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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 [...]

Where the Visa IPO Money Went

“When Visa IPOed in March, the company reserved $3 billion of its jaw-dropping, record-breaking $19.7 billion public offer for what it called a litigation fund, and now we know why.” — Stephanie Grimmett by Stephanie Grimmett Baltimore – (TFN): It’s three months later, and we’re finally learning what all of that IPO money was for. When Visa [...]

This Week’s Financial News: Paulson has an idea, Bear Stearns ain’t a cheap floozy and mind the overspray

"At least the U.S. economy has started to look more like a soap opera and less like a Greek tragedy this week. Maybe we can get out of the current market situation without having to watch every player die a bloody, violent death, afterall… or maybe not. Either way, I’d bring a an umbrella to [...]

Visa IPO Aftermath: Europe’s in trouble, but China’s buying

“The antitrust investigation is standard procedure, according to the commission. But when Mastercard went through the same standard procedure last year, the commission ruled that its exchange fee system was contrary to the EU’s antitrust rules.” — Stephanie Grimmett by Stephanie Grimmett Baltimore – (TFN): Maybe Visa already knew this was coming three years [...]

This Week’s Financial News: Bear Stearns crumbles, mortgages now back the dollar and Visa comes to the rescue

"You can just imagine the scene enacted last weekend: Ben Bernanke on his knees begging pal Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s CEO, to rescue Bear Stearns from imploding in a panic and creating a blackhole large enough to suck the rest of the U.S.’s banking industry in with it. Jamie agreed to help out his [...]

MasterCard and Visa: The Next Big Banking Crisis

Baltimore — (TFN): As U.S. financial institutions are still hoping that the end of the subprime mortgage crisis — and billion-dollar losses — is just around the corner, a new, severe crisis is shaping up for MasterCard and Visa, two companies that so far have profited nicely from the credit crunch. Find out just how these [...]

Visa IPO: First-day jitters and jumps

“Possibly, Visa saw a future government clampdown before the rest of us noticed it and decided to refashion itself in preparation. Or maybe it just wanted to streamline its inner workings before it went public.” — Stephanie Grimmett by Stephanie Grimmett Baltimore – (TFN): Weeeeeeeeeeee! — that would be the sound of Visa’s [...]

Visa IPO Moved Up a Day!

“The largest IPO in U.S. history will happen a day earlier than expected, meaning, as you read this on Tuesday, Visa could be pricing its shares.” — Stephanie Grimmett by Stephanie Grimmett Baltimore – (TFN):  Visa just moved up its IPO date. The largest IPO in U.S. history will happen a day earlier [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): The podcast for our latest 60-Second Buzz video, featuring guest expert from Ian Cooper, can now be downloaded to your iTunes or PodcastAlley.com accounts. Nine Ways to Profit from the Diving Dollar… Sign up here!    Visa IPO: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download    Visa IPO: Play Now | Play in Popup [...]

Visa IPO: How to Profit from Visa’s initial public offering

  Baltimore — (TFN):  Unless you have friends in high places, you can just about forget about getting into Visa stock pre-IPO. To invest in this historic American IPO, you would have to wait and jump in on the Visa buying rush on the day of IPO. Sure, this may not be a [...]

Visa IPO and JPMorgan: How bad bank earnings and a runaway IPO may create the perfect trading opportunity

 "A slew of bad earnings reports for U.S. banking companies may shave off another 10% off JPMorgan’s (JPM:NYSE) share price — just in time for a potential bounce of up to 15% on the Visa IPO (V:NYSE) on Thursday." — J. Christoph Amberger +++A TFN Smart Trading Special Action Alert+++ by J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore — (TFN): Last [...]

Visa IPO: How to profit from a historic American IPO

"You have a number of options to profit from Thursday’s Visa IPO. First, you could simply try to buy shares in the aftermarket. In a best-case scenario, you would buy at or near the issue price and watch your shares go up followeing the same trajectory as MasterCard or, even better, Google. But there are [...]

Visa IPO: Buy this “under-the-radar” stock now

“In a market virtually frozen by credit and bank woes, and tumultuous economic uncertainty, Visa could put an end to pent-up salivating investor demand for any company not suffering from credit issues.” — Ian Cooper by Ian Cooper Baltimore — (TFN): The biggest beneficiaries of Visa’s IPO will be the Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and JP [...]

This Week’s Financial News: More Visa IPO, record gold prices, Ashley Alexandra Dupre… and when to buy depressed real estate

"The markets closely match the popular mood. With the same headless abandon that investors bought vinyl-clad tract mansions just two years ago, they are now piling into the treacherous safety of gold and oil. Any port in a storm. And in panic-stricken financial market, anything that moves up looks like a decent port." — J. [...]

Foreign Investment: Kuwait and the Visa IPO

"Because of falling prices, (the Kuwait sovereign fund) has become increasingly interested in making investments in European and U.S. financial-services and real-estate companies." — William Patalone Blogger’s Note: William Patalone of Investor’s Daily Edge has a scoop on the Visa IPO. It seems Kuwait’s sovereign fund would like to own part of on [...]

This Week’s Financial News: Visa IPO, Canadian miner, gold prices and — stock market friendfinder?

by J. Christoph Amberger, President TFN Baltimore — (TFN): Another terrible week in the stock markets has come to an ignominious end. The U.S. economy may not be quite as damaged as the media reports imply, but even I find it difficult to see a silver lining in the data, the remaining presidential candidates — [...]

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: Profit from a Historic Initial Public Offering

by Ian Cooper, Small-Cap Pit Trader Baltimore — (TFN): Two years after the MasterCard IPO, shares catapulted from $43 to more than $200. But with greater market share and reach than MasterCard, Visa and its coming record-breaking IPO may be too good to pass up. In a market virtually frozen by credit and bank woes, and tumultuous [...]

Visa IPO: The biggest in U.S. history?

"This might be your chance to get into the next biggest IPO. Something groundbreaking is about to happen in the land of initial public offerings." — Ann Sosnowski by Ann Sosnowski Baltimore – (TFN):  In April 2000, AT&T Wireless (AWE:NYSE) unveiled the largest IPO in American history, raising $10.6 billion! A little [...]

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