The term “innovation” is difficult to quantify when it comes to large companies across different industries. 24/7 Wall St. chose to look at global patent filings, filings by field, and increases in…
Short sellers increased their positions in a number of telecom and tech stocks. Shares sold short in AT&T (NYSE: T) rose 14% to 58.2 million. The short interest in Verizon (NYSE: VZ)…
Active traders and day traders have several key stocks to watch. We are tracking moves in Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE), Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB), Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB), Microsoft…
The recession is, by the standard measurement, over. The National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee said the downturn ended in June 2009. Most polls of individuals and company executives…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has struggled with a stock price which is stuck where it was five years ago. The world’s largest software company’s revenue in its last fiscal year is not much…
The concerns that people have about employment are supposed to get better and not worse as the economy comes out of a recession. That is not true among most Americans, according to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: White House adviser Larry Summers will leave. Reuters: There is more support in Washington to press China hard on the yuan. Reuters: The prime minister of Japan said its intervention on…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 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…
MarketWatch: The Chinese let the yuan rise perhaps because of pressure from the US. Reuters: The BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) bid for Potash (NYSE: POT) may go into 2011 as the Australian…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
Reuters: Geithner will take the yuan issue to the G-20. Reuters: Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) earnings beat Wall St. forecasts. Reuters: Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) numbers beat forecasts. Reuters: The dollar was…
U.S. utilities, which are under pressure to use more environmentally friendly fuel sources, are increasingly betting their future of natural gas at the expense of coal. As Bloomberg News notes, the U.S.…
Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is no longer the major challenge to the sales of Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-powered smartphones are. New data from comScore show…
Sales of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT)new “Halo: Reach” video game reached $200 million on the first day it was available. The world’s largest software company expects sales of the game to help push…
Reuters: Japan says it is ready to move into the forex market to support the yen. Reuters: George Soros says that China was the big winner coming out of the recession. Reuters: …
