EU Finance Ministers Meet The financial ministers of the euro area will meet over the next two days. There is a very wide range of topics that they might discuss. The gathering should begin…
We have tracked the key short interest changes as of August 31 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU),…
We tracked the short interest in the following NYSE most actively traded stocks: Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), American International Group…
What happened to the market as a whole today hardly mattered. The DJIA was up only 0.07% to 13,335. But, almost all of the news was focused on a handful of stocks. The Apple Inc.…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning and have remained higher by a modest amount all day. Overseas markets were mixed, with Asian markets down in advance of tomorrow’s…
George Soros says Germany should back the European Union or leave it. (Reuters) The new Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone could boast fourth-quarter gross domestic product by 0.5%, according to a J.P. Morgan Chase…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) raised to Neutral from Sell at…
Debate over how many jobs the United States loses to China has gone on for years. Today, China is one of the two largest manufacturing economies in the world. The other is…
This morning’s announcement from Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) that it would miss its third-quarter revenue forecast has cast a pall over many other chip makers. A few have avoided taking a hit…
Today’s report that Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) plans to cut the power consumption of its Core line of chips by more than 40% shines a spotlight on the whole semiconductor sector. Intel’s…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Wednesday. Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) started as Buy at Jefferies. Adtran Inc. (NASDAQ:…
The short interest in the stocks with the largest positions as of August 15: Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) down 2% to 220 million shares. Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) up…
We have tracked the key short interest changes as of August 24th in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU),…
The bad news about PC sales, particularly at Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) was bound to be bad news for chip markets Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and AMD (NYSE: AMD). The…
The July 31st short interest reports for some of the big semiconductor makers are mixed, although the swings are quite large in most cases. We looked at eight stocks: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:…
