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April 01 2013 11:54 AM

Derma Sciences (NASDAQ: DSCI [FREE Stock Trend Analysis]) is riding high after reporting successful fourth quarter and 2012 earnings. The Princeton, New Jersey firm posted a loss of $0.27 for the fourth quarter, down 17 percent year-over-year. However, it beat the Wall Street consensus of a $0.31 loss per share on this front. Fourth quarter revenue closed up 22 percent at $20.1 million, topping analysts' estimates of $19.73 million.

March 29 2013 4:46 PM

Nokia (NYSE:NOK) has been asked to settle up on a multi-billion rupee (equivalent to around $383 million) tax demand in India, but the company says it is going to continue to fight the claim and will not pay, for now.

March 29 2013 3:50 PM

Drastic times call for drastic measures, and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) is facing stronger competition than ever from the likes of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). In efforts to speed up delivery times and save on shipping costs, the Bentonville-based low-cost king is proposing a truly drastic measure: shipping online orders to customers via shoppers who are in the store anyways.

March 28 2013 12:30 PM

Verizon is the proud owner of the nation’s largest 4G network. This allows customers to browse the Internet, download applications, send emails, and send picture/video messages at rapid speeds. Currently, Verizon is the only major wireless carrier to offer 100 percent 4G LTE. That’s impressive, but does that fact alone make the stock a quality investment? Negative!

March 28 2013 9:17 AM

If the price action of the stock is any indication, what looked like a blowout report for BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY [FREE Stock Trend Analysis]) wasn’t all that great once investors and analysts started digging in.

March 27 2013 4:20 PM

ACI Research Chief Executive Officer Edward Zabitsky may be one of the most notorious Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) bears out there. Three years ago, when the stock was trading around $200 and deep in the throes of an uptrend, he put a Sell rating on the stock and has maintained his position ever since.

March 27 2013 2:50 PM

By and large short sellers of defense stocks were not spurred to further action when the federal budget sequester went into effect. The number of shares sold short in Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK [FREE Stock Trend Analysis]), Esterline Technologies (NYSE: ESL) and General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) increased somewhat between the February 28 and March 15 settlement dates.

March 27 2013 11:30 AM

The gaming world is changing: tablets are being used more and more for gaming, consoles are developing more functions than just gaming, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY [FREE Stock Trend Analysis]) is trying to combine the home console and travel console, and more games are becoming available for download.

March 26 2013 3:37 PM

In addition to huge sales declines and subsequent losses in Europe, Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F) is now being pressed in Asia as well, notably Japan. In a television interview, CEO Alan Mulally said that he and the company are concerned about the depreciation of the Japanese yen, which has put increased pressure on competition here in the U.S.