I want to get to GameStop and the overall video game market, which finally seems to be losing steam.

But tech is going nowhere until we straighten the banking mess out and this week’s earnings...

If you’re holding shares in Saleforce.com (StockQuote: CRM) it might be time to sell.

So says Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Nemeroff. The analyst slashed his rating on Salesforce.com from “hold”...

Is it time to get back into the market?

I don’t think so – if it walks like a sucker’s market, talks like a sucker’s market, and squawks like a sucker’s market, it’s a sucker’s market.

Tech...

It didn’t take long for CA to pay the price for the lower earnings outlook that popped up among Wall Street analysts last week.

The stock fell 3% today after Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert...

My first job on Wall Street was on the equity options floor of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, running trades for Bear Stearns’ clients, mostly market maker and floor brokers trading on their own...

I’m back from a timely and tropical Florida break, and now I’m tanned, rested and ready to talk tech stocks.

Issue #1 is Research in Motion, a stock on the upswing (at $44 per share) on news that...

Now that the news is out on IBM’s proposed $6.5 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, analysts are in a lather over why Big Blue wants to make the deal.

The Wall Street Journal originally broke...

When you rush legislation through Washington, like Congress did with the two financial sector bailout bills, you lose the right to complain when the outcome blows up in your face

That means you...

One more note on the solar energy piece I wrote about yesterday.

Evidently, the bad news on solar energy has made its way across the country. According to Barclays Capital analyst Vishal Shah...

Tech employees are starting to take matters into their own hands, with some apparently not above kidnapping.

Our story begins in southwestern France, at a soon-to-be-closed Sony plant where...

The stock market is up about 10 points, trying to find some buoyancy after yesterday’s big 400-point gain.

Traders credit two events for the quick market turnaround: Citi coming out and saying it ...

Rumors are rampant over a proposed Verizon-Nokia deal on a 4G mobile device, as equity options traders snapped up calls (options to buy a given stock at lower prices) in anticipation of a big run-up...

When Warren Buffett talks, Wall Street – and Main Street – listen.

And now he’s talking about the future of the U.S. economy.

In a wide-ranging, three-hour interview on CNBC yesterday, Buffett...

Charlie Payne, sounding a lot like Revolutionary War pamphleteer Thomas Paine, says that we're in the 2009 version of “these are the times that try men’s souls”.

Of course, the historical Paine...

Two pieces of dispiriting information on the economy hit the big wire services today:

The Associated Press -- The economy contracted at a staggering 6.2 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst...

Rumors were rampant all over Wall Street that Barack Obama trotted Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke out yesterday to calm the markets by declaring the recession could be over by the last half of...

Are small company software stocks – especially medical technology companies -- a safe, even profitable, haven for investors these days? Could be – especially if you’re looking to forego higher-risk...

The bearish global economic environment just keeps adding pressure to technology stocks.

As gross domestic product (GDP) drops in bourses around the globe, tech traders are nervous, at least for...

Earlier in the year I clipped out a few expert predictions on technology stocks for 2009.

From time to time, I’ll check in and see how those stocks are doing. It’s only six weeks into the new...

I’m a big fan of satellite radio. I have XM Radio in my car, and right now, at my desk as I’m writing these words, I’m listening to Frank Caliendo on XM's Laugh USA on channel 151.

So I was very...

Boy. What does a tech outfit have to do to get some love on Wall Street?

Intel announces a $7 billion effort to upgrade a pair of chip manufacturing centers in the U.S. and Intel’s stock price...

I really don’t write enough about the biopharmaceutical market, which in tough economic times, can be a good defensive play relative to the rest of the market – even when compared to uniform...

Another sliver of sunshine in the economic clouds – two of them, actually – as the U.S. service sector shrank in January, but less severely than expected, according to a report released by The...

CNN’s Rick Sanchez is the latest victim of the “Twitter” curse. Sanchez, a CNN on-air anchor, reportedly fell victim to a phishing scam that could undermine the investment rationale for Twitter by...

I've been a nag about how many media outlets have been wrong about the reasons for the current economic breakdown we're experiencing. So many pundits who don't understand Wall Street want to make it...

Is today the worst day of the recession? A lot of people seem to think so.

I’ll get into that in a moment, in an otherwise light trading day for technology stocks. I think we’re seeing a run out...

Investors were banking on a lousy jobs number, and the last two days of trading have reflected that point That’s what I’m hearing from the traders I know – shrewd peope I shared trading pits with...

More news on the economy, this time from Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth at a speech today at The Detroit Economic Club. He told the Club that it is "pretty clear" the U.S. economy is in a...

Barrons has a great article today on how tech industry chief information officers and chief financial officers can't keep up with the free-fall in consumer spending. That's why we're seeing so many...

Stem cell stocks have been trading higher this week on reports President-elect Barack Obama will allow federal funding of stem-cell research.

According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, "Mr....

With all the focus on the imminent Obama presidency, the actual health of the economy has taken a bit of a back seat. That changed somewhat after President-elect Obama’s high level economic summit on...

Yeeps. Anyone who thought that Wednesdays' stock market selloff was a mere blip can think again. And how do those 65 million Americans who voted for Barack Obama feel about losing 10% of their 401(k)...

Obama or McCain? The people speak today, but no matter who wins, Wall Street likes the fact that a regime change is underway, and change, by and of itself, is a ray of sunshine on the investment...

It's Halloween and the scaring is easy - at least on Wall Street.

Some investors might be quaking in their boots over the rumor - probably more of a likelihood - that Google Inc and Yahoo Inc....

At mid-afternoon trading today the Dow was up 339 points and the NASDAQ is up 47 points.

I’m a bit surprised because most of the economic news coming out today was negative. Housing prices are...

Are we near a market bottom? That's the question on every investor's mind this week, even as the stock market falls another 500+ points in Wednesday trading.

Lord knows we're on uncharted terrain...

Grasping, clawing, and scratching for a single slice, however thin, of good news out of the worst stock market week ever.

Okay. IBM’ earnings were actually pretty good. Tech spending for software...

I might have mentioned that I wrote the book proposal and the first two chapters for Peter Schiff (aka "Dr. Doom) and his increasingly prescient book "Crash Proof: How To Profit From the Coming...

I've been writing for a year now on how the information technology sector would be impacted by an economic downturn. Well, it looks like we're going to really find out. As I've written, when credit...

While we play "wait and see" for Congressional leaders to hammer out some kind of bailout package for lenders and banks, there's other news going on - believe it or not - on Wall Street.

While...