Short sellers jumped out of major financial shares but piled into the stocks for major industrial firms based on data as of June 15. Shorts clearly think the restructuring of the bank…
Reuters: The head of a Congressional watchdog committee is pushing for a consumer protection agency. Reuters: China defended its export policies against a WTO complaint. Reuters: Citigroup (C) intends to raise the…
Intel (INTC) means to push deeply into the mobile chip market. That is bad news for the two companies that own most of the territory now–TI (TXN) and Qualcomm (QCOM). Intel is…
We are seeing a mixed lot of news in chip-land for semiconductor stocks this morning, but the news we have seen so far looks like it is getting the week off to…
Reuters: Obama proposed sweeping reform for financial industry. Reuters: A number of large banks repaid TARP. (JPM)(GS)(BBT)(COP)(STT)(AXP)(USB) Reuters: Consumer prices show inflation is in check. Reuters: China could still be a big…
LogMeIn, Inc. is coming public in an IPO and the terms are being set. The registration has been set for 6.666667 million shares of common stock being sold in a price range…
Douglas A. McIntyre Microsoft (MSFT) may price Windows 7 as low as $100 to offset the effects of the recession on PC operating system sales and the public’s rejection of Vista, the current version of…
There were several unusual occurrences at the end of the week and some we saw over the weekend screenings for items missed during the week. These will also be among some of…
Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND) has only been an in-play takeover name for merger investors for about 36 hours after yesterday morning’s announcement from Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) that it was…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: Rio Tinto (RTP) has killed a deal with Chinalco for one with BHP (BHP). Reuters: US regulators insisted JP Morgan (JPM) and Amex (AXP) raise money to exit the TARP. Reuters: …
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has made what many will consider as a strange merger, but there is more to this merger than meets the eye and this will give Intel higher ticket…
It may be worth noting in passing that the comments of Dell’s (DELL) CFO during the company’s earnings call are bad news for any supplier of PC components and software. Brian Gladden…
A drop in server sales is bad news for companies that build them including HP (HPQ), IBM (IBM), and Dell (DELL) and the firms that supply chips–AMD (AMD) and Intel (INTC). But,…
Reuters: GM (GM) is close to filing Chapter 11. Reuters: A poll of economists says the US recession will end soon followed by modest growth. Retuers: The mood of US consumers rose…
The West, particularly the US, has been able to hang onto its lead in technology innovation for the better part of thirty years while the manufacturing economy was driven by cost savings…
