Stocks: (DISH)(VZ)(T) Short interest in Verizon grew in December, up 6.8 million shares over the previous month to 42.1 million. Verizon is just beginning to roll out its FiOS fiber-to-the-home platform that is costing…
Stocks: (S)(MOT)(INTC) Someone on Wall St. must think SpintNextel is going to do better. Maybe it is the big 4G WiMax the company is going to roll out to power its broadband phones. The…
Stocks: (SSP)(MSFT)(VZ)(SUNW)(RTN)(BA)(GD)(LMT) Reuters writes that economists see 2007 as another year of robuts, inflation free growth in China. The Wall Street Journal wirtes that overall holiday spending rose a modest 5.5% compared to last…
Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NIPNY)(NTT)(SNE)(TM) Asian markets were narrowly mixed. The Nikkei rose .5% to 17,169. Bridgestone was down 1.3% to 2670. Canon was down 1.2% to 6580. Fuji Film was up .3% to 4800. Hitachi was…
Stocks: (EMC)(IBM)(HPQ)(DELL)(HIT)(SYMC) EMC is the dominant player in storage hardware. But, research firm IDC recently released a report saying that IBM was dominating both EMC and Symantec in the Storage Infrastructure Software segment, EMC…
While Wall St. short sellers seem to be betting against Ford, may are not willing to wager that GM will drop as well. Short interest in the world’s largest auto maker fell by 5.9…
The short interest in Ford skyrocketed in December. The number of shares sold short was up 43.2 million from the previous month to 145 million. That is a big move both absolute and in…
Maybe there was some concern in the market that the AT&T deal with BellSouth would get pushed back again. Maybe T’s run from $22 last November to its current $35 was simply too much.…
Stocks: (WMT)(TGT)(RAD)(WAG)(COST) Walgreeen and Rite Aid both turned in excellent results for the last quarter. Part fo the message sent by both companies is that Wal-Mart’s $4 generic drug program is not hurting them.…
Stocks: (MSFT)(SNE) As the three game platforms begin true head-to-head competition with the launch of the Wii and Playstation 3, several factors could hurt Sony’s chances of having its PS3 platform from becoming an…
From BioHealth Investor The following list represents the top ten medical stocks ranked according to Earnings Per Share and Relative Strength by Investor’s Business Daily (12/23/06) scores out of 100 (last week’s rank, change…
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas After bickering with Mrs. Investment Ideas as to "why" I’ve to blog when its a holiday (I told her I function according to Middle Eastern timings!…
Stocks: (MSFT)(TWX)(YHOO) Internet ad rates have been rising faster then some customers can handle. Affordablity is website impressions is starting to become a major issue for some marketers. Some ad impressions on certain MSN…
The market is assuming that Hewlett-Packard will grow 6% next year, from its current annual revenue of $92 million. This is the company’s forecast, and CEO Mark Hurd has earned enough respect with Wall…
Microsoft has had a resurgence of sorts. The stock trades near $30, up from a 52-week low of $21.46. There is excitement in some quarters that Xbox has gained enough traction to challenge Sony’s…
The Nikkei fell .1% to 17,093. Canon was up 1% to 6760. Honda was up .6% to 673. NEC fell .9% to 562. NTT was down 1.7% to 582000. Softbank was down 2.3% to…
Stocks: (GOOG)(YHOO) Yahoo! was passed by Google in terms of unique visitors in November. Google had 475.7 compared to 475.3 for Yahoo!. All of Microsoft’s sites stayed in first place with 501.7 million according…
In Japan the were called zaibatsus, vast interconnected holding that run mulitple companies through complex cross-ownership. In Europe, the concept still invests with large banks owning pieces of major corporations and sitting on their…
A week on the Web in five minutes It was the last full trading week of the year, and StockHouse writers, editors and columnists wrapped up 2006, a year of enormous boom times for…
Garmin, the maker of portable GPS devices, has had a tremenous run. The stock traded for just above $20 in April 2005. It now changes hands at over $55. Part of the company’s attraction…