Lost of stocks hitting new 52 week highs today with the DOW being up 0.4%, and the NASDAQ up 0.7%. Here are a couple of the stocks that traded up to new highs today: Motorola (MOT) currently up 1.4% and hit new 52 week high of $9.05, currently trading at $9.01. Qualcomm (QCOM) currently up 1.0% to $49.94 and hit 52 week high of $49.98. Procter & Gamble (PG) hit a new 52 week ...

Some big name stocks set new 52 week highs today. Here are some of the stocks that were able to set new highs to head into the weekend: Microsoft (MSFT) : Tech giant Microsoft set a new 52 week high today, trading up to $31.58 before closing the trading session down 1.4% on the day to $30.96, down $0.43. The company posted better than expected fiscal Q3 earnings last night following ...

Shares of Xerox (XRX) are soaring today, and set a new 52 week high today after posting better than expected first quarter numbers. Going into this mornings earnings report, analysts were forecasting $0.15 per share, verses $0.05 during the same period last year. Actual earnings came in well above estimates, at $0.18 per share excluding special items. Revenues were up by 33% during the quarter to $4.7 billion. Analysts had forecast revenues of ...

The market ended the day in the red, but several companies went against the trend and rose to new 52 week highs today. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) rose to a new 52 week high today of $125.68 and ended the session up 5.2% to 124.6399. The company is still riding high on last week's solid earnings report. The company was expected to show earnings of 33 cents per share, but came in ...

Google (NYSE: GOOG) has not confirmed the details just yet, but it appears all but certain that the search engine giant will be launching a music search next week that will allow users to search for music and gives the ability to download selected tracks. Music downloads has been a major driving force for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) through its iTunes service, and Google is looking to grab a piece of that ...

The market closed in the red today, as poor earnings from General Electric (NYSE: GE) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) brought out the bears. The DOW closed the session down 0.67%, the NASDAQ ended the day down 0.76%, while the S&P slipped by 0.8%. General Electric started off the day off on a bad note when the company reported revenues that came up short of analyst estimates. GE was able to ...

Energy prices just keep on heading higher, and today we see new highs for both oil and gas. Oil crept through the $143 mark today, a traders continue to see oil as their refuge from a weak overall global economy. As recession fears continue to weigh on the minds of traders, they are flocking into commodities as a hedge against a possible full blown recession.  Supply concerns are also present today, ...

Oil prices have continued to move higher today, hitting a new record high of $130.47 as investors continue to push prices higher in reaction to the slumping American dollar. Last week it had started to look as though the dollar was making a comeback, but that has changed, and now the dollar is once again dropping, and as a result oil prices are moving into new territory. The euro is moving ...

Fueled by a bullish weekly inventory report, oil prices traded up to set a new all time high today. The previous record high oil price was $111.80, but that record was shattered today, as prices moved up to set a new high of $112.21, and are currently trading up $2.17 to $110.67. Before today's inventory report, analysts had been expecting to see the Energy Department report that oil inventories had risen ...

Oil prices have continued their recent surge following this week's inventory report from the Energy Department. Oil has jumped $2.65 to $111.15, and are very close to hitting its historic all time high of $111.80. Prices moved up as high as $111.43 immediately following today's report. The market had been pretty flat for most of this morning, in anticipation of today's report. What we have seen is a drop of oil ...