Jon OggThe week ahead is going to have many key earnings reports. Retail is heavily represented, while technology and banking giants are non-existent. Some of these are stocks which can move big…
ThinkstockWe have heard it on Wall St., in Las Vegas, even in the movies: “show me the money.” There is a good reason why. Corporate spending is the fuel that drives profits,…
ThinkstockNassim Taleb is well known for his work as a trader and professor, as well as the author of the book “ Black Swan.” He often concentrates his work on market volatility…
ThinkstockBest CEO lists can be based on dozens of factors. For public companies, the best metric is usually share price. It is hard for chief executives to be considered very good if…
ThinkstockInsider selling is starting to get massive before year-end when higher capital gains taxes will kick in. We continue to expect that corporate insiders, venture backers, private equity backers, and founders will…
Guillaume Paumier / Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-3.0Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was the No. 1 company on the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the 50 Best Places to Work for 2013. This…
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning following another week with more than 400,000 new claims for jobless benefits (more coverage here) and weak news from Japan on exports. In Asia,…
ThinkstockSalesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) reported third-quarter 2013 earnings after markets closed today. For the quarter, the cloud computing company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.33 on revenues of $788…
Paul Ausick U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning and were never able to make a sustained push into positive territory. In Europe, the downgrade of French sovereign debt cooled the equity markets a…
CNBC’s Maria Bartoromo got a chance to interview Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) today after the close from the OpenWorld conference. You can of course have predicted that Mr. Ellison was…
Updated throughout the day on the 24/7 Wall St. Wire: Greece will release a budget with deep cuts for 2013, with the assumption that its recession will linger. (Reuters) Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:…
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is set to report earnings on Thursday after the close. What has been amazing is that Oracle’s share price is back to within 3% or so of its…
At least that is what everyone has been led to believe. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to appear at the TechCrunch Disrupt! conference in San Francisco…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning but picked up some buying steam in the first hour or so of trading. The morning’s report on durable goods sales looked…
Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) reported adjusted second quarter EPS of $0.42 on $732 million in sales after markets closed today. In the same period a year ago, the customer relationship management firm…
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