Two of the biggest acquisitions of Computer Services Industry members, Affiliated Computer Services and Perot Systems occurred during the month of September of 2009. The acquisitions of these two respectively by Xerox and Dell indicate that a major shift is going on as those companies who manufacture and sell computers and office equipment are seeking [...]

Dow up 74 points yesterday (6/4/09).  Big movers on the upside were BAC, C, JPM and AA.  10/30 Dow stocks down and were led by MRK. 
 
Looking at the 26 non-financial Dow 30 stocks today on StockDiagnostics.com.  According to the numbers only three Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T), and Wal-Mart (WMT) had both increasing revenue and [...]

On a day when the major market indices, including the Dow Industrials and the S&P 500, plummeted to new 12-year lows after Citigroup announced that the U.S. government was taking a 36% stake in it and GE announced that it was cutting its dividend the shares of Bankrate closed up. The leading provider of information [...]

The shares of the three biggest companies in the online financial sector by market capitalization, Ameritrade (NASDAQ:AMTD), Interactive Data (NYSE:IDC) and Morningstar (NASDAQ:MORN) have significantly outperformed the major stock market indices and the Select Financials Exchange Traded Fund (Symbol:XLF) over the last 90 days. After tracking the major indices up until December of 2008, the [...]

The stock market set another downside record as the month of January 2009, was the worst ever for any previous month of January, as the Dow Jones 30 Industrial composite registered a decline of 8%. Nine members of the Dow 30 hit new lows during January. Six of them, including Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, [...]