courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.As the first quarter ended, analysts marveled at the best performing stocks in the S&P 500 — Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY), Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and…
ThinkstockThe issue of early warnings from companies that know their quarterly earnings are poor may be more an ethical than a legal one. The guess that is so is based on the number of public corporations that…
ThinkstockCredit Suisse has reviewed and screened the holdings of 857 large cap mutual funds and has seen that technology is very well represented in the top holdings on average at this universe…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning and a spate of decent news on U.S. housing kept markets in the green all day. The S&P 500 index finished the day’s session within…
ThinkstockThe Wall Street Journal and several other news outlets have reported that Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) and Carl Icahn will make a bid to take Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) private via…
courtesy Dell Inc.The board of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) set a “go-shop” deadline for one minute after midnight tonight to see if the company could entice a bidder to compete with Dell…
ThinkstockNorth Korean television this morning broadcast another thinly veiled threat against the United States. In a translation provided by the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper, North Korea said: The U.S. should not forget that…
thinkstockThe venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average has been a benchmark for investors since its creation in 1896 by Charles Dow. Twelve stocks made up that first list, which was designed to represent…
courtesy Dell Inc.If Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) can top an buyout offer by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners to buy Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), the private equity firm may have…
ThinkstockEuropean Business Activity Cyprus is not the only major concern for the European Union. The purchasing managers index (PMI) for the region plunged in March as more evidence came in that austerity…
courtesy Dell Inc.Financial firm Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) may make a offer to take Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) private, an offer that would be higher than one from Michael Dell and Silver Lake.…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a weekend of confusion over the proposed solution to the banking problem in Cyprus. It’s not that Cyprus claims a particularly large banking system,…
Jon OggInvestors and traders are always looking for good research-driven ideas for stocks to buy and stocks to sell. Some of these come from independent research and some come from sell-side firms…
ThinkstockThere has been a bruising battle over how much America’s largest corporations should pay in taxes, especially as the size of the federal budget deficit grows. While on paper the federal corporate…
ThinkstockBack in the halcyon technology boom of the late 1990s, the large cap tech stocks that dominate the Nasdaq stock market were all the rage among investors. Personal computer use was skyrocketing,…
