Colorado stocks

UAL stock moved so sharply so fast that even a minute-by-minute tracking of UAL's price didn't reflect the damage

CEO Larry Mizel sells $12.8 million worth of stock Monday

Jim Cramer expects a deal soon, but a prominent tax analyst suggests caution

The shoemaker's now-filed quarterly report discloses talks with its bankers

Liberty Media's new director isn't independent - he's the son of chairman John Malone

The Denver ethanol provider seems headed for bankruptcy

A report from Reuters may overstate Liberty's desire to acquire AOL's dial-up business

On top of every other problem, now it can't file its 10-Q on time

MDC President David Mandarich makes a $3.2 million profit Thursday

Ernst & Young settles with the SEC over charges it wasn't really indepepndent

The Janus top marketer gets $1 million from the sale of stock

Try less than $1, a short-seller says

Transmontaigne narrowly avoided joining the now-bankrupt concern in 2006

Frontier's new partner gives warm fuzzy love to the airline's animals, but will likely give "flip" a different meaning

The Parent Co. toys with its investors by delaying disclosure on its new borrowing

How does a 60% return in eight days sound?

Timothy Wolf is separating from the company, more or less

There are a lot of behind-the-scenes rules that explain why the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post anoint different winners and losers at each quarter's end

A little-known Jefferson County gold company is a recommendation in Barron's mid-year roundtable

Local Matters and Ellora Energy are still updating prospectuses filed in 2006

Does a $500 million debt call have greater significance?

If Isonics' stock was actually worth something, the shareholders would be up in arms. But they've already had plenty to be angry about.

There are plenty of believers in Evergreen Energy

Intrepid Potash continues its rise into the ranks of Colorado's biggest

Documents for a corporate reorganization reveal paychecks for Discovery Channel execs

The battered shoemaker gives us more bad news

The adult entertainment company goes down

Is it a rare case of good news at the end of the week?

The popular financial site trains its scope on Colorado companies' disclosures

Two executive-pay prosoposals pass - with the help of the people who devised them

The first-quarter bad-loan provision exceeds the one for all of 2007

One reader applauds MDC's management, while another said ProLogis' house-buying benefit is common

What do you give the executive who owns billions in stock? How about 500,000 options?

Gary Black remains in the top job, buys stock

The strip-club owner says goodbye to its chief financial officer as it fails to file a 10-K (UPDATED with new CFO)

We learn how Molson Coors determines Pete Coors' pay - and get some detail about compensation for the next generation of the family

Bonus time was a good time at the Centennial-based movie-advertising company.

The security company files to file its annual report for a host of reasons

The commercial real-estate company is losing money buying and selling its executives' homes

A new employment contract for ProLogis CEO Jeffrey Schwartz sets a ceiling on his pay for the next five years

Kevin O'Hara gets a package small by golden parachute standards

If you're one of those folks who thinks brand-new and improved change-in-control agreements augur a potential takeover, you might want to keep an eye on Red Robin.

Difficult times call for a more effective incentive, the company says

The mining company solicited a sufficient number of 'yes' votes to go through with a sale

The Greenwood Village payment-processing company posts a loss after going private

The Denver homebuilder has deals to pay board members and the wives and children of executives

The homebuilder asks shareholders for permission to pay its top execs in good times and bad

A director and CEO Ron Snyder make bullish moves

IRS proven wrong? No, IRS failing to stick to principle

The small mining company didn't get the votes it needed to sell out

A late surge in Celgene shares helped the Pharmion deal close at its stated price

The company says its own press releases and conference calls "generate more controversy than clarity."

The IRS claimed $2 billion of inappropriate deductions, but Liberty has to give up just $546 million of them

Steven Cohen's S.A.C. Capital Advisors cuts stake from 8.3 percent to 6 percent

The mutual-fund manager takes an $18.2 million loss after stepping in to protect investors in its money-market funds

A new executive pay plan will deliver millions for potentially underwhelming results

The major proxy advisers come out in favor of the Celgene deal

The Denver mineral company does another offering - will it work out as well as the last one?

A potential delisting for a stock way below the minimums

The biggest publicly traded asset manager takes a shine to Janus, Delta Petroleum and Qwest

Another significant investor may be signaling unhappiness with the company's sale to Celgene

Real Goods Solar files for an IPO to cash in on a sector that's been hotter than the sun

Mohan Misra is seeing returns from a lifetime of research

The DISH Network press release leads to incorrect conclusions - like mine

Steven Cohen tells the Boulder drugmaker it's selling too low

The Wall Street Journal says Liberty Media is moving to sack Bary Diller from IAC/Interactive

Some of the companies paying you money may say it's a "distribution" instead

It's not good when you release earnings, then have analysts question your liquidity

Peter Case moves to a new role as Motorola vet arrives (UPDATED with details on stock award)

The hedge fund manager now owns 8.3%

Agrium, the Canadian company planning to buy Greeley’s United Agri Products, says it’s pulled back its filing with U.S. antitrust regulators in order to provide more information.

The Niwot shoemaker incents its execs with options (UPDATED)

I wade into the waters to challenge my Crocs-loving critics (UPDATED to clarify the "tips" received by the RMN.)

Longtime Vail Resorts exec Bill Jensen gets a CEO job - somewhere else

The CEO exercises options and keeps the shares during Monday's disastrous day

So much for the theory that momentum traders were out of the stock

The struggling company gets a reprieve from Nasdaq as it sells off most of its operations

Ellora Energy will finally go public after more than a year of trying.

CNBC stock-picker Jim Cramer looks to Level 3 in 2008, despite it being one of his worst choices of 2007

Regulators seem positive on the Celgene deal, but the market continues to punish the companies

Why wait until Tuesday's paper to see the list of Colorado stock performance?

VCG Holding starts trading under "VCGH," leaving behind a handful of companies with custom ticker symbols

Give Simtek credit for revealing how frustrated its shareholders are

Check the op-ed pages' take on Newmont's Indonesian troubles

Steven A. Cohen says he might take a more active role in talking to Pharmion management

Molson Coors and SABMiller do a little talking about how they'll operate their joint venture

The acquisition of the company by Turin Networks can give hope to all but 20 workers cut last week

Several companies are getting the boot from our quarterly stock report and the Bloomberg Colorado Rocky Mountain News Index

The deal announced today only goes to show how desperate the situation at Carrier Access had become

Pure Cycle is changing its state of incorporation from Colorado to Delaware, accepting greater shareholder rights in exchange for less annual expense.

Colorado Pink-Sheet company Avitech LifeSciences has had its trading suspend by the SEC

The Denver company slipped away to North Carolina earlier this year

Local companies, large and small, feel the pressure

Speculators are going nuts just as the company's biggest shareholder is bailing out. (UPDATED with link to recent Barron's article.)

A new public company has a CEO with an unusual background

We barely know General Moly, yet a takeout is rumored

Early entreaties by Agrium were rejected, ultimately leading to 50% more money for United Agri Products shareholders

How do you get a 5-cent stock to $1? A 1-for-20 reverse split.

The company is delisted, headed for the OTC Bulletin Board

Not as sexy as it sounds

A look at the best and worst performers in the state

The company says it expects to keep at least 75% of the tax savings from deductions the IRS says are inappropriate

As the company hits new lows, the company's founder and chairman is boosting his holdings. (UPDATED with another share purhcase).

The AMEX will allow the Colorado Springs company until Feb. 14 to get its third-quarter report filed

Stalled in buying Home Shopping Network, Liberty Media may have a new target. (UPDATED with extended comments from Liberty CEO Greg Maffei.)

The outsourcing company avoids default due to its late filings

The Cheyenne-based James R.Belcher bought Western Gas Resources stock in advance of its sale. (UPDATED with Holland & Hart comment)

The former Affordable Residential Communities may have ended its run at Downey Financial, a troubled California real-estate company.

Which Colorado insiders are among the nation's biggest buyers and sellers of their companies' stock?

Agrium "creates another Canadian powerhouse in the booming agricultural sector," according to
the Globe & Mail.

Read what the CEOs of Agrium and United Agri Products are telling their employees

A 30% premium isn't enough to keep class-action lawyers at bay in the sale of United Agri Products

When you pick up your copy of Barron's tomorrow, expect a story on Douglas County's Western Union. The weekly Friday-night preview press release says this:

Maximum Dynamics' final filing as a public company is comical - and a lesson about those who protest short-selling too much

Here's a twist on the typical tale of Mexican nationals and identity theft

Today's column sheds additional light on situations I described in previous posts about insider transactions at Pharmion and Crocs.

The announced price of the Celgene-Pharmion deal is $72. So why isn't that where Pharmion trades?

Janus has boosted its stake in John Malone's international cable company. It's mathematical modeling that's driving the buying.

Security With Advanced Technology is trying to SWAT its president.

There's insider trading, but there's no such thing as "insider tax minimization," which is good for Gillian Ivers-Read, an executive vice president at Pharmion.

As Crocs struggles to recover, BusinessWeek joins the New York Times in second-guessing the company

Hilltop Holdings makes a play - from Dallas - for a troubled California real-estate company

A filing from First Data gives a clue about what Kohlberg Kravis Roberts hopes to make on the leveraged buyout.

A rundown of companies who failed to file their quarterly reports shows varied reasons for misssing the deadline

The outsourcing company revises its disclosure to provide more details on what went wrong.

The departures of three portfolio managers don't sit well with one of the most prominent evaluators of fund companies

CEO Ron Snyder's option exercise counters backward-looking examinations of Crocs' insider selling