Wall Street has been rallying today, and enjoying the strong start to the week is Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), which hit a new 52 week high in today's action. The stock traded up as high as $54.15, and is currently trading up 1.3% to $53.95. The past few months have been a little rocky for investors, as traders have been trying to deal with a weak housing market, a falling ...

Japanese auto market Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) posted a 7.5% profit during its fiscal third quarter. Looking at raw sales figures, the quarter saw an increase of $5.2 billion to $62.5 billion. Sales in the American market however did dip in the quarter, seeing a decline of $77 million, or 0.3%. The hard times that the company is going through in the American market has so far been offset by ...

The stock market is looking for a strong open today, helped by strong earnings from tech giant Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), which is trading up 5% in premarket trading. Last night Microsoft announced that it had earned 50 cents a share for its fiscal second quarter, which was easily above the 46 cents that analysts had been expecting to see from the company. What has really been driving the stock higher ...

After yesterday's market sell off, and a tough session for foreign exchanges, the U.S. market got a much needed boost of confidence this morning from a better than expected report on U.S. payrolls. According to the Labor Department this morning, American employers added twice as many new jobs as analysts had expected. Analysts had expected to see an increase of 85,000 payrolls during October, but the market was delighted to see ...

The market has long been expecting news that software giant Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will be joining the world of mobile phones, and reports today suggest that we can expect to hear some official news from the company within the next 2 weeks. According to an article from the Wall Street Journal, sources close to the company believe that we are about to get the news that we have been waiting ...

Look for a strong day today from software giant Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) after the company posted very strong fiscal first quarter earnings that shattered analyst estimates. For its fiscal first quarter the company showed a profit surge of 23 percent, with a reported $4.29 billion in profit, and 45 cents per share for its stockholders. This easily beat out analyst estimates which had predicted to see the company come in ...

Shares of Apple Computer (NYSE: AAPL) have been trading up nicely today after last night's earnings release. The stock has been up about 7 percent for most of the session after shattering its fiscal fourth quarter. Wall Street analysts had been expecting to see the computer giant post earnings of $0.85 cents per share, but the company surprised to the upside with a remarkable $1.01 per share. The company outpaced its ...