The company which builds a large portion of the world’s PCs is raising its estimates for the number of units it will build this year. Taiwan-based Quanta Computer, has raised its shipping…
David Herro, Harris Associates’ chief investment officer, recently said that he loves Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) as an long-term buy. A lot of short sellers don’t see it that way. The short interest in…
According to Nasdaq data for the period ending April 15, short sellers moved aggressively out of tech shares. The figure compare with those posted on March 31. The short interest in Microsoft…
Most analysts thought that the good news out of Apple (AAPL) was that Mac sales were up 51% to 2,289,000. Nothing could be further from the truth. iPod sales sales have slowed…
After today we’ll get to see earnings out of Apple (NASDAQ: APPL). The estimates for the computer and portable device giant from First Call are $1.07 EPS on $6.96 billion in revenues. …
Lehman Brothers has initiated major technology companies in new analyst coverage this morning. The broker has a mixed call in the sector. Overweight rated stocks are Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) with a…
It appears that PC sales held up better than many have feared, and recent tech earnings this week aren’t signaling the end of the run. Data released last night from Gartner and…
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is sick of being kick around in China. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Lenovo, and Acer have been picking on the Austin-based PC firm for years. According to the AP "Dell…
After rafts of bad news from every corner of the business arena starting with GE (NYSE: GE) and spreading to Washington Mutual (NYSE: WM) and Wachovia (NYSE: WB), a hard luck report…
No rest for the weak in a market which even punishes mediocrity. Several widely traded companies made new lows. Firms with heavy debt and poor operating profit prospects were hit particularly hard.…
Over the last week, both major financials and techs sold off substantially, another sign that one major sector is doing nothing to offset the other. Taken in tandem with GE’s (NYSE: GE)…
These are far from all of the lows, but these are many highlighted stocks that traders will care about. The prices for today are based on the last hour of trading and…
Most companies on Nasdaq did fairly well with the shorts in the period which ended on March 31 compared to March 14. The two tremendous exceptions were Level 3 (LVLT) where short…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is seeking a merger with Time Warner’s (TWX) AOL which Microsoft (MSFT) and News Corp (NWS) at a joint bid for the No.2 search company. Reuters writes…
Hand it to Michael Dell. His company, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is in talks with the sovereign fund in Dubai to get a big juicy check. But, instead of just cash, Dell is…
