Any CEO can change his management team. But, chess is not won by the use of new pieces. It is won by a strategy of attack and defense. Hewlett-Packard’s hapless new CEO,…
NokiaAll Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has to do is hang on for a few years and it will have a huge share of the smartphone market due to its partnership with Microsoft (NASDAQ:…
Short sellers must not agree with the conventional wisdom that high gas prices and unemployment will keep Americans out of stores and malls this summer. These investors decreased their negative bets against…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has enjoyed massive growth over the last decade. It has overcome a near-death experience and transformed itself into the second largest company by market capitalization. Now that its…
Hilary Clinton may become the head of the World Bank. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) said it expects profits to fall by 35% due to the effects of the earthquake. (Reuters) PIMCO’s Bill…
The Financial Times reports that hackers have gained access to a number of Citigroup (NYSE C) credit cards numbers which belong to the bank’s customers. “The bank said that about 1 per…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Started as Neutral at Goldman…
A Washington Post/ABC poll showed Obama’s ratings on the economy hit a low. (Reuters) Steve Jobs of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the company’s new iCloud product. (Reuters) Wall St. stocks hit a…
Taiwan smartphone company HTC has an annual revenue run rate of close to $20 billion and it is currently growing at a rate of about 100% a year. HTC will ship 60…
Did you heed the call “Sell in May and Go Away!” this year? It turns out that as of mid-day we now have nearly half of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average…
Updated throughout the day. PE firm Gore is in talks to buy part of Borders (WSJ) SAC will be probed for its use of “expert networks”. (NYT) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will but…
May retail sales may be hurt by a weakened economy. (Reuters) Some Fed officials believe that poor jobs results should cause interest rates to stay low. (Reuters) An academic models shows LinkedIn…
Updated throughout the day. SAC faces a government investigation on insider trading activity from the MedImmune takeover (WSJ) Steve Jobs will unveil Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iCloud service this month (Reuters) Carlyle Group…
The House defeated a bill to raise the national debt limit. (Reuters) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) unsuccessfully tried to form a venture with Facebook. (Reuters) SAC is under investigation for its trading of…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) chairman Jorma Ollila really should not be on the 24/7 Wall St. America’s Worst Directors List. Nokia is based in Finland, but it is traded on the NYSE and…
