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IPO Investing: The pipeline is still running dry

There may be pressure building. But with investors spooked, chances are the IPO market will remain as dead as Kevin Federlines singing career. Read more    Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Confidentially, Holmes, the VISA IPO may have been the last decent IPO for months to come

by J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore — (TFN): If there’s one sector that’s been battered, beaten, and pulped this year, it’s  been the IPO market. In fact, things are so bad that—despite of the successful VISA IPO—in all of Q2, there were no venture-backed offerings at all. With very good reason: Risk. You see, IPOs thrive in bull [...]

Buy Little Sheep (0968) Below HK$2.88

“With the IPO market in Asia just as lackluster as it’s been in the U.S. this year, investors were as pleased as punch that any company as healthy and growth-oriented as Little Sheep was going public. It was a small IPO, but it was enough to get the fellas in Hong Kong excited.” — Stephanie [...]

Buy This Hong Kong Hot Pot IPO

“Little Sheep Hot Pot will begin trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this Thursday to the glee of investors. The company has built an empire of 330 restaurants in China, the U.S. and Japan in less than 10 years, and it’s still predicting record profits for 2008.”– Stephanie Grimmett by Stephanie Grimmett Baltimore — (TFN): Supreme [...]

Lehman Brothers (LEH): The next bank in need of a bailout?

“Most of Wall Street’s moneymaking machines have shut down. Mortgage-securitization activity has gone kaput, while IPO and M&A activities are sputtering. Even worse, Billions of dollars of future writedowns and losses are still buried inside Wall Street’s balance sheets.” — Dan Amoss by Dan Amoss Baltimore – (TFN): Since [...]

Upcoming IPOs: Deprivation makes Penthouse look like a winner now

by J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore — (TFN): I just received a mass emailing by an old associate in the financial publishing business. It contained tantalizing glimpses of a new product the team back home at the ranch is working on. Also included was the promise of a brand-spanking new trading information service, run by a mysterious [...]

Our latest TFN Hot Stock Pick video podcast is now available

Baltimore: The video podcast for our TFN Hot Stock Pick: Indium IPO — Buy or pass on this rare metal? can now be downloaded to your iTunes or PodcastAlley.com accounts.      Indium IPO: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Our latest TFN Audio Podcast is now online!

Baltimore: The podcast for our latest Hot Stock Pick video can now be downloaded to your iTunes or PodcastAlley.com accounts. Indium IPO: Buy or pass on this rare metal?      Indium IPO: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Safe Investing: Adult web sites?

"While it is certainly not a company with high moral or ethical values, it offers investors a shot at some pretty hefty profits. " – Andrew Snyder  By Andrew Snyder Baltimore (TFN) — This market is a stock trader’s dream come true.  One day the market is up 200 points, the next day it gives back its gains [...]

Visa IPO: “Don’t be suckered in!”

"Do not forget, Visa recently announced it lost $861 million last year, on revenues of over $5.2 billion. Numbers like that do not deserve the $38 billion market cap Visa is expecting. Stay away from this one, at least until it sheds its early overvalued price." — Andrew Snyder by Andrew Snyder Baltimore — (TFN): Don’t be [...]

Visa IPO: Mind the pitfalls

  Baltimore — (TFN): When Visa offers its stock to investors in just a few weeks, it is expected to draw a record-breaking offering. Thanks to Mastercard’s recent IPO victory, Visa plans to piggyback on the success. Unfortunately, the market is dramatically different now. Visa’s share price will plunge shortly after its offering. If you want [...]

Visa IPO: Better than MasterCard?

"If you missed out on Mastercard last time, Visa could be your next chance at being a millionaire… even a billionaire." — Ann Sosnowski by Ann Sosnowski Baltimore — (TFN): In the biggest IPO offering since 2004, MasterCard Inc. (MA:NYSE) raised $2.4 billion in 2006. Investors who hopped onto that IPO could have ended up with 463% [...]

IPO Watch: Buying Discovery Channel

"With Fox airing a game show involving a lie detector and a bunch of very personal questions and ABC offering up a series called simply Dirty Sexy Money, maybe its time to gamble on middling-brow programming" — Stephanie Grimmett by Stephanie Grimmett Baltimore – (TFN) I miss the days when the Discovery Channel [...]

China IPO Backdoor Strategy: Buy this mobile content company now for less than the cost of a movie ticket!

by Stephanie Grimmett, TFN Baltimore — (TFN): China Mobile (CHL: NYSE) is as ubiquitous in its homeland as Verizon is in the United States. And the company has popped up everywhere in the last few weeks. As you may recall, Taipan recommended China Mobile, the largest Chinese cellphone company, in the June [...]

US Stock IPOs: Use this “secret” IPO Fund to buy Visa’s upcoming new IPO

“Visa could very well be the most sought after and most powerful IPO stock the world has ever seen.” — Ann Sosnowski by Ann Sosnowski, TFN Baltimore — (TFN): The IPO market has been on a tear this year. And just recently a new kid has announced intentions to move onto the IPO block, forecasting even [...]

China IPOs: Record number of US IPOs by Chinese companies spell opportunity

“In 2007, Chinese companies have represented 12% of all US IPOs, eclipsing all other foreign companies’ US IPOs combined.” Today’sFinancialNews.com Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Baltimore — (TFN): According to a report by US-based Renaissance Capital, the number of Chinese IPOs on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ is growing at a record pace. In 2007, [...]