According to Reuters, small business sentivment is still shaky. Reuters writes that InBav may start Anheuher-Busch (BUD) takeover talks this week. Reuters writes that Asian central banks are propping up their currencies.…
Short sellers are making significant bets that most financial stocks traded on the NYSE will fall sharply. Data is as of May 15 and compares to information on April 30. Short interest…
"Let’s get on down to the main attraction, With a little less talk and a lot more action."–Elvis AMD (AMD) CEO Hector Ruiz makes a few promises a year and keep none…
Douglas A. McIntyre NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is set to post earnings right after the close today. First Call has estimates pegged at $0.38 EPS on $1.15 Billion in revenues. As far as next quarter,…
AMD (AMD) is going to offer the world more powerful chips for servers and PCs. It is not enough that it and Intel (INTC) have hardware with four cores, or processors, to…
According to Reuters, the head of strategy at Microsoft (MSFT) says it deal to acquire Yahoo! (YHOO) is over. Reuters writes that Toyota (TM) posted a 28% drop in profit due to…
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is seeing a crazy and active day. We saw an unusual rise in this yesterday on active volume, but that rise was a 6% rise. Today’s…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, UBS (UBS) will cut 5,500 jobs. The company is also selling $15 billion in subprime mortgage paper to Blackrock. Reuters writes that Bernanke says that high foreclosure rates are…
According to Reuters, oil price moved toward $120 on fear for supply interruptions. Reuters writes that Chrysler is trying to sell two of its North American plants. Reuters reports that many Wall…
The good news about AMD’s (AMD) first quarter news was that the bad news was not worse. The Intel-Jr. of the chip world reported Q1 2008 revenue of $1.505 billion and a…
According to Reuters, RBS (RBS) plans a rights offering next week to raise capital. Reuters reports that Google (GOOG) beat Wall St. expectation. Reuters reports that NY State will investigation the auction-rate…
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is somehow managing to hang in there, despite waves of bad internal news. The number two processor company said its first quarter losses narrowed to $358 million,…
Douglas A. McIntyre After rafts of bad news from every corner of the business arena starting with GE (NYSE: GE) and spreading to Washington Mutual (NYSE: WM) and Wachovia (NYSE: WB), a hard luck report…
After today’s closing bell, we’ll see earnings for Q1-2008 from Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC). The processor and chip giant estimates from First Call are $0.25 EPS on $9.63 Billion in revenues. We’ve…
This week, we will have the real start of the earnings onslaught for Q1-2008 earnings season. We compiled many estimates Friday evening to see which pairs of companies and which actual leaders…
