Europe&#39;s Cheap Shot At Microsoft      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Antitrust: Microsoft, a company that has enriched millions and provided an immeasurable boost to the global economy, is being treated like a criminal in Europe -- which has a funny way of defining justice.
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European equity markets were heading for a subdued open on Monday as Wall Street was to remain closed for a public holiday. US industrial production data in the previous session should underpin the market however.
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Investor's Business Daily - Top envoys for Iran and the European Union ended talks in Madrid with little sign that they were closer to resolving a deadlock over Tehran&#39;s refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. They agreed to meet again in 2 weeks. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the atmosphere was still positive. In Vienna, Sec&#39;y of State Condoleezza Rice urged Tehran to heed the U.N. Security Council and freeze enrichment.
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Investor's Business Daily - Money managers worried about the tech bubble might have turned down offers to start managing a stock fund in 2000.
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Though the macroeconomic picture remains cloudy, major IT vendors, such as Apple, Microsoft, and EMC, for the most part reported solid third-quarter earnings this week, giving technology investors hope for the rest of the year.Thursday was a busy day on Wall Street with Microsoft, EMC, and Motorola reporting.After the market closed,&#160;Microsoft reported a 23 percent quarterly jump in net income, which hit $4.29 billion as demand for Windows and Office software remained strong. Revenue was $13.76 billion, a 27 increase from one year earlier. The company said it was the fastest revenue growth spurt for their first fiscal quarter since 1999, around the height of the dot-com boom. That should help reassure some investors that despite concerns about the U.S. economy, at least certain areas of the IT sector are still managing to show strong growth.In after-hours trading right after the announcement, Microsoft shares rose by $1.98 to $33.98.EMC&#39;s profit jumped&#160;as the data-storage company made gains on the sale of part of its stake in virtualization software maker VMware. EMC reported that net income was $492.9 million, compared with a profit of $283.7 million last year. Revenue jumped to $3.3 billion from $2.8 billion a year earlier. Though much of the gains were from&#160;a one-time sale of part of VMware to Cisco, other parts of the business did well: Software rose 25 percent, storage business sales rose 9 percent, and service grew 25 percent. EMC shares rose $1.92 on the news, to close at $24.45.Motorola, meanwhile, reported an abrupt drop, of 94 percent, in quarterly profit, as it searched to find a follow-up to its Razr mobile phone. Net income was $60 million, while revenue fell 17 percent to $8.81 billion. Nevertheless investors apparently were heartened that the company saw small boosts in the average selling price for mobile devices -- something that even mighty Nokia did not experience last quarter.Motorola forecast earnings from continuing operations for the fourth quarter of $0.12 to $0.14 a share, while analysts had expected earnings of $0.10. So even though profit was way down, company shares managed to jump $0.75 to $19.30 Thursday.Apple kicked off the week on a high note, on Monday reporting solid earnings that were fueled by record Mac sales and shipments of 1.12 million iPhones. The company handily beat analyst estimates with income of $904 million, 67 percent higher than a year earlier. Earnings per share were $1.01. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial had forecast $760.45 million in net income and earnings of $0.84 per share. Apple jumped $11.80 to close at $186.16 the day after its earnings report. Even though Apple shares have been trading at all-time highs, the common wisdom on Wall Street is that things will get even better.Brokerages like Goldman Sachs and UBS reiterated &quot;buy&quot; ratings and Citi Investment Research headlined its report: &quot;The Best Is Yet To Come.&quot; With the new Mac OS, Leopard, going to market on Friday, sales are expected to do well through the holiday season.Still, concerns about the U.S. economy linger. With the price of oil skyrocketing and the housing-market crisis making headlines, investors remain worried that economic concerns will weigh on IT sales. But earnings from the major IT bellwethers over the last few weeks are showing that technology is proving to be resilient, so far.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Business Roundtable&#39;s CEO Economic Outlook Index fell 3 points to 81.9 in May amid high energy prices and the housing slump. But that&#39;s still well-above the boom-bust line of 50. Most executives expect sales, capital spending and hiring to be flat or rise in the coming months. &quot;While the survey does suggest that the economy is settling into a softer consolidation phase, as long as consumers keep spending, the economy can continue to move ahead,&quot; said Harold McGraw, the group&#39;s chairman.
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Thumbs up: Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) on Tuesday said investors paved the way for a one-time-only $3 dividend. Shareholders in the software colossus OK&#39;d amendments to the company&#39;s stock plans
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Investor's Business Daily - When the U.S. began slowing last year some analysts began hoping for a trade-off.
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Web surfers from Beijing to Berkeley have made Google their search engine of choice, but some of Europe&#39;s institutional investors have gone sour on the dot-com on the eve of its ...
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Investor's Business Daily - Sun Microsystems has pulled off a bit of an upset, gaining market share amid a sluggish year for top-tier computer server vendors.
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Another round of cheap stocks for the value investor's soul.
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Investor's Business Daily - What the credit crisis couldn't do to the private-equity market -- knock it to the canvas for a 10-count -- a looming recession might.
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Europe is a great destination -- for your portfolio. This ETF can take you there.
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European stocks were likely to open a little lower on Monday following a lacklustre end to last week after Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday in the US.
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Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft easily beat Wall Street's forecasts for its fiscal second quarter on Thursday thanks to strong sales of Windows Vista, Office software and video games.
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Investor's Business Daily - German blue chip stocks have outperformed the global stock market and major U.S. indexes since the market's bottom in February 2003. Going into Monday, the Frankfurt Dax index had sprung 150% since then vs. 103% for the FTSE World index and 71% for the S&amp;P 500.
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Investor's Business Daily - The huge success of Apple Computer's  (NASDAQ:AAPL - News) iPod has drawn the attention of archrival Microsoft  (NASDAQ:MSFT - News).