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Tech Stocks Are Paying Record Dividends - But Are They Still Sexy? (DELL, IBM, MSFT, ORCL)
Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 10:16am | 773Read More...What happened to the good old days when stocks were priced in fractions, brokers had a telephone handset on each ear, and tech companies were growth stocks? All of that, including the latter, has changed—at least to some extent. Technology stocks are supposed to be a trader’s dream. If you’re...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of July 8 (AA, JPM, WFC)
Sunday, July 7, 2013 - 8:02pm | 925Read More...The new earnings season kicks off this week with the traditional first report from Alcoa (NYSE: AA) on Monday afternoon. The first of the big banks, J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), close out the week when they step into the earnings spotlight Friday morning. Analysts predict...
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Google Thinks Apple is Building a Game Console (AAPL, GOOG)
Friday, June 28, 2013 - 8:27am | 551Read More...Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is reportedly developing a game console to combat a similar device that could be released by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in the near future. According to The Wall Street Journal, Google anticipates that Apple will add full gaming capabilities to the next version of its Apple TV set-...
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Short Sellers Jump on ARM Holdings, Broadcom (AMAT, ARMH, BRCM)
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - 1:15pm | 834Read More...Among the semiconductor stocks, Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH) and Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) saw the most significant rise in short interest between the May 31 and June 14 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), LSI (NASDAQ: LSI),...
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Barron's Recap: China's Looming Credit Crisis
Sunday, June 23, 2013 - 8:43pm | 785Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: the looming credit crisis in the People's Republic, a special report on retirement and the prospects for Revlon, Diebold and Con-way. Cover Story "Where Will It End?" by Jonathan R. Laing. Skeptics have long insisted that economic numbers out of China paint too...
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Short Sellers Less Keen on Applied Materials, Marvell Technology (AMAT, NVDA, MRVL)
Friday, June 14, 2013 - 6:46am | 996Read More...Among the semiconductor stocks, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) saw the most significant rise in short interest between the May 15 and May 31 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC) and Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) also grew...
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Barron's Recap: Should Pot Be Legal?
Sunday, June 2, 2013 - 8:03pm | 853Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: the case for the legalization of marijuana, the hidden costs in tech and the prospects for Intel, Waste Management and recent spinoffs. Cover Story "Should Pot Be Legal?" by Thomas G. Donlan. According to the Pew Research Center, 52 percent of Americans now...
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Broadcom, Nvidia See Upswings in Short Interest
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 4:16pm | 822Read More...The largest percentage upswings in short interest in semiconductor stocks between the April 30 and May 15 settlement dates happened to Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM), Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM). The number of shares sold short in ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH), KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ:...
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Short Sellers Retreat from Micron Technology, Other Semiconductor Stocks
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 1:42pm | 825Read More...The largest percentage swings in short interest in semiconductor stocks between the April 15 and April 30 settlement dates happened to Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) and KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC), which saw drops of around six percent, and Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU), which plunged more than...
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AMD, Texas Instruments See Short Interest Surge
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 1:17pm | 795Read More...The largest percentage upswings in short interest in semiconductor stocks between the March 28 and April 15 settlement dates happened to Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) and Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN). All three jumped by double-digit percentages from the...
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Intel Promotes Hefty, 27-inch Tablet Concept
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 10:35am | 526Read More...If Sony's (NYSE: SNE) oversized all-in-one PC/tablet combo was not big enough for consumers, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) might have the perfect replacement. According to DigiTimes, Intel has begun to push its so-called adaptive all-in-one PC concept -- which provides a platform to build semi-portable...
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iWatch Gains Traction with 5% of Consumers "Very Likely" to Buy One
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 10:56am | 424Read More...Five percent of consumers surveyed are "very likely" to buy an iWatch. An additional 14 percent are "somewhat likely." These results come from a new study conducted by ChangeWave Research. The study, which was published on Wednesday but not publicly announced until Friday, showed an interesting...
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eBay Earnings Preview
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 7:27am | 589Read More...eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) will report Q1 2013 earnings after the bell on April 17, with its conference call beginning at 5:00 pm EST. The early innings of earnings season in the technology space hasn’t impressed investors. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) reported on Tuesday that display advertising, its main...
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Netflix Could Be The Next AOL
Monday, April 15, 2013 - 2:29pm | 537Read More...Is Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) on the verge of becoming the next AOL (NYSE: AOL)? Rich Tullo, Director of Research at Albert Fried and Company, is seriously concerned about the future of Netflix's business model. He told Benzinga that the streaming video giant should acquire AMC (NASDAQ: AMCX) and...
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Apple or Intel Will Lead TV to the Next Generation
Monday, April 15, 2013 - 1:32pm | 436Read More...There is a strong belief that the future of television will fall into the hands of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and/or Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). Rich Tullo, Director of Research at Albert Fried and Company, is confident in the technologies and services that both firms are developing. He feels that one or both...
















