Archive for January, 2008

Market Snapshot: Dow 12,207.17 -171.44 -1.38% Nasdaq 2,326 -34.72         -1.47% S&P 500 1,330.61 -21.46 -1.59% After a break on Monday celebrating the great Martin Luther King Jr., Tuesday saw what would have been a disastrous morning. The Dow was poised to open almost down 500 points and in the first few minutes did fall about 465 points. But it was the... »

Market Snapshot: Dow                        12,099.30                        -59.91 Nasdaq                    2,340.02                         -6.88 S&P 500                 1,325.19                           -8.06 Following a rough week, the market started of Monday with a small advance due to positive forecasts by IBM that estimated earnings 24 percent above expectations. Other experts reasoned that the market was... »

Company Review: Altera Corporation. (ALTR) Company Profile: Altera Corporation. (obtained via Google Finance) Altera Corporation designs, manufactures and markets programmable logic devices (PLDs), HardCopy structured application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) devices, pre-defined design building blocks known as intellectual property cores (IP cores) and associated development tools. The Company's PLDs, which consist of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) are... »

Market Snapshot: Dow                        12,606.30           -246.79            -1.92% Nasdaq                    2,439.94            -48.58              -1.95% S&P 500                  1,401.02            -19.31                -1.36% What a way to kick off the New Year with the past couple weeks on the market. Investors have proven to by quite shaky and showing a surprising lack on confidence. Why? Because that daunting questions looms on... »