Bare Escentuals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BARE) may be one sweet spot that is at least partially immune from the ups and downs of consumer spending. Today we are getting word out of Lazard Capital Markets…
Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) is set to report earnings after today’s close. It may very well take the back seat compared to the attention that Apple will get, but this will be one…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is set to report earnings after the market closes today. This is actually just the first quarter for its fiscal 2008, but this is also the quarter with the Christmas…
It is all over now for Motorola (MOT) and Palm (PALM). They might have had a chance to pick up enough market shares to dig themselves out of the holes of late products, crummy…
Below is a list of Dow Jones Industrial Average components that are actually down the least on an ugly day. There has been news on most of these or if not there was on…
It is going to be hard to get traders to care about mere upgrades and downgrades on a day when the Federal Reserve did an inter-meeting emergency rate cut to stave off a 500+…
The Federal Reserve has decided to finally take action to at least catch up to the markets with an inter-meeting emergency rate cut. The FOMC has announced a 75 basis point rate cut in…
On a day that DJIA futures are indicating a -500 point drop in the market, it is pretty hard to focus on the individual news out there in each stock. There are actually a…
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) announced record sales of $16.0 billion for the fourth quarter of 2007, an increase of 16.6% as compared to the fourth quarter of 2006. Net earnings and diluted earnings per…
If you have been trading stocks for more than 10-years, you will remember that Iomega (NYSE: IOM) used to be a monster stock for a brief period of time. That time came and went…
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has just posted earnings at $0.05 EPS, while First Call had estimates at $0.18 on last look. Net income was actually $268 million in the quarter even though B…
A survey of earnings estimates at S&P 500 companies shows that their outlook for Q1 is for growth to be only 4% with a 4.2% increase in the second quarter. That is "down from…
Today is going to be a critical day in the financial markets. U.S. markets were closed on Monday while it was a financial blood bath on Monday in the E.U. and Asia and Tuesday…
Getting a much-needed investment when a company is in deep trouble is nice. But, when it damages the firm’s public reputation it takes away some of the joy of surviving. According to the FT,…
Early indications are the that new Motorola Razr2 may not have had such a hot fourth quarter. According to Bloomberg "Motorola probably sold 2 million Razr 2s, the slimmer camera phones (the company) is…