Source: ThinkstockDeeply damaged telecom equipment company Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) has fired CEO Ben Verwaayen. The decision will not matter. The company has lost so much market share that...
Source: ThinkstockAlly Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY)  had two things working it for shares to rally on Tuesday. The first was that not all of the underwriting group was bullish as Ally’s quiet...
Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma spent most of Sunday promoting his plan to transform the U.S. budget on network TV. He released the 600-page proposal today. It was not worth the wait. His proposal...
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) announced that it will launch a smartphone with AT&T (NYSE:T) next year. The handset will be powered by the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system. The news about...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom took another big step this week toward locking himself in as the climate candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
Internet display advertising is being challenged by the recession. Traditional media is not the only business being hurt as marketers curtail spending to save money.Barry Diller recently said that...
It has been a bloody and bitter fight. Merck’s (MRK) pain killer Vioxx has been alleged to cause heart problems and worse. The drug hit the market in 1999 and was pulled in 2004. At that point...
A generally accepted rule is that for older investors, most investments should be conservative and less risky. Does the same rule apply to Warren Buffett? Should it?
Source: ThinkstockIn a look at Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) yesterday, we noted a positive article in Barron’s and an analyst’s upgrade from FBR Capital Markets. Intel’s design win for the...
An upgrade from Raymond James was the driving force in Amazon shares on Wednesday, but the real question is whether this upgrade was just too aggressive, considering the new market dynamics and risks.
Boeing stock was hammered in Wednesday's premarket session after the company argued that a $60 billion liquidity package was needed to support the U.S. aerospace manufacturing industry that consists...
Amazon's decision to take on FedEx and UPS is an example of the e-commerce and cloud firm overreaching to battle businesses that it views as competitors.
Source: courtesy of Apple Inc.Wherever Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) goes, Samsung is never far behind it.The South Korean company said it will build and market a smartwatch, just as Apple is rumored to...
Peter A. Darbee has been CEO of PG&E (NYSE: PCG) since 1999. The company has made strong profits and its stock has performed well over the period since he got his job. He said yesterday that he would...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Given our concerns over some of the leading tech markets, we have tended to favor names like Rockwell Automation (ROK). By helping make factories more...