The European Union summit helps to lower bond yields for Spain and Italy. (Reuters) Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares drop badly after releases earnings early and it misses numbers. (Reuters) Microsoft Corp.…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning and really never got on track the entire day. The lower opening was likely a reaction to China’s weakest quarterly GDP growth…
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) reported third-quarter results before markets opened this morning. The telecommunications giant posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.64 on revenues of $29 billion. In the…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning, and never really got untracked all day. Spanish 10-year bond yields fell 28 basis points to around 5.51%, while Spain again demurred…
Economists and researchers believe data for the fourth quarter demonstrate that the fiscal cliff could hammer growth between now and year’s end. If so, the stock market may take a steep tumble as it…
In a world with a total population of about 7 billion, cell phone subscriptions numbered about 6 billion at the end of 2011, according to a report from the U.N.’s International Telecommunications…
The coming fiscal cliff represents a huge hurdle for America. Government and private sector forecasters have warned that the expiration of tax cuts, along with hundreds of billions of dollars in government…
AppleJust when you thought the flap over the new mapping app from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) would be laid to rest, the company has taken another hit to its shining armor over…
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has just initiated its fourth payment of a $0.44 per common share quarterly dividend. We were not expecting a dividend hike this month, but we are formally setting…
Short sellers are still active in the high-dividend names out there. Apparently many are under the impression that the dividend bubble is worth betting against. Still, it takes keen conviction to short…
Digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) announced this morning that it had settled a pending patent suit against Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and that the two companies have entered…
Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) will buy back $8 billion in shares. (Reuters) More than 5 million Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) members are children who have been banned from the social network. (Reuters)…
At a communications industry conference in New York today, AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) chief Randall Stephenson may decide not to sell off the company’s rural wireline assets. That would be a big…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has said that the demand has already exceeded its supply of the iPhone 5. We reported on Friday morning that the iPhone 5 was already sold out on…
AppleApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) finally delivered on the iPhone 5. And shares had a record-high close yet again this week. When the company unveiled the new iPhone, the promise was that it…
