U.S. attempts to probe illegal activity at HSBC Holdings PLC (NYSE: HBC) are set back by interagency battles. (Reuters) Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) names a new chief financial officer. (Reuters) The British Bankers’ Association probably…
Last year, U.S. exports to China topped $100 billion for the first time. The country is now the third-largest importer of U.S. goods, behind Canada and Mexico. The total value of products…
Stocks are sliding a bit on Monday after more caution from Europe and on more economic slowing trends. The chart analysis today shows that caution and patience would remain the best action. Today we…
If you have followed the saga of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) for very long, you know that it is a rather painful story. After the company announced the departure of…
By now you know that we enjoy looking for dividends. Dividend hikes are even better than just looking at high dividends. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has just delivered upon our ambition of…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning and have wavered around the break-even line all day. European markets got things off to a slow start with concerns about Spain’s…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) cut to Market Perform at Leerink Swann. Alcoa…
ClearwireIn a Friday filing with the SEC, Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) said it will sell its stake of 46.4 million shares of Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) either to other shareholders…
Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Motorola Mobility handed Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) a much-needed victory in the smartphone industry. The big chip marker has had a hard time breaking out of the PC market…
July Air Travel Report U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report for July is out. It grades, among other things, which airlines are most likely to have on-time arrivals. The data…
Shipments of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips to the PC industry have fallen below 50% for the first time since the 1980s according to new data from IHS iSuppli released today. In…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened flat this morning as world markets didn’t want to jump the gun on today’s announcement from the FOMC. The report on new claims for unemployment…
We have tracked the key short interest changes as of August 31 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU),…
We tracked the short interest in the following Nasdaq most actively traded stocks: Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI), Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Zynga…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) started as Sell at Citigroup. Allergan Inc.…
