This highly anticipated deal to fund Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) with $9 billion from Japan’s largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: MTU), cannot come fast enough.  Both sides...
MBIA Inc. (NYSE: MBI) is set to report earnings Tuesday,  before the market opens.  As the market has slid further, this troubled “guarantor” has gone with it and has again hit new...
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning but all three major indexes managed to pull off small gain by the end of the trading session. In Asia, Japan’s 10-year bond futures are up sharply and...
Maguire (MPG) Possible sale of the company fails. Shares sell down to $12.42 from 52-week high of $38.08. MGIC (MTG) Company closes common stock offering, dilution. Stock off to $9.60 from 52-week...
It is December, and it is time for many companies to review their existing plans and decide to make some major changes in 2009.  SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) now stands at a critical...
Mylan Inc. (NYSE: MYL) has been removed from the Goldman Sachs Conviction List, although the firm is not downgrading its official rating.  Goldman Sachs has maintained its Buy rating and $19.00...
Source: Sirius XMMel Karmazin had already telegraphed that his days were likely numbered at SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI). That fight for control from Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LMCA)...
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) has a big day ahead of it.  While it has been known for years, it is a massive date: Lipitor goes off-patent and will have generic versions of the statin drug competitors....
Mergers are headed the way of smaller homebuilders.  That is the take from Citi.  The firm is looking at several companies in the sector and it featured Beazer Homes USA Inc. (NYSE: BZH), Meritage...
This weekend one of the biggest movies of 2007 hits theatres. Get ready for Spider-Man 3 with a budget of $258 million, according to Columbia — or upward of $350 million. Spider-Man 3 already...
Mel Karmazin, CEO of the new Sirius XM (SIRI) satellite radio company, gone public with his plan to fix the firm. Shares in Sirius have traded around $.90 over the last several days. They are likely...
Independent oil & gas partnership Atlas Resource Partners L.P. (NYSE: ARP) has agreed to purchase approximately 277 billion cubic feet equivalent of proved natural gas resources from Carrizo Oil &...
These are this Friday’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks moving on news this morning.  There is more detail on the moves  on each over at VSInvestor.com: Ambac Financial Group,...
The day has come for Bucyrus International Inc. (NASDAQ: BUCY).  Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) has announced that it will expand its mining equipment operations and product offerings with the...
Marvel Entertainment (MVL) and Viacom (VIA), parent of Paramount, benefitted as "Iron Man" based on a Marvel comic book character brought in over $100 million. According to the AP The film...