Paul Shread

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that merger talks between Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have collapsed, placing the potential

Shares of Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) posted a dizzying 20.8% gain Friday after the company handily beat Wall Street estimates. The broader market

The S&P (first chart below) today ran straight into a downtrend line that has capped every rally since October. A move above today's high of 845 would be

Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) shares soared in after-hours trading Thursday after the company's quarterly results dazzled Wall Street, but Micron

Information technology was the only S&P sector to post a gain in the first quarter, and IT stocks started the second quarter in similar fashion, led by

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) led the tech sector higher on Tuesday, capping the best month for stocks since 2002. Microsoft shares gained 5% after Davenport &

Stocks plunged Monday on worries that U.S. automakers could be headed for bankruptcy, while Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) paced the Nasdaq's

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) led stocks lower on Friday, but the major indexes still ended the week with 6% gains. Amazon shares lost 4.3% on news that the

Analyst upgrades of Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and better than expected quarterly results from Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and

Jabil (NYSE: JBL) shares soared 36% Wednesday on signs of stabilization, while the rest of the market ended higher as traders weighed better than expected

Seagate (NYSE: STX), Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) and AMD (NYSE: AMD) continued to rise Tuesday even as the rest of the market gave back some of Monday's huge

A big breakthrough for the stock market today, as the Dow and S&P both moved solidly back above their 2002 lows (see Rally Hits a Big Level). Those