Updated throughout the day. The hedge fund industry brought in $4.6 billion in December (Eurekahedge) Barclays (NYSE:BCS) may face a $27 billion deficit (Credit Suisse). JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) is in exclusive talks to buy…
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store brought in $2.5 billion last year according to Gartner. The company accounted for 99% of all mobile application sales in 2009. Apple keeps 90% of that revenue. Gartner predicts…
Douglas A. McIntyre Glassdoor keeps tabs on employee impressions of management and work conditions at major companies. The survey site has more than one million users who review over 70,000 firms. These companies represent all industries, 100% of…
Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) has a deal to buy Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) for about $19 billion. Reuters: China says Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and other foreign firms must respect its laws. Reuters: JAL is going bankrupt.
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) said it will launch a new product at an event scheduled for January 27. Watch the shares drop 10% if it is not the anticipated tablet computer and 15% if…
Douglas A. McIntyre This week’s Unusual Suspects are not just about earnings season, despite the deluge and onslaught we are about to see. We have a watch for events this week in shares of Acorda…
There was one issue which concerned us the most after Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) entered the smartphone market, and that was that this might create a race to zero via an old-fashioned…
An adage in options trading is that the closest and most active strike prices tend to act as magnets that draw share prices that direction as options expiration date gets closer and…
Reuters: China says there are ways to resolve problems with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), but the US is uncertain. Reuters: Oil fell to $79 over concerns about the US economy. Reuters: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) earnings…
Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) was a huge mover yesterday on no news. The trading was actually muted, but it was the huge amount of options trading that came in the form…
Douglas A. McIntyre The news about PC sales market share in the US never seems to change. HP (HPQ) widens its lead. Dell falters. Asian manufacturers show regular improvement. David Daoud, research manager with IDC’s U.S.…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and the companies that sell software for the iPhone and iPod touch at the App Store have lost over $450 million to piracy since the store opened in July 2008 according…
Short sellers sharply increased their bets against two of America’s most widely followed stocks. Shares sold short in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 36% to 381 million. The short interest in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) |…
The prices of most PCs have been down over the last three years as consumers looked for bargains and the market became crowded with machines from China and Taiwan. The drop in…
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