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Short Sellers Increase Bets Across the Board
For the first time in a long time, short sellers have increased their bets that the stock prices of most large companies and in most large sectors will fall. The NYSE and…
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Nintendo Earnings Collapse
Nintendo earnings collapsed and so did its forecast. The firm said it would launch a new version of the Wii by year end in the hope that it can reverse its fortunes. That…
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Special Report
The Worst Cities for Retirees to Find Work
Just because you’re retired doesn’t mean you don’t have to work. As of the end of last year, 7.3% of Americans 75 and older were employed — the highest level since 1966,…
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Apps & Software
Apple Earnings and the Value of Old Tech
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) extraordinary earnings and the size of its iPhone sales helped move its market cap well above $400 billion. The press constantly reminds readers that this is greater than any…
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Yahoo! and the Temptation to Merge with a Major Media Firm
Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) earnings were weak, which raised the matter of a business combination with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or Aol (NYSE: AOL) again. A more suitable merger would be with a major…
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Telecom & Wireless
Nokia Falls on Weak Supplier Outlook (NOK, STM, ERIC, MSFT)
Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) are tumbling today following a glum forecast from one of the company’s main chip suppliers. ST-Ericsson, a joint venture between STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM) and LM…
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Apps & Software
Microsoft 1, Google 0
It was no accident that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings were good and Google’s bad (NASDAQ: GOOG). The assumption that search is one of the best businesses in the world has proved inaccurate.…
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What’s Important in the Financial World (1/20/2012) Android Falters, GM’s U.S. Aid
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares stumbled after it released fourth-quarter earnings. Revenue rose 25%, but net income barely rose to $2.7 billion. The markets were puzzled about why Google now has 32,467 full-time workers,…
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Apps & Software
Microsoft Escapes Earnings Hangman (MSFT)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has posted its earnings after the close and the tempering of estimates before earnings seems to have been more or less the right call. The software giant’s second…
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Microsoft Earnings Preview… Ballmer’s Day (MSFT, AAPL)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is set to report earnings after the close of trading Thursday. The software giant has already tempered some PC sales expectations at the Consumer Electronics Show, which was…
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Apple Closes Gap With Android–Nielsen
The powerful surge of purchases of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4S has helped close the gap between Apple smartphones and those which run the Google Android based OS. According to Nielsen…
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After Yang… The $28 Private Market Value Analyst Call in Yahoo! (YHOO, MSFT)
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is trading higher after the announced departure (a firing no doubt) of Jerry Yang in all functions of the company he co-founded. After the resignation news, Gabelli &…
Jon C. Ogg 9:11am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Noting Facebook as a Potential RIM Acquirer? (RIMM, GOOG, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT)
Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) has been the ongoing subject of takeover rumors and that has put in at least a near-term floor after the death spiral took away three-quarters of…
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Apple Could Sell 48 Million iPads This Year (AAPL, AMZN, MSFT, NOK, GOOG)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is expected to announce a new version of its iPad tablet by the end of March. There is plenty of speculation about what will be included in the…
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Investing
Yahoo! Forces Out Jerry Yang (YHOO, MSFT, CSCO)
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is surging in the after-hours session on news which many investors have been hoping would come for years. Jerry Yang has finally resigned from Yahoo! The resignation says…