Now that Dubai International Capital has bought a piece of Sony (SNE), it must have a lot more capital to spread around. A shopping list: Yahoo! (YHOO) The stock is still down…
Oil is not at $200. It trades just below $100, and there are some reasons it could drop. The economies in the US and Europe are probably slowing, which should bring down…
According to Reuters, the Fed’s decision to make an October rate cute was a "close call." Reuters writes that Paulson said home loan defaults will be much higher in 2008. Reuters writes…
As far as investors are concerned, today’s Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) announcement is perhaps the single largest investment event for investors who have been trying to figure out if they can really hide their…
According to Reuters, Barclays (BCS) took a $2.7 billion write-down due to exposure to subprime markets. Reuters writes that IBM (IBM) will push into the business of running huge data centers for…
The CEO of Virtual Iron, Ed Walsh, spoke exclusively to 24/7 Wall St. partners in two separate interviews. Virtual Iron is the virtualization company owned in part and backed by Goldman Sachs…
Below is the short interest in certain stocks traded on Nasdaq. The figures are as of October 31 and compare to numbers posted on October 15, 2007 Largest Short Positions Company …
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire EqualLogic, a provider of high-performance iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions uniquely optimized for virtualization. Dell will purchase EqualLogic for approximately $1.4…
In Barron’s semi-annual Big Money Poll, institutional investors are asked about their two favorite stocks and also which shares are most overvalued. For the latest poll, 112 money managers responded. On the…
Just when shares in Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL), and Apple (AAPL) were doing so well, it appears that, in Japan, consumers are moving toward game consoles and smart phones for their daily…
This might not be that unusual for a volatile week during earnings season, but this was a fairly active week for share buyback news announcements. Some are new and some are continuations…
PC-maker Lenovo, which bought the IBM (IBM) personal computer business, had the kind of break-out quarter that tech companies seem to be racking up with regularity now. For the three months ended…
Share in Sun Microsystems (JAVA) have been drifting. Their performance for the last three months looks like larger proxies for big tech, Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL), and IBM (IBM). All four…
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) issued a release today with the news that it has received a letter from the Board of Directors of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC confirming that the company has regained…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, a number of experts do not believe that a rate cut by the Fed will help the falling housing market. Reuters writes that Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) will cut another 4,000…
