Each January, 24/7 Wall St. forecasts the publicly traded U.S. companies that will have the highest profits in the year ahead. This year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is likely to pass ... Read Full Story »
The three partners in the launch of the new Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Windows-powered Lumia 900 smartphone -- AT&T (NYSE: T), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia -- were effusive about its chances ... Read Full Story »
CES - The Consumer Electronics Show is awash with new gadgets. Most will never see the light of day. Many will trigger tens of millions of dollars in manufacturing and ... Read Full Story »
Olympus sues its CEO and former board members for $50 million in compensation, and shares rise. (Reuters) China’s trade growth hits a two-year low in December. (Reuters) Philips warns of ... Read Full Story »
This was the first week after the holidays and many analyst calls were made this week with updated outlooks for 2012. 24/7 Wall St. saw many influential analyst calls this ... Read Full Story »
The gap between the top tier and bottom tier of handset makers continues to widen. Taiwan-based HTC posted is worst quarter in two years. But Samung’s smartphone sales pushed its fourth-quarter profits higher. ... Read Full Story »
Can Audi pass BMW, which passed Mercedes? The ongoing race for the prime position among luxury car companies in the U.S. was won by BMW in 2011. It sold 247,907 ... Read Full Story »
US markets opened lower today and finally managed modest gains by mid-afternoon. News from Europe on the reluctance of banks to lend, coupled with an higher-than-expected yield on a French ... Read Full Story »
Updated throughout the day. Pepsico (NYSE: PEP) may cut 4,000 jobs (NY Post) Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) is close to a Chapter 11 filing (WSJ) Japan Air will raise $6.4 ... Read Full Story »
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Thursday morning. AstraZeneca PLC (NYSE: AZN) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. ... Read Full Story »
Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) is getting some new competition. While companies like Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) and Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) have had patent fights with Qualcomm in years past, a ... Read Full Story »
Toyota (NYSE: TM) forecasts that it will sell 8.48 million cars and light trucks worldwide next year -- up 20% from 2011. The prediction is based on two factors. The first ... Read Full Story »
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may have an interest in buying Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) (WSJ) Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have an interest in buying RIM (Reuters) ... Read Full Story »
Prosecutors raid Olympus to gain data in a probe of the accounting scandal at the company. (Reuters) Bank of Japan says it will hold to current policies as the economy ... Read Full Story »
Markets moved up at the open with the DJIA higher by over 200 points. Market leaders included Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S), up nearly 5% as the AT&T (NYSE: T) deal with ... Read Full Story »