Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) fourth-quarter earnings reflect its continued effort to expand through acquisition and deliver end-to-end data services.The company is scheduled to release earnings Mond

Stocks surged, sending the S&P 500 up for a sixth straight session and propelling the Dow to a 13 month high, after a G-20 host became the market’s Darling for a day. Equities and ironies e

Unemployment remains high but there are signs the economy is starting to expand again. Are we in a jobless recovery?Economists are undecided. Columbia University economics professor Edmund Phelps rec

The S&P 500 has gained about 2% this year, but a handful of winners have more than doubled in value. The downside: Some of the stocks were beaten down and benefited from a dead-cat bounce, while

Wall Street, in true self-serving style, has harped on buy-and-hold mantra for decades. “Experts” have claimed there’s no reliable way to time the market, and you have to be fu

A law that had passed in response to the Watergate scandal may be coming back to bite US corporations doing business overseas. Congress passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 1977, but the Justi

Was it hot yesterday or what? I was sweating like the Good Humor man in July. I don’t know if I’m ready for that yet. The Hang Seng closed up 2.76%, however the Nikkei was closed on holid

Microsoft (MSFT) reported its first year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue since the company went public in 1986. The drop reflects the sour economy, cutbacks in corporate spending and growing cons

This could be the start of the pullback. We have a "less than perfect" report from Bank of America (BAC) and what looks like a terrible decision by the government on TARP conversions to equ

Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison has expanded his empire, snapping up Sun Microsystems (JAVA) after IBM (IBM) failed to acquire the server maker. Which recalls that old chestnut:Q: What’s the di