Technology

We have grown accustomed over the years to icons like 3M (NYSE:MMM) and Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) impacting the S&P 500, which they are doing today following the publication of their annual results. At this early stage of the day, having posted less than desirable results, Exxon shares are down 1.72%, and, having posted excellent results, […]

Next month, February 2014, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) will celebrate its tenth birthday and the second anniversary of filing its S1 with the SEC. The company was only eight years old when it starting trading on the NASDAQ on 18 May in what turned out to be one of the most publicized first-day fiascoes in financial news […]

The Ebay shares (NASDAQ:EBAY) are experiencing upswings followed by downswings, but the price may go upwards determinedly this year. In the chart, the price broke up from the Trendlines (January 2014), spiked upwards, and then got corrected lower. The lower correction is therefore going into the Trendlines again, but it would not go below the […]

On 23 August 2004 Google’s share price was $106.15 (NASDAQ:GOOG). Except for a sharp, one-year decline when it dropped from just above 700 to 290, Google’s share price has climbed nearly continuously to its current level of 1163. Just in case you are blissfully uniformed, that single year was 2008 and the responsibility for that […]

Yahoo! stock (NASDAQ:YHOO) was bullish for the most part of 2013 and this would continue this year. The probability of a trend going further according to a dominant bias is much more than the probability of it reversing. Right now, there is a pullback in the market and the ADX period 14 is showing the […]

International Business Machines stock (NYSE:IBM) has been rallying since December 2013. The price has formed a Double Bottom pattern (a “W’ shape), which means a true bottom has been found at those extreme ends, and the price ought to be going upwards. In the chart, the EMA 20 has crossed the EMA 50 to the […]

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It would be a bit of “Johnny come lately” if I were to tell you that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is acquiring Nest Labs. Unless you have been living under a rock and been fracked out of house and home today, you already know that the search engine monster has paid $3.2 billion for a caviar that […]

I’m not one to beat a dead horse, but I do believe that one should stay on topic until at least some people ”get it” before moving on. My article, “Retail Wearing the Emperor’s New Clothes,” was published by ADVFN just a few days ago, on Friday, 10 January. In it I pointed out that […]

Google stock (NASDAQ:GOOG) has been bullish for a few months. It is common for the price to enter a consolidation territory, remain there a little, and later break out higher in favor of buyers. This is what is happening right at the present. The price, which broke out above the upper Trendline, has entered another […]