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Jobs
States Losing the Most Jobs to China
Debate over how many jobs the United States loses to China has gone on for years. Today, China is one of the two largest manufacturing economies in the world. The other is…
HPQ Coverage Page 40
10:47am ET
Consumer Electronics
HP Goes After “Me Too” Windows 8 Market (HPQ, MSFT, AAPL)
One thing that can be said about the high-tech marketplace is that it does not lack ideas. But it is sometimes difficult to sort out the good ones from the bad ones.…
8:28am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AKS, APH, MT, AN, CHK, GSK, GMED, IACI, KNXA, MTB, PCYC, VMW, NOK, AAPL, F, GM, DELL, HPQ)
Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday morning. AK Steel Holding Corp. (NYSE: AKS) cut to Sell…
11:34am ET
Investing
Analyst Cautions on Intel and PC Growth For Rest of 2012
All you had to do was review the recent earnings reports from Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) and you knew that a PC slowdown was still underway. Unfortunately, the…
8:00am ET
Investing
Largest Short Interest Positions
The short interest in the stocks with the largest positions as of August 15: Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) down 2% to 220 million shares. Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) up…
7:55am ET
Technology
Chip Sales Expected to Falter This Year
The bad news about PC sales, particularly at Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) was bound to be bad news for chip markets Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and AMD (NYSE: AMD). The…
9:02am ET
Investing
U.S. Stocks Open Lower Following Thursday Declines
While most of the 30 stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial closed in the red yesterday, Kraft Foods Inc. (NASDAQ: KFT) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) bucked that trend. Kraft climbed 0.71%, according…
4:04pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — August 23, 2012: Markets Lose Ground on Weak Data (XOM, NOC, SWY, CS, WFM, HPQ, KKD, FLWS, BIG, HRL, JKS, ADSK, BEBE, CRM, SCVL, SOL, MSG, NOK, ROSG, JKS)
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning and spent most of the day heading lower still. Economic data was mixed at best today, with the flash PMI number lower…
10:33am ET
Investing
Today’s Market Winners and Losers
Stocks are down Thursday following the news that initial jobless claims rose to 372,000 last week. The Dow Jones is down 0.61%, the Nasdaq is down 0.66% and the S&P 500 is…
8:28am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADTN, AB, ANH, CRUS, CLWR, CS, XOM, GNC, HAIN, HTS, HPQ, HUM, LLL, NOC, RS, SWY, TXT, TFM, TA, VSI, WFM)
Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.…
6:34am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Sony Fires 1,000 at Mobile Unit
Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) called the firing of 1,000 people at its mobile phone business part of a grand plan. Kunimasa Suzuki, the president of Sony Mobile, said: We are accelerating the integration…
6:32am ET
Investing
Media Digest (8/23/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve signals it may ease monetary policy as early as next month. (Reuters) HSBC China PMI estimates hit a multimonth low at 47.8, down from 49.3 in July. (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard…
4:23pm ET
Consumer Electronics
HP Earnings Okay, Guidance Doesn’t Cheer
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) reported adjusted third-fiscal quarter EPS of $1.00 on $29.7 billion in sales after markets closed today. In the same period a year ago, the high-tech giant reported EPS…
Paul Ausick 4:06pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — August 22, 2012: Markets Sluggish Before FOMC Minutes (BBY, ZNGA, CZR, CLWR, MOS, DELL, ADI, INTU, KTCC, WTSLA, AEO, CHS, TOL, GES, HPQ, KKD, FLWS, BIG, HRL, JKS, SRZ, EXPR)
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning after Japan reported an unexpected plunge in its exports in July (our coverage here). In Europe there was not economic news out…
12:17pm ET
Investing
Dell Earnings Preview, Watching Peers & Rivals
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Tuesday and the stock has a lot of room for improvement. Despite issuing a very honorable starting…