Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) may spin off its PC business because it bought enterprise software firm Autonomy for $10.3 billion. (Reuters) News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) begins to prepare for the possibility that James…
There are many stocks on the move in the after-hours session. Some of the moves will seem muted after today’s rough market but that is the way the ball bounces. Thursday evening’s…
A 4% collapse of the markets today pushed the DJIA under 11,000 for the second time in two weeks. The market sentiment now is such that the index may be under that…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) was having what is considered to be a strange day by any stretch of the imagination. The stock was higher on reports that it was going to spin-off…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is due with earnings after the closing bell today. The problem is that there was a Bloomberg report that said that HP is set to spin-off its PC…
Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ) new CEO faces investors concerned about its prospects. (Reuters) U.S. box office sales near records despite the slowdown. (Reuters) Lenovo posts strong earnings in spite of troubles with global…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Aixtron SE (NASDAQ: AIXG) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank. Bank…
In the seemingly never-ending round of intellectual property lawsuits over smartphone technology, Taiwan’s HTC Corp. has fired the latest shot. The smartphone maker has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is set to report earnings after the close and there is a problem outside of its fundamentals: its chart is in what we consider a technical no-man’s land. …
The coming week has many key earnings reports, some tech and some retail. We have tracked the major reports by day, shown Thomson Reuters estimates, as well as given price action, and…
It is no secret that the market volatility has many investors rattled. What is very counter-intuitive is that many companies are continuing with most or all of their investor friendly plans regardless…
Short sellers moved into bank stocks ahead of the sell-off based on data for the period that ended July 29. Shares sold short in JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) rose 17% to 33.6 million.…
The market has brutalized many great companies and we are seeing the mayhem reach a cycle-peak in the VIX if the history of the market holds up after hitting 48.0 yesterday during…
Alcatel-LucentWhen France’s Alcatel acquired Lucent Technologies in 2006 to form Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), the deal appeared to be a solid winner. Lucent, which had been spun off from AT&T (NYSE: T), seemed…
The new data from comScore on US carrier networks for smartphones is beyond alarming. It is not just confirming a trend, but confirming that there is no sign of a negative trend…
