Oracle Corp
NYSE: ORCL
$188.92
+$3.19 (+1.7%)
Closing Price on November 19, 2024
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Software is supposed to be a high margin business and hardware a sector in which most companies struggle with gross margins. Hardware components are expensive and there is almost no getting around...
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Short sellers jumped out of major financial shares but piled into the stocks for major industrial firms based on data as of June 15. Shorts clearly think the restructuring of the bank industry has...
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Reuters: The head of a Congressional watchdog committee is pushing for a consumer protection agency. Reuters: China defended its export policies against a WTO complaint. Reuters: ...
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Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei was up .4% to 9,590. The Hang Seng rose 2% to 17,871. The Shanghai Composite was up 1% to 2,922. At the open in Europe, The FTSE was up .1% to 4,233. The Dax...
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Larry Ellison and friends over at Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) just reported earnings. The enterprise software giant posted $0.46 EPS EPS and $6.9 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had...
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Reuters: Airlines are cutting back on first class seating. Reuters: Xstrata wants merger talks with mining rival Anglo American. Reuters: Employers are cutting 401 (K) plans....
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Reuters: A survey shows the global stimulus spending lacks direction. Reuters: The race for “green” cars is still wide open. Reuters: GM (GM) and Chrysler will face Senate scrutiny...
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Word is out that the Dow Jones Indexes team is set to release the name of the replacement for General Motors (NYSE: GM) in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. We have heard that the new candidate...
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The sharp rally in technology stocks over the past two weeks has pushed short sellers out of the market. The short interest in Microsoft (MFST) fell 29% in the period ending May 15 to 56.5 million...
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The bets are on that General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) is done as far as the current stock is concerned. While it seems that the equity holders of today will keep 1% of the “New Co.,” this is far...
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The West, particularly the US, has been able to hang onto its lead in technology innovation for the better part of thirty years while the manufacturing economy was driven by cost savings to Asia and...
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A huge population of red ants has bedeviled Texas farmers for years. By some estimates the insects cost state businesses close to $1 billion a year due to crop and machinery destruction. Killing the...
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Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is already in the process of acquiring Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA). This morning came an announcement that Oracle was buying a private company called...
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Short sellers may have helped themselves by moving out of tech stocks just as shares in the sector began to make big advances. In the period ending. May 11, short interest in Microsoft (MSFT) fell...
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According to Reuters, stress tests results will force ten banks to have to raise nearly $75 billion. Reuters reports that Toyota (TM) lost $6.9 billion and warned of more losses ahead. Reuters writes...
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