inthenews

Welcome to the 'inthenews' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'inthenews'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “inthenews”

• Family Dollar Earnings Preview: Modest Growth Seen for Q1

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Earnings reports , Forecasts , Family Dollar Stores (FDO) Family Dollar Stores Inc. ( FDO ), the nations number two dollar store chain, is scheduled to discuss its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 in a conference call Wednesday, Jan. 6, at 10:00 AM (ET). You can catch the live ...
  9 hours ago

• Pending Home Sales Slump 16% in November

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Economic data , Housing , Recession Youve often seen the ads: "Hurry, sale ends tomorrow." A similar pattern occurred in pending home sales. Buyers were in a rush to take advantage of the $8.000 tax credit for first time buyers before the program ended in October. In October the National ...
  9 hours ago

• Investing in Intel: A Good Idea for 2010

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 763
  Intel ( INTC ), the famous chip maker whose major competitors include Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ), Qualcomm ( QCOM ) and Texas Instruments ( TXN ), started the new year off on a great foot. According to Eric Buscemis roundup Monday, the company received an upgrade from Baird which gave it a price target of $26. ...
  9 hours ago

• Monsanto Earnings Preview: Low Expectations for the Company of the Year

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Earnings reports , Forecasts Monsanto Co. ( MON ), which is the Forbes 2009 company of the year , is scheduled to discuss its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 in a conference call Wednesday, Jan. 6, at 9:30 AM (ET). You can catch the live webcast of the call on the companys ...
  10 hours ago

• Apple Picks Up Quattro Wireless to Take a Shot at Google

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Google (GOOG) , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Technology It looks like the next fortune in tech will be mobile. And so far, it appears that Apple ( AAPL ) has the edge, with its extremely popular iPhone and app store, which has clocked more than three billion downloads worldwide. It was two billion just back ...
  10 hours ago

• IRS Finally Regulates Tax Preparers

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Industry , H and R Block (HRB) The federal and state governments regulate a variety of industries that help with your money -- such as stockbrokers. However, when it comes to preparing taxes, the licensing is fairly sporadic. Only a few states have requirements. Kind of scary, huh? Well, things are ...
  11 hours ago

• Continental Airlines Traffic Grows

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Major movement , Good news , Contl AirlinesB (CAL) , Options , Technical Analysis Continental Airlines ( CAL - option chain ) shares are rising today after the company said its December traffic rose 6.0 percent compared to December 2008 . If you think that the stock wont fall by too much in ...
  11 hours ago

• Every State Sees Double-Digit Bankruptcy Growth

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Indices , Economic data Were all pretty happy to put 2009 behind us, especially those who submitted the 1.4 million bankruptcy petitions last year, making it the seventh-worst on record. Data gathered by the Associated Press from the 90 bankruptcy districts in the U.S. shows that filings surged ...
  12 hours ago

• Possible Florida Freeze Drives Orange Juice Futures Limit Up

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: International markets , Forecasts , Products and services , Industry , Competitive strategy , Market matters , Economic data , Commodities , Headline news , Agriculture The orange crop in Florida is especially sensitive to freezing temperatures. Cold air masses have been flowing down through ...
  12 hours ago

• Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades and Initiations: DELL, NSRGY, POT, QCOM, RIMM, UPS, V ...

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Analyst reports , Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Dell (DELL) , Research in Motion (RIMM) , United ParcelB (UPS) , QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM) , Analyst initiations , Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT) Analyst Upgrades Baird upgraded United Parcel Service ( UPS ) to outperform from neutral ...
  13 hours ago

• United Airlines Sees Flat Traffic in December

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: UAL Corp (UAUA) Monday, United Airlines ( UAUA ) announced that its December traffic matched last years traffic, but that planes were more crowded. Confused? UAUA had fewer flights this year compared to a year ago, so matching traffic from last year meant that the planes had more passengers . The ...
  14 hours ago

• FormFactor: A Bumpy Uptrend

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Stocks to Buy Heres one forecast for 2010 thats likely to be realized: The tech sectors recovery will continue, and thats a major reason Im reiterating my buy rating for FormFactor Inc. ( FORM ), first recommended on July 6, 2009 , at a price of $19.90. One key qualifier, however: Dont invest in ...
  14 hours ago

• Intel: Looking Like a Buy?

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Microsoft (MSFT) , Intel (INTC) , Advanced Micro Dev (AMD) , Texas Instruments (TXN) , Technology Intel ( INTC ), the famous chip maker whose major colleagues include Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ), Microsoft ( MSFT ) and Texas Instruments ( TXN ), started the ...
  15 hours ago

• BioForm Gets a Healthy Buyout from Merz Pharma

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Deals In the health care industry, one of the hot growth sectors is cosmetics. Lets face it, the worlds populations are getting older -- especially in the US. So this week, Merz Pharma Group, a major company in Germany, agreed to pay $253 million for BioForm Medical ( BFRM ). In fact, the premium ...
  1 day ago

• The Latest Victim of the Recession: The AK-47

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: NIKE, IncB (NKE) , Under ArmourA (UA) , Recession The global recession has taken its toll on many companies, as have cheap knockoffs of products. When you can get a comparable product for half the price, why wouldnt you purchase the cheaper product? While such practices may not take a major bite out ...
  1 day ago

• Total Gets a Piece of Chesapeake

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Chesapeake Energy (CHK) Unconventional energy -- which comes from hard-to-get sources like shale -- is red hot. The biggest sign of this is Exxons ( XOM ) recent deal to pay $30 billion for XTO ( XTO ). As a result, the expectation is that there will be many more deals in the sector. This week ...
  1 day ago

• Nokia executive exudes optimism regarding smartphone market

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Major movement , Good news , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Nokia Corp. (NOK) , Research in Motion (RIMM) , Options , Technical Analysis Nokia ( NOK - option chain ) shares are rising today after the head of the companys mobile division, Rick Simonson, told Indias Economic Times, "By 2011, our efforts ...
  1 day ago

• Ark Restaurants Falls After Disappointing Q4 Results

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Earnings reports Shares of Ark Restaurants Corp. ( ARKR ) opened lower Monday after the New York-based operator of chic restaurants and bars in Las Vegas, New York and Washington DC reported on New Years Eve that its fourth-quarter earnings fell short of the consensus expectations of analysts polled ...
  1 day ago

• Commodities Are Running Higher Today

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: International markets , Market matters , Commodities , Oil , Agriculture We are back riding the bull today in commodities. The dollar is down with the March futures contract trading at 77.89, down 0.33. Crude oil is trading at a high of $81.16 per barrel in the February West Texas contract, up ...
  1 day ago

• Why Googles Nexus One Smartphone Isnt Meant to Take Anything Away from Apple

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 656
  Filed under: Competitive strategy , Google (GOOG) , Apple Inc (AAPL) Apples ( AAPL ) iPhone has reinvigorated the wireless handset industry. It was there first (in many ways) and it will be hard for any company without virtually unlimited resources to wrestle the golden crown from Apple. First movers generally ...
  1 day ago

Comments about inthenews