Jobless claims rose 4,000 last week to 277,000. This is the fourth straight week with claims ticking higher, but it is still at very low historic levels.
This week we are expecting to see the market absorb the pending initial public offering from Ancestry.com Inc.  The company has a very unique niche and business model in that it operates a...
Stocks:  (MOT)(QCOM)(BRCM)(NT)(MOT)(ALU)(INTC)(TXN) The egg heads at the Financial Times of London want readers to believe that the leadership in telecom technology is moving out of the US. With...
Short sellers seem to have ignored the strong earnings released recently by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM). They have, for the most part, bet strongly that the stocks in many large tech...
Short sellers cut their bets against tech shares as earnings seasons approaches, based on data of short interest in major stocks as of December 31.Shares short in Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) dropped 17% to...
Self-driving cars may be the ultimate goal in car technology, but for now new advanced vehicle technology features sometimes enhance the driving experience and other times are just a source for...
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) extraordinary earnings will almost certainly help lift the US stock markets. They may be a false positive as far as earnings and prospects for most other tech companies are...
Most major tech brands have risen in value recently, along with the earnings of their parent companies and a growth in customers. However, one of the most famous tech brands in the world is losing...
Are there potential market opportunities for products to help consumers shake off an addiction to technology? Analysts at Loup Ventures think so and outline where those opportunities might be.
Tech stocks had an absolute field day Monday, with Internet stocks up around 2%. One of the most heavily traded of the techs, Facebook, was up about 3.5% and was the morning's most actively traded...
Source: ThinkstockThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications Wednesday morning. It noted a decrease of 3.3% in the group’s seasonally adjusted...
DryShips, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) is set to report earnings this afternoon.  Calling this one the more volatile stocks in a volatile space would be redundant at a minimum.  While we are cautious in...
Short sellers who have bet against tech shares hit the exits during the period which ended on March 31. The short interest in the world’s largest chip company, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), dropped 3% to...
Stocks are directionless this morning ahead of jobless claims and ahead of tomorrow’s payrolls data.  DJIA and S&P futures are flat this morning in early indications. In Europe, the FTSE...