Over the period since Ginni Rometty became CEO of International Corp. (NYSE: IBM), the company has underperformed the market substantially, as has the tech giant’s financial performance. IBM’s stock performance shows how harshly…
Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will separate into two new publicly traded companies: Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc.
thinkstockOctober 1, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday as manufacturing PMI numbers out of Europe were weaker than expected. That was just the beginning: the ISM manufacturing index came in weak and…
thinkstockSeptember 25, 2014: Markets opened lower on Thursday as tech stocks led by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) had dropped more than 2% about half an hour before the close. A weak report…
A great deal was made of the value of Facebook as it crossed the $200 billion market cap level. There is a powerful argument that Facebook is too expensive.
Douglas A. McIntyre thinkstockSeptember 4, 2014: Markets opened higher on Thursday following mixed reports on new claims for jobless benefits and employment. But the good start slipped to the downside by mid-afternoon. Energy stocks were…
thinkstockAugust 27, 2014: Markets opened higher on Wednesday but soon turned negative before bouncing back above the break-even line in the mid-morning. The S&P 500 opened at a new high, but fell…
thinkstockAugust 26, 2014: Markets opened higher on Tuesday following a huge jump in durable goods orders, a better-than-expected report on consumer confidence, and a slowdown in home price increases. The DJIA hit…
These companies have cut their effective tax rates the most and boosted their net income at the same time.
24/7 Wall St. reviews the so-called order backlog of service and product orders from companies to see what the future looks like.
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) is the world’s largest publicly traded employer, with approximately 2.2 million employees across of the globe, a number greater than the population of cities…
When Berkshire Hathaway released its latest changes to its public equity holdings, what stood out the most was just how large some of the stakes have gotten compared to the total Buffett…
courtesy of WhiteHouse.govBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) released its public equity holdings as of June 30, 2014. Warren Buffett’s different portfolio holdings have not been changing much of late, but it turns…
ThinkstockWhile technology has been the top sector by far this year, the industrials as a whole have lagged the market dramatically. Most of Wall Street remains very positive about the balance of…
Oppenheimer's Asset Management unit has released its Monitor of Analysts’ Earnings Revisions List. This is the so-called MAER List, which analyzes trends in revisions to the consensus earnings estimates .
