There is word from The Wall Street Journal that Nokia (NOK) is in negotiations to buy Navteq (NVT), a navigation software company. The paper describes the company "as is one of the world’s leaders…
Microsoft (MSFT) will allow people and companies that license it office software to put documents online so that they can be accessed from multiple computers and shared by people who want to read or…
The Nigerian government is suing Pfizer (PFE) claiming that it "deceived patients and caused the death of 11 children in 1996 when it performed clinical trials for a new drug." According to the government,…
According to Reuters, UBS (UBS) will write-off $3.4 billion, another victim of the credit crunch. Reuters writes that the Teamsters and UPS (UPS) have come to a new contract. Reuters writes that Pfizer (PFE)…
The Hang Seng and Shanghai were closed for holidays. The Nikkei rose .3% to 16,847. Docomo (DCM) fell 1.2% to 162000. Sony (SNE) rose 1.4% to 6650. Douglas A. McIntyre
Apple (AAPL) probably already knows what its September quarter looks like, but, it could be more successful that many on Wall St. can imagine. Mac sales are being put as high as 2.17 million…
Yahoo!’s (YHOO) international operations are OK, especially if you compare them to the domestic part of the company. In the last quarter, Yahoo! US grew only 5% to $1.11 billion. International operation grew 15%…
The Wall Street Journal is reporting the UBS will write off the value of a number of instruments held in its fixed income division. Some of these are securities tied to mortgages. The Journal…
Telecom was supposed to be a business that time had passed by. VoIP, cable, and wireless internet technology like city-wide WiFi was going to bury the phone companies. But, last week AT&T (T), Verizon…
Online retailer Amazon (AMZN) hit a 52-week high last week. So did Priceline (PCLN), Expedia (EXPE), and eBay (EBAY). Even Overstock (OSTK) made the list. On the 52-week low side of the ledger, Wall…
Big tech continued to do extraordinarily well in the third quarters. Stocks that would seem to have outrun their earnings continued to climb. Among the members of the S&P 500, Apple (AAPL) rose 27%…
If most investors were asked what happened to GM’s (GM) stock price during the third quarter, they would probably say it went up. Wrong. The shares were actually off slightly. As UAW negotiations moved…
No one would be surprised to see mortgage lender Countrywide (CFC) of the list of biggest losers for the third quarter The company’s shares were down 48% to $19. The fall of Circuit City…
Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) amended the joint venture contract with Baoding Tianwei Baobian Electric Co., Ltd. under which Yingli Green Energy will contribute additional capital of US$236.6 million to its…
Hartmarx (HMX) Maker of casual and golf apparel cuts guidance. Shares fall to $4.90 from 52-week high $8.69. Standard Pacific (SPF) Home builder. Drops to $5.45 from 52-week high of $30.52. La-Z-Boy (LZB) Tough…
As quarters come to an end, with today being the quarter end, we usually like to review the top hi-flyers, usually in tech or energy of late, but we like to look for stocks…
From Silicon Alley Insider Take this for what it’s worth, but a well-placed insider at a major online media company puts the Q3 advertising revenue growth of competitors AOL (TWX) and Yahoo (YHOO) as…
Auto research firm Edmunds and other analysts say Ford’s (F) sales will drop as much as 18% in September. As one analyst quoted at MarketWatch said "New cars and trucks from other automakers, like…
A Canadian court ruled that Apotex could not market a generic version of Viagra, Pfizer’s (PFE) massively successful ED drug. Oddly, Pfizer’s shares were down 1.2% to $24.35. The Big Pharma company has watched…
If you have followed the saga of NetBank (PinkSheets:NTBK), this has been a long slow death. We’ve been reviewing this on and off for some time and never with anything positive, at least not…