Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) may buy a unit of United Technologies (NYSE: UTX). (Reuters) More factories move to the United States as China’s manufacturing costs rise. (Reuters) The CEOs of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will cut 2% of its work force — about 1,200. The huge router company has been hurt by year’s of diversification that has left it in low margin businesses.…
Douglas A. McIntyre If you thought things were ever dicey at Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), the woes happening at Alcatel-Lucent SA (NYSE: ALU) are just atrocious. The sad thing to see is that what…
The world’s largest companies have never had a reputation for showering investors with information about their financial situations and operations. The rules that might make them do so are too lax. Government authorities…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) had been trying to recover from its lows but its shares have stalled in recent days. Now comes news that the firm has hired Georges Antoun as…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Thursday. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) Raised to Outperform at Bernstein. Apple Inc.…
What happens when you have a very strong and high-profile CEO and a dead share price? If shareholders cannot do much about it, there becomes a long slow call for change. Cisco…
Jon C. Ogg The three major US stock indexes opened slightly lower this morning as markets waited patiently for an afternoon announcement from the FOMC. When the word finally came that Operation Twist would continue…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Wednesday. Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) Cut to Underperform at JMP Securities. Apollo…
24/7 Wall St. loves companies which send capital back to shareholders via dividends. With all of the uncertainty in today’s markets and in the fluctuating economy, having a solid dividend policy may…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has been part of our technology dividend sinners for quite some time. It is now finally changing its policies and will start to unlock that shareholder value by…
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning as investors wait for weekend data on Chinese trade and industrial production. The drop in US unemployment benefits claims didn’t spur much…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Friday. American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) named Bull of the Day at Zacks.…
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) put out its annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast for 2011 to 2016. The huge router company projects the Internet will be four times as large in four years…
Douglas A. McIntyre Two years ago Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) introduced a tablet device it had named the ‘Cius’, which used the Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). The7-inch device was targeted…
