ThinkstockWith the coming fiscal cliff taking the dividend and capital gains taxes higher, investors are hearing of more and more dividends coming sooner or as special dividends before the end of 2012.…
U.S. equity markets opened flat this morning following not much in the way of data from either Asia or Europe. In Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the European Central Bank to…
thinkstockGlobal bank layoffs reach 160,000. (Reuters) Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund says it is essential that the European Union make a deal to rescue Greece. (Reuters) The U.S. Postal Service…
courtesy of DellDell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is out with its quarterly earnings. The PC giant, and technology services provider, reported adjusted earnings of $0.39 EPS and $13.7 billion in revenue. Thomson Reuters…
Jon C. Ogg U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning but quickly turned south and bounced around lower all day. In Europe, the eurozone notched its second consecutive quarter of negative GDP growth, tossing the…
By Jeff Ooi., posted to LensaMalaysia.com via Wikimedia CommonsPerhaps believing that the worst is over for some of America’s most troubled companies, or fearing a year-end rally that could lift all ships,…
courtesy of MicrosoftThe media is filled with rumors that Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has tested its own smartphone. The move has many disadvantages, but Microsoft should ignore those. There are many advantages if Redmond takes this…
As the market reaches its most choppy period in the past few months, it is worth a look at which stocks have done the best so far in 2012 and which have…
Jon OggIs the so-called “Bernanke Put” really coming out of the market already? QE3 is still just beginning. And earnings season is now living up to the fears that many of us…
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), one of the weakest companies in the PC supply chain, just laid off 15% of its workers. That is about 1,800 people. The slow attrition of…
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) needs to build and sell its Surface tablet to “hedge against a declining PC market,” a reporter from ZDNet writes. The problem is that even if the Surface…
Strait of Hormuz Fears There continue to be rumors that Iran will dump oil into the Strait of Hormuz to block the shipping lane that is so critical to the movement of crude.…
It is hard for a company to have such poor prospects that its shares trade near a 52-week low while the overall stock market stands at multiyear highs. But some of these…
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is trading slightly higher on reports that the troubled chip and processor outfit is likely to announce workforce reductions of up to 30% in the very…
Once again, Coca-Cola was ranked the most valuable brand in the world, according to Interbrand, one of the nation’s top global brands experts. Apple, to the surprise of none, was very close…
