Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE: AKS) Cut to Neutral at UBS. Celestica…
Huge South Korean electronics company LG Electronics will abandon its tablet PC effort, according to Bloomberg. LG is among the five largest cellphone makers in the world. It should have the ability…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) launches its Surface tablet. (Reuters) European leaders say they will create a more integrated banking system. (Reuters) The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority may determine whether Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) was at…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) decided to blow the roof off of the tablet market with its “Surface” tablet PC. By all appearances, it has features to outgun the competition, perhaps even the Apple…
Software giant Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is trading down about -2% in the early afternoon today following a research note from JMP Securities that maintains the firm’s ‘market perform’ rating, raises Oracle’s…
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.At a hastily arranged event scheduled for today at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to announce a new tablet device to be built…
Updated throughout the day on the 24/7 Wall St. Wire. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will buy social network firm Yammer (Reuters) Credit Suisse is under pressure to increase its capital bases. (FT) Douglas…
Douglas A. McIntyre Spain’s bond yields quickly rose above 7% today for 10-year sovereign paper. Greece’s acceptance of austerity measures, based on results of the elections, provided no confidence that Spain — in its second recession…
The pro-austerity party wins the election in Greece and will try to build a coalition. (Reuters) India surprises analysts by keeping its rates as is, despite a slow economy. (Reuters) The FCC…
Rumors are that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will release a tablet PC today. It will run a version of Windows Mobile designed to operate on ARM architecture. Most analysts of the tablet market…
The three major US stock indexes opened slightly higher this morning as markets reacted to news of a cooperative effort by central banks to maintain liquidity in the world’s financial system (our…
That is an attention grabbing headline. And Mark Zuckerberg should leave Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). He will not be pushed out, though, like Steve Jobs was at Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in 1985 when he…
Several G20 nations have signaled that their central banks will do what is necessary to keep credit markets liquid so that capital is available to keep the global money system from the…
A number of central banks say they will act in concert if the EU financial situation worsens. (Reuters) The UK government and Bank of England could inject as much as 100 billion…
Tech industry blog The Wrap reports that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will release its own tablet PC next week. That means it will follow Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) into the premium portable smartphone and…
