• Ukraine PM Azarov offers to resign

  Longtime loyalist of President Viktor Yanukovich says he has offered his resignation out of a desire for a "peaceful resolution" to the country's political crisis

• 3D Systems May Have Further Room To Fall

  By Valuentum : What is stock analysis? Well, there are some that think it has everything to do with the dividend. There are others that only look at charts. There are others that think analyst estimate misses (notice how this is equivalent to companies' earnings beats) are a way to gauge the…

• Here's What The Buy Side Expects AT&T To Report Tuesday

  AT&T Inc. ( T ) is set to report FQ4 2013 earnings after the market closes on Tuesday, January 28th. Due to increased pressure in the mobile phone industry, AT&T has recently made changes to its service contracts to allow users to upgrade phones after 6 months. Verizon ( VZ ) and T-Mobile (…

• F&C agrees £700m takeover by Canadian bank

  Fund management group agrees to be bought by an arm of Bank of Montreal for £700m

• Autodesk: A Different And Safer Way To Play The 3D Printing Revolution

  In the 80s and 90s, software makers were the real winners of the computer revolution, with Microsoft ( MSFT ) grabbing most of the dollars generated by the PC industry at the expense of hardware makers. We believe that History could repeat itself in the current 3D printing revolution. Design…

• Buy Side Expects Big Quarter From VMware

  VMware Inc. ( VMW ) is set to report FQ4 2013 earnings after the market closes on Tuesday, January 28th. VMware is an American software company that specializes in cloud and virtualization technology and services. In December cloud services competitor Oracle ( ORCL ) posted a better than expected…

• Here's How The Buy Side Expects Amgen To Report Tuesday

  Amgen Inc. ( AMGN ) is set to report FQ4 2013 earnings after the market closes on Tuesday, January 28th. Over the past 6 quarters, AMGN has beaten Wall Street expectations for profit and revenue 5 times each and the stock is flying high. Over the past 6 months Amgen stock is up 50%. Amgen is a…

• Inverted Term Structure Creates Opportunity In Gold

  By Nitin Gulati : The later part of last week marked the return of volatility in the global financial markets. The Federal Reserve scaled back from quantitative easing, the slow down in emerging markets compounded by political and financial instability of Argentina and Turkey sent the markets…

• What The Buy Side Expects From Yahoo

  Yahoo! Inc. ( YHOO ) is set to report FQ4 2013 earnings after the market closes on Tuesday, January 28th. In 2005 Yahoo purchased a $1billion stake in Alibaba, a privately traded group of Chinese e-commerce websites. This deal has turned out to be one of the best moves that Yahoo has ever made, in…

• eBay: An Undervalued Stock

  By Blackstone Equity Research : The purpose of this article is to assess the fair stock value of eBay Inc ( EBAY ). In the article I will discuss the expected role of smartphones as a key growth driver of the catalog and mail order industry and the company's ability to take advantage of future…

• Samsung sets new smartphone sales record in fourth quarter, widens lead over Apple: report

  SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd sold a record 86 million smartphones in the fourth quarter and widened its lead over Apple Inc even after the U.S. firm reached a new iPhone sales high, data from research firm Strategy Analytics showed.

• Bourses edge up as EM turmoil calms

  Stocks stabilise as emerging markets turbulence pauses, but trading is subdued as investors await the Federal Reserve's update on pace of tapering

• Asian shares pinned at five-month lows, Turkey in spotlight

  TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares were pinned near five-month lows on Tuesday as concerns that slower growth in China and reduced U.S. monetary stimulus could hurt some emerging economies dependent on exports and foreign capital.

• Open up palace 'when Queen out' call

  Buckingham Palace should be opened up to the public when the Queen is not in residence to help close a gap in the royal finances, MPs say.

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• Dividend Buy Of The Month: Omega Healthcare Investors Inc.

  By Dividend Mantra: I revealed recently that I sold off the rest of my stake in Intel Corporation ( INTC ) late last week after the company declared a seventh straight dividend at the same rate - $0.225 per share, quarterly. I rarely sell, as many of you long-time readers are aware, but a static…

• QWERTY BB10 Phones From Foxconn Can Revive BlackBerry

  By Almario Alexej Alcaraz : I still am holding on to my BlackBerry ( BBRY ) shares. The stock has been very volatile and aggressively traded over the past five days. BBRY went up as high as $10.70 after a wrong report that the U.S. Department of Defense was supposedly buying 80,000 new BlackBerry…

• Australian regulator reprimands BNP Paribas over rate fixing

  SYDNEY (Reuters) - French bank BNP Paribas SA has been censured by Australian regulators after revealing its traders tried to influence the setting of the country's benchmark inter-bank interest rate, the latest in a string of scandals over global rates setting.