Archive for 'Investing'
Yahoo! Board Kinda Like “Deal or No Deal”
4 April 2008Am I right or am I right? Looking at the after-market headlines there is an article that Microsoft is evaluating its Yahoo offer and is now thinking it may have offered too much for Yahoo amid our current market conditions.
Right now the Yahoo board is looking like the greedy “Deal or No Deal” game […]
Microsoft and Yahoo Not Making Merger Progress
4 April 2008Well, it looks like Microsoft and Yahoo are at a standstill over the proposed merger. Yahoo says the deal is not sweet enough. I think we will find out shortly (next earnings report) just how well Yahoo is doing. I bet the YHOO numbers come in low and they blame it on Microsoft for interupting […]
Two Changes to the S&P 500 Componets
3 April 2008At the end of March there were two stocks added and of course two stocks removed from the list of stocks that comprise the S&P 500 stock index. Both were interesting in their own ways. I suggest you check them out over at our S&P 500 Index Stocks site through this link or the one […]
Visa Prices IPO
19 March 2008V - Visa, Inc. has priced at $44.00 and currently shows on my screen at $61.21 with zero (0) volume.
UPDATE: Board now shows numbers across the board with volume of 2,000 shares. Looks like the open will be $61.20.
UPDATE II: Visa is definitely now open with volume of over 43,000,000 shares and price of $59.48 […]
The FED Announcement
18 March 2008Today the FOMC lowers Fed Funds rate by 75 bps to 2.25% and cuts the discount rate another 75 bps to 2.50% following the emergency 25 bps cut over the weekend.
Visa to IPO Tomorrow
17 March 2008Jim Cramer said tonight to buy the Visa ipo, explaining that Visa has almost no credit risk because the firm profits from financial transactions, not from loans. So, are you going to lay down some coin for V-Visa, Inc. on Tuesday, March 18, 2008?
JPMorgan Chase To Acquire Bear Stearns for $2 a Share
16 March 2008BSC - Bear Stearns, facing collapse because of the mortgage crisis, agreed Sunday evening (03/16/08) to be bought by JPMorgan Chase for a bargain-basement price of less than $250 million.
The all-stock deal values Bear Stearns at about $2 a share, based on JPM - JPMorgan’s closing stock price on Friday 03/14/08. In contrast, shares of […]
The Federal Reserve Cuts Its Lending Rate a Quarter Point
16 March 2008Today (Sunday, 03/16/08) the Federal Reserve announced it was cutting its lending rate to financial institutions to 3.25 percent from 3.50 percent to help provide relief to a spreading credit crisis.
Visa IPO Date
15 March 2008The V - Visa, Inc. IPO date is slated for 03/20/08 - 03/21/08 vicinity. That is next Thursday, March 20 or Friday, March 21, 2008. Remember, these are tentative dates and you just have to keep checking until you get the hard date. Now, anyone can get a piece of the Visa IPO pie as […]
VISA Set to IPO Sometime Next Week
13 March 2008V - Visa, Inc. is still set to IPO sometime next week (406 million shares at $37-42 a share). Have you been selling into this relief rally to raise some funds for a bit of Visa stock? If the Visa IPO goes as well as the Mastercard IPO went, it will definitely be worth it. […]
