Nokia oy (NYSE: NOK) may hold 38% of the global handset market, but it has lost whatever edge it had in the smartphone market–mostly to the Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google Inc…
Reuters: Obama’s leadership will be tested this week by his reaction to BP plc (NYSE: BP) spill. Reuters: Jobs are critical to the housing recovery. Reuters: China’s AgBank will attempt a $23…
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has begun to sell its highly successful iPad in Asia. The company shipped one million units in the first month it was sold in the US. There was…
The bets made for and against banks and tech companies were mixed for the period ending April 14. Short selling showed no particular pattern for the two huge industries. Shorts were out…
Reuters: Stocks around the world continue to fall on euro concerns. Reuters: The bailout of Spanish banks is not over. Reuters: S&P says a “herd” mentality could drive European stocks down. Reuters: …
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been in the mobile software business for over a decade. Its Windows Mobile operating system has never done well. That may be because the Nokia Symbian OS has…
Apple Inc’.s (NASDAQ: AAPL) products are so successful that when it comes to competing with them, every company that tries gets a swing at the pinata. Very few hit it, at least…
Reuters: The SEC said there was no single cause of the market plunge. Reuters: The Senate approved a single audit of the Fed. Reuters: Morgan Stanley Group (NYSE: MS) is the subject…
Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) share of the smartphone market rose 60% in the first quarter of 2010 as sales for the entire industry grew 57%. The total handset market grew only 22% during the…
One its face, it would seem to be a mismatch. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), two huge global firms which have been notoriously unsuccessful in the smartphone market up against the two companies…
Reuters: Calm water is helping manage the Gulf oil spill. Reuters: April retail sales should be up in a sign of consumer recovery. Reuters: The US is questioning Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE:…
WSJ: Warren Buffett intends to discuss his investment in Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) at the Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) annual meeting. Reuters: Federal authorities have started a criminal probe into Goldman.…
Research-in-Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) will release a new operating system which it says will allow its customers to move around the internet more quickly and make the use of its screen dynamics easier…
These are ten of the top analyst calls seen so far this Monday morning from the upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street firms: Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) Cut to Hold at…
There are almost too many key stocks to note as pre-market movers this morning because of the floodgates of earnings news. We have covered some of the larger volume and price movers…
