6:50am ET
Special Report
The Biggest Corporate Layoffs of All Time
Eleven American companies have laid off a total of nearly 600,000 people in the past two decades. Each also fired a large number of employees at one time to earn it a…
HPQ Coverage Page 48
7:31am ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades of the Week (AVL, BRK-B, CRZO, DPZ, GILD, GT, GOOG, GMCR, HPQ, LULU, RIMM, SINA, WDC)
This last week had some very interesting and influential analyst calls. We compile summaries of many top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations each morning from Wall Street research calls and we then…
10:02am ET
Industrials
Western Digital Re-starts Thai Plant Following Record Floods (WDC, STX, HPQ, DELL)
Disk drive maker Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) said yesterday that production at one of its plants in Thailand has begun one week ahead of schedule. This development could spell bad news…
9:51am ET
Investing
JPMorgan Lowers PC Forecasts (DELL, HPQ, MSFT, INTC, WDC)
It was just yesterday that demand for notebooks was shown to be higher in 2012 versus 2011 from DRAMeXchange, but now some new data is out from J.P. Morgan that may be…
6:26am ET
Media
Media Digest (12/1/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, Bloomberg
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) and Bain may bid for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) along with Asian partners Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan. (Reuters) China’s PMI contracts for the first time in three years. (Reuters) The…
3:57am ET
Investing
HP Chief Wants To Sharply Increase Software Revenue
Meg Whitman, the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), wants to rely on new software revenue to reverse the firm’s fortunes, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The paper reports that Whitman said…
4:43pm ET
Investing
S&P Treats H-P Like A Bank… Credit Downgrade (HPQ)
Is Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) at risk like some of the banks? Probably not, even if it is in a turnaround, even if it has a recent history that is not good,…
Jon C. Ogg 12:01pm ET
Consumer Electronics
Notebook PC Demand Expected to Rise in 2012 (AAPL, MSFT, DELL, HPQ)
There is some good news for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), and even the bruised Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ). TrendForce’s DRAMeXchange is forcasting that better…
4:04pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (RIMM, QCOM, AMAT, HPQ, NFLX, TIF, MAGS, RIMM, STX, INHX, GLW, AMR)
Markets opened higher this morning but the day ended up mixed between stock winners and losers. Janet Yellen talked more about her outlook inside the Federal Reserve, but more poor housing price…
8:47am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMAT, BDX, DD, GCO, HPQ, HIBB, IM, KOG, NBR, NFLX, NR, QCOM, RIMM, SPB)
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) Started as Hold at Deutsche Bank. Becton Dickinson…
8:44am ET
Investing
Top Active Trader & Day Trader Alerts (BAC, CPB, CHS, FMCN, EGPT, HAR, HPQ, JACK, MDT, NFLX, SNDA)
This may be a short and choppy week, but we have many bits of news for active traders and day traders this Tuesday morning. We have included news and given a summary…
6:11am ET
Media
Media Digest (11/22/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) posts mediocre earnings but says it hopes to steady its businesses over the balance of the year. (Reuters) Store chains will have to offer large discounts to lure shoppers.…
6:10am ET
Investing
What’s Important Today in the Financial World (11/22/2011) Super Failure In DC
Yields on what Spain had to pay for $4 billion in debt reached record levels. That is similar to what happened to paper issued recently by France and Italy. Rising yields are…
4:13pm ET
Investing
H-P Earnings: When Poor Is Good Enough (HPQ)
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has reported its fourth quarter earnings and we have this listed against Thomson Reuters estimates: Q4 non-GAAP at $1.17 EPS and $32.3 billion in sales vs. estimates of…
Jon C. Ogg 4:08pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AAPL, DV, MS, QCOM, TGT, WDC, HAST, TECD, TSN, HPQ, TSL, CSIQ, JKS, JASO, LDK, STP, LNKD, VRUS, GILD, FMCN, GEDU, REGN, Z)
Stock prices plunged this morning and spent most of the day trading way down. The DJIA hovered around -300 points for most of the day, while the NASDAQ was off around -50…