Trading Volume at Five-Year Low CNNMoney is the latest media outlet to acknowledge the fact that trading volume is light. In their estimation, it is at a five-year low. There could be several reasons…
Dell Inc.’s (NASDAQ: DELL) quarterly numbers leave investors worried. (Reuters) The head of the eurozone goes to Greece to evaluate its finances. (Reuters) Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung make final statements…
It has been said several times, but for Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) shareholders, it cannot be said too often: the most important line in the Dell quarterly earnings statement is the one…
The Motorola unit of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has filed a claim with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking an import ban on foreign-made products by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The…
Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), which is barely alive in the smartphone sector, claims that the fruits of its large partnership with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) are about to arrive. The marriage was…
Standard Chartered has paid the New York Department of Financial Services $340 million to settle charges that it helped Iran interests launder money. Unfortunately for the financial firm, this settlement is only the…
The stock market is up Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.25%, the Nasdaq up 0.28% and the S&P 500 up 0.26%. Today’s market winners both reported strong quarterly results, sending…
Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, announced today that worldwide sales of mobile phones declined 2.3% in second quarter to 419 million units, compared to the year-ago quarter. Smartphone sales,…
The short interest data is out from the July 31 settlement date and we have compared these levels to the prior July 13 settlement date. It seems that there were some big…
Short sellers backed away from their gambles on old tech firms as they increased their positions in new Web 2.0 companies. For the period that ended July 31, short sellers cut their…
NokiaMobile phone maker Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) has agreed to sell a portfolio of more than 500 patents to Vringo Inc. (NYSEMKT: VRNG) for an undisclosed sum. Nokia will retain some ongoing…
How many companies see their shares rise on direct offerings of stock? Vringo Inc. (NYSEMKT: VRNG) is trading higher again today, but not on raising capital. The company announced that it…
Jon C. Ogg The latest data from International Data Corp. (IDC) confirms what we’ve all known for a while now: The mobile OS market is now unquestionably a two-horse race due to the dominance of…
In yet another sign that the smartphone market is a two-horse race, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung Electronics together grabbed 108% of the industry’s profits in the second quarter of 2012.…
The three major US stock indexes opened about 1% higher this morning following the news that non-farm payrolls grew by a much larger-than-expected 163,000 (our coverage here). Once investors warmed up to…
