courtesy of MicrosoftIt turns out that smaller is better, at least in the world of personal computers. This runs against the tide of other industries. In the fast-food business, bigger burgers are better, at…
ThinkstockJohnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) has been one of the great health care and consumer products survivors of our lifetimes. Even the latest round of over-the-counter quality control flaws did not cripple the great…
courtesy of Pandora MediaPandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) had only just recently seen a slew of ongoing insider stock trading, yet all of a sudden a musical genome is the greatest thing since sliced…
ThinkstockQualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a definite winner among the smartphone and tablet wars against the traditional PC market. All you have to do is look at the trends in smartphone growth projected from…
September 11, 2013: U.S. markets opened mixed on Wednesday morning with the Nasdaq Composite trailing as investors reacted to the new iPhone products announced yesterday by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Analysts downgraded the stock for…
courtesy of Verizon WirelessVerizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) scored more points with investors and analysts now that the firm has agreed to purchase the remaining 45% stake of Verizon Wireless held by Vodafone Group…
courtesy of AppleMaybe you have heard about the death of the personal computer market. If you think you have heard it before, you might want to look much closer now. Tablets and smartphones are not…
The boom of investor interest in the field of 3D printing may be coming to a serious end, or at least entering a period where some value concerns have to at least be considered.…
Wikimedia Creative Commons, JohnnyMrNinjaExpensive coffee and movie rentals are in a different class from daily food intake, home heating fuel and the cost of clothing children for school. It is heartening then that the…
ThinkstockWhich way the future of Greece goes is still up in the air. If you read enough of the financial and political news coming out of and about the European Union and the nations…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Wednesday morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories decreased by 200,000 barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial crude inventory to 360 million…
ThinkstockCost-cutting and price-cutting have been the major trends in the oil field services sector for at least the past year. It is hard to know which is the chicken and which the egg, but…
courtesy of AppleCredit Suisse is not impressed at all with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and its new iPhone 5 models. We agree, as does Bank of America/Merrill Lynch with its key downgrade this morning.…
Jim Henderson, via Wikimedia CommonsSears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) is still an awful retailer, yet shares rose by 13% or so on Tuesday after a report opined that Sears could be worth more than…
Jon OggStocks have recovered from a recent sell-off, and investors and traders alike are looking for ideas about which stocks to buy, sell and avoid. 24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens of Wall Street analyst…