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Investing
PC Market Falters In 2011
PC sales faltered last year in the US. Some of the drop has been blamed on a parts supply interruption from Thailand factories hit by floods. Industry research firm IDC said that…
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8:45am ET
Investing
Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/11/2012) NYSE Merger Off, Dell Tablet PC
Updated throughout the day Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) will offer a tablet PC by the end of the year (Reuters) Alibaba will reduce the size of a loan its was to use to…
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Consumer Electronics
Dell Too Late to Tablet Market
Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) habit of coming to market with products well after its competitors do continues. Reuters reports that the PC company will launch a tablet later this year. Dell management says…
6:51am ET
Media
Media Digest (1/11/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to launch its first tablet PC late this year. (Reuters) NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Deutsche Boerse will try to save their merger with a case for EC regulators. (Reuters)…
1:16pm ET
Investing
Rumor Mill Moves Back To Brocade (BRCD, DELL, HPQ, IBM, CVLT, CSCO)
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) is running higher on buyout speculation. The move is only about 18 months too late if it is even true. Reuters reported that Brocade has hired…
6:15am ET
Special Report
The Best and Worst Run Cities in America
Many qualities separate the best-run and worst-run cities. But perhaps the most important is access to jobs. The economies of the best-run cities fall into two categories. They either have a booming…
10:02am ET
Industrials
Western Digital Re-starts Thai Plant Following Record Floods (WDC, STX, HPQ, DELL)
Disk drive maker Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) said yesterday that production at one of its plants in Thailand has begun one week ahead of schedule. This development could spell bad news…
6:42am ET
Investing
The Newest Fortune 100 Companies
Most of America’s largest companies are also among its oldest companies. In fact, many of the Fortune 100 firms are more than a century old. Almost none were founded in the past…
9:51am ET
Investing
JPMorgan Lowers PC Forecasts (DELL, HPQ, MSFT, INTC, WDC)
It was just yesterday that demand for notebooks was shown to be higher in 2012 versus 2011 from DRAMeXchange, but now some new data is out from J.P. Morgan that may be…
12:01pm ET
Consumer Electronics
Notebook PC Demand Expected to Rise in 2012 (AAPL, MSFT, DELL, HPQ)
There is some good news for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), and even the bruised Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ). TrendForce’s DRAMeXchange is forcasting that better…
6:10am ET
Investing
What’s Important Today in the Financial World (11/22/2011) Super Failure In DC
Yields on what Spain had to pay for $4 billion in debt reached record levels. That is similar to what happened to paper issued recently by France and Italy. Rising yields are…
11:31am ET
Consumer Electronics
Full 360-Degree H-P Earnings Preview (HPQ, DELL, CSCO, AAPL, IBM)
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is set to report earnings after the close. As this is the first report with Meg Whitman on as CEO and with the shenanigans that took place around…
8:01am ET
Investing
Upside Potential for Big Technology Stocks (AAPL, GOOG, INTC, MSFT, ORCL, IBM, HPQ, DELL)
Among the hundreds of technology stocks, there are a relative handful of companies that stand out as bellwethers for the entire industry. Some are on the list for historical reasons; others are…
4:08pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (DELL, DKS, RIMM, ATVI, TIBX, ZOOM, ANF, TGT, SPB, VLO, WNR, MPC, NG, PEIX, ASYS, UNIS)
The markets opened lower this morning and not until mid-afternoon were equities able to put a mark above yesterday’s close. European stocks traded mixed all day, and that coupled with rising crude…
9:16am ET
Investing
Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ANF, DELL, RIMM)
Crude oil is at $100.13, up 0.77% Gold is at $1,771, down 0.63%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng closed up 0.91% to 19,137. Japan’s Nikkei closed lower by 0.92% to 8,436. The U.S. 10-year is at 2.02%, down 0.o2%. The FTSE…