David Tepper’s Appaloosa hedge fund is one of the most respected and closely watched funds on Wall Street. Tepper makes frequent appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, and often his comments alone…
courtesy of OracleOracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) was supposed to have big news out around its earnings. We will cover the earnings of course, but the corporate governance issues are going to dwarf…
courtesy of Apple Inc.By now you know the news that is driving Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) lower and lower, but the earnings report and lower margins have an interesting side-effect here even if…
ThinkstockAfter a solid year for information technology spending by major corporations in 2012, companies surveyed by analysts at UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) suggest that spending will decline in 2013. In fact estimates have dropped…
Outside of rivalry for eyeballs, maps, and all other things digital… What do Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) have in common? They are both within about 4% of…
Jon OggIf you are a chartist and if you love moving averages on those charts, you better pay attention to the stock charts today. In our Erlanger daily chart analysis the thesis right…
OK, so the Greeks are trying to stay in the Euro for at least one more election cycle. The markets have sold off as reality sets in that it may be more expansive…
If you want to know what is hurting Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and helping Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), it may be nothing more than continued chatter about an index rebalancing act by…
Updated for the 4PM closing bell…. Do you call it a crash or do you call it a bear market? Technically this is correction territory now that the 10% pullback has been…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares were halted for its earnings report today and the numbers are just baffling. The company reported earnings for its third quarter of 2011 of $7.79 EPS and…
There are plenty of questions about the technology sector this summer. Two important earnings reports, from Google and IBM, have come out so far and both were better than expectations. Apple reports…
Earnings season hits the ground running later today when Alcoa Inc. reports second quarter earnings. We have already posted a preview of other top earnings coming this week. Now we’re watching several…
Following a pretty steady climb since August 2010, the NASDAQ peaked in late April before tumbling almost 9%. The tech-heavy index is trying to start over again, but it’s a bumpy hill.…
Jon OggCertainly by now you have heard the term “Sell in May and go away!” This was just one of the ten reasons that we noted why investors might need to worry about…
The NASDAQ 100 has figured out a way to change its dependence upon and its dominance by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). A good old-fashioned reweighting is that plan. The NASDAQ confirmed this morning that…
