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America’s Most Innovative Cities
Thinkstock The United States has always prided itself as one of the most innovative countries in the world. In fact, patenting in a wide range of scientific fields has been on the…
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 23, 2013: Market Open Higher on Little News (COST, GE, VZ, F, INCY, AMD, CSX, GOOG, IBM, IGT, TXN, ABT, BHI, COH, GD, MCD, LCC, AAPL, AMGN, NFLX, SNDK, FFIV, NE, NVR, WDC, MMM, BMY, LMT, RYN, LUV, UNP, UAL, XRX, MAPP, AGN, NMRX, MCP)
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a string of solid earnings reports yesterday and after markets closed last night. As we note below, earnings results were more mixed today, but…
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ALU, BHI, COST, DOV, ELLI, F, GE, GOOG, HIG, INCY, IBM, NU, SPG, AMTD, VZ)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Wednesday. Alcatel-Lucent S.A (NYSE: ALU) raised to Neutral from Sell at Citigroup. Baker…
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IBM and Google Earnings Show Strength of Broad Economy
courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) sells its products and services primarily to large companies, enterprises and governments. Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) ad sales often draw on smaller firms. And…
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Media Digest (1/23/2013) Reuters, WSJ, Bloomberg
courtesy of AOL, IncThe Federal Aviation Administration faces criticism about approving a Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) battery that caused safety concerns about the 787. (Reuters) Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) beats Wall St. estimates…
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IBM Delivers on Earnings and Maintains Long-Term Goals
courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has reported earnings for its fourth quarter of $5.39 per share before items and $29.3 billion in revenue. Sales were down 1% from a…
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 22, 2013: Markets Shake Off Early Doldrums (TWC, SLB, DISH, ARMH, LNKD, DAL, FCX, JNJ, KSU, RF, VZ, AMD, CSX, GOOG, IBM, IGT, TXN, ABT, BHI, COH, GD, MCD, LCC, RIMM, DQ, LDK, ARNA)
U.S. equity markets opened about flat this morning following the holiday weekend in the U.S. Foreign markets were also more or less mixed. In Europe, the German and eurozone economic indexes came…
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Earnings Previews for Google and IBM
ThinkstockAfter the close on Tuesday we will get to see tech-kings like Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) report their fourth-quarter earnings. For IT-spending, IBM will be…
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Media Digest (1/22/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
thinkstockShares of Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) hit a 13-month high on a belief that new products could trigger a recovery. (Reuters) The Japan central bank says it will ease as…
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Drop in Workforce May Not Hurt China
ThinkstockThe conventional wisdom is that the first drop in China’s work force in memory is part of a trend that will undermine its growth rate. Whether that is true depends almost entirely…
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Major Earnings on Deck the Week Ahead for DJIA and S&P Stocks
The week ahead will be the official flood gate opening for earnings season. We have a very large portion of the S&P 500 Index reporting fourth-quarter earnings, and we have many Dow Jones…
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Dell and Best Buy Similarity — Hubris
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) are each in trouble as the business environments they helped to create become passe and investors wonder…
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Retail Customers Embrace Online Shopping
ThinkstockRetail sales for the holiday season just behind us rose about 4.8%, compared with sales during the 2011 holiday shopping season. Online sales rose by more than 14%, and that growth is…
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AXP, ARMH, COF, CSCO, DE, EMC, FB, HPQ, HUN, IBM, OKE, PM, S, VZ)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far from Wall St, research calls this Monday: American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) cut to Neutral on valuation/price…
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UBS Sees Weaker 2013 IT Spending, but Certain Stocks Look Promising (UBS, DELL, EMC, NTAP, IBM, HPQ, ORCL, RIMM, CSCO, JNPR, ARUN, MSFT, VMW, SAP, ACN, INFY, QQQ, IYM)
ThinkstockAfter a solid year for information technology spending by major corporations in 2012, companies surveyed by analysts at UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) suggest that spending will decline in 2013. In fact estimates have dropped…