its loss for the quarter at -$12.57 EPS for Q4, -$10.73 EPS for all of 2007.  The total loss in dollars was listed as $8.6 Billion for the quarter. The net...
Private equity has met the enemy... and it's staring at itself in the mirror.
It is surprising to see a coal company come forward and file to be publicly traded, considering the industry’s recent history.
Source: courtesy of Hewlett-PackardThe more the Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) deal to buy Autonomy gets scrutinized, the more that outsiders place blame on HP’s board, which unanimously approved...
Source: ThinkstockIn early October, men’s clothing firm Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. (NASDAQ: JOSB) made an offer of $48 a share for Men’s Wearhouse Inc. (NYSE: MW), which the target company...
Patriot Coal Corporation (NYSE: PCX) had a stellar trading day, with a gain of more than 10% which moved the shares above $20.00 for the first time since January 20.  The reason for today’s run...
The Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme may not be over, but the fight between the bankruptcy trustee Irving Picard and the owners of the New York Mets baseball team appears to be over.  Fred Wilpon and...
A lot of people on Wall St. were worried about the future of Merrill Lynch (MER) and were glad when Bank of America (BAC) bought it. Now, Bank of America may be unhappy.Merrill lost $5.2 billion in...
MercadoLibre, Inc. (NASDAQ: MELI) may have fallen a long ways from back when Jim Cramer called this one his favorite tech calls from Latin America, but the company is up in after-hours trading and...
Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS) is seeing shares trade sharply lower in after-hours trading after it lowered guidance.  The company now sees revenues of approximately $84...
Just a year ago, it would have been unthinkable that a major newspaper chain could miss its debt payments, But, that has now become a possibility at two of the larger public companies in the...
Merrill Lynch (MER) reported a net loss from continuing operations for the third quarter of $2.3 billion, or $2.85 per diluted share, significantly below net earnings of $2.22 per diluted share for...
Moody’s is having a look at the "AAA" rating carried by bond insurance firm MBIA (MBIA). MarketWatch writes that "Bond insurers agree to pay principal and interest when due in a...