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VeriFone (NYSE:PAY) is seeing shares crushed today after the company issued a release stating that it was going to restate financial results and quarterly financial statements for 2007.  This is due...
In the current credit environment, there are several fairly big companies that could get in enough trouble that it would wipe out the common shareholders. The ones in the financial industry like...
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) issued a release today with the news that it has received a letter from the Board of Directors of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC confirming that the company has regained compliance...
Wednesday is much more than Halloween and it is more than the FOMC announcement date.  We have an event that has been perhaps more influential to many key stocks than the upcoming announcement on...
"AT&T Inc.(T), the biggest U.S. phone company, and No. 2 Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) may follow General Motors Corp. (GM) in trying to shift retiree health-care liabilities to a union-run...
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) has decided to do something that is probably not coincidental.  It announced that it has completed its internal investigation and will restate its financials.  Any shot this was...
General Electric’s (NYSE:GE) 10-Q filing included some accounting changes that will have an impact on results from the years 2000 to 2004.  Before you have a conglomerate accounting irregularity...
Stock Tickers: NWRG, BAGL, PNRA New World Restaurant Group, Inc. (NWRG-PINKSHEET) is back to the old Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc. name and will trade under the ticker "BAGL" on NASDAQ after...
Wal-Mart (WMT-NYSE) finally remembered that they are a public company today because they have held their annual shareholder meeting.  This proves that the company is truly owned by the investors for...
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL-NASDAQ) reports earnings after the close today.  This is a coin toss going in because the company has been deliquent in its SEC filings for 3 quarters.  So the...
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The outlook for Lockheed Martin is stable. The US Defense budget is expected to rise a meager 14.3% over the next 4 years (from $439B in 2007 to $502B in 2011), roughly 3% a year. This however does...
If you look through the Vonage Holdings’ (VG-NYSE) annual report just filed with the SEC, you might end up asking yourself if the company is just an accounts payable entity that funds lawyers and...