Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has been the beneficiary of the great NASDAQ 100 rebalancing act, but things have been a bit rough for holders of late. Last Friday we noted how the…
Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) will buy National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM) for $25 a share in cash. The total value of the transaction is $6.5 billion. That price is 78% above where National…
A monopoly is either what the government says it is or what a dominant company’s competitors claim. The government’s opinion is the only one that counts, however, as Sprint will find out…
Antitrust regulators will get a great deal of exercise this spring. AT&T (NYSE: T) has announced it will buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom. Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S), the struggling wireless company, will object…
Jon OggThis last week had several key analyst research calls which stood out from the pack and went against the grain. The top research calls we tracked after going through the week’s…
The new MacBook Pro has a price tag between $1,199 and $2,499. It is more powerful than the mainframes IBM marketed in the 1960s. The computer has quad core processors, Thunderbolt technology,…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is among many of the established companies which has filed its annual report or 10-K with the SEC. These reports are almost always long and boring and unfortunately…
S&P 500 WEEK TOP 10 (11FEB -17FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 17Feb11 Close Price 11Feb11 Market Cap($Mil) Family Dollar Stores Inc. FDO 19.3 52.67 44.16 6656.8 Tesoro Corp TSO…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Reiterated Buy and $12 price…
Short sellers moved into the shares of companies that Wall St. views as having weak earnings capacity and poor business strategies. Shares sold short in AMD (NYSE: AMD), which recently pushed out…
Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Buy at Stern Agee.…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray. Advanced…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) substantially changed its board. Four directors left and several, including former Ebay (NASDAQ: EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman, were added (Reuters) Paul Volcker will leave his post as an advisor…
Earnings season is well under way now and we wanted to offer previews for the biggest impact stocks which have earnings on Thursday and Friday. The remaining most important earnings we are…
