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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Fast Money Recap	Trade Off Merrill Lynch Charlie Gasparino joined the traders to discuss Merrill Lynch (MER). He explained that Merrill announced its raising a lot capital after they said they didn’t need to. The company said Singapore-based Temasek Holdings agreed to buy $3.4 billion of new Merrill shares and Merrill’s management plans to buy 750,000 shares of common stock. Gasparino said the move will dilute shareholders and it goes against what John Thain said he would do a year ago if the brokera...	July 28, 2008
The 52-Week Low Club 7/23/2008 (MIR)(CVG)(ADTC)(FORM)	Mirant (MIR) Downgrade from Lehman Brothers. Falls off to $30.90 from 52-week high of $44.61. Convergy (CVG) Good profits, but cuts forecast. Sells down to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...	July 23, 2008
Options Spike: NRG Energy & Mirant (NRG, MIR)	There are two options contracts that are the most active on the CBOE today, and both are electric producers and power generation. NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) and Mirant Corp. (NYSE: MIR) hold the two top spots for options trading so far this morning. NRG’s JUL08 $42.50 CALL with 15,005 contracts traded, and prior open interest of 2,168 contracts. Mirant’s JUL08 $40.00 CALL with 15,026 contracts traded, prior open interest of 1,734 contracts. This is far from normal optio...	June 26, 2008
Major Block Trade: Mirant (MIR)	Mirant Corp. (NYSE: MIR) is seeing shares up 0.9% at $40.86 on heavy volume of 11.7 million shares as of 10:02 AM EST. While there hasn’t been any fresh news on the stock, there was a rather unusual trade. A single block trade posted on the tape for 8,498,396 shares at $40.90 at 9:46. As this was listed as being on an $0.11 downtick it has to be assumed that this was an institution selling. If this was a held trade or delayed report, then all bets are off there as to what the block...	June 23, 2008
Wednesday Option Rap: YUM, CPWR, WFMI and FCX	Filed under: Major movement, Earnings reports, Whole Foods Market (WFMI), Compuware Corp (CPWR), Yum Brands (YUM), Options, Freep't McMoRan Copper (FCX)The markets saw mild gains Wednesday, taking back some of yesterday's losses. The NYSE had volume of 2.6 billion shares with 1,783 shares advancing while 1,490 declined for a gain of 61.12 points to close at 10,014.69. On the NASDAQ, 1.9 billion shares traded, 1,629 advanced and 1,400 declined for a gain of 12.63 to 2,651.79. Compuware (NASDAQ: C...	July 11, 2007
Pre-Market Stock News (June 22, 2007)	(ADM) ADM is entering the sugarcane ethanol business in Brazil.(ALXN) Alexion Pharmaceuticals was granted marketing approval in Europe for its PNH treatment.(AMN) Ameron announced dividend boost from $0.20 to $0.25e.(BSC) Bear Stearns is planning a $3.2 Billion loan to try to rescue a distressed fund.(BX) Blackstone IPO priced at $31.00.(ETN) Eaton selling its mirror controls business for $111 million.(GRRF) China Grentech will supply WiFi equipment for China Mobile’s Olympic wireless LAN.(JBL...	June 22, 2007
Monday Market Rap: DOW, DNDN, BID, BNI, MIR & QCOM	Filed under: Major movement, QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Sotheby's (BID), Dow Chemical (DOW), Economic data, OilThe markets were mostly range-bound today, ending relatively flat near where they started. Oil saw a decline of 4% as the Iran crisis premium comes out of the energy market. Markets liked Friday's strong jobs report with 4.4% unemployment rate; but concerns over China trade issues worried it. The NYSE had volume of 2.3 billion shares with 1,599 shares advancing while 1,666 declined for a gai...	April 09, 2007
Stop Trading	"Stop Trading" started today with Jim talking of how Dynergy (DYN) is heading to $13. News concerning Mirant (MIR) being up for sale seems to be lifting the entire group, with NRG (NRG) benefiting from a positive note from Jefferies. These and infrastructure plays like Foster Wheeler (FWLT) look good due to price of oil. DYN chief Bruce Williamson is a "fabulous manager" according to Jim and should be given more credit.A Credit Suisse downgrade of D.R. Horton (DHI) and Pulte (PHM) was "applau...	April 09, 2007
Mirant Explores Options	Mirant (NYSE:MIR) announced very early this AM that they have hired JP Morgan to explore strategic alternatives. On Thursday options volume spiked noticeably so someone knew something was up. There should be an investigatigation and sanctions.Management has been very quiet with very little in the way of announcements and or press releases in recent past. Mirant has been a phoenix rising from the ashes. Lately the fundamental picture has been looking very good. A series of cash sales of some ...	April 09, 2007
Thursday Market Rap: DCX, MRX, ACI, MIR, MO	Filed under: Major movement, DaimlerChrysler (DCX), Medicis Pharmaceutical (MRX), Altria Group (MO), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Options, Economic dataThe markets slowed worked higher through today's trading session and ahead of the long weekend. New US unemployment claims rose by 11,000, to 321,000 mostly inline with forecasts of 320,000. Kirk Kerkorian's made a 4.5 billion dollar offer for DaimlerChrysler (NYSE: DCX) lifting the auto sector. The NYSE had volume of 2.3 billion shares with 1,993 shar...	April 05, 2007

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