Packaged Foods & Meats

• After months of wrangling over price, Kraft (NYSE:KFT) raised its bid to $19.5 billion and Cadbury’s (NYSE:CBY) board recommended its acceptance • Tyco (NYSE:TYC) plans to buy Brink's Home Security (NYSE:CFL) for $2 billion, with Tyco paying $42.50 in cash and stock • Tyco (NYSE:TYC) yesterday...

Cadbury (NYSE: CBY) has accepted the takeover offer from Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT), after the latter raised its bid to roughly $19 billion. Under the deal, KFT will pay 840 pence (or $13.7) for each CBY share, with shareholders receiving 500 pence a share in cash and 0.1874 share of KFT stock. After...

A report by Thomson Reuters shows that of Cadbury’s (NYSE: CBY) top ten shareholders, four are U.S. investors. New Jersey based Franklin Mutual Advisors is the single largest shareholder, with a holding of nearly 7.7%. Legal & General IM UK and Van Kampen Asset Management occupy second and...

Japan’s largest cosmetic group, Shiseido Co. Ltd. (ADR) (OTC: SSDOY) is buying Californian rival Bare Escentuals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BARE) in a $1.7 billion deal that will bring together model Agyness Deyn, the public face of the Asian business, with the queen of American television 'infomercials',...

Capital Advisors' Keith Goddard is naming names. In a recent CNBC interview, he recommended AT&T, IBM, and Kraft Foods for anyone seeking safety and dividends for the next three to five years. The current dividend yields of each stock are: AT&T (NYSE: T), 6.2% IBM (NYSE: IBM), 1.7% Kraft...

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc (NASDAQ: GMCR) and Diedrich Coffee Inc (NASDAQ: DDRX) have to submit additional information in relation to their merger deal to the U.S Federal Trade Commission at the earliest. The date for submission of disclosure documents has been extended. Green Mountain and...

Human Genome Sciences Inc. (HGSI) announced recently that it intends to seek approval for its potential blockbuster lupus drug candidate Benlysta during the second quarter of 2010 in the United States and Europe. Human Genome and GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) are co-developing Benlysta for treating...

DTS Inc. (NASDAQ: DTSI) was today upgraded by Barrington Research from Market perform to Outperform with a price target of $38. DTSI is now trading at $30.44, 2.46% up. DTSI closed at $29.71 in the previous trading session. In the last year, DTSI gained over 108%. Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN)...

• Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) said Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is likely to unveil its new iPhone as soon as June, with a more advanced camera and perhaps a touch-sensitive casing • Rio Tinto (NYSE:RTP) reported a 49% surge in iron ore production, beating its prior projections, to 47.2 million tonnes in the...

With the major indices ticking slightly higher Wednesday, there were many stocks which broke out to the upside on BIG volume. If this is your first time reading one of my breakout reports you'll want to read the section below, however if you are familiar with my daily breakout report you should...

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. (NYSE: JTX) stock is down 13.51% from its closing price of $4.44 yesterday. The stock hit a low of $3.63 today and was trading at $3.84 at last check. The stock price of Jackson Hewitt plunged after the company said that it lacks financing for about half its refund -...

Analysts at KeyBanc Securities have increased the price target for Diamond Foods Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) from $35 to $38. This has been done due to the recent marketing spending done by the company. Analysts believe that such spending will be helpful in growing market share for its Emerald snack nut...

As if the selloffs themselves weren’t bad enough, some stocks are falling precipitously on high volume – a sign that things may get worse before getting better. Today’s high-volume loss leaders are: El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. (NYSE: EPB) Targa Resources Partners LP (Nasdaq: NGLS) Rambus,...