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Technology
Microsoft Catching Apple as World’s Most Valuable Company by Market Cap
Since October, shares of both companies have declined in value, but the drop in Apple stock has been far steeper than the drop in Microsoft shares.
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7:24am ET
Retail
Walmart Shares Strong, Amazon’s Weak At Start Of Holidays
Inc (NYSE: WMT) is supposed to be losing market share to Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) every year, curtailing good prospects for the world’s largest retailer. However, in the last month, Wall St.…
4:01pm ET
Investing
Apple, Walgreens Tank the Dow Tuesday
Apple, Walgreens, Disney, and Microsoft were Tuesday's big Dow Industrials losers.
4:01pm ET
Investing
UnitedHealth, Caterpillar Launch the Dow Higher Wednesday
Caterpillar, UnitedHealth, Microsoft, and Pfizer lifted the down to 500-point gain Wednesday.
6:50am ET
Investing
Could Amazon Be Broken Into 3 Pieces to Blunt Its Dominance?
Amazon is already under the antitrust microscope and is therefore at risk of becoming more than one company, sooner or later.
8:04am ET
Investing
Merck Takes Over as Dow’s Top-Performing Dow Stock
Drugmaker Merck wrestled away from Apple the top ranking last week as the best performing stock among the Dow 30.
8:19am ET
Investing
Why Buying Old School Large Cap Technology Leaders Makes Sense Now
Following a rocky October, a solid choice for investors may be the old school big cap technology leaders that also were crushed last month.
4:01pm ET
Investing
Visa, Caterpillar Pace the Dow Higher Wednesday
Visa, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, and Caterpillar were among the Dow stocks posting large gains on Wednesday.
4:01pm ET
Investing
Boeing, IBM Tank the Dow Monday
IBM, Boeing, Microsoft, and Visa were the worst Dow performers Monday as the index dropped more than 320 points.
8:40am ET
Investing
Apple Retains Grip as Top-Performing Dow Stock
Apple returns for another week as the top-performing Dow stock for the year to date even though shares dropped nearly 1.5% in another week of losses in U.S. equities markets.
8:15am ET
Technology
Microsoft’s ‘Strong Defense of the United States’
Microsoft has described the reasons it does business with the U.S. government, a decision that has bothered some employees.
Douglas A. McIntyre 6:35am ET
Technology
Microsoft Becomes No. 2 Market Cap Company in US
Microsoft has just passed Amazon.com as the second largest company in the United States as measured by market cap.
4:50am ET
Media
6 Most Important Things in Business Today: Microsoft Becomes No. 2 Market Cap
Nokia will make large layoffs as it changes its business strategy, Fox News to start a new streaming service, and other important business headlines.
9:15am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AT&T, Boeing, Hilton, KB Home, Microsoft, Norfolk Southern, Pandora, UPS and More
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday included AT&T, Boeing, Hilton, KB Home, Microsoft, Norfolk Southern, Pandora and UPS.
4:19pm ET
Technology
How Microsoft Did It Again in Q1
Microsoft reported fiscal first-quarter results after markets closed Wednesday. The software behemoth reported diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.14 on revenues of $29.1 billion. In the same period last year the…
Chris Lange