thinkstockShares of Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) hit a 13-month high on a belief that new products could trigger a recovery. (Reuters) The Japan central bank says it will ease as much as…
ThinkstockThe conventional wisdom is that the first drop in China’s work force in memory is part of a trend that will undermine its growth rate. Whether that is true depends almost entirely on how…
thinkstockExcess battery charges are not the problem with Boeing (NYSE: BA) 787 safety concerns, so an investigation will continue and the planes will stay out of service (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) may…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning, with the Nasdaq Composite lower on a weak quarterly earnings report last night from Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC). The big news for today came out of China,…
ThinkstockWhen the U.S. Treasury and General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) announced that GM had repurchased 200 million shares of Treasury-owned stock, the Treasury said it would sell the remaining 300 million shares it owns…
The week ahead will be the official flood gate opening for earnings season. We have a very large portion of the S&P 500 Index reporting fourth-quarter earnings, and we have many Dow Jones Industrial Average…
courtesy of Netflix Inc.Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is trading higher after Janney Capital Markets raised its rating to Buy from Neutral. The firm’s new fair value price target is now $129 per share as…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far this Friday from Wall St. research calls: ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs. Capital…
The American economy loses $250 billion as a result of counterfeit products each year, according to a recent report. Despite the impact, only a fraction can be detected and confiscated by the government. Click…
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) are each in trouble as the business environments they helped to create become passe and investors wonder if either…
ThinkstockChina posted a GDP growth rate of 7.9% in the fourth quarter of 2012, which is either the fastest rate in two years, or, based on the annual measurement, the slowest in 13 years…
ThinkstockUncertainties Push Oil Higher The Algeria hostage crisis shows how little it takes in the terms of geopolitical events to cause a spike in oil prices. As problems in the Middle East simmer, along…
courtesy of NetflixU.S. investigations of the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner focus on its main battery. (Reuters) Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) offers a weak outlook for future quarters. (Reuters) China’s gross domestic product…
Wikimedia CommonsIntel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) was up by 2% going into earnings today, in part led by a new leak on Bloomberg at the end of the trading day that came out right before…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following the report that new claims for unemployment benefits had fallen by 37,000 to a level not seen since 2008 (more coverage here). The government report on…