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Oracle Earnings Preview: Revenue and EPS Growth Expected
Sunday, December 16, 2012 - 3:16pm | 593Read More...Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), which last week announced it would acquire DataRaker, is scheduled to report its second-quarter fiscal 2013 results Tuesday, December 18, after the markets close. Investors will be looking for the company, with its push into cloud computing, to get back on track after last...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of December 17
Sunday, December 16, 2012 - 3:03pm | 818Read More...The middle of the week will bring a cluster of quarterly reports ahead of the Christmas break. Foremost among them are results from economic bellwether FedEx (NYSE: FDX), which is expected to post lower earnings, Nike (NYSE: NKE), whose EPS are forecast to be the same as a year ago, and Oracle (...
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IBM Earnings Preview: Another Revenue Decline Expected
Monday, October 15, 2012 - 10:21am | 568Read More...International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM), whose share price pulled back last week from a multiyear high, is scheduled to report its third-quarter 2012 results Tuesday, October 16, after the closing bell. Investors will be looking for the company to get back on the right track after last quarter'...
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Nokia Announcement is Bad News for Apple and Google
Monday, October 1, 2012 - 9:02am | 512Read More...Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is set to announce a deal with Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) that will greatly enhance its mapping services, presenting another challenge for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), which failed to define iOS 6 as a leading mapping tool. It also presents a challenge to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), the world...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of September 17
Monday, September 17, 2012 - 7:03am | 835Read More...FedEx (NYSE: FDX), an ostensible bellwether of the global economy, is on tap to share its most recent quarterly results this week, and analysts anticipate slightly lower per-share earnings compared to the same period a year ago. However, the forecasts for tech companies Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of September 10
Monday, September 10, 2012 - 6:53am | 793Read More...There is not much on the earnings schedule again this week, so there will be little to distract from the Federal Reserve meeting, Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) big event and the German court ruling on the constitutionality of the eurozone bailout facilities. See also: Get in Line: iPhone 5 Production...
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Looking for Dividend Hikes from GE, Microsoft, McDonald's
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 2:06pm | 722Read More...With U.S. treasuries paying out so little, investors are increasingly turning to dividends as an alternative. General Electric (NYSE: GE), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) are just a few of...
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EMC-Lenovo Deal Troubles HP Investors
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 4:26pm | 539Read More...EMC Corp.(NYSE: EMC), the biggest maker of data storage devices, and Lenovo Group, the world's second-biggest personal-computer maker, announced a major partnership Wednesday intended to help boost sales of storage equipment and servers that run corporate networks. That could may be bad news for...
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Oracle Acquires New Firm to One-Up Salesforce
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 12:26pm | 250Read More...It seems like only yesterday an analyst had announced that the best was over for Salesforce (NYSE: CRM). Ah, wait a minute -- that was yesterday! Now in preparation for the launch of Oracle's (NASDAQ: ORCL) long-awaited Public Cloud -- the lovely service that could put Salesforce out of business...
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The Best is Over for Salesforce, Says Analyst
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 11:11am | 316Read More..."CRM did extremely well in competing and in winning against other startups, but competing effectively against a superior technology from ORCL is going to be extremely challenging," Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, wrote in an e-mail update on the...
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Salesforce Taking Heat from Oracle
Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 11:16am | 336Read More...The company will need to move fast if it wants to differentiate itself against Oracle, says analyst. Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, sent out an incremental update on Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) to discuss the company's forthcoming cloud announcements...
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Go Long Salesforce Against Oracle
Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 10:30am | 350Read More...Are Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) the perfect pair trade? Yes, says Brett Golden, the president and co-founder of The Chart Lab and Chart Lab Pro. "Long CRM, short Oracle, and you would have massively outperformed," Golden told Benzinga. He also thinks that Oracle should...
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Barron's Recap (4/28/12): Can the Dow Stay Relevant?
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 9:21am | 1018Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is overdue for a makeover, and the prospects for eBay, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Oracle. Cover Story "Shake Up the Dow!" by Andrew Bary. Barron's cover story this week suggests that the Dow Jones Industrial Average risks...
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Seagate, SAP and Other Top European Tech Stocks
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 6:48am | 1035Read More...Some European nations may be trying to keep their heads above water, but not all is doom and gloom on the continent. Take the tech sector. Here is a quick look at seven companies with share prices that are between 13% and 64% higher than at the beginning of the year despite recent pull backs. They...
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Nine Technology ETFs on a Roll (TYH, TQQQ, ROM)
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 6:49am | 1073Read More...Shares of the following exchange traded funds focused on technology or the Nasdaq 100 are between 20% and 90% higher year to date and trading at or near their 52-week highs. Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: TYH) is up about 82% year to date, including more than 15% higher in the...
