Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) may control most of the global router and enterprise video conferencing business, but it wants a bigger footprint in home video delivery. Silicon Valley’s biggest M&A machine has snapped up…
Earnings season is seeming to wind down here, but that won’t stop the unusual suspects of key equity events and issues to watch this coming week. We are looking into key issues…
Earnings season may be winding down, but next week still has some very important companies that are economic indicators in and of themselves or are key stocks that have broad customer and…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 3.23 PM EST: Analyst Michael Mayo says Citigroup (NYSE:C) will take a $10 billion write down the quarter. Citi denies it (CNBC) Updated 10.24 AM EST: Cisco…
Short interest in a number of major financial firms rose for the period ending October 15. Shares short in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 51% to 178.1 million. The short interest in CIT (NYSE:CIT)…
Reuters: UBS (NYSE:UBS) will put in a new US chief. Reuters: Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) says “dark pools” help investors. Reuters: The US is welcoming the rise of the yuan. Retuers: Nelson Peltz’s…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 12.33 PM EST: The CIA will start spying on social media activity (CNET) Updated 10.15 AM EST: Oil could hit $175 a barrel by 2016 making oil-realted…
IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) each reported better-than-expected earnings. Wall St.’s reaction to the Google numbers was muted and its stock moved up 3% to $547. IBM raised its guidance for the…
IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) each reported better-than-expected earnings. Wall St.’s reaction to the Google numbers was muted and its stock moved up 3% to $547. IBM raised its guidance for the…
These are this Wednesday’s early upgrades and positive research calls which we have seen out of Wall Street firms this morning: AMR Corp. (AMR) Raised to Overweight at Barclays. Answers Corp. (ANSW)…
Reuters: Aggressive trading in gold in China may be pushing the price of the metal up. Reuters: Blackstone’s (NYSE:BX) CEO says the worst of the crisis is over. Reuters: The House has…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) was certainly anxious to buy Starent Networks (NASDAQ:STAR). It paid $35 a share for the supplier of IP-based mobile infrastructure solutions. Starent closed at $29 yesterday. Cisco expects…
Douglas A. McIntyre The short interest in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) was steady in the period that ended on September 30 at 16 million shares.The bet being made against RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) rose 13% to 13% to 19.2 million.…
Baby boomers control $10 trillion in assets. A great deal if not most of that money has been invested in the stock market as this part of the population attempted in increase…
These are this Wednesday mornings top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen early on from Wall Street: Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) Raised to Equal Weight at Morgan…
