ThinkstockThe U.S. stock and bond market may be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Day, but the rest of the world was alive and well. President Obama is being inaugurated. If…
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) are each in trouble as the business environments they helped to create become passe and investors wonder…
courtesy of NetflixU.S. investigations of the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner focus on its main battery. (Reuters) Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) offers a weak outlook for future quarters. (Reuters) China’s gross…
courtesy Dell Inc.Private equity firm Silver Lake Partner’s rush to fund a buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has accelerated. And investors have begun to ask if founder Michael Dell has a…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockMichael Dell and the Dell Buyout Private equity firm Silver Lake Partner’s rush to fund a buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has accelerated. And investors begin to ask if founder Michael…
courtesy of YouTubeThe head of Rio Tinto PLC (NYSE: RIO) will leave after the company took a $14 billion write-down. (Reuters) The FAA grounds the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) Dreamliner after it…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning with the Nasdaq Composite slightly higher, while the DJIA and the S&P 500 were lower. Earnings from several U.S. financial institutions were due today and…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsMany stocks are on the move this Wednesday morning and we are covering some of the key winners and losers for our readers. Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) is…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far this Wednesday from Wall St. research calls. Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A. (NYSE: BUD) cut to Reduce at Nomura.…
courtesy Dell Inc.The private equity buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), about which investors were skeptical just two days ago, could happen soon. Rumors in the press suggest that the primary PE…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockAlibaba Prepares IPO Alibaba, the preeminent e-commerce company in China, apparently has decided to have an initial public offering to raise as much as $4 billion. The decision probably is unrelated to the…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of Facebook Inc.The World Bank cuts its outlook for 2013. (Reuters) Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) releases a search feature to be used among members, and Wall St. is unimpressed, sending shares…
Douglas A. McIntyre courtesy of DellOK, so the buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may not be as much hype as the market was originally thinking. Buying a company for more than $20 billion is no…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following an announcement from Germany that its economy had contracted by 0.5% in the fourth quarter (more coverage here). U.S. data was released on producer…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far this Tuesday. There is a larger concentration around biotech and emerging pharma this morning, but that is…
