Caterpillar continues to struggle in its sales of heavy equipment. About the only good news to come out of its its fourth-quarter sales trends report is that the rate of decline in most instances…
In case you hadn't noticed, shares of BlackBerry have been on fire of late. The stock price is well above the old $9 buyout, and the stock was up a whopping 40% so far…
The Jefferies "Franchise" stock picks for 2014 are an eclectic group that may offer investors some ideas that are not highly touted on Wall Street. If the Jefferies team is right, these top stocks…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Friday, January 24, 2014. They include Juniper Networks, Microsoft, McDonald's, Pandora Media and SAP.
Honeywell International reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2013 results before markets opened Friday. The company also affirmed the fiscal 2014 guidance it offered in December.
The year 2013 was a one of accelerating growth for most software companies, and the software analysts at Merrill Lynch expect 2014 to continue to show strong growth. Here are the top six software…
As part of its effort to put past mistakes behind it, Hewlett-Packard sold Palm's mobile operating system to LG Electronics last year, and on Thursday, HP announced that it had sold 1,400 U.S. Palm…
Procter & Gamble reported second-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Friday, and its outlook for the rest of 2014 looks a bit shaky. Anyone with new ideas for how P&G might prosper and…
Xerox is one of those old world technology companies that many investors have forgotten about. The office equipment and copier company, and now cloud storage player, has reported earnings that at least allow for…
Hackers roam the Internet world, seemingly randomly. They apparently operate in China, North Korea, Syria and parts unknown (maybe even within the United States). They are hard to find, which means they are hard…
New General Motors CEO Mary Barra recently and told reporters that she has no radical plans for the No. 1 car company in the United States. Given GM's size and dinosaur-like management, she stated…
As Microsoft's revenue reaches the high-water mark in its history, and does so because it has been able to change the way it conducts business, Steve Ballmer has become the best person to take…
ThinkstockLast December, 16.2% of all home sales involved distressed properties, according to a recent report. These homes were sold at an average discount of nearly 40% when compared to conventional, non-distressed homes. Housing data…
MicrosoftMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported second-quarter fiscal 2014 results after markets closed Thursday. The software behemoth reported diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.78 on revenues of $24.52 billion. In the same period last year…
courtesy of TwitterSocial media isn’t just a platform for hipsters. Even savvy old Wall Street investors like activist Carl Icahn see it as way to make their point when they have a beef with…