Some of the best known publicly traded companies in the world have stocks that will never reach their all-time highs again. Many of them are not troubled firms. In a number of…
Earnings dominated the press coverage of today’s shares. Novartis and Harley-Davidson released numbers Icahn Enterprise was thumped after it made a bid for Clorox, which was rejected. Boeing was hit because large…
Parliament will question Rupert Murdoch of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) today (Reuters) IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) service business rose, driving earnings up (Reuters) Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will fire 15% of its workers (Reuters)…
New research shows that graduates from American business schools have a growing desire to join tech firms over investment banks and management consultancies. It is an almost certain sign that the Web…
Next week will mark the true ‘opening the floodgates’ for earnings season. We have given some brief earnings previews and added in color for the DJIA components set to report earnings in…
The balance between a potential downgrade of US debt and strong bank results left the market without conviction. That leaves open the issue of whether the American debt cap and the flood…
24/7 Wall St. is probably not alone in noticing that there were very few earnings warnings issued by the major companies that dictate market trends going into the end of June. That…
It would have been hard to imagine just a year ago that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) growth engine would be the phone business. It has turned out that the most exciting developments at…
The press has given the joint venture between Facebook and Skype to deliver video chat a large amount of coverage. Facebook Video Calling does not offer anything new. Skype has had video…
Updated throughout the day. AirAsia will up its Airbus order to 300 planes (Reuters) Strauss-Kahn lawyers may meet with prosecutors to settle charges or dismiss them completely (NYPost) Sony (NYSE: SNE) said…
RADVision Ltd. (NASDAQ: RVSN) is going to get hit today after lowering guidance. This may have been worse than many expected, but RADVision is now in a spot that it is going…
24/7 Wall St. wrote Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) about their new English search joint venture and the response was “Baidu and Microsoft announced that Bing, Microsoft’s decision engine, will…
Congress and the Administration are closer to a conclusion of negotiations on the debt cap (Reuters) The finance minister of Greece said its viability is essential to the euro zone (Reuters) Canon…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 225 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks. Dividends are rarely controversial…
