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United Airlines Corporation (UAUA) upgraded by UBS after fund raising spree
Monday, September 28, 2009 - 9:46am | 62UAL Corporation (NASDAQ: UAUA) is back in focus as UBS has upgraded UAUA to buy from neutral and upgraded its target price to $ 15 from $6.06. UAUA witnessed a fund raising flurry recently to strengthen its balance sheet requirement for future, and has moved up on high volumes over the past one...
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Top Traded Stocks (F,CRBC,INTC,AMR,XLNX)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 11:53am | 363Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is the top traded stock and surged 5.40% to $7.39 on 54.45 million shares against an average volume of 117.52 million shares after company CEO Allan Mulally said the company is expecting US auto sales to rise over the next two years as the global economy recovers from...
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AMR Corp (AMR) Announces 48M Public Shares.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 5:25am | 74AMR Corp. (NYSE: AMR), the parent company of American Airlines, Inc. announced 48,484,849 shares of its common stock at an offering price of $8.25 per share. AMR also announced the pricing of its offering of $40B principal amount of its 6.25% convertible senior notes due 2014. Offering is...
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Know When to Fold 'Em
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 11:09am | 770Country singer Kenny Rogers has been called many things. Somehow I do not think stock trader is among them. However, some of the famous lines from his songs can be applied to investing. While selecting stocks and deciding what to buy is extremely important, knowing "when to fold them" is just as...
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Biggest Losers (DPTR,LIME,AMR,AHR,CRXX)
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 11:02am | 206Lime Energy Co. (NASDAQ: LIME) plummeted 18% to $5.76 on huge volume of 1.31 million shares after it announced the pricing of its public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at $5.50 per share, before the underwriting discount. The Company has granted the underwriters a 30 day option to...
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Stocks to Watch (AMR,LPX,YHOO,BAC,AIG)
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 7:10am | 244AMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR) fell 5.87% in Pre market The parent company of American Airlines said it plans to offer 30 million shares of its common stock and $250 million in convertible debt. Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (NYSE: LPX) dropped 4.16% after The world’s largest maker of pressed-wood...
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AMR Corporation (AMR) Up in Pre-Market, Raised $2.9 billion
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 8:24am | 66AMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR) the world’s second-largest carrier, said it raised $2.9 billion in cash and aircraft financing and will increase flying at four U.S. hubs to focus on the most-profitable parts of its network. AMR Corp. said the extra funding includes $1 billion in cash from an advance...
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Fund Performance Period 9
Monday, September 14, 2009 - 3:49pm | 2767As a reminder, if you are interested in this type of fund as a worthwhile consideration for future investment, please consider reading why this blog exists. [Jan 7, 2008: Reader Pledges Toward Mutual Fund Launch] [May 26, 2008: Frequently Asked Questions] Our story in Barron's [A New Kind of Fund...
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Airline Stocks in Focus After J.P. Morgan Upgraded LCC, UAUA, Downgraded JBLU, AAI
Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 11:51am | 172Today, Airline stocks started the day with handsome gains and all the major stocks are trading with a gain of 6%-20% after J.P. Morgan raised its ratings on UAL and US Airways, saying better-than-expected passenger demand, cooperating with lower jet fuel prices and mild weather, has helped to...
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Thomas Weisel (TWPG) Initiates Emergency Medical Services (EMS) with an Overweight
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 9:01am | 65Thomas Weisel (NASDAQ: TWPG) is of the opinion that Emergency Medical (NYSE: EMS) would stand to gain from lower AMR costs and strong expansion in its emergency care services. Thomas Weisel feels that Emergency Medical can beat expected earnings by a wide margin. It set a $57 target on the stock.
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AirTran Airways (AAI) Launches Sale for Travel
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 6:43am | 67AirTran Airways (NYSE: AAI), a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc., launched a sale for travel to all the airline's destinations with fares starting as low as $39. Travelers can purchase these sale fares at http://www.airtran.com or via AirTran Airways' reservations system at 1-800-AIR-TRAN....
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Southwest Airlines (LUV) Reports August Traffic
Friday, September 4, 2009 - 9:08am | 44Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) announced that it flew 6.7B revenue passenger miles in August 2009. This is a 1.0% increase from the 6.6B RPMs flown in August 2008. However, available seat miles decreased 6.1% to 8.3B from the August 2008 level of 8.9B.
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67 Stocks Returning 50%+ the Past Month
Friday, August 28, 2009 - 2:56pm | 791I always like to take a look to see what stocks are "working" - helps me see where the money is going and what trends I am missing. I generally like to follow stocks over $5 only but since there is a bevy of "hot money" being made in the dollar stock area I thought I'd list those too this time...
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AnalystChoice.com Brings You the Best Complimentary Research Report on LEAP, NEXM, PENN, ADCT, LIFE and MESA
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 7:12am | 354NEW DELHI, INDIA--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - Analyst Choice has combined some of the best financial and technical minds worldwide to bring you an array of free quality equity research and reporting. Today we have begun in-depth reporting on our website evaluating the current market...
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MOU SIGNED FOR POWER LINE FUNDING
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 7:36am | 700PRESS RELEASE KOPANE DIAMOND DEVELOPMENTS Plc ("Kopane" or the "Company") POWER LINE FUNDING UPDATE 17 August 2009 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING SIGNED FOR...