Media Digest 8/13/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs (GS) will buy $1.5 billlion in assets from ABN. Reuters reports that Ford’s (F) new plans will not change because of the fall in gas prices. Reuters…
According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs (GS) will buy $1.5 billlion in assets from ABN. Reuters reports that Ford’s (F) new plans will not change because of the fall in gas prices. Reuters…
If you think the long-gone uptick rule or naked shorting was important for financial stocks, you might wonder what was going on in technology stocks with short sellers. In the major NASDAQ…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades and positive calls we are seeing this Tuesday morning: Alaska Air (ALK) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. AMR Corp. (AMR) Raised to Overweight at…
Apple (APPL) Started as Outperform at Credit Suisse Dell (DELL) Started as Outperform at Credit Suisse. EMC (EMC) Started as Outperform at Credit Suisse
No wonder Dell (DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) wish they had higher market shares in China. While sales are slowing in the US, big China-based PC firm Lenovo says its revenue and earnings…
These are some of the top Downgrades or negative calls we are seeing early this Tuesday morning. Neutral and Hold ratings are not technically negative, but they aren’t ringing endorsements either. Best…
Sun Microsystems (JAVA) announced a $1 billion share buy-back. It was not much of a beard to put on its particularly poor earnings.
Dell (DELL) wants to accomplish what no other company has been able to do over the last five years. It wants to hunt down and kill the Apple (AAPL) iPod like a…
According to Reuters, oil is nearing a 20% drop from its peak, moving into bear market range. Reuters writes that HP (HPQ), Yahoo! (YHOO), and Intel (INTC) are looking at ways to…
In an interview with BusinessWeek, Dell (DELL) founder, chairman and CEO Michael Dell said that the company’s turnaround efforts are bearing fruit. He said growth rates for the second half of 2008…
Since 2006, 24/7 Wall St. has scrutinized public companies on a regular basis, focusing on those with poor management and has suggested which big company CEOs needed to be replaced. Hector Ruiz…
Share of large China-based PC company Lenovo were downgraded overnight. According to Reuters, "JP Morgan downgraded Lenovo to neutral from overweight due to a near-term slowdown in revenue growth from weak China…
The PC industry’s race to create smaller and smaller computers to stave off competition from smart phones has begun to backfire. Intel (INTC) has started making tiny, energy-efficient chips to power the…
Apple may be the most extraordinary technology company of the last two decades. It has introduced three products: the Mac, which took years to become a financial success; the IPod, arguably the…
All the news from Apple (AAPL) is good. Recent Gartner and IDC data show the Mac outselling PC products from Dell (DELL) and HP (HPQ). The iPhone sold one million units in…