Sun Microsystems (SUNW) says it has created a new microprocessor that works so well that it will be able to sell it to other companies. Instead of doing one programming sequence, the Sun chip can do...
RBC Capital Markets started Fitbit with an Outperform rating and a $45.00 price target, the most bullish view of the analyst reports that have been seen so far.
Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE:VLO) reported more bad news this morning on the earnings front, even though the bad news isn’t as bad as many feared. Second quarter income from continuing operations...
Gas prices seem to rise every day because they actually do.The carefully watched AAA Fuel Gauge showed the price of a gallon of regular gas, on average, reached $3.889 yesterday, up from $3.881 the...
Source: ThinkstockExtended Stay America, Inc. (NYSE: STAY) held up rather well on Thursday considering that it priced a 21 million share secondary offering. This added millions more of shares on the...
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is out with its first quarter earnings report. The company’s adjusted earnings rose 11% to $0.53 per share while GAAP earnings rose 15% to $0.41 EPS, and revenue was...
Source: Flickr, Images of MoneyThe housing market is down — sales, prices, applications. And there is glut of research that shows how much and why.The Federal Housing Finance Agency said that in...
Updating on Triad Hospitals (TRI-NYSE):  I was searching around for more research and more news on Triad on all the market talk and hopes of a LBO coming to the company.  This is after the...
The December pending home sales data is a bit dated, but there was a surprise gain by +6.3% for the month.  The reading for the index was 87.7.  What is more interesting than the gain in the index...
"The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated"–Mark Twain The recent warranty problems with the Microsoft (MSFT) cost the big software company over $1 billion. They had people...
Shares of Amazon.com saw a handy gain on Monday ahead of the earnings report due this week. One key analyst also issued a call for the stock to rise even higher.
First-quarter GDP growth saw a revision, and it raised to 0.8% from the prior 0.5%. This report was incredibly slow, and it was also under the expectations.
Meg Whitman’s tenure at Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is coming under more fire, whether it is too soon or deserved or not… At the analyst meeting today, H-P is lowering some expectations...
FRom AAO Weblog Bowater, the newsprint producer, corrected a collection of previously-considered immaterial errors it was carrying on its balance sheet, noted in its 10-K filing. As has been noted in...
Merck shares were up slightly on Wednesday after the pharma giant gave another key update for its KEYTRUDA line. The firm announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved...