Daily Stock News: Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Applied Materials to buy Varian for $4.9B. Applied Materials (AMAT) in agreement to acquire Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates (VSEA) for ...

Daily Stock News: Tuesday, May 03, 2011

U.S. gets three more weeks to avoid default. The Treasury will begin to take 'extraordinary measures' on Friday that, along with better-than-expected ...

Daily Stock News: Friday, April 29, 2011

Microsoft falls as tablets start to crack Windows. Microsoft (MSFT) shares dropped 1.4% in post-market trading even though its Q3 2011 earnings ...

Daily Stock News: Thursday, May 05, 2011

Lloyds posts hefty Q1 loss. Lloyds's (LYG) shares are -8.7% premarket after the company said that it made a £2.44B ($4B) net loss in Q1 2011 ...

Daily Stock News: Thursday, April 28, 2011

Bernanke navigates first presser. Ben Bernanke avoided any dangerous gaffes at the first ever post-FOMC press conference by a Fed Chairman. Bernanke ...

Daily Stock News: Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Lawson to be sold for $2B. GGC Software Holdings, an affiliate of Golden Gate Capital and Infor, has agreed to buy Lawson Software (LWSN) for around ...

Daily Stock News: Thursday, April 21, 2011

BP sues Transocean, Cameron over Gulf spill. One year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP (BP) has filed suit against Transocean (RIG), seeking ...