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stock price stories: 13 news summaries

(Newser) - The turmoil on Wall Street has left fewer analysts covering companies of all sizes, the Journal reports, leaving smaller operations struggling to connect with investors. Since September, there have been more than 2,200 instances of analysts formally dropping coverage—nearly a quarter of all research. That plunge has been... More »

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investors • Bear Stearns • Lehman Brothers • Scholastic • stock price • analyst guidance • analyst • financial crisis

Firms Reprice Employees' Worthless Stock Options

Repricing plans toss lifeline to 'underwater' stock option holders

Mar 7, 09 11:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Major firms are trying to boost morale by giving workers another chance to profit on stock options made worthless by the stock market dive, the Washington Post reports. Many employees—especially execs—are currently stuck with "underwater" options with a strike price above the trading price. Close to... More »

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Google • Starbucks • executive compensation • shareholders • shares • bear market • stock options • stock price

 Citi Posts $8.3B Loss, 
 Prepares to Split in Two 

Still smarting from bad mortgage bets, the company will split to remain solvent

Jan 16, 09 7:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Citigroup lost $8.29 billion in the fourth quarter—twice as much as expected—as the credit crisis continues to batter big banks, Bloomberg reports. The bank suffered a net loss of $1.72 per share, falling far short of analysts’ estimates. Citigroup, which lost 77 percent of its trading... More »

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Citigroup • Morgan Stanley • earnings reports • quarterly reports • stock price • bailout • Smith Barney

(Newser) - More rumors regarding the health of Steve Jobs put a crimp in Apple's stock today, the Street reports. The company's stock had been trading in positive territory until the tech blog Gizmodo quoted an anonymous but "100% reliable" source as saying Jobs' health is "rapidly declining." After... More »

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Steve Jobs • Apple • rumor • stock price

British Airways in Merger Talks with Qantas

Shares soar 12% on news

Dec 2, 08 10:15 AM CST
(AP) - British Airways is in talks with Australia's Qantas Airways about a potential merger, the firm said today, sending its shares soaring as it fueled expectations of consolidation in the hard-hit aviation industry. Already pursuing a revenue-sharing deal with American Airlines and Spain's Iberia SA, BA said it’s exploring a... More »

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Australia • airline industry • Qantas • merger • British Airways • Britain • stock price

Big Oil Takes Big Hit in Stocks' Dive

Demand slows, but company coffers
plenty full ... for now

Oct 7, 08 2:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Oil companies’ stocks are plummeting, but the majors are comfortable with long-term plans and bulging coffers, the Wall Street Journal reports. The global economy is pushing crude prices down, and analysts think measures are necessary to keep share prices up. But larger outfits like Exxon made investments based on lower... More »

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BP • credit crisis • stock price • oil companies • Exxon Mobil • oil prices • oil demand • financial crisis

SEC Halts Short Selling
on Financial Stocks

SEC suspends practice blamed for downward market pressure

Sep 19, 08 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The SEC temporarily banned short-selling of 799 financial companies today, an “emergency action" aimed at slowing sliding stock prices that have rattled investors’ confidence in recent weeks, CNNMoney reports. The practice, in which in investors borrow stock and sell it, hoping to buy it back cheaper and pocket the... More »

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stock market • markets • global market • short selling • stock price • stock buyback

(Newser) - As the stock prices of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plunged 80% this year, employees of the companies helplessly watched their fortunes sink with the ship, the New York Times reports. For instance, Fannie Mae’s workers owned $116 million in company stock at the end of 2006;... More »

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Freddie Mac • Fannie Mae • credit crisis • stock price • subprime crisis • stockholders • retirement benefits • financial crisis

OPINION

 Is There a Solar Bubble?

Parallels with now-depressed ethanol stocks sure to scare investors

May 22, 08 4:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks in solar-energy outfits are enjoying a sustained rally, but investors should remember the lesson of ethanol, Mark Gongloff writes in the Wall Street Journal. Once-loved ethanol stocks are now widely scorned—mainly because the energy source will never be viable without government subsidies. Still, despite solar’s advantages, shares... More »

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ethanol • alternative energy • solar energy • solar power • solar cells • stock price • speculation

OPINION

Ailing Yahoo! Can't Keep Up With the Times

Outmoded, mismanaged company is poised for implosion

Jan 25, 08 2:25 PM CST
(Newser) - After miraculously withstanding the dot-com crash, Yahoo is again poised to fall face first off a virtual cliff, with its plummeting stock hardly masked by national economic disrepair. But despite hemorrhaging users to Google, the company is still a huge presence on the Web, with 3 billion daily hits. So... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Web 2.0 • recession • tech stocks • stock price

Tumbling Yahoo Now a Target?

Rumors of Microsoft takeover still swirling

Jan 11, 08 9:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Yahoo's falling core value threatens the company's future and is ringing alarm bells for investors, the New York Times’ Saul Hansell warned in his "Bits" blog. The central business of Yahoo.com, excluding subsidiary holdings, is worth less than half of its current share price, and a paltry 7%... More »

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Yahoo • Wall Street • Microsoft • online advertising • mergers and acquisitions • takeover • stock price

Merrill Deal Yields $6.2B
in Capital

Bank sells discounted stock to investors, sells division to GE

Dec 24, 07 1:07 PM CST
(Newser) - With another quarter of massive writedowns looming, Merrill Lynch today announced a deal to raise up to $6.2 billion by selling discounted stock to two investors. Up to $5 billion will come from Temasek Holdings, Singapore's state-owned investment company. The other $1.2 billion comes from money managers Davis... More »

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Wall Street • subprime mortgages • Merrill Lynch • capital • Singapore • stock price

Vonage Settles Patent Dispute, Sees Shares Rise

Longer-term troubles still loom for vexed Internet phone provider

Oct 26, 07 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Troubled Internet telephone company Vonage gained a "new lease on life" yesterday when it settled a longstanding patent infringement dispute with rival Verizon. Vonage share prices shot up 70% in after-hours trading on the heels of a settlement that observers see as a "big win for Vonage,"... More »

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Vonage • Verizon • lawsuit • AT and T • Internet phone • stock price

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