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US Stock Futures Slump On Poor Corporate Earnings, GE In Spotlight

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:24:00 GMT

US stock futures fell sharply on Friday on fears that weak corporate earnings would prolong the recessionary pain.[More...]

Four Ways to Profit From the Country With the Smallest Stimulus Package

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:32:00 GMT

By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning/The Money Map Report Commentators are tripping over one another to declare this country or that country’s stimulus package as... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves markets. But Money Morning lets you move first. [More...]

Wall Street Ends Lower On Dour Corporate Outlooks, GM Stocks Plunge

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:07:00 GMT

US stocks finished lower on Monday, the first day of the shortened holiday week, as concerns about the outlook for company earnings weighed on investors.[More...]

Hope The Lows Will Hold

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:43:00 GMT

Good morning. Investors are hoping that last week's lows are going to hold and premarket futures are pointing to a positive open. A large batch of earnings reports (see MER, C, & NOK, UNH, BAX, UTX, EBAY), a better than expected CPI reading and falling jobless claims have set the positive tone in addition to rumors that we're going to see more global rate cuts and more interventions sooner rather than later. The credit markets are showing [More...]

Analyst Comments: SMI, Gushan, Priceline, ArthroCare, ZOLL Medical, Orchid Cellmark, Charlotte Russe, Hoku Scientific, 3SBio, Skechers, Coca-Cola Hellenic

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:17:00 GMT

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMI) is a Chinese semiconductor foundry company with multiple integrated chip wafer fabrication plants. SMI is the largest foundry company in China (third largest worldwide) and operates multiple plants and fabrication (fab) lines. Strategic alliances with Chartered, Toshiba, Infineon (IFX), Fujitsu, Motorola (MOT), Elpida and IMEC have provided access to intellectual property (IP) associated with a variety of semiconductor process technologies. We remain concerned regarding operational performance in the near-term given severe price declines in DRAM. The firm has announced they plan to exit the DRAM business. We[More...]

Analyst Comments: Philips, Cepheid, National Semi, Heritage-Crystal, Primus Guaranty, Reddy Ice, BioSphere, PS Business Parks, ArvinMeritor, Bristol-Myers, Echelon, LSI Corp

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:18:00 GMT

Headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (PHG) is one of the world's largest electronics companies and the biggest in Europe, with sales of 27 billion in 2007 and 12.4 billion in 1H08. The company has worked to improve its cost structure, as its EBITA margins remained flat along with modest revenue performance despite the weaker-than-expected dollar. Based on these results, we are maintaining our revenue estimates for 2008. We continue to rate the shares of PHG a Hold with a price target of $28.50 per share over the next six months. This amounts to between 6.7x-6.9x our new 2008 EPS estimate of $4.19. Udayan Mukherjee contributed to this report. Read[More...]

Periodicals Wrap-Up for Wednesday, August 20

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:10:00 GMT

A venture led by residential land company LandCap Partners is buying $40M of land and construction loans from Wachovia (WB). FINANCIAL TIMES: Barclays (BCS) would consider buying a U.S. wealth management company, Barclays President Bob Diamond said.[More...]

Periodicals Wrap-Up for Tuesday, August 12th

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:36:00 GMT

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Analyst Comments:LSI Corp, Union Pacific, Core Laboratories, Whole Foods, SK Telecom

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:02:00 GMT

LSI Corporation (LSI) continues to build on its leadership in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and RAID on Chip (RoC) technologies. The revenue drivers from these new technologies are coming through but will become more meaningful in late-2008/early-2009 time f[More...]

Periodicals Wrap-Up for Thursday, July 10th

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:30:00 GMT

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Research and Markets Adds Report: 'Fairchild Semiconductor - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review'

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:57:00 GMT

In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include:
Fairchild Semiconductor (Fairchild) is engaged in providing technology services worldwide.
The company geographically operates through three reportable segments namely Analog Products, Functional Power and Standard Products.

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New Day Dawns for Area Business: Face of Richmond Has Changed, As Firms Cut Jobs, Merge or Move Away

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:11:00 GMT

Nov. 16--The business landscape in the Richmond area is significantly changed from a year ago, transformed by a national economy that is veering toward recession.
Corporate names long associated with the region have been absorbed into other companies, moved away or soon will.
"You couldn't say that the Richmond area is isolated," said Kent Engelke, chief economic strategist in the Richmond office of Capitol Securities Management Inc.

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Qimonda Scouting Buyers: Firm Says It Will Wait to Give Any Details Until a Deal is Closed

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:14:00 GMT

Nov. 12--A Qimonda spokesman yesterday said the company is looking for buyers.
"We are looking for strategic or financial partners," Qimonda AG spokesman Ralph Heinrich said, "but before a deal has been closed, we will not be commenting."
The average share price of Qimonda stock has been below $1 for more than a month, prompting an NYSE warning on its failure to meet listing requirements.

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Semiconductor Makers Team Up for eWLB Technology

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:51:00 GMT

ST Microelectronics (headquartered in Switzerland), STATS Chip- PAC (Singapore) and Infineon Technologies AG (Germany) have signed an agreement to jointly develop the next-generation of embedded Wafer-Level Ball Grid Array (eWLB) technology, based on Infineon's first-generation technology, for use in manufacturing future- generation semiconductor packages.
ST and Infineon, two of the world's leading semiconductor makers, have joined forces with STATS ChipPAC, a leader in advanced 3D packaging solutions, to fully exploit the potential of Infineon's existing eWLB packaging technology, which has been licensed to ST and STATS ChipPAC.
The new R&D effort, for which the resulting IP will be owned by the three companies, will focus on using both sides of a reconstituted wafer to provide solutions for semiconductor devices with a higher integration level and a greater number of contact elements.

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NI Technology Research Updates Outlooks on MEMC Electronic Materials, Intel, Integrated Device Technology, Infineon, SanDisk, and Lattice Semiconductor

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:05:00 GMT

Next Inning Technology Research , an online investment newsletter focused on semiconductor and technology stocks, announced it has updated outlooks for MEMC Electronic Materials , Intel , Integrated Device Technology , Infineon , SanDisk , Lattice Semiconductor , and many others.[More...]

IBM Technology Alliance Announces Availability of Advanced 28-Nanometer, Low-Power Semiconductor Technology

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:56:00 GMT

IBM, Chartered, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Infineon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics Expand Technology Agreements[More...]

Beacon Equity Issues Trade Alerts on Market Movers: ELX, DSCO, JOSB, WBSN, RT, IFX - Apr 9 2009 11:28AM

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:23:00 GMT

DALLAS, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- BeaconEquity.com announces the availability of Trade Alerts on stocks making news today.
Investors can view all of the daily trade alerts for free by visiting BeaconEquity.com/m.
Today's Trade Alerts include: Emulex Corp. (NYSE: ELX), Discovery Laboratories Inc. (Nasdaq: DSCO), Jos.

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Beacon Equity Issues Trade Alerts on Market Movers: ELX, DSCO, JOSB, WBSN, RT, IFX - Apr 9 2009 10:35AM

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:15:00 GMT

BeaconEquity.com announces the availability of Trade Alerts on stocks making news today.[More...]

Infineon, SkyTerra and TerreStar Announce Agreement to Develop the World’s First Satellite-Cellular Mobile Platform Based on SDR Technology

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:13:00 GMT

Infineon Technologies, SkyTerra, and TerreStar Networks today jointly announced the world’s first multi-standard mobile platform based on Infineon’s innovative software-defined-radio (SDR) technology. SkyTerra and TerreStar are both developing next-generation integrated satellite-terrestrial communications networks.[More...]

Infineon, SkyTerra and TerreStar Announce Agreement to Develop the World's First Satellite-Cellular Mobile Platform Based on SDR Technology

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:20:00 GMT

Technology is Breakthrough for Mass-Market and Feature-Rich Multi- Mode Handsets
Infineon Technologies, SkyTerra, and TerreStar Networks today jointly announced the world's first multi-standard mobile platform based on Infineon's innovative software-defined-radio (SDR) technology.
"We are very happy to contribute our innovative SDR technology to this exciting new application of integrated satellite-terrestrial mobile devices in both SkyTerra's and TerreStar's networks," said Ronen Ben-Hamou, Vice President and General Manager of Software Defined Radio mobile platforms in the Wireless Division of Infineon.

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NI Technology Research to Publish Updated 'Guide to Undervalued Tech Stocks' - Mar 27 2009 10:48AM

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:53:00 GMT

Next Inning Technology Research , an online investment newsletter focused on semiconductor and technology stocks, announced it will soon publish its exclusive, newly updated "Guide to Undervalued Tech Stocks" covering 80 tech stocks including Infineon , Hewlett-Packard , Nokia , Juniper Networks , Palm , and many others.[More...]

Infineon Extends Family of Single-Chip Solutions for VoIP-Capable Home Gateways; New Full-Featured Chip Optimizes Quality of Service and World's First Entry-Level ADSL IAD Chip Supports All-IP Networks and Green IT

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:07:00 GMT

NEUBIBERG, GERMANY and MILPITAS, CA -- -- 03/02/09 -- Infineon Technologies AG today announced two additions to its XWAY ARX100 family of single-chip ADSL2+ Integrated Access Device solutions, the XWAY ARX182 and XWAY ARX188. The ARX188 is targeted at feature-rich IAD designs with high throughput and Quality of Service requirements, while the ARX182 is the industry's first low-cost IAD solution targeted at the entry-level segment of Analog Telephone Adaptors with integrated DSL functionality . When used with Infineon's new XWAY SLIC100 family, both solutions set a benchmark in energy efficiency by enabling customers to exceed the requirements of European Union Code of Conduct on Energy Consumption of Broadband Equipment by up to 35 percent.[More...]

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Tessera Technologies, Infineon, Micron Technology, Mack-Cali Realty Corporation and Altera Corporation.

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:11:00 GMT

Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog.
Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets.
Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Tessera Technologies (NASDAQ: TSRA), Infineon (NYSE: IFX), Micron Technology (NYSE: MU), Mack-Cali Realty Corporation (NYSE: CLI) and Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR).

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Primarion Introduces Industry's Smallest Integrated Power Stage (iPS (TM))

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:28:00 GMT

TORRANCE, CA -- -- 02/17/09 -- Primarion, an Infineon Technologies subsidiary and a mixed-signal semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and markets power integrated circuits , introduces the PX4650 and PX4640, industry's smallest integrated power stage offering superior performance for high power density solutions required by servers, storage equipment and routers.[More...]