Earnings season is just getting underway and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 11,000 on Friday. There are many stocks to watch outside of earnings this week. The cast of characters in…
Today’s best unfounded rumor comes from Bloomberg. China Telecom, the third largest wireless company in the People’s Republic, is in talks with Apple Inc., (NASDAQ: AAPL) to sell the iPhone in the…
Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) has seen a flurry of volume today after the New York Times reported that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives showed up at…
Updated throughout the day Verizon Wireless will offer the Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone next year (WSJ) Man Group shares rose on takeover speculation (Bloomberg) Douglas A. McIntyre
Verizon Wireless will begin to market the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone next year, if media reports are correct. The large cellular provider will also launch a super-fast 4G LTE wireless network…
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) may finally be getting the iPhone from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The Wall Street Journal is flashing headlines without much detail and we would not that these…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is not the number 1 mobile operating system used in smartphones in the US. It is not number 2. Google is now in third place with only 19.6% of…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) made a mistake when it bought Palm. It is about to make a much more costly mistake in launching a series of smartphones that run the rickety Palm webOS,…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is testing the old “why buy the cow if the milk is free” cliché with the Android Mobile OS. The question remains whether the search engine giant will…
Standard & Poor’s has released a very positive dividend development trend for 2010 that covers roughly 7,000 public shares that report dividend information. It is no small sum. The third quarter of…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
Amazon.com (NYSE: AMZN) has begun to raise the price of some of its e-books above their paper versions. According to The New York Times, “Don’t Blink,” by James Patterson and Howard Roughan,…
Reuters: Bank of Japan moved rates to zero Reuters: September retail sales were probably up due to promotions. Reuters: Obama said the fiscal situation was untenable. Reuters: Twitter appointed a new CEO.…
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Reuters: The American Sociology Review said a group of mortgages aimed at racially segregated neighborhoods helped cause the mortgage crisis. Reuters: Sanofi-Aventis made an $18.5 billion offer for Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ). Reuters: …
