Stocks End Lower Amid Fed Taper Talk; Dow, S&P Briefly Hit Fresh Highs
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Bullish momentum should drive stocks higher into the week ahead, with all eyes on a speech by Fed Chairman Bernanke.
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Apple Inc. rose $3.84 or. 8 percent, to $462.50. Dell Inc. fell$. 02 or. 1 percent, to $13.24. Hewlett Packard Co. rose$. 22 or 1.1 percent, to $20.72.
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Apple Inc. fell $2.05 or. 4 percent, to $458.66. Dell Inc. fell$. 03 or. 2 percent, to $13.26. Hewlett Packard Co. fell$. 14 or. 7 percent, to $20.50.
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Apple Inc. fell $2.51 or. 5 percent, to $458.20. Dell Inc. fell$. 01 or. 1 percent, to $13.28. Hewlett Packard Co. rose$. 06 or. 3 percent, to $20.70.
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Apple Inc. rose$. 69 or. 1 percent, to $461.40. Dell Inc. rose$. 01 or. 1 percent, to $13.31. Hewlett Packard Co. rose$. 12 or. 6 percent, to $20.76.
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Microsoft owns a number of under-appreciated businesses in the under-appreciated tech sector, and the stock is cheap right now, CNBC's Jim Cramer says.
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Concerns that strict rules on bank capital levels would harm lending to the UK economy are greatly exaggerated, Britain's top banking regulator Andrew Bailey said. Mick Davis, the former boss of pre-merger mining giant Xstrata, has hired Goldman Sachs to raise money to set up a new resource giant. UK COAL'S FATE REST IN TAX MAN'S HANDS.
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Advocates on both sides of the aisle want to lower the official corporate tax rate and the country's biggest companies are in favor, but how? NYT reports.
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HONG KONG, May 2- Taiwan's AU Optronics Corp, the world's No.4 LCD maker, plans to sell $350 million of stock to fund the purchase of raw materials and components from overseas, according to a term sheet of the deal seen by Reuters on Thursday.
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*Sees Q2 revenue $118 mln- $121.2 mln vs est $119.2 mln. May 1- Shutterfly Inc, an online photo-sharing service, reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue helped by rising demand for photo printing, and it forecast current-quarter revenue largely above analysts' expectations.
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Samsung Electronics, Asus, Amazon Inc and Microsoft all grew their tablet shipments and eked out market share gains against Apple. But the biggest jump in market share came from other Asian manufacturers churning out inexpensive devices sold globally to customers including Staples, Toys R Us, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba, IDC analyst Ryan Reith told Reuters.
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Samsung Electronics, Asus, Amazon Inc. and Microsoft all grew their tablet shipments and eked out market share gains against Apple. But the biggest jump in market share came from other Asian manufacturers churning out inexpensive devices sold globally to customers including Staples, Toys R Us, Hewlett-Packard.
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TAIPEI, April 30- Taiwan's AU Optronics Corp, the world's No.4 LCD maker, posted a smaller-than-expected loss in the first quarter on Tuesday as panel shipments for tablet PCs and high-definition TVs increased.
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WASHINGTON, April 29- A former senior manager of Taiwan- based AU Optronics was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $50,000 after being found guilty of fixing the prices of certain liquid crystal displays used to make television and computer screens, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.
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*Amazon.com weighs on S&P after results; Chevron helps Dow. NEW YORK, April 26- U.S. stocks fell on Friday as the broadest measure of U.S. economic growth fell short of expectations in the first quarter and Amazon.com gave a disappointing outlook.
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*Amazon weighs on S&P after results; Chevron helps Dow. Amazon.com Inc tumbled after results, pressuring both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, though gains at Hewlett-Packard Co and Chevron Corp kept the Dow in modestly positive territory.
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*Oracle, SAP, Hewlett Packard are in Romania and Bulgaria* Romania has become centre for computer hacking* Technology sector is a rare success in depressed economies By Radu Marinas and Tsvetelia Tsolova.
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*Oracle, SAP, Hewlett Packard are in Romania and Bulgaria. BUCHAREST/ SOFIA, April 26- After hacking the Pentagon, NASA and Britain's Royal Navy for fun, TinKode got a real job as a computer security expert for a Romanian cyber safety consultancy. Cernaianu, 21, is an example of a deep well of talent in Romania and Bulgaria.
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*Oracle, SAP, Hewlett Packard are in Romania and Bulgaria. BUCHAREST/ SOFIA, April 26- After hacking the Pentagon, NASA and Britain's Royal Navy for fun, TinKode got a real job as a computer security expert for a Romanian cyber safety consultancy. Cernaianu, 21, is an example of a deep well of talent in Romania and Bulgaria.
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GLOBAL MARKETS ROUNDUP* Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange is 0.08 percent up while the MSCI-Asia Pacific index excluding Japan. FACTORS TO WATCH* Earnings of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, Hero MotoCorp Ltd, ICICI Bank Ltd later in the day. *The India Meteorological Department releases maiden forecast for the four-month long monsoon season from June.
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Kynikos Associates' Jim Chanos, discusses why he thinks the PC markets "are behind the eight ball." And, Toni Sacconaghi, Sanford Bernstein analyst, defends his buy rating on Apple, despite its recent pullback.