ThinkstockAdvanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is going to have some upset investors after its second quarter earnings report, but these same investors may want to consider that AMD is still in the first…
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has now reported its second quarter earnings estimates, and there is some reason to be concerned. The company has been financially engineering its earnings per share growth,…
ThinkstockInvestors and speculators often flock to the world biotech for emerging drugs of the future. It is no secret at all that the biotech sector is full of all sorts of risks, making and…
General Electric is set to report earnings in the very early hours of Friday morning. Why interpreting GE earnings and factoring in guidance could be much more difficult for the next few quarters.
Google is expected to report earnings after the close on Thursday. The first thing we would warn investors of is that this marks the first post-split and dual-class earnings report.
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) will report earnings on Thursday after the close. Big Blue may not be a growth story any longer, but it remains massive, and its high stock price…
Advanced Micro Devices is set to report earnings after the close on Thursday. The AMD of yesteryear is very different from the AMD of today and tomorrow.
ThinkstockDid you remember the White House saying to short Russian stocks in recent months as tensions were mounting between Russia and Ukraine and over sanctions? Well, their timing was way off, but their message…
The U.S. Labor Department is out with its tally on weekly jobless claims, and the verdict is that it was great news. While other information is out that was not positive, the weekly jobless claims…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street firms on Thursday, July 17, 2014. They include AIG, Intel, eBay, EOG Resources, PetSmart and Time Warner.
Orbitz Worldwide may have just put a hex on its shares with news that many shareholders will view with mixed emotions: raised guidance, plus a major insider share sale.
ThinkstockHedge fund manager John Paulson spoke at the CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha conference on Wednesday, offering keen insight in the current merger environment. Paulson signaled that Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (NYSE: VRX) is…
Wikimedia CommonsThe General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) operations of today are becoming far different from the old General Electric operations of the prior generations. The company is already in the process of dumping its U.S.…
courtesy of ebayeBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) has now reported its second-quarter earnings, with the report coming in at $0.69 earnings per share (EPS) on an adjusted basis. Revenue was $4.37 billion. The online auction and…
SanDisk has reported its results for the second quarter of 2014. The independent flash memory leader did not offer its guidance in the press release, so investors had to wait for the conference call.
Stanley Druckenmiller is considered to be one of the greatest hedge fund managers in the world. At CNBC’s Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha conference on Wednesday, Druckenmiller gave some key warnings and views on credit…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has released its latest installment of the so-called Beige Book. The Fed is getting yet another chance to move the market with data that should have already been known. Basic comments…
We expect that SanDisk, despite its revenues not being among the top 10 in global technology giants, can spill over into any stocks tied to smartphones, devices and tablets.
eBay is set to report earnings on Wednesday after the markets close. Now that it has reached a settlement with Carl Icahn, eBay shares have backed off from their post-Icahn pop.
ThinkstockWednesday’s economic reporting included industrial production and capacity utilization data for the month of June. It turns out that production was muted, and capacity remains defiantly under that key 80% barometer. It just doesn’t…