Savvis Chief Executive Phil Koen started his PowerPoint presentation this morning with a picture not of a server farm or a network operations center, but an electric dynamo, circa 1900. His point: Back then, every factory had its own electricity…

Savvis, the telecommunications firm based in west St. Louis County, is asking shareholders for permission to cancel old, currently worthless stock options and replace them with new ones at a lower exercise price.

Savvis’ shares have fallen by 64 percent in…

A year-end rally meant that six St. Louis companies saw their stock prices rise in 2008, up from the four I highlighted in a previous post. Commerce Bancshares and Esco Technologies eked out gains to join the four solid performers…

I don’t know of anyone who invests solely in stocks based on geographical proximity, but based on 20-20 hindsight, a Mound-City-centric  portfolio would have been a winner in 2006. The Bloomberg St. Louis Index of 45 local stocks is up 19.8…