Archive for March, 2013
World
U.S. Co. Credit Swaps Increase; General Mills(NYSE:GIS) Plans Bonds
Northern, WI 1/29/2013 (avauncer) - A U.S. corp credit risk rose as U.S sales declined in December for the first time since August and before the Federal Open Market Committee meeting scheduled on Wednesday. In a teleph...
World
Elliot Seeks Board Seats For Which Hess(NYSE:HES) Exits Refining - (VLO) & (BMC)
Northern, WI 1/29/2013 (avauncer) - Elliot Associates LP billionaire says it may buy $800 million shares and board seats for which Hess Corporation (NYSE:HES) exit the refinery business and sell fuel storage terminal. Hes...
World
Global Stock Correlations Fall as Morgan Stanley Purchases
Northern, WI 1/29/2013 (avauncer) - The joint movements in global stocks that ruled equity markets for the last 6 years are eroding very rapidly, a signal that investor confidence is rising at last. A measure of the degre...
World
Qihoo (NYSE:QIHU) shares decline to a Week’s Low After claiming Apple Reduced Its Apps
Northern, WI 1/29/2013 (avauncer) - Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. (NYSE:QIHU) declined to its lowest level in over a week, after it claimed that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) had removed its software from its iTunes store an...
World
Berkshire (NYSE:BRK.A) claimed to Have bid for NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NYX) Last Year
Northern, WI 1/29/2013 (avauncer) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) had made a bid last year for purchase of NYSE Euronext, (NYSE:NYX) on the condition that the exchange sell its business of European derivatives, ac...
World
American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) Hikes After Bailout Is Paid Off; Bernstein Outperform
Northern, WI 1/29/2013 (avauncer) - American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) Shares turn Hot-Cake on the Street As The insurer bailed Itself out from the four yearlong Fed- led rescue operation. The 2008 fiscal crises...
Health
U.S. Advisory Panel Restricts Use Of Hydrocarbon Based Pain Killers- ZGNX, ABT
Northern, WI 1/28/2013 (avauncer) - According to a government advisory panel, the most widely used hydrocodone painkillers should be restricted for use as they are being potentially abused. The advisory committee has vote...
Health
Sanofi’s CEO Says Drug Portfolio Is Underrated- TOT, SNY
Northern, WI 1/28/2013 (avauncer) - According to CEO Chris Viehbacher, investors are still wary of the drugs that are being experimented on by the French company, Sanofi (EPA:SNA). The company’s depository receipts trad...
Featured
Embraer & Toray Unaffected By The Boeing Matter; Management Asserts- ERJ, TYO, RJET
Northern, WI 1/28/2013 (avauncer) - Business of Japanese company Toray Industries Inc (TYO:3402) and Brazilian company Embraer SA (ADR) (NYSE:ERJ) will remain unaffected despite the grounding of Boeng Co.’s ban on fli...
Featured
Transocean Must Announce $4 Dividend ; Says Icahn
Northern, WI 1/28/2013 (avauncer) - Carl Icahn who is a billionaire investor threatened Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG) to declare a dividend of $4 per share and also warned that he would propose it himself if the company didn...
In News
- Decrease in net loss helps Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:PGNX) to rise- AMBO, AXX, HGSH, & FBN
- Series of bad launches not helping Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) – GOOG, AAPL, BBRY
- IBM researchers not doing “isolated jobs” anymore
- China Mobile announces 2012 earnings
- Nintendo ordered to pay $30.2 million over patent infringement
- Sinovac’s shares soared on EV71 vaccine Phase III results
- JPMorgan’s executives to appear before senators in ‘London Whale’ case
- Sundar Pichai is new Android head