Stocks: (YHOO)(GOOG)(NWS)Bill Miller, one of the world's greatest money managers, had his worst year in over a decade. His investments in EBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! killed his performance in 2006. ... Read Full Story »
Stocks: (BBY)(WMT)(TGT)(COST)Best Buy reported earnings and Wall St. was disappointed. Revenue came in fine, up over 15% to almost $8.5 billion. But, EPS was $.31 and investors wanted $.35. The ... Read Full Story »
Stock Tickers: RHT, RHAT, MSFT, ORCL, NOVLRed Hat, the leader of a standalone Linux O/S and Office Suite for in-store boxed software suites, has completed its transition from a NASDAQ ... Read Full Story »
Stock Tickers: HPQ, DELL, SYMCI am not questioning who is running Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) at all. That is quite clear, and we all know it is effectively Hurdlett-Packard.What is not clear ... Read Full Story »
Goldman Sachs (GS) posted earnings this morning at $6.59 on a diluted basis, but the number before items is a tad higher at $6.77 EPS, The street was looking for ... Read Full Story »
(AGN) Allergan noted as Buy by Cramer on MAD MONEY after he interviewed the CEO on TV.(ALNY) Alnylam Pharma filed to sell 4.7M shares.(AQNT) aQuantive is acquiring privately-held Accipiter for ... Read Full Story »
AA cut to Underperform at RBC.ALO raised to Neutral at Cowen.ALU started as Ooutperform at Morgan Keegan.ALLT started as Outperform at Piper Jaffray.APPB raised to Mkt Perform at Raymond James.CCJ ... Read Full Story »
Stocks: (YHOO)(MSFT)(GOOG)Yahoo! is opening it advertising search marketing system, Panama, to new customers in the hopes of getting business from its major rival in the industry, Google. Like Google's CheckOut ... Read Full Story »
Stocks: (MSFT)(ORCL)(IBM)(VZ)(T)(BT)(DT)Microsoft has begun trials of a new VoIP system that will work on its server software and be intergrated into its Office suite of business software. It is probably ... Read Full Story »
Markets in Europe are narrowly mixed at 5.15 AM New York time.The FTSE is down .2% to 6,148. Barclays is down .9% to 716.5. BP is down 1.2% to 577.5 ... Read Full Story »
Stocks: (MSFT)(YHOO)(TXN)(BRCOM)(QCOM)(C)According to Reuters, the Nasdaq has launched a $5.3 billion hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange. Reuters writes that Microsoft has begun tests of its new voice over ... Read Full Story »
According to NetRatings, Yahoo! Finance remained in first place of November with 12.8 million unique visitors compared to 10.7 million for MSN Money and 10.6 million for AOL Finance. Yahoo! ... Read Full Story »
From Ticker SenseThis week’s issue of Barron’s highlights the 2007 outlook for the stock market based on the observations of Wall Street strategists. Collectively, the group is looking for stocks ... Read Full Story »
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment IdeasFor 3rd Q Chevron earnings of US$5.0 billion. Upstream earnings were US$3.5 billion, up US$200 million over the same period last year. CVX's ... Read Full Story »
Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HMC)(NTT)(NIPNY)(TM)(NEC)(CHL)(CHU)(PCW)(HBC)Markets in Asia were mixed.The Nikkei rose .7% to 16,638. Biidgestone was down .2% to 2835. Canon was .5% to 6470. Daiwa Securities was up .2% to 1321. Fuji ... Read Full Story »