Jefferies semiconductor analyst Mark Lipacis early Thursday raised his rating on Advanced Micro Devices to Buy from Hold, lifting his target to $10.50 from $7. The stock closed Wednesday at $7.76. "AMD offers one of the best risk/reward ratios in semis," he writes in a research note. "On the risk-side, AMD [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 06:23

Idle Games has been building their first social game, Idle Worship, for two years now. It comes out today. Let’s put that into perspective: Zynga built Farmville in five weeks. Idle Worship is the most ambitious game ever to hit Facebook. For the developers, it’s an attempt to define the medium, [...]

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 17:44

Google (GOOG) and its sideways share price hasn’t been a very gratifying investment in recent years, and its prospects just ahead are inciting more selling than buying. But Google remains a must-have share for any long-term portfolio. And while its share price now is no grand bargain, this buying opportunity [...]

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:03

Several blue-chip stocks that rode the bull move in 2009 through 2012 should continue to perform superbly and do even better in this current bull, if restrained, move.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 13:39

With bullish sentiment on the homebuilders uncomfortably high and volume not supporting the recent highs, now is clearly not the time to buy...but using technical analysis, we can determine the levels at which a pullback will create better buying opportunities. There was plenty of new data on the housing sector this week, and the latest [...]

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 22:47

Guest post written by Auren Hoffman Auren Hoffman is founder and CEO of Rapleaf and venture partner at Founders Fund. You can follow him on his blog (Summation), on Twitter (@auren), and Facebook (aurenh). Auren Hoffman: Just say no. It has been conventional wisdom for the last 50 years that if you are [...]

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 21:11

The film's opening weekend performance is already reverberating around the country, from Wall Street to Nashville.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 19:11

Qualcomm logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Helped by a positive market opening, the stock of Qualcomm (QCOM) reached a new 52-wek high on Monday afternoon trading at $68.71—well above its 200, 100, and 50-day moving averages, gaining 22 percent for the last three months, and 32 percent for the last six months. A [...]

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 22:22

With 15 million albums sold worldwide, the group is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year with an international excursion that includes the headlining gig at MSG, the first ever for a Japanese act. Is this the decade they try to make it in the U.S.?

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 07:16

Dominique Strauss-Kahn cannot find peace. On Monday, judges in the Northern French city of Lille indicted him for "aggravated pimping" in relation to a prostitution wring dubbed the Carlton Affair by French media.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 01:05