The New York Times was good enough to run a list of the world’s 20 most valuable companies ranked by market cap in 1989, 1999, and 2007. Japan owned the list in…
Astoday is the 20th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, 24/7 WallSt. wanted to go back in time to review how the individual DJIAcomponents held up around the time and how…
IBM (NYSE:IBM) has posted earnings at $1.68 EPS on $24.1 Billion in revenues, versus First Call estimates of $1.67 EPS & $24.07 Billion in revenues; Big Blue usually holds off on formal…
Douglas A. McIntyre It used to be that banks all grouped their earnings around each other. We’ve already started seeing some of the big earnings come out, but today we have a major day from…
According to Reuters, economists cut forecasts for US growth for the third month in a row. Reuters writes that IBM (IBM) and Second Life will work on ways to eventually let people…
According to Reuters, Morgan Stanley (MS) plans to start a wealth management business in India. Reuters writes that Alan Greenspan said that US economic growth is slowing. Reuters writes that SAP (SAP)…
Yesterday was a bad day for chip stocks based upon Morgan Stanley’s key downgrades in the semiconductor sector. But today is a different day as many major technology companies have been initiated…
Big tech continued to do extraordinarily well in the third quarters. Stocks that would seem to have outrun their earnings continued to climb. Among the members of the S&P 500, Apple (AAPL)…
Sun Microsystems (JAVA) thinks China will be the hot country in Asia over the next few years. Like almost every other US company, it believes it can double sales in the huge…
After the EU took Microsoft (INTC) out back and beat it up over anti-trust charges and then a European court upheld the EU ruling and fines, it would seem no one would…
Microsoft (NASD:MSFT) lost its appeal of the antitrust case brought by the EU. The court upheld the $612 fine imposed on the company as well. The EU had charged that Microsoft used…
Last week, Sun Microsystems (JAVA) changed its ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA. JAVA is a widely known and highly regarded programming language that Sun introduced twelve years ago. It is used…
Even if VMware (NYSE:VMW) sees its stock go sideways or even if it gets soft from here, it has a long way to go before many would be able to say this…
Sony (SNE) is launching a service in Europe that will allow users of its beleaguered PS3 to download TV shows and move them to the portable SNE PSP portable device. TV-to-go. As…
Below are short interest figures for major companies traded on the NYSE as of August 15 compared to July 13, 2007 Largest Short Positions Ford (F) …
