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Economy
An Alarming Rise In Layoffs
The number of layoffs at large companies dipped as the recession ended in 2009, but the practice is back with a vengeance, renewing concerns the trend will cause another period of steep…
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Media
Media Digest (7/19/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Parliament will question Rupert Murdoch of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) today (Reuters) IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) service business rose, driving earnings up (Reuters) Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will fire 15% of its workers (Reuters)…
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Investing
Cisco’s Dilemma: 6,500 Layoffs Might Not Be Enough (CSCO)
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) seems as though it cannot win for losing. The company’s updated “action plan” involves a further organizational simplification, implying lower costs and layoffs. The company aims to…
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Investing
The American Cities With The Most Millionaires
Each year, Capgemini publishes the U.S. Metro Wealth Index, which ranks the number of high-net-worth individuals living within the ten largest metropolitan statistical areas. According to the report, high-net-worth Individuals “are defined…
8:25am ET
Investing
Today’s Best Market Rumors (7/11/2011) News Corp Rumors, Cisco 10,000 Layoffs
Updated throughout the day The US government will investigation News Corp (NYSE: NWS) for bribery charges (various) Eurozone finance ministers are ready to accept a Greek default (Reuters) News Corp International reported…
6:22am ET
Media
Media Digest (7/12/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
News Corp (NYSE: NWS) may face a bribery probe in the U.S. (Reuters) An Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) patent lawyer may leave the firm (Reuters) China bank lending picked up. This could cause…
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Technology
Cisco–One Of The Largest US Layoffs Of The Year?
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), one of the largest tech firms in the U.S. with a market cap of $85 billion and annual sales of $40 billion, will lay off 5,000 to 6,000 people…
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Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALTR, MT, ADM, ARBA, BSX, CX, CSCO, FOSL, GOV, HON, KLAC, LRCX, M, PETS, TNK, TJX, WFM)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) Raised to Outperform as Bull of the…
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Services
RADVision: Not Expecting the Expected (RVSN, CSCO, PLCM, BBBB, PGI, MSFT)
RADVision Ltd. (NASDAQ: RVSN) is going to get hit today after lowering guidance. This may have been worse than many expected, but RADVision is now in a spot that it is going…
6:17am ET
Media
Media Digest (7/5/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Congress and the Administration are closer to a conclusion of negotiations on the debt cap (Reuters) The finance minister of Greece said its viability is essential to the euro zone (Reuters) Canon…
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Investing
When Great Share Buybacks Are Clouded By Awful Buybacks, Dividends Rule (XOM, IBM, PG, EMC, COP, HPQ, DTV, TRV, KO, MCD, MSFT, CSCO, WMT, LOW, HD, PFE, GS)
There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks. Dividends are rarely controversial…
6:54am ET
Housing
Why The Dow Will Plunge To 7,000
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesOne theory of economics says that any market can return to a point where it has been in the past. The Great Recession was, by some measures as…
8:26am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (WIFI, COG, CSCO, CPWM, DMD, DRYS, GS, GMCR, JDSU, JNPW, WFR, MS, SPWRA, WBC, WEN, YUM, ZION)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Boingo Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIFI) Started as Outperform at William Blair.…
6:30am ET
Investing
10 Reasons Apple Won’t Pay a Dividend Any Time Soon (AAPL, MSFT, CSCO, NFLX, SIRI, AKAM, TIVO)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has enjoyed massive growth over the last decade. It has overcome a near-death experience and transformed itself into the second largest company by market capitalization. Now that its…
6:38am ET
Investing
The Countries Where Internet Use Will Explode
Think the Internet is big now? You ain’t seen nothing yet. A recent report from Cisco Systems Inc. has some astounding predictions, including one that global Internet traffic will rise 4-fold from…