Biogen Idec (BIIB) announced an alliance with Neurimmune Therapeutics to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease.BJ’s Wholesale (BJ) $0.35 EPS vs $0.33 est.Blue Coat Systems (BCSI) $0.30 EPS vs $0.24 est.; sees next…
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) earnings always hit the quarterly cycle late. Its fiscal puts it a month behind most companies, so it gets a chance to run the anchor leg of the reporting race.…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs (GS) issued a report saying the housing sector had much further to fall and that some financial institutions would have to raise money to stay in business.…
H-P (NYSE:HPQ) has posted Q4 2007 earnings of $0.86 EPS on revenues of $28.29 Billion. Mark Hurd & Co. is guiding EPS to $0.80 and revenues to $27.4-$27.5 Billion in revenues for…
Douglas A. McIntyre As far as investors are concerned, today’s Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) announcement is perhaps the single largest investment event for investors who have been trying to figure out if they can really hide their…
These are not the only analyst calls moving stocks today, but these are the top calls that 24/7 Wall St. is focusing on: Activision (ATVI), GameStop (GME) and THQ Inc. (THQI) all…
We have already noted the Van der Moolen (NYSE:VDM) exit of all NYSE Specialist activities. What we wanted to look at is the underling stocks companies where Van der Moolen acts as…
The CEO of Virtual Iron, Ed Walsh, spoke exclusively to 24/7 Wall St. partners in two separate interviews. Virtual Iron is the virtualization company owned in part and backed by Goldman Sachs…
Yesterday’s sharp sell-off in the Nasdaq showed the market something. In a downturn, the Apples (AAPL) and RIMMs (RIMM) of the world have an Achilles Heel. They have run up too much.…
In the past month, fourth-quarter earnings expectations for companies in the S&P 500 have fallen by nearly half, according to Thomson Financial. So says the FT. The problem has several sources and…
In Barron’s semi-annual Big Money Poll, institutional investors are asked about their two favorite stocks and also which shares are most overvalued. For the latest poll, 112 money managers responded. On the…
Just when shares in Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL), and Apple (AAPL) were doing so well, it appears that, in Japan, consumers are moving toward game consoles and smart phones for their daily…
PC-maker Lenovo, which bought the IBM (IBM) personal computer business, had the kind of break-out quarter that tech companies seem to be racking up with regularity now. For the three months ended…
Share in Sun Microsystems (JAVA) have been drifting. Their performance for the last three months looks like larger proxies for big tech, Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL), and IBM (IBM). All four…
According to data from big computer seller Ingram Micro and research firm Endpoint Technologies Associates, PC sales look very strong going into the holidays with particular strength outside the US. Reuters writes…