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Are Oracle’s Earnings a Fluke?

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 6:10 am

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) earnings missed almost all Wall St. estimates and its shares fell 8%. The company has been among the most successful in the tech sector for years. Was ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (T, FFIV, URBN, AMGN, BAX, CAG, GIS, NAV, SAFM, JEF, NKE, ORCL, TRGT, CIE, CSIQ, PBH, HOV, CVS)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 4:06 pm

US equity markets opened sharply higher this morning and have been able to sustain and even add to those gains throughout the day. Business and consumer confidence indexes in Europe ...
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Full 360-Degree Oracle Earnings Preview (ORCL, INTC, CSCO, SAP)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 12:30 pm

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is going to be an important earnings report for after the close.  The company now has some hardware component sales after the Sun Microsystems bailout, something ...
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Media Digest (12/12/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 12, 2011 at 4:12 am

Worries about the EU solution to the sovereign debt crisis rise. (Reuters) U.S. firms will be asked to disclose relationships with Syria and Iran. (FT) Many jobless Americans face cut off ...
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Best and Worst Run Companies in America

Posted: December 8, 2011 at 6:26 am

Many American companies have done incredibly well this year. A number posted extraordinary financial results in 2011. Others have launched products that revolutionized markets. Of course, many big public corporations ...
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The Newest Fortune 100 Companies

Posted: December 2, 2011 at 6:42 am

Most of America’s largest companies are also among its oldest companies. In fact, many of the Fortune 100 firms are more than a century old. Almost none were founded in ...
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Oracle Hammers on HP, Intel Over Chip Plans (ORCL, HPQ, INTC)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 9:49 am

Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) has turned up the heat in a lawsuit filed last May by Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) seeking to require that Oracle meet what HP says are ...
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Upside Potential for Big Technology Stocks (AAPL, GOOG, INTC, MSFT, ORCL, IBM, HPQ, DELL)

Posted: November 17, 2011 at 8:01 am

Among the hundreds of technology stocks, there are a relative handful of companies that stand out as bellwethers for the entire industry. Some are on the list for historical reasons; ...
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Google to Help Vendors Fight the “Apple Thing” (GOOG, AAPL, MSFT, SSNLF, HTCKF, MMI, ORCL)

Posted: November 10, 2011 at 12:05 pm

On a visit to Taiway yesterday, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt told smartphone makers that the company will support its manufacturing partners “because we think the Apple thing ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (AGNC, AKAM, APKT, CSCO, ORCL)

Posted: October 27, 2011 at 8:59 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of American Capital Agency Corp (NASDAQ: AGNC), Akamai Technologies, Inc. ...
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24/7 Closing Bell (ORCL, RNOW, CAT, MCD, IVN, PAL, RGLD, MAT, SJM, SLE, CI, HS, ETN, LO, METR, NFLX, TXN, ADLR, MOBI, ASYS, SXCI, DRAM)

Posted: October 24, 2011 at 4:12 pm

Stocks opened higher this morning, helped along by a host of merger announcements. Techs got boost when Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) said it would pay $1.5 billion for cloud-based customer ...
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Endless Mergers… More to Come! (CBST, ADLR, HS, CI, CVH, MAT, RNOW, ORCL, SLE, SJM, ANDS, NYX)

Posted: October 24, 2011 at 10:24 am

Monday is called "Merger Monday" for a reason and this morning is a classic example of its namesake.  We have seen multiple deals and news outstanding on pending deals.  We ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (10/24/2011) Caterpillar And Kimberly Earnings, Oracle M&A

Posted: October 24, 2011 at 8:44 am

CNN Money: Some M&A activity this AM: Cigna to acquire HealthSpring in $3.8B deal; Oracle is buying RightNow Tech in $1.5B deal. $CI, $HS, $ORCL, $RNOW NYT: Sara Lee to ...
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Microsoft and Good News for the Corporate Economy

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 6:20 am

Some economists argue that while businesses have recovered a great deal from the recession, American workers have not. There is some proof of that in Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) latest quarterly ...
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Expected Upside Gains For Leading Tech Companies (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, INTC, ORCL)

Posted: October 10, 2011 at 4:01 pm

Analysts keep predicting share price growth even in the face of a sagging global economy. How optimistic are they? Here's a look at five technology companies -- Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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