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Reuters:   Small businesses are having trouble finding financing. Reuters:   VW has stopped tie-up talks with Porsche. Reuters:   The US budget chief says there are signs the economic free fall...
DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) is seeing its shares surge on news that it has received waivers from lenders.  We have been expecting this for some time, and fairly recent reports of a share sale made...
XOMA Ltd. (NASDAQ: XOMA) has seen shares on a tear yesterday and then again this morning. It was late yesterday that the company said it would also be entitled to royalties from its partner’s...
We are seeing yet another wave of secondary offerings that have priced between yesterday’s close and this morning. The offerings we have seen come to more than $1 billion and are from American...
DigitalGlobe is set to  open for trading this morning in another highly anticipated initial public offering.  The satellite imagery company will trade on the NYSE with the ticker “DGI.”  The...
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) has announced that it will raise capital via a registered public offering of some 300 million shares of common stock.  At the closing price of Ford today, this would...
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) has announced that it will be raising cash via a public secondary of its common stock.  The exploration and production company in the oil and gas sector is...
There is something far more important than the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) bond offering. It is even more important than why the company is raising the money.  This Microsoft bond offering...
The triple leverage ETF’s, the Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) and Direxion Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ), are perhaps the most volatile of all financial-stock ETF’s.  This...
This morning came a preliminary prospectus supplemental filing from Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) to sell 5-year, 10-year, and 30-year debt instruments for undisclosed terms and undisclosed...
Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) has just filed a new shelf registration statement with the SEC  to sell up to $2 billion in mixed securities.  As with most shelf registrations, no underwriters were...
Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) is selling stock to raise cash.  The company has announced a spot secondary offering of 10.7 million shares in a public secondary offering of common stock.  This...
E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has just filed with the SEC to sell up to $150 million worth of common stock.  J.P.Morgan was listed as the distribution agent, and shares may either be...
There was a new ETF launch today on the NYSE Euronext.  The WisdomTree Dreyfus Emerging Currency Fund (NYSE: CEW) marks the 50th ETF listed by WisdomTree on NYSE Arca.  The “CEW” fund will seek...
OpenTable, Inc. has set its initial public offering terms.  When this one filed to come public, there were some who thought it might not make it to market.  If today’s amended filing is any...