AOL (NYSE: AOL) may break itself into pieces in preparation for a potential merger with Yahoo! (NASDAQ YHOO). (Reuters) Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, told “60 Minutes” that the central…
Short sellers have started to come back into some select names again. While we often look for patterns, it is some of of these high-priced stocks that often offer the most insight. …
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) is one of the potential acquisition targets as I.T. and communications equipments giants look to consolidate their storage, networking, and data center offerings under one company. …
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is out with earnings and the IT and PC giant reported $1.33 EPS on $33.28 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $1.27 EPS on revenue of…
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) reports earnings this afternoon, after the market closes. Non-GAAP EPS is expected to be $1.27 on revenue of $32.75 billion. That’s substantially better than the EPS of $1.08…
Updated throughout the day. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) will begin to make chips for start-ups (NYT) IBM (NYSE: IBM) has made an offer for Fortinet (Bloomberg) Bard Capital Markets Europe will buy Nigel…
China’s PMI grew much faster than expected. (Reuters) China will not slow rare earth shipments. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) sued Motorola (NYSE: MOT) over six patents. (Reuters) New search engine Bleeko will…
It is a lengthy way to say that electronic batteries can nearly be perpetual motion machines. “Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a major research initiative, with several…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Federal Reserve will begin monetary easing shortly. (Reuters) Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison claims he can prove wrongdoing by Hewlett- Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ) new chief executive. (Reuters) The International Energy…
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is at it again with returning capital. The company announced this morning that it declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.65 per share. More importantly,…
Jon C. Ogg There is an interesting theme that has been worth looking deeper into so far this earnings season. High-priced stocks that have seen significant runs higher have a bias against the stocks after…
Skeptics have asked, fairly, why Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) should have a larger market capitalization than Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and IBM (NYSE: IBM). The answer is that Apple’s growth…
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) reported $2.82 EPS and $24.3 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $2.75 EPS and $24.12 billion in revenues. As far as guidance, IBM said…
Jon C. Ogg What do Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) have in common, besides earnings due after the close? Both stocks are essentially sitting at all-time high share prices…
The week of October 18 to 22 is jam-packed with earnings. It also happens that eleven of the thirty DJIA components reporting earnings will be delivered next week. On deck are such…
