Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.One of the most anticipated announcements at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was the introduction of the Galaxy S5 smartphone by Samsung Electronics. The time has come,…
Samsung ElectronicsWe can expect a blizzard of new product announcements and just plain announcements from the Mobile World Congress that kicked off Sunday morning in Barcelona. First out of the chute was…
Advanced Micro Devices has a proposed $500 million senior note offering, which will effectively finance a tender of other notes coming due. The ratings agencies have chimed in with mixed views.
One of the terrible things about taking interest rates to near zero and keeping them there is the savers in this country get murdered. After all these years of low rates, what…
thinkstockFebruary 19, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday and after spending some time above the break-even line, all three major indexes sank following the release of the FOMC minutes. The energy sector…
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsIn 2013 the United States spent more corporate money on research and development than any other country in the world. Of a total spending level of €538.8 billion (about…
bfishshadow via Wikimedia CommonsHere is a look at the six Nasdaq-traded stocks with the largest number of shares held short as of January 31. Of the six, four saw short interest fall while…
ThinkstockOpen Compute, or OCP for short, is an organization that was founded by Facebook in 2011. According to the organization’s website, Open Compute’s goal is to “build one of the most efficient…
The UBS team thinks that investors that take "flight to safety" into U.S. treasury bonds and defensive, high dividend yield equities could get hurt bad later in the year. In a new…
Bloomberg found that Google has executed more deals than any company in the world over the past three years. It edged out marketing and advertising firm WPP and tech giant Intel, which…
The equity strategists at Credit Suisse have used the sell-off to make some massive changes in their Top Picks list. Stocks are added in six sectors allowing a wide range of top…
ThinkstockThe latest monthly Challenger, Gray and Christmas job cuts survey finds layoffs jumped nearly 50% in January, after hitting a 13-year-low in December. U.S.-based employers announced plans to cut more than 45,000…
The equity strategy team at J.P. Morgan presented a new research report that actually makes a very solid case not only for equities, but for equities with higher emerging market exposure. Here…
If Wall Street's measure of a company's promise is its market value, then Facebook's extraordinary earnings have put it solidly onto the list of the 25 most valuable companies in the United…
ThinkstockAs of January 15, short interest in several semiconductor stocks increased as investors continued to bet against PC processors and memory chips in favor of mobile devices. With only a couple of…
