We have tracked the key short interest changes as of June 28 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU),…
ThinkstockCorporate America continues to increase cash payouts to shareholders at a high, shareholder-friendly rate. S&P 500 dividends per share growth accelerated to 15.5% in the second quarter. That was well above the…
July 8, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a long holiday weekend interrupted by Friday’s report on jobs and the unemployment rate. In Europe, the troika of the EC,…
ThinkstockWith hackers and whistle-blowing vendor employees continuing to threaten not only national security but business security as well, American and international companies continue to prioritize security within their overall information technology (IT)…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average may have seen its volatility pick up lately, but we are technically still in a bull market, with gains of 13.7% so far in 2013. Second-quarter performance…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of June 14 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU),…
ThinkstockNews that Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) and is acquiring STEC Inc. (NASDAQ: STEC) has shares of STEC rising massively on Monday morning. What really matters here is that Western Digital’s move…
courtesy of NvidiaGraphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) said this morning that it will expand its technology licensing program to include its graphics processing unit (GPU) cores and visual computing patents…
ThinkstockLike many firms on Wall Street, technology is a major theme for the balance of the year. Deutsche Bank A.G. (NYSE: DB) launched its “tech enduring eight” basket of stocks to buy earlier…
The research team at UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) has released what Wall Street calls a Q-GARP list, which is simply “quality growth at a reasonable price.” Most investors will know this by…
ThinkstockOver the past five weeks, the 10-year Treasury bond yield has increased by over one-half of one percent from 1.66% to 2.17%. The overall equity market has rallied 3.8% during this stretch…
thinkstockToday’s announcement that Gannett Company Inc. (NYSE: GCI) would pay $1.5 billion in cash and assume more than $700 million debt to acquire Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) comes about two months after…
ThinkstockThere is a broadly held assumption that research and development (R&D) budget sizes matter a great deal to the current and future financial prospects of most tech companies. A review of the…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of May 31 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU),…
ThinkstockU.S. gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.5% in 2012 after growing 1.6% in 2011, the most the economy has grown since 2006. Nationally, manufacturing, trade and the finance and insurance industry…
