Jon OggThe dog days of August have hit the stock market and volume will soon come to a virtual standstill. With a very productive year for the markets almost two-thirds in the record books,…
ThinkstockCanadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ) reported second-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The Chinese solar panel maker posted a diluted earnings per share (EPS) loss of $0.29 on revenue of $380.38 million.…
ThinkstockStratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) reported second-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The 3D printer maker reported adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.45 and $106.7 million in revenues. In the same…
ThinkstockSolarCity Corp. (NASDAQ: SCTY) reported second quarter 2013 earnings after markets closed today. For the quarter, the solar PV installer posted an adjusted earnings per share (EPS) loss of $0.43 on revenues of $46.57…
ThinkstockWindstream Corp. (NASDAQ: WIN) has done it yet again. The advanced network communications provider has announced that its $0.25 quarterly dividend will be paid out on its common stock. Normally we would not care about…
Last month when Nokia agreed to acquire the other half of its joint venture, Nokia Siemens Networks, from Siemens for $2.2 billion, we wondered what in the world the Finnish mobile phone maker could…
ThinkstockIn a secular bull market rally, sectors tend to go up and down on a favorable basis as they become either overbought or just lose momentum. The Institutional Portfolio team at Oppenheimer highlighted that…
ThinkstockSlowly, but surely, cloud computing is changing the way that technology is applied. The analysts at Deutsche Bank in a new research piece, have taken a deep-dive into the model and note that evolving…
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is a very important stock to the broad stock market. It is worth some $210 billion, and it is the largest stock of the Dow Jones Industrial…
thinkstockWhere you come down in the current debate (war?) over which industry will control the living room TV set depends largely on whether you believe that entertainment is a top-down or a bottom-up industry.…
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), its stock and brand in trouble, continues to try to do whatever it can to keep its customers happy. The company says that some “counterfeit and third…
courtesy Dell Inc.Michael Dell appears to have gotten what he wished for. The special committee of the Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) board, charged with vetting any arrangement to buy the company, has given the…
Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsWhile most of the media coverage about Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) stock price has focused on whether it can reclaim the $38 IPO level, just as important is whether its…
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Department of Justice today submitted a proposed remedy to the federal court that will issue penalties on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) next week following the court’s finding in early July…
courtesy Dell Inc.Activist investor Carl Icahn filed suit yesterday to prevent the special committee of the board of directors at Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) from changing the record date for voting purposes on the…