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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is still deep in the soup. Since the news broke over the weekend over bribes in Mexico involving its current and former top-brass, Wal-Mart shares have slid and...
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The March report on durable goods from the US Census Bureau is out and for the second of the past three months new orders are down. The March drop totals -4.2%, with transportation equipment down the...
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) must have the goal that if you can sell it online then it wants a piece of it. After many specialty online sales initiatives, now it seems that the online industrial...
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courtesy Facebook Inc.Social media giant Facebook Inc. (FB) will acquire about half the patents that once belonged to AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) until they were acquired by Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT)...
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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is demonstrating in its earnings report just exactly why it has been able to keep raising its dividend throughout the last year. The company reported first quarter...
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Conglomerates are soft so far on Wednesday but they have turned up ahead of the wave of earnings this week. A screen at Finviz showed that the conglomerate sector is leading the pack of sectors...
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In testimony in the copyright infringement case brought by Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) against Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said that his company considered buying smartphone...
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Color technology provider X-Rite Inc. (NASDAQ: XRIT), owner of the widely used Pantone color system, has agreed to be acquired by conglomerate Danaher Corp. (NYSE: DHR) for $5.55/share in a deal...
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The LED industry has suffered an 18-month dry spell as sales have tanked and makers have had to re-trench to keep costs in line. The market might be starting to recover now, even if slowly....
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Not satisfied with being the leading global supplier of smartphones, Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF) is going into the mobile ad network business. The company yesterday announced a partnership with...
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Research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is out with its report on the US mobile phone market for the rolling three-month period through February 2012. The data shows that 234 million Americans now...
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Shares across Asia fell on worry that commodities prices, particularly metals, will continue to fall. Many miner and refinery stocks dropped. The Hang Seng was off by 1.6% to 20,543. The Shanghai...
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Semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) today offered lower full-year EPS and revenue forecasts than analysts had been expecting, at the same time that the company’s CEO...
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Metal and steel fabricator Commercial Metals Corp. (NYSE: CMC) reported second fiscal quarter earnings this morning, and the company’s EPS came in at $0.25, absolutely smashing the consensus...
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Even while admitting that its sample was biased toward younger, more tech-savvy consumers, Baird Equity Research demonstrates yet again what a juggernaut Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Forbes reports...
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