The 2011 holiday season is very likely going to be a tale of two classes. For the well-off — those with discretionary incomes above $250,000 — spending is expected to increaseby about…
Six American cities are among the most innovative in the world, according to a report published Monday by 2ThinkNow, an innovation research firm. The US has the most cities considered top-tier innovators. The…
Philips Electronics may be unable to shed its TV operation and will fire 4,500. (Reuters) Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) to buy El Paso (NYSE: EP) for $21 billion and will save $250…
Streaming video provider Hulu LLC has been taken off the auction block by owners News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA), among others. Rumored potential buyers…
The management team at Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) apparently spent the weekend trying to come up with a way to back down from the company’s recent announcement that it would split its…
Several analysts who track consumer electronics sales say that sales of the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle Fire are already into the hundreds of thousands. The 7-inch tablet may not be the flagship…
Jon OggThese are some of this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.…
Jon OggThis last week was a bad end to a bad quarter and the research calls were very mixed. We went through the numerous upgrades and downgrades to identify which calls were…
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) makes no money on its new Kindle Fire tablet PC. That may be a sign that it will seek to take market share from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and hope…
The federal government begins to probe the accounting of several Chinese companies. (Reuters) EU markets to decline more this quarter than in any other since 2008. (Reuters) Bank of America (NYSE: BAC)…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Cut to Underperform at…
Angela Merkel faces a test: will her own party support money being used for the bailout of Greece? (Reuters) Bernanke says the Fed may have to act if inflation falls below targets.…
Many investors of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be worried that today marked the official launch notice of the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire from Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). It is more…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Amazon, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Avago Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: AVGO), Chesapeake Energy Corporation…
IPOs of Citic Securities and Great Wall Motor struggle, a sign that offerings from China are in trouble. (Reuters) The unresolved Greece problem continues to damage markets. (Reuters) Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may…
