These are some of Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Reiterated Buy with $18 target at Argus. Air Products &…
Facebook hit by a bug that put porn and graphic violence images onto many pages. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) names Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Robert Iger to its board. (Reuters) Dell…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has reported earnings and the reception is getting a “sell the news” even though there are some positive and less negative undercurrents here. Dell turned in earnings of…
Jon C. Ogg The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about the Obama health care law. (Reuters) Angela Merkel says Europe may face its greatest crisis since World War II. (Reuters) Italy’s Monti will discuss…
Earnings season may feel over, but this week is going to be riddled with key earnings reports that can move the market or move their sectors. The key earnings are all hitting…
Big retailer earnings due this week. Earnings from Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), Target (NYSE: TGT) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) are due this week. The numbers from Target and Walmart, particularly their guidance for the current quarter,…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is still going to feel like a lost company for a while. At first it was going to allow Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) to run wild in the…
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has decided to buy out its 50% partner in the Sony Ericsson smartphone joint venture. That is another bad decision, one that will cost the Japanese company in money and…
Short sellers moved out of stocks that have fallen recently. Perhaps they believe there will be a large rally in the market. There is little else to make the shares of companies…
For the sixth straight quarter, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) has posted record sales, partly due to a 22% increase in sales to PC makers. Does that indicate that the PC makers like…
Updated throughout the day. The board of Air France will meet to fire the carrier’s CEO (WSJ) Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) may target Citrix (NASDAQ: CTSX) and Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) (Bloomberg) Douglas A.…
Dell (NYSE: DELL) has held the number two spot in the world’s PC market share ranks for years. It has been just behind Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), which is still trying to decide…
When the G20 meets, the focus will be on the EU crisis. (Reuters) Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Q3 numbers kill concerns about U.S. ad markets. (Reuters) JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) earnings pull down equity…
Sony-Ericsson is one of the great losers in the smartphone race, which has largely been won by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-based phones. Yet, Sony (NYSE: SNE) foolishly wants…
The results are in, and though they may be temporary, it’s now official that IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has become the second largest high-tech firm in the world, passing Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:…
