NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) rejected a Nasdaq offer to buy it, which Nasdaq labeled as the best future for the older exchange. (Reuters) Corporate earnings may not be strong enough to support current stock…
NXP Semiconductors NV (NASDAQ: NXPI) may not be the biggest household name of chip stocks in America. It may become big news in the coming hours, days, or weeks. The Dutch news…
The members of the Federal Reserve are more divided about what steps the central bank should take next to mute inflation and help the expansion. (Reuters) Americans are telling the Fed that…
Dish Network bought the assets of Blockbuster to compete with Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), if the media is right. At about the same time, Netflix signed an arrangement to offer “Mad Men,” and…
The unemployment rate rose so fast in 2008 and 2009 that in some months the US lost more than 500,000 jobs. That trend has only begun to reverse itself this year, and…
At yesterday’s launch of its newest Xeon processor, an Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) executive claimed that there is no workload in the world that the Xeon cannot handle. That may be good news…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has been the beneficiary of the great NASDAQ 100 rebalancing act, but things have been a bit rough for holders of late. Last Friday we noted how the…
The NASDAQ 100 has figured out a way to change its dependence upon and its dominance by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). A good old-fashioned reweighting is that plan. The NASDAQ confirmed this morning that…
There is sometimes a silver lining in any tragedy. After disasters, rebuilding takes place. Factory disruptions in one land can mean a boost in business in another land. That is the global…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Maintained Buy with $450 target but lowered…
Websense Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) finds itself in a mixed position as it reportedly is exploring its merger possibilities. Shares originally popped up almost 10% to $22.37 when we first covered this on March 16…
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) has been one impressive growth stock and it has absorbed almost all the smaller major players which could have posed competitive threats down the road. It has even…
America lost its lead as the world’s top manufacturer to China. That is in part the basis of the argument that China’s Gross Domestic Product will pass America’s sometime before the middle…
Are investors forgetting the lessons of the dot-com bust of the 1990s?It would seem to be the case. Just like in the Clinton administration, companies with uncertain prospects are attracting insanely high…
A monopoly is either what the government says it is or what a dominant company’s competitors claim. The government’s opinion is the only one that counts, however, as Sprint will find out…
