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The following exchange traded funds ended the week in the neighborhood of their 52-week highs. The share price of each is more than 20% higher than at the beginning of the year as well. Barclays Long B Leveraged S&P 500 Total Return ETN (NYSE: BXUB) is more than 22% higher than at the...

This week will offer a good look at the state of the financial sector as many of the big banks share their fourth-quarter results. JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) broke the ice on Friday, reporting a decline in earnings that was more than analysts had estimated. Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), Goldman Sachs (...

Professional online network, LinkedIn Corp (NYSE: LNKD), went public nearly seven months ago in an extremely successful initial public offering that was priced at $45 per share and opened for trading over 80 percent higher at $83. For older traders, this brought back memories of the good ol' days...

For nearly half a billion, IBM is slated to add a cloud-based analytics company to its portfolio. This news comes after SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced its plans to acquire a cloud computing firm of its own, SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF), prompting my colleague to write about data centers, which he...

The following dividend-paying companies offer attractive returns on equity and are expected to have strong earnings per share growth over the next five years. Their stocks are also trading in the ballpark of their 52-week highs. Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL): The New York-based cosmetics company...

For a holiday-shorted week, there will still be plenty for investors and analysts to mull over on the earnings front. Quarterly results from global tech company Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), farm and construction equipment maker Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE) and food companies Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB...

Much of the focus this week will be on retailers. The wave started with last week's strong results from Dillard's (NYSE: DDS), Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) and Macy's (NYSE: M). Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) posted solid results as well. On the schedule for this week are Abercrombie & Fitch, (NYSE: ANF), Home...

Because the MacBook Air just isn't portable enough, more and more consumers are doing the majority of their Web surfing with an iPad. According to data from IBM's (NYSE: IBM) Coremetrics Benchmark, mobile traffic will more than double this holiday season, TechCrunch reports. IBM says that 15% of...

The earnings season ramps up this week. Tech giants Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) are scheduled to share their third-quarter results, as are big banks including Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS),...

IBM and 3M's Breakthrough Stacked Chip Technology Will Be 1,000 Times Faster Than Today's Chips Two of America's oldest and most successful manufacturers, 3M (founded in 1902) and IBM (founded in 1910), have teamed up to collaborate on a new 3D computer chip stacking process that could...

IBM is building a new data drive that will allow its buyer to do just that. The client has not been announced, but according to Technology Review (via Popular Science), IBM (NYSE: IBM) is constructing a data storage array that will consist of 200,000 individual (interlaced) hard drives. When...

It's the question the Mac maker never wanted to ask. But we all knew it was coming. Even if Steve Jobs had been able to continue as CEO, he could not hold that position forever. Eventually Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was going to need a new chief executive to take over. In accordance with Jobs'...

By now, HP's downfall has been well documented after it announced that it was going to get out of the PC business and seek to acquire Autonomy Corporation plc, the UK-based business intelligence software company, for ~$10 billion. The shuttering of the phone and tablet division it acquired from...

Earnings season ramps up this week with quarterly reports due from the likes of tech companies such as IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), big banks such as Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), and consumer goods giants such as PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) and Johnson &...

First Trust Consumer Staples AlphaDEX (NYSE: FXG) is up more than 20% year to date. The investment seeks results that correspond generally to the price and yield of an equity index called the StrataQuant Consumer Staples Index. Top holdings include Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR),...