3 Reasons Nokia Investors Need to Adjust Their Expectations
Filed under: Investing In the last year, Nokia Corporation's stock has roughly doubled. The challenge for investors in a stock that jumps this much in a year is answering the question, "where do we go...
View ArticleIs Coupons.com a Good Investment Deal?
Filed under: Investing Coupons.com soared an incredible 87.5% last Friday to make an exceptional IPO debut. Yet, the performance of this IPO would almost imply investors learned nothing from Groupon ....
View ArticleWeakness in China Hurts U.S. Markets
Filed under: Investing In our interconnected world, the announcement that China's exports fell 18.1% in February was all it took this morning to put downward pressure on the major U.S. indexes. The Dow...
View ArticleBox Office: As '300: Rise of an Empire' Dominates, Don't Fret DreamWorks'...
Filed under: Investing Two very different movies took audiences back in time this weekend, but only one could claim the top spot at the domestic box office. To the surprise of few, that honor went to...
View ArticleAs Mac Sales Defy a Declining PC Market, Microsoft Corporation Readies New...
Filed under: Investing The last time Microsoft revamped its Office for Mac was in October 2010. Image source: Microsoft. It's been nearly four years since Microsoft has updated its Office for Mac...
View ArticleCongress Asked to Approve $100 Million Military Package for Pakistan
Filed under: Investing The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress Tuesday of plans to sell the government of Pakistan a C-130 Fleet Upgrade Program package, plus associated...
View ArticleWhy Knightsbridge Tankers, PowerSecure International, and Zogenix Jumped Today
Filed under: Investing On Tuesday, there was an apparent change in psychology among investors that went beyond the modest declines in the major market averages. Even though most benchmarks fell only by...
View ArticleIntel's Best Competitive Edge Is...Infineon?
Filed under: Investing Every one of the "major" semiconductor companies vying for mobile processor dominance has something that it's really good at - it's "secret sauce." Historically, Qualcomm has...
View ArticleIntel's Missing Chip
Filed under: Investing According to a fairly old article on technology news site Digitimes, Intel's smartphone chip launch schedule looked like this: Fourth quarter of 2013 - Merrifield, 22nm/2 core...
View ArticleWhy Salesforce.com May Be a House of Cards
Filed under: Investing Salesforce.com , a cloud computing company known for its customer relationship management software, or CRM, has very rapidly become one of the largest software companies in the...
View ArticleWill This Huge Recall Sink General Motors' Stock?
Filed under: Investing So far, new GM CEO Mary Barra (shown here with her predecessor, Dan Akerson) has done a good job of handling the fallout over a long-overdue safety recall. But more trouble lies...
View ArticleIs a PayPal Split Best For eBay?
Filed under: Investing eBay executives have found themselves in a nasty fight with billionaire activist Carl Icahn regarding a split of the business' two key segments: PayPal and Marketplace. It's no...
View ArticleWhy Plug Power, Bridgepoint Education, and Nuverra Environmental Solutions...
Filed under: Investing Tuesday brought further losses to the stock market, with somewhat steeper and broader-based declines than investors saw on Monday. Even though most major-market benchmarks lost...
View ArticleDid This News Item Break Facebook's "Analyst Rally"?
Filed under: Investing U.S. stocks ended lower on Tuesday, with the benchmark S&P 500 index and the narrower Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.5% and 0.4%. Perhaps ominously, a dense quantitative...
View ArticleIs Merck a Buy at Current Price Levels?
Filed under: Investing Shares in Merck have had a strong three months, up 15% while the S&P 500 has posted gains of just under 4%. However, since the bull market of March 2009 kicked off five years...
View ArticleDow Drops 67 Points on a Momentum-Crushing Day; Why Goldman, JPMorgan Should...
Filed under: Investing The Dow Jones Industrials adds to its losses from earlier in the week on Tuesday, falling 67 points despite having gained ground early in the morning hours of the trading day....
View ArticleTwitter, Inc.'s Next Growth Market: Video Ads?
Filed under: Investing Google's YouTube brings in billions of dollars in revenue for the company every year, most of which is derived from video ads -- and competitors are noticing. About four months...
View ArticleHunting for Opportunities Among Teen Retailers
Filed under: Investing Source: YCharts. Apparel retailers specializing in teens and other young customers, such as Gap , Urban Outfitters , American Eagle Outfitters , and Abercrombie & Fitch , are...
View ArticleTD Ameritrade Breaks Monthly Average Trading Record
Filed under: Investing TD Ameritrade has reached a new company milestone. The discount stockbroker reported its operating metrics for February, revealing that its monthly average trading figure reached...
View ArticleApple, Inc. Stock Could Hit $635 on More Expensive, Larger iPhone
Filed under: Investing Apple stock could hit $635 in 12 months, says Pacific Crest Securities analyst Andy Hargreaves. That would give investors an 18% return at today's prices. His reason for the...
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