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The Week’s Financial News: Are Japanese stocks a buy? Why the Penthouse IPO now looks like a prom queen… and profiting from the Beijing Olympics.

April 11, 2008 · Filed Under News that Matters · Comment 
by J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore — (TFN): American Airlines (AMR) stranded a quarter million passengers (and counting) at the nation’s airports. The markets continued on their unimpressive sideways up-and-down-again two step. And Hillary Clinton added to her artful dodging of sniper’s bullets by Matrix-like evading questions regarding the lacy inconsistencies between what her campaigners say and [...]

Penthouse IPO: Forbes is joining the party

April 9, 2008 · Filed Under US Stocks and Markets · Comment 
Blogger’s Note: I just checked my list of upcoming IPOs for the second quarter of 2008. Would you be surprised that there is almost nothing on that list at this point? Looks like underwriters expect that the Visa IPO managed to mop up the last spills of liquidity. The only IPO that’s still being talked [...]