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This week will offer a good look at the state of the financial sector as many of the big banks share their fourth-quarter results. JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) broke the ice on Friday, reporting a decline in earnings that was more than analysts had estimated. Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), Goldman Sachs (...

As personal computer shipments decline in the United States, Apple's greatly increase. The increase is so great, in fact, that it suggests that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is actually growing the market beyond the presumed reach of the business. According to TechCrunch, Gartner (NYSE: IT) – an...

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is blaming it on a shortage of hard disk drives. But is that an accurate assessment? While Intel has had a decent (but fluctuating) year, other corporations within the semiconductor industry – including Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) – have...

The following dividend-paying companies offer attractive returns on equity and are expected to have strong earnings per share growth over the next five years. Their stocks are also trading in the ballpark of their 52-week highs. Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL): The New York-based cosmetics company...

The earnings season ramps up this week. Tech giants Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) are scheduled to share their third-quarter results, as are big banks including Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS),...

As many as three million people are signing up for Google+ every single day. That's according to Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research. Chowdhry's firm recently attended a series of social media events, during which Global Equities spoke to “no less...

With all the volatility in the past couple of months, which stocks have been riding above it all? Well, here are nine dividend-paying companies with share prices that are more than 20% higher than three months ago. Perhaps not surprisingly, gold-related companies are well represented on the list....

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced they would work together to produce future Android phones with Intel chips. It is not clear whether Ice Cream Sandwich—the next generation of Android—will carry Intel chips. But Piper Jaffray believes that by 2013, “Intel will no longer be...

In our previous article on whether one of the old-tech troika, Intel, can grow again, the question was whether Intel can put itself on the map in the new world of mobile computer. On Tuesday, Intel finally scored a card when it unveiled its partnership with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to optimize its...

But will it be enough to persuade consumers? Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is willing to spend as much as $300 million to, as Bloomberg puts it, “back the development of technology to speed up the introduction of notebook computers it's calling ‘ultrabooks.'” According to Bloomberg, Intel plans to invest...

J.P. Morgan is out with its report today on Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), reiterating Overweight. In a note to clients, J.P. Morgan writes, "We reiterate our Overweight rating on INTC as pricing remains strong and inventory levels are healthy. We expect consensus estimates for Intel to increase following...

Earnings season ramps up this week with quarterly reports due from the likes of tech companies such as IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), big banks such as Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), and consumer goods giants such as PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) and Johnson &...

Cisco Like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) is a giant in its core product domain, commanding a dominating market share in the high-end router market. Like Advanced Micro Device, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) to Intel, Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR) is the only...

Novellus Systems (NASDAQ: NVLS) is scheduled to report its second-quarter 2011 results Monday after the closing bell, offering an early peek at what to expect from coming earnings from semiconductor companies. Analysts expect to see Novellus's per-share earnings up nearly 12% from a year ago but...

Having discussed Microsoft in part 1 of this article, we will now examine its main hardware partner, Intel. Intel The Wintel combination has dominated the PC era since its beginning, and continues until today. Hence, no wonder when Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) stalls, so does Intel (NASDAQ: INTC...