S&P 500 WEEK TOP 10 (11FEB -17FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 17Feb11 Close Price 11Feb11 Market Cap($Mil) Family Dollar Stores Inc. FDO 19.3 52.67 44.16 6656.8 Tesoro Corp TSO…
Deutsche Borse and the New York Stock Exchange are near a merger arrangement, but political issues are still a problem (Reuters) Starbucks (NYSE: SBUX) and Green Mountain are close to a strategic…
Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) is trading marginally higher today on news that it is collaborating with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA). The collaboration is actually right in the sweet spot of the current…
The SEC will try to make market traders less reliant on ratings agencies. (Reuters) GM (NYSE: GM) will set up a profit-sharing plan for workers. (WSJ) S&P warned Japan on its credit…
Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers…
Companies locked in a struggle to remain viable and maintain their profits and sales sometimes begin to run out of customers. This happened to GM (NYSE: GM), which had a 50% share…
Despite big companies holding unprecedented billions and billions of dollars on their balance sheets, it is shocking how many companies do not reward shareholders in the most classic sense by paying regular…
That the PC market is shrinking is no longer news. Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are cutting into PC desktop and laptop sales at a growing rate. What that means…
Dot Hill Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: HILL) is finding itself back in favor this morning. The company has aspects of the cloud for investors but it is more for storage solutions, software, and…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has been making its acquisitions to diversify away from just the world of PCs and hardware. Its focus has been into IT rather than just hardware, and now…
Jon C. Ogg Michael Dell is trying to show that all is well inside Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL). An SEC filing (Form 4) shoed that Michael Dell spent $100 million to acquire some 7.37 million…
Jon C. Ogg We published a story earlier on projections from Goldman Sachs that tablets are rapidly cannibalizing PC sales. That story focused on the possible winners from such a shift in the market. More…
The new tax package made it through the first stage of Congressional approval. (Reuters) The federal government began the process of setting higher capital requirements for US banks. (Reuters) China will have…
There have been two standout research calls this morning in two of the darlings of tech and internet investors. Goldman Sachs, in a broader technology group call, put a Conviction Buy List…
Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: CML) may look and feel like the worst tech M&A announcement of the year. Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and the company have agreed to a Dell buyout of…
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