Covering any part of the positives in this market has been literally as rewarding as jumping in the bear cage with the bears at the zoo. We have been refraining from doing as many stocks which are on 52-week lows as the list is just too many companies. But after the close we perused the entire S&P 500 and a few more large companies. We reached down in the barrel and found an extensive list...
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Major S&P Stocks On Decade Lows (AA, AMAT, AMD, DOW, EK, GCI, HOG, INTC, IP, JNY, M, MU, MSFT, NWL, NWS, SLE, STX, LUV, HOT,
Thu, Nov 20, 6:44 AM ET
Activist investor updates his plan to separate retailer's stores from the land under them.
In a tough market for REITs, these stocks could be the next winners.
The hedge fund manager William Ackman is nowhere near ready to give up on his idea of spinning off the real estate of the retailer Target. In a presentation to investors on Wednesday, Mr. Ackman argued that an initial public stock offering of 20 percent of a real estate investment trust owning the land under Target’s [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The shares of big U.S. homebuilders and real estate companies alike slumped on Wednesday as housing starts fell to a record low and concerns spread the commercial real estate market is going the way of residential.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at the company’s annual meeting today that the company is “done” holding acquisitions talks with Yahoo even given the announcement that Jerry Yang is stepping down. “We thought we had something that made sense. Didn’t make sense to them. We’ve moved on,” he said, according to Bloomberg. Ballmer reiterated that a partner...
If you are like many of our readers, you are a bond guy and are well aware that CMBS (commercial mortgage-backed securities) are in an absolute free-fall. If you aren't a bond guy, let me be the first to tell you that the CMBS market is in an absolute free-fall. Here is the chart on the Barclays INVESTMENT GRADE CMBS index month-to-date.Yes... that -19.61 number? That's a percentage return vs. ...
BoE and ECB Reiterate Need for Further Action, Raising Expectations for Another Round of Rate Cuts in December
Wed, Nov 19, 5:46 AM ET
The Street is bracing for bad news from Akamai (AKAM). On Thursday, the company is holding a meeting with analysts, and is expected to provide its first guidance for 2009. CEO Paul Sagan said in an interview with Tech Trader Daily on October 30 following the company’s most recent earnings announcement that Akamai decided not to give 2009 guidance at that time given the uncertain economic ...
Numbers continue to ratchet lower for Dell (DELL) ahead of the company’s earnings report after the close Thursday for the fiscal third quarter ended October. While Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) preliminary results today impressed the Street, investors are more focused on the implications of recent ominous warnings from Intel and others about the prospects for the rest of this year and 200...