A reader whom I'll call Racer X sent me some numbers on Friday with regard to SKF. And Friday's numbers were even more staggering than last week's. What's it all mean? Each share of SKF (or any

By 1989, video games were getting, at best, a mixed reception on the silver screen.  WarGames was a massive hit, Tron and The Last Starfighter enjoyed modest success, but who among us fondly re

Warner Brothers hopes The Dark Knight will take the studio to the sunny uplands of steady profitability. The studio, a subsidiary of Time Warner (TWX), plans to release fewer but bigger movies into t

On Friday, toy maker Mattel (MAT) reported a second quarter profit of $11.8 million or $0.03 per share, a sharp decline from the $22.8 million or $0.06 a share it turned in for the comparable period l

Stocks to watch for Friday, July 18, 2008:  Citigroup (C) reported a loss for the 2Q of $2.5 billion, or 54 cents a share, falling from a profit of $6.23 billion, or $1.24 a share a year a

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

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South Africa’s electricity provider, Eskom, was given permission to raise prices another 13.3 percent (starting in July) after already being given permission to raise prices 14.2 percent, for a

Social networking is moving from infancy to adolescence, as the market landscape evolves and competing business models vie for superiority.Venture capitalists are betting LinkedIn can thrive in an inc