The Street is still buzzing about Apple and its amazing quarterly performance numbers, boosted by solid iPod and iPhone sales, especially in the month of March.

Apple’s stock is selling at $125...

Apple is reportedly coming out with a new iPhone that will be so popular to consumers that it will drive the price of Apple’s stock up to over $140 per share.

That’s the view of Barclays Capital...

CNBC has a list of big name U.S. companies that could slide into default – meaning they won’t be able to meet their financial obligations, including paying their employees.

There are a few...

Just one follow-up note (as promised) on the Sirius XM situation.

Just days before Sirius XM purportedly was going to default on its next loan payment, Direct TV came through with a $534 bridge...

The Nasdaq was able to shake off the lousy jobs number today, and is up 31 points in mid-day trading. Apple, Dell, and Verizon are also way up – at around 3% each – as the market waits for Washington...

There’s a lot of news coming out of the technology sector today. Let’s start with Apple and the growing chorus among shareholders for an SEC review.

Bloomberg has the story this morning, and it...

Apple shares have fallen, although not as steeply as many traders had imagined, after CEO Steve Jobs announced that he was taking a six-month medical leave of absence.

My first reaction was...

A wild news day for tech stocks, with Sony posting its first quarterly loss in 14 years and rumors running rampant that Microsoft will start laying off employees after all.

A week or so ago,...

Not a good Friday on Wall Street, but then what else is new?

The Dow is down 100 points, and the Nasdaq off 31 points, to 1,585 after a lousy jobs number (but not as lousy as many thought) and a...

Tech talk has more predictions for 2009, and the news continues to be grim. Economist Gary Shilling, president of A. Gary Shilling & Co., was on the show this morning with a laundry list of dark...

Martin Sosnoff, writing in Forbes.com today, offers one of the most comprehensive, clear-minded takes on the U.S. economy in 2009. He’s not bullish on tech stocks – yet – but he is cheerleading the...

No Santa Claus rally for Wall Street today, with trading activity light and most investors taking it easy before the grind begins anew next Monday.

The markets were down, slightly with the Dow off...

Feast or famine (probably famine); 2009 should be another interesting year for the tech sector. After all, any industry that can provide sexual performance drugs (Viagra) for the CIA to give to...

The stock market is up today on news that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates to spur lending and, hopefully, economic growth. The Dow is up 78 points and the Nasdaq is up 24 points in...

The stock market seems to be stabilizing after yesterday’s selloff, with the Dow Jones average up 120 points, and the Nasdaq up 24 points in early trading. We’re starting to see a trend where we have...

Call it a tale of two headlines:

"Microsoft and Yahoo in talks again on online unit": 30 Nov 2008/Reuters

"Microsoft-Yahoo deal "total fiction:" 30 Nov 2008/Reuters

So which is it?

One...

The competition between Apple and RIM appears to be taking on Ali-Frazier status, even though both companies are taking another beating, as it were, in trading today.

Apple is down 3.33%, and RIM...

The stock market is in apparent free fall again this morning, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 387 points and the Nasdaq is off 56 points. Global markets are particularly hard hit, with...

Anxiety over corporate earnings is driving the stock market down this week, with stocks dropping 232 points on Tuesday and the futures market dipping downward in early Wednesday trading. While many...

A coordinated effort by global central banks, led by the U.S. and the Federal Reserve Board’s 0.5% emergency rate cut today has more or less calmed the financial markets this morning (down about 100...

The impact from the ongoing credit crisis is finally starting to translate into layoffs for the tech sector. The folks I'm talking to say that AT&T, Apple, Yahoo, Sun, eBay, Microsoft, Nortel, HP,...

The stock market is down 370 points after Monday trading and nobody is really sure where we go from here.

I’ve been around Wall Street for over 20 years and I’ve never seen anxiety like this –...

Telecom stocks are emblematic of how skittish investors are over the tech sector today. Some telecom giants are taking a beating over reduced consumer demand for their products, both here in the U.S....

Three questions for the week, plus a new opportunity for profit growth in the technology market . . .

1. What Will the Fed Do? - The Federal Reserve is in a fragile position, as is the economy....

The good news in the stock market today is the continued drop in oil prices, with a barrel of sweet, light crude dipping below $125 for the first time since June. Already, commuters are seeing that...

AT&T’s stock is up two percent today after announcing that second quarter revenues rose 30 percent – an uptick that many pundits are ascribing to its booming wireless business.

Me? I’d say that,...

Sometimes the financial media should just, well, shut up.

This week, using Apple’s most recent guidance statements, is good proof of that.

By any measure, Apple just had one of its best...

Will the new iPhone chomp into Blackberry’s market share?

Some thoughts on the subject are bubbling up on Wall Street, with the sentiment leaning toward Research in Motion, the company that...

News on the markets focused on President Bush’s removal of a 30-year-old ban on offshore drilling off the coast of the United States. But that’s only one step – he needs Congress to remove the ban...

The market recouped some of its gains today, but tight credit and – here we go again – high energy prices are scaring the hell out of investors and keeping them out of the market. My gut tells me we...

With the stock market down 300 points, once again thanks to high oil prices (now over $140 per barrel), technology stocks should be directly in the line of fire. But they’re not – and some big shot...

Is AT&T pricing itself out of a good profit margin with the new iPhone?

A growing number of Wall Street onlookers seem to think so. A few weeks back I wrote that AT&T would be charging $200 for...

Browsing through the trading numbers early this morning reveals that the chip sector, which I wrote about on Monday, took a hit with the news that Texas Instruments might come in with lower revenues...

No doubt you’ve been reading a lot about the shiny new iPhone 3G. The gurus on this site can help you with the gizmos and gadgets way better than I can, so I’ll focus on the business side – and...

RIMM and its ubiquitous Blackberry is back in the financial news this week, after Goldman Sachs raised its target price on the Research in Motion to $163 from $148.

Why not? Cell phones,...

The most recent quarterly returns are in on U.S. cell phone sales, and Apple seems to have taken a big bite out of Windows' market share. And it has Research in Motion in its gun sights.

For...

Apple to iPhone Customers: “Mea Culpa”

With Apple in the headlines all week from its iPhone pricing debacle, I’ve kept a close eye on the company’s stock price.

One rule of thumb on Wall Street...

Yesterday I wrote that Apple was having some legal woes attached to its i-Phone. It seems users who travel overseas may be hit with whopping long distance charges.

If the day's bad press bothered...

I'm a big fan of Apple - - I own three G-5's and an old G-4 laptop, and my two of my three kids own iPods (Nano's).

The sleek design, seamless workability, and rock-like defense against viruses...