SAP’s (SAP) revenue and earnings were both up more  than expected. Revenue hit 2.42 billion euros, a 10% increase and net income rose 8% to 449 million euros. Software sales in Asia rose...
Short sellers moved out of tech stocks in large volumes at mid-month. Based on short interest figures as of August 14, shares short in Intel (INTC) fell 33% to 88.3 million. The short interest in...
Larry Ellison, who built his reputation on being bad and bold, just got badder and bolder. His Oracle (ORCL) bought Sun (JAVA) making an end-run around IBM (IBM), which had hoped to pick up the...
Oracle Corp. (ORCL-NASDAQ) has posted non-GAAP EPS of $0.37 and revenues of $5.8 Billion.  This compares to estimates of $0.35 on a non-GAAP basis on consolidated revenues of $5.615...
After today’s close, we will get to see the highly expected earnings report out of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL).  First Call has estimates at $0.27 EPS on revenues of $5.04 Billion.  The...
A recent poll from Reuters showed that analysts believe that earnings growth rates will go negative in the fourth quarter. It is the first time that has happened since the poll was introduced in...
Earnings season has taken out some of the sting from biotech and biohealth trading reactions.  Today’s version of the BioHealth Business Daily is showing news and moves seen in Charles River...
The sharp rally in technology stocks over the past two weeks has pushed short sellers out of the market.The short interest in Microsoft (MFST) fell 29% in the period ending May 15 to 56.5 million...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is getting deeper into the race in virtualization.  The company is entering what was a fast growth and now suddenly crowded space along with the clear virtualization leader VMware...
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) has just completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, and so far we are seeing analysts overwhelmingly in favor of the stock based on the most recent calls or on recent...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday.Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) raised to Outperform at FBR...
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Axcelis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACLS), Green Mountain Coffee Roasters...
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) reports earnings this afternoon, after the market closes. Non-GAAP EPS is expected to be $1.27 on revenue of $32.75 billion. That’s substantially better than the EPS...
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) reports earnings after the close.  Our guess is that Main Street is going to either really reward or really punish the stock.  All companies in telecom and...