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…
Updated throughout the day. The head of AMD (NYSE: AMD) left because of differences with the board over the firm’s mobile strategy (WSJ) Comverse Technology may sell its majority share in Verint…
Douglas A. McIntyre Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) will increase financial disclosure but the firm will do little else to change its business practices. (Reuters) A few economists believe the Fed could run out of…
The G20 has begun work to lower chances of a food crisis (Reuters) China is likely to tighten again (Reuters) Oil stayed above $89 due to a shutdown of the Alaska pipeline…
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) set CEO Dirk Meyer up for failure from his first day on the job. After the close came the announcement that Meyer was resigning in mutual…
These are some of this Monday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) Raised to Buy with $35.50 target at…
Yet another breach may be opening in the wall surrounding the Wintel cartel. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) have dominated the PC market…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) seems to be losing some of its edge when it comes to its share of the global semiconductor business. Gartner Group gave a forecast of total company revenues…
Pfizer’s (NYSE: PFE) CEO Jeff Kindler resigned because he was tired, he says. “The combination of meeting the requirements of our many stakeholders around the world and the 24/7 nature of my…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has an extreme dominance when it comes to the market share of processors inside of personal computers, generally referred to as about 80% depending upon your source and…
