The man who will be remembered by many as the greatest American CEO, Steve Jobs, is dead at 56. He was the founder, and until recently chief executive of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
Douglas A. McIntyre Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ:…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Overweight at JPMorgan; Reiterated Outperform…
The launch of the new iPhone disappointed Wall St. But Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) decision not to significantly upgrade the smartphone is a signal that it believes the first half of 2012 will…
Moody’s (NYSE: MCO) cuts Italy’s debt rating. (Reuters) Bernanke says the U.S. economy is close to the flat line. (Reuters) New Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4S does not impress investors. (Reuters) Boehner…
Updated throughout the day. Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube will offer channels with professionals athletes and other personalities (WSJ) Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) will have an exclusive to sell the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone…
Several analysts who track consumer electronics sales say that sales of the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle Fire are already into the hundreds of thousands. The 7-inch tablet may not be the flagship…
World stock markets hit 15-month lows. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to launch the iPhone 5 as competition grows from Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android. (Reuters) China warns of a trade war if Congress…
The many problems facing Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) are nearly enough to sink the company without any more help. A shrinking subscriber base, an expensive network upgrade, operating losses, and junk-rated…
The only way to fix the U.S. economy may be massive debt reductions for individuals and governments. (Reuters) Greece misses GDP targets. (Reuters) Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) buys mobile navigation company Telmap. (Reuters)…
Jon OggThis last week was a bad end to a bad quarter and the research calls were very mixed. We went through the numerous upgrades and downgrades to identify which calls were…
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) makes no money on its new Kindle Fire tablet PC. That may be a sign that it will seek to take market share from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and hope…
The results are in, and though they may be temporary, it’s now official that IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has become the second largest high-tech firm in the world, passing Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C), Cisco Systems,…
Many investors of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be worried that today marked the official launch notice of the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). It is more…
