Wall St. analysts expect Apple’s earnings to do better than estimates. This is not surprising. Apple (AAPL) has a history of setting low expectations about its figures and then beating them handily.…
This week will mark the first crest of earnings season as we have 11 of the 30 DJIA components reporting earnings this week alone. On Tuesday, we have earnings from Caterpillar Inc.…
What started as a qu ery to the FCC last month by Sen. John Kerry, (D-Mass.), and a handful of other senators asking whether exclusive deals between carriers and cell phone makers…
Cellular providers including Sprint (S), AT&T (T), and Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) have had the broadband wireless market all to themselves. WiFi offered some modest competition, but its service only works within a…
Yahoo! (YHOO) and Google (GOOG) actually have something to worry about, if Steve Ballmer is not bluffing. The Microsoft (MSFT) CEO says that he company is prepared to spend 5% to 10%…
Reuters:  Investors are putting money into emerging markets except Eastern Europe. Reuters:  Stanford will go to court for a $8 billion fraud allegation. Reuters:  RIM’s (RIMM) outlook disappointed. Reuters:  CEOs at bailed out…
These are the top pre-market analyst downgrades or cautious research calls we have seen from Wall Street this Thursday morning with about two hours until the market opens: AT&T (T) Started as…
Reuters:Â Â Obama proposed sweeping reform for financial industry. Reuters:Â Â Â A number of large banks repaid TARP. (JPM)(GS)(BBT)(COP)(STT)(AXP)(USB) Reuters:Â Â Consumer prices show inflation is in check. Reuters:Â Â China could still be a big…
Reuters: The US faces a long period of economic stagnation. Reuters:Â Â Obama will release plans for a financial market overhaul. Reuters:Â Â The White House will not help California fix its deficit. Reuters:Â Â …
Palm (PALM) may not have had much of a choice in terms of which cellular company was going to market its new Pre. AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) were probably not…
Reuters: The Supreme Court delays Chrysler deal. Reuters:  The cleared ten banks to repay TARP include JPMorgan (JPM), Goldmand Sachs (GS), American Express (AXP), Cpaital One(COF), State Street (STT), BBT (BBT), Morgan…
Cisco (CSCO) expected a staggering increase in IP traffic between now and 2013. A new report from the router company says that global IP traffic will quintuple in the five years ending in 2013.…
The government’s game of managing General Motors took another odd turn today as Ed Whitacre, the former CEO of AT&T (T), a man who know about phone lines but not assembly lines…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is having more than its share of free press from the World Wide Developers Conference this week. The big new push here seems to be on revamping the…
These are the top ten analyst calls for research upgrades, downgrades, and initiations which we have seen from Wall Street early this Monday morning: Airgas (ARG) Started as Buy at Piper Jaffray.…
