After today’s close we’ll get to see earnings out of Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL). The estimates for the enterprise software company from First Call are $0.30 EPS on $5.42 billion in...
2010 has been called the year of dividend by us, but it seems that share buybacks in earnings season are still alive and well.  Of the buybacks we have tracked in various earnings releases or new...
Mergers are headed the way of smaller homebuilders.  That is the take from Citi.  The firm is looking at several companies in the sector and it featured Beazer Homes USA Inc. (NYSE: BZH), Meritage...
Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.30 AM EST:  Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) believes that EU authorities may try to block its buy-out of Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA)  (FT) Updated 10:26 AM EST: Apollo Management...
There was interesting story this weekend, and that is a massive planned share sale out of chief Oracle Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL).  The numbers look massive with a more...
Goldman Sachs has downgraded its coverage in Coal Stocks this morning.   Goldman Sachs is basing this partly on the 30% gains seen, and valuations are stretched. There were several...
On Monday, Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) announced strong first quarter results: 15% increase in revenue to a record $1.28 billion and EPS from continuing operations of $0.26. Peabody raised its...
What they say about big tech must be true. IT spending at companies is falling as businesses cut back across every expense category they can find. Software and hardware upgrades are put off to the...
These are this Friday’s top day trader alerts in the pre-market trading.  We have more details on the news but more importantly for the traders on the data and analysis from trading ranges and...
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) was set to report earnings later in the week but they were issued out in a SEC filing after the close on Monday.  It would seem that somehow this news was getting...
If you recall the term B2B, you are going back a decade and then some as far as internet companies.  Ariba, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARBA) was one of the key business-to-business platform builders.  Now SAP...
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) might as well be called “King Of Acquisitions.”  The company has acquired more companies than can easily be  counted, and now it is acquiring Art Technology Group...
Today is an unusually active day for many emerging biotech stocks in the news and we are seeing significant moves in response. We have more detail on each with appropriate links through to more...
A tech sector company really had to be out of favor not to get a big pop today. Yahoo! (YHOO) was up 7.4% at 1 PM eastern time to $28.96. Sun (SUNW) jumped 7.6% to $6.09. Corning (GLW) rose 11.2% to...