The person who first said that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link has never lifted a V8 out of a Ford Mustang. But, the analogy works in most…
At 842, the S&P is pushing near a 25% gains since it bottomed for the year-to-date at 677 on March 9th. The bank stocks continue an extraordinary run over that period. Citigroup…
Most of the recent news about Google (GOOG) has been bad. Online advertising posted a slow fourth quarter. That unexpectedly included both display ads and search marketing which has made Google one…
Nintendo already has a significant lead in the game console business. Its Wii routinely outsells the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony (SNE) PS3. The Japanese company seems to think its advantage…
Based on the rise in the short interest in banks at mid-month, it is clear how badly investors betting bank stocks would go down were mauled. As of March 15, shares short…
Tech stocks are supposed to go down less than the overall market and come back faster. That has been in the Broker 101 handbook for at least two decades. The reasoning is…
Sir Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony (SNE), tried to convince himself and his company’s stockholders that the PS3 game platform would be a key component to turning the consumer electronics and…
American management began to do what it could to make office environments more pleasant sometime after the bad economic patch in 2001 and 2002. At some companies such as Wal-Mart (WMT) workers…
Microsoft’s (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is making a good show of trying to get Yahoo! (YHOO) to discuss selling its search business. The combination could give MSFT 30% of the US market…
Sony (SNE) and Google (GOOG) plan to launch a partnership to challenge to Amazon’s (AMZN) modestly successful e-book reader. According to The Wall Street Journal, the project will “give users of the…
Now that final numbers from 2008 have been filed for most large US companies, 24/7 Wall St. is picking several stocks that are likely to double off of their lows, almost all…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) came out with its big technology platform announcement, as prior reports had hinted at. This includes announcements for services and products involving Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Red…
The economy is so bad that most people live in a world where they shop at Wal-Mart (WMT) and eat at McDonald’s. Finding entertaining things to do has simply gotten too expensive.…
Short sellers may have taken a bath in companies such as Citigroup (C) and GE (GE), but they increased investments in many companies to record levels. At the end of February, shares…
This week 24/7 Wall St. is picking several stocks that are likely to double off of their lows. The timeframe is by the end of 2010, which is meant to coincide with some form…
