6:23am ET
Investing
Home Builder Stocks Up Sharply, Troubled Techs Down
As the market reaches its most choppy period in the past few months, it is worth a look at which stocks have done the best so far in 2012 and which have…
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HP Inc
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12:46pm ET
Investing
Earnings Season Gets a “D” Grade… The DJIA Already Peaked in 2012
Jon OggIs the so-called “Bernanke Put” really coming out of the market already? QE3 is still just beginning. And earnings season is now living up to the fears that many of us…
6:35am ET
Investing
Five Companies That Have to Raise Dividends
Companies institute or raise dividends for several reasons. One, the most striking example of which is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), is to return money to shareholders from balance sheets laden with cash.…
6:28am ET
Jobs
The Age of PC Company Layoffs
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), one of the weakest companies in the PC supply chain, just laid off 15% of its workers. That is about 1,800 people. The slow attrition of…
10:22am ET
Investing
What a Combined EMC and Juniper Networks Would Look Like
You have seen massive broadening out by the large technology and communications equipment makers. It has been happening over and over, and we wanted to address the rumors that Juniper Networks Inc.…
6:38am ET
Investing
The Worst Business Decisions of All Time
In the long history of poor management decisions made at major American companies, only a few proved to be fatal. It is hard to ruin a company with a single decision. That…
6:53am ET
Consumer Electronics
Microsoft’s Surface Faces Huge Headwinds
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) needs to build and sell its Surface tablet to “hedge against a declining PC market,” a reporter from ZDNet writes. The problem is that even if the Surface…
6:45am ET
Investing
What’s Important in the Financial World (10/16/2012)
Strait of Hormuz Fears There continue to be rumors that Iran will dump oil into the Strait of Hormuz to block the shipping lane that is so critical to the movement of crude.…
9:53am ET
Jobs
Layoffs Alone Might Not Help AMD
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is trading slightly higher on reports that the troubled chip and processor outfit is likely to announce workforce reductions of up to 30% in the very…
6:34am ET
Special Report
10 Brands Losing the Most Value
Once again, Coca-Cola was ranked the most valuable brand in the world, according to Interbrand, one of the nation’s top global brands experts. Apple, to the surprise of none, was very close…
4:03pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — October 5, 2012: Markets Slide after Early Gains (HPQ, HD, COG, FDO, BRCD, STZ, AA, YUM, COST, SWY, ZNGA, FSLR, CTIC, GRPN)
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning following the Department of Labor’s report that headline unemployment in the U.S. fell to 7.8%, the lowest reading since January 2009 (more…
8:40am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMAT, MT, AVY, BIIB, BRCD, COG, DG, DLTR, FDO, HIG, HPQ, HD, ILMN, LXU, RCI, SUP, WETF, ZNGA)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Friday. Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) maintained Buy with $16 target after layoffs…
6:16am ET
Consumer Electronics
Another Sony Product Failure
Apparently, another Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) product launch has been undermined due to another broken Sony product. Several media report that the Xperia Tablet S has a flaw. There is a space between…
11:38am ET
Investing
Dire Situation at H-P Threatens Dividend and Share Buybacks
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has turned into nothing short of a disaster. This is not a value stock even at 4-times earnings. H-P has become a value trap. As this is a…
6:19am ET
Apps & Software
Mark Hurd Could Not Have Saved HP
There is an emerging body of opinion that if the Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) board had not fired former CEO Mark Hurd then the company would have avoided the operational problems that have…