Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) sold it pizza business to Nestle and lifted the cash portion of its deal to buy Cadbury (NYSE:CBY). Reuters: Cold weather pushed oil prices near $82. Reuters: US healthcare spending…
The rise of the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android mobile operating system has happened so quickly that it has humiliated Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), which has pushed it OS for years with little success.. Android has also begun…
Like visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, the chiefs of the Hollywood studios and their bosses at the major media conglomerates want to extend the profits that they make on…
2009 is over, for better or worse. Now it is time to look ahead. We wanted to look for the best top stock picks for 2010 from our partners and from key…
This Wednesday is looking thinner than normal trading days for analyst upgrades and downgrades seen in Wall Street research calls. Here are today’s top calls: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) target was raised…
Roel Schouwenberg of Kaspersky Lab Americas made a number of either intemperate or prescient comments to USA Today. It may take a year to find out if he is a fool or a profit.…
Customer satisfaction with the e-commerce operations at Neiman Marcus and Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD) was particularly bad this shopping season based on research covering the 40 largest US retailers based on internet revenue. The poll results come from…
The patent case between Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is not new. But news this morning on the direction which Nokia is willing to take is a move…
These are this Tuesday’s top day trader and active trader alerts. We have detailed links over on each story for more detail and analysis at VSInvestor.com: Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in a thin week of coverage and Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Reiterated Outperform but target raised to…
Nothing stays safe forever, at least not in the world of information technology and digital communication. Hackers are able to break into sophisticated bank security systems and steal money. Talented coders recently…
Short sellers took huge positions in major banks and telecom companies in the two-week period ending December 15. The short interest in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 30% to 281 million ahead of the bank…
Reuters: GM is offering huge incentives to sell its inventory of Pontiacs and Saturns. Reuters: Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) will overhaul the pay of senior management. Reuters: The departing AIG (NYSE:AIG) general counsel will…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) closed at another new all-time high today of $211.61 and $213.95 on an intra-day basis. What is actually far more important than reports of a note from…
Douglas A. McIntyre We have seen what appears to be a mixed bag of shares listed in the short interest of the most active NASDAQ tech stocks traded day in and day out. Apple Inc.…
