Updated throughout the day. The Federal Reserve will begin modest easing next week (WSJ) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is about to purchase a large Manhattan commercial building for $2 billion (NYPost) The CFTC…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has maintained its solid go-to reputation despite its most recent earnings concerns that margins were continuing to compress. We wanted to take a look at the key Apple…
Updated throughout the day. Online travel companies want to block the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) buyout of ITA Software (various) Chemical company China National BlueStar, backed by Blackstone, may buy Norway solar company…
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) is in the middle of the oldest dilemma on the Interne: how to make money doing cool stuff. It’s the old “why buy the cow when you can get…
Reuters: What might have become a currency war before the G20 has turned to very tentative cooperation. Reuters: Emerging nations will have more say in IMF policies. WSJ: Bank of…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has begun to show its new Slate tablet PC. The company still guards some details about the machine, but the media has ferreted out a bit about how the…
The search engine as a key part of the internet was born with the products of companies such as Altavista back in the late 1990s. The usefulness of search to consumers advanced…
Reuters: The US will push a trade and foreign exchange agenda at the G20 meeting. Reuters: Fed officials are still not in agreement about quantitative easing. Reuters: American International…
“Double Irish” and “Dutch Sandwich” sounds like action movies or detective novels. The last thing that anyone would suspect them to be were sophisticated tax avoidance strategies that save Google Inc. (GOOG)…
There is an interesting theme that has been worth looking deeper into so far this earnings season. High-priced stocks that have seen significant runs higher have a bias against the stocks after…
One of the few bits of investing conventional wisdom that nearly everyone accepts is that people should always look out for number one. The problem with following that advice is investors may…
Reuters: Geithner said the US would no devalue to dollar to get a trade advantage. Reuters: Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has begun foreclosures again. Reuters: Roy Ozzie, the chief software architect…
There were some interesting takeaways from Apple’s conference call and its Q&A session of that call. The call ended right about 6:00 PM EST. Despite a blowout in sales and earnings and…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL), Ambac Financial Group, Inc.…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Canadian Pacific Railway (NYSE: CP) Cut to Market Perform at Raymond James. CME Group…
