Filed under: Forecasts, Good news, Rants and raves, Apple Inc (AAPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Stocks to Buy, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG), Recession, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) If there is anything that makes me think we could be close to a market bottom, it is all the peo...

von Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. h. c. Heinz Flamm Die ersten Infektions- oder Pest-Ordnungen in den österreichischen Erblanden, im Fürstlichen Erzstift Salzburg und im Innviertel im 16. Jahrhundert Im Frühjahr 2000 wurde auf einer Antiquariats-Auktion in Deutschland eine bis dahin im Druck unbe...

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is finally cutting its dividend.  We predicted this over and over, and it has finally come to fruition.  We said that a cut in half could save $5 billion per year, but the cut is much larger and will save approximately $9 billion per year per reports. Starting in th...

Jockeying will be the name of the game for smart grid companies over the next several months as funding from the economic stimulus package rolls out to state and federal agencies. As Bloomberg notes this morning, now that the $787 billion has been divvied up across U.S. industries, Round 2 of lobbyi...

Today felt like you were hearing the robot from "Lost in Space" saying "Warning! Danger!" as too many stocks to count followed the markets under key support levels. It really did feel that way as no one wanted to head into the weekend owning anything tied to financial stocks in case nationalization ...

cleantech, energy, policy Jesse Berst wrote: Here are seven key questions and answers about the electricity economy and smart-grid technology. 1. What is “electronomics” and where does it fit in today’s energy world? One of the best ways to understand the new electric smart grid of...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Market matters, Bank of America (BAC), Financial Crisis It was hard to get a good a gut feel for what the market was doing today, regardless of the closing bell levels. The day was held up because Tim Geithner delayed by a d...

Much of the crisis in the banking industry has been blamed on the inaction of the boards of directors at companies including Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C). Some of Citi's most prominent members have left, probably not entirely of their own volition. The board at B of A has been savagely at...

If the government is going to force salary caps on banks, financial firms, and car companies that will get federal money, it needs to go further. The argument for limited pay at firms like banks is that, if they get billions of dollars in bailout cash, the money should not go to pay big compensation...

Open source Java projects: Terracotta - JavaWorld - In this Open source Java projects installment, Steven Haines introduces Terracotta, an enterprise Java clustering solution. Find out why Terracotta, unlike traditional clustering solutions, doesn#039;t make you sacrifice an iota of reliability in t...