At today’s users’ conference in San Francisco, Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) will announce a deal under which Oracle will use Nokia mapping, navigation and location technology. Oracle…
The board of Xstrata approves a merger with Glencore. (Reuters) A U.S. appeals court says a lower court should reexamine a ban of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which was part of a patent win…
Updated throughout the day on the 24/7 Wall St. Wire: Greece will release a budget with deep cuts for 2013, with the assumption that its recession will linger. (Reuters) Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning following weak economic data from Germany (more coverage here). The weekend meetings between Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande highlighted…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday. AK Steel Holding Corp. (NYSE: AKS) cut to Sell at Citigroup. Atmel…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning, encouraged by a report from Europe that Spain was close to unveiling a rescue plan for the country’s banks that it would…
The new Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 brings in long customer lines in Asia. (Reuters) Apple’s map application receives poor reviews. (Reuters) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) says it will no…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning following mostly weak reports on European PMI (more coverage here). The reading on U.S. PMI was unchanged from last month (more coverage…
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is set to report earnings on Thursday after the close. What has been amazing is that Oracle’s share price is back to within 3% or so of its…
This is not exactly a packed week for earnings like you would see in earnings season, but we still have many key earnings reports. We have provided previews for the following: Carnival…
The markets’ broad rally has left some sectors behind, most notably the PC and PC-related hardware companies. The death of the platform, which has become broadly accepted by Wall St., has not been…
EU Finance Ministers Meet The financial ministers of the euro area will meet over the next two days. There is a very wide range of topics that they might discuss. The gathering should begin…
We tracked the short interest in the following Nasdaq most actively traded stocks: Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI), Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Zynga…
While many individual Americans are struggling financially, some of the largest corporations in the United States are sitting on billions in cash. Moody’s pointed out in March that U.S. nonfinancial companies’ cash holdings rose to…
Samsung will review 250 suppliers for labor violations. (Reuters) Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) will ask a court to review copyright damages against SAP A.G. (NYSE: SAP). (Reuters) Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) is likely…
