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(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq 100 up 0.8 to 1 percent.Kraft Foods Inc KFT may raise its offer for British chocolatier Cadbury Plc CBRY or offer more cash in...

NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Microsoft has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday. News Corp, which owns such papers as the Wall Street Journal...

Rupert Murdoch is pointing a gun to Google's head , and Microsoft is helping him pull back the trigger. For the past few weeks, Murdoch and his officers at News Corp. have been very vocal about their distaste for Google and their desire to lead other media companies...

Microsoft and News Corp. are engaged in early discussions about the software giant paying the Murdoch news empire to "de-index" its content from Google, according to newspaper reports over the weekend. by David Weir

Microsoft and News Corp. are engaged in early discussions about the software giant paying the Murdoch news empire to "de-index" its content from Google, according to newspaper reports over the weekend. by David Weir

I have noticed a profitable pattern.  I am going to cast this from the bearish perspective, but in theory it could work either way.  I have a few other historical examples, but let us focus on the present. Background Investors have many time frames, and so do those managing money.  When you see someone ...

BloggingStocks: Intel Corp. (INTC) raised its dividend. Again. The 14th time since 1992 when it began paying quarterly sums to investors. The annual payout is now 63 cents or 15.75 cents every three months. That's 12.5% higher than the previous dividend. The stock ... Read more

BloggingStocks: Twitter calls Google (GOOG) a "good role model," but says it isn't ready to rush down the road to advertising. Nonetheless, an ad-based revenue model is something that cofounder Biz Stone says they "will be looking to do down the line." But, for ... Read more

Barnes & Noble (BKS) reported today that their new eReader product has sold out of the entire supply for delivery before the holidays.  This may be a positive sign for Barnes & Noble in the long run as demand appears to be quite strong, but it is clear that production limitations are restricting sales this holiday season.  Yesterday, Sony (SNE) pushed back the shipping date for their Daily Edition Reader to between December 18th and January 8th.  This puts Sony’s August promise to have the Reader available for[More...]

Two Veteran Wall Street Analysts discuss: (Vern): EXPW, INTU, MANT; (Val): CPWR, FICO, MSFT

We are carefully entering portfolio positions in this environment. (Note: Portfolio positions vs. trading positions) A company that we like for its specialty product is Cubist Pharmaceuticals (CBST). It has made all of our screens recently, but we were reluctant to add it to portfolios as the very recent trends have been down, down, down.  [...] Related posts:

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Schaeffer's analyst Morgan Searcy takes a look at news on the Street before the market open.

Schaeffer's analyst Morgan Searcy takes a look at news on the Street before the market open.

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