The US has tried to hold together discussions on currency and trade among unruly members of the G20 conference in Seoul. (Reuters) Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) grim outlook stunned investors. (Reuters) The US…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) Raised to Buy at Argus. Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML)…
Is the new Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Kinect game system “racist?” Consumer Reports says no. The problem began when Gamespot reported: testing suggests facial recognition features of Microsoft’s motion-sensing camera system might not…
Douglas A. McIntyre Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has grown massively and arguably has the coolest products on the market from iPads to iPhones and on. As the company has grown and grown, it has also…
The Republicans took control of the House but not the Senate. Solar panel maker Solyndra was forced to halt expansion, to some extent because of Chinese competition. (NYT) Cotton prices will cause clothing…
Mitsui was billed $1.8 billion from BP plc (NYSE: BP) for clean-up costs. (Reuters) A limited number of holidays and warm weather probably hurt retail sales in October. (Reuters) Canada may approve…
Blekko.com is the latest search engine to challenge Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). Venture capitalists and technology inventors look at the company’s $20 billion in revenue and $200 billion market cap and find…
It is hard to argue against the thought that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is one of the hottest growth stocks with great share performance and great brand loyalty. Its shares closed out…
A lawsuit alleges that Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) secretly bought problem cars. (Reuters) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings were better than expected. (Reuters) The AIA IPO moved up 17% on the Hong Kong…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) came out with its earnings after the close (only on the website, no press release). This was record revenues for its first quarter of up about 25% to…
Jon C. Ogg Nintendo has found out what it is like to be Sony (NYSE: SNE). The powerful Japanese inventor of the Wii now finds the sales of its console in free fall much as…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to report earnings on Thursday after the close. We had already questioned the company’s ability to reconcile its books because it seems that the earnings release…
Jon C. Ogg Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) may have just accidentally become more like the Yellow Pages in a new local search effort. Google is set to launch Places, which gives more information online about…
Bank stocks will rebound and telecom shares will rise. That is, at least, the prevailing opinion among short sellers as of October 15. Telecom and telecom equipment shares will benefit from an…
Moody’s reports that US corporations have amassed $1 trillion in cash. The document, entitled “U.S. Corporate Cash Hoard Near $1 Trillion, But Unlikely To Be Used for Expansion” explains that these firms…
