Crude oil is at $99.55, up 2.90% Gold is at $1,723, up 2.03%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng closed up 1.97% to 18,038. Japan’s Nikkei closed higher by 1.51% to 8,283. The U.S. 10-year is at 2.08%, up 0.11%. The FTSE…
The sovereign debt forest fire moved to Hungary, the debt of which was downgraded to junk status by Moody’s . Other factors were even more important as the fate of the EU…
Research firm GfKÂ reports that brand loyalty to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is much higher than to other wireless products (Reuters) AT&T (NYSE: T) began to ready itself for the probable end of its…
To say that Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) has had a tough go lately is an understatement. To even whisper the same thing about Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) is a colossal understatement.…
Last quarter, China passed the U.S. as the world’s largest smartphone market. That means the fortunes of companies like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will be decided as much in China as in the U.S. Some…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is back with some dirt cheap offers in smartphones, and some of these may seem to be good to be true. While this may include Verizon Communications Inc.…
Yields on what Spain had to pay for $4 billion in debt reached record levels. That is similar to what happened to paper issued recently by France and Italy. Rising yields are…
Stock prices plunged this morning and spent most of the day trading way down. The DJIA hovered around -300 points for most of the day, while the NASDAQ was off around -50…
Data from Piper Jaffray shows that Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) App business brought deverlopers $3.4 billion in revenue so far in 2011. Revenue for developers of apps for Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android was…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is set to report earnings after the close. As this is the first report with Meg Whitman on as CEO and with the shenanigans that took place around…
These are some of Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Outperform and $500 target at Credit Suisse. CIGNA Corp. (NYSE:…
The weekend break in equity trading may produce more anxiety than relief. As Friday draws to a close, most stock markets probably will be down for the day, and certainly will be…
Among the hundreds of technology stocks, there are a relative handful of companies that stand out as bellwethers for the entire industry. Some are on the list for historical reasons; others are…
Concerns about the price of oil have returned after a summer in which both crude and gasoline prices fell. Slow production from OPEC nations is not to blame. Libyan production is actually…
BMW said its expects double-digit percentage growth in the U.S. in 2012. And Cadillac says it will launch two new models to compete with BMW next year. Both brands have had sales…
