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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is soaring to new 52-0week highs.  The software giant posted $0.40 EPS on $12.92 billion.  These were down from $0.48 EPS and $15.06 billion a year ago but were way above the Thomson Reuters estimates of $0.32 EPS and $12.32 billion in revenues.  At 8:37 AM EST we have shares trading [...]

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has seen a low volume day in the shares of its common stock.  But that is not the case in its call options.  Trading volume has really picked up, with some call option contracts trading more than their entire open interest.  You can imagine why… earnings bets ahead of Yahoo! tonight [...]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) guidance is driving the tech sector, despite Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) already giving a lift to the sector…..Right before the open at 9:28 AM EST Intel stock is up 4.5% at $20.35 on about 8 million shares.  Look at peers and competitors:

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is up over 5% [...]

VirnetX Holding Corporation (NYSE Amex: VHC) has never been covered by VSInvestor.  The company announced that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, issued its patent claim construction, or “Markman” Order, in the ongoing patent infringement action between VirnetX Inc. and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) .  It said, “In [...]

Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) shares are down more than 7 percent to $15.90 in early premarket trading of more than 100,000 shares; it was among the most active after-hours stocks, as well. The company confirmed a 10-year search-engine agreement with rival Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) to jointly attack Google Inc’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) 65 percent search market [...]

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) shares fell more than 6 percent to $23.80 after hours, on very high active-hours volume of more than 14 million shares. The software maker reported in-line earnings 36 cents a share, but lower-than-expected revenue that fell 17.3% to $13.1 billion from year-ago results. Analysts had been expecting revenue of $14.4 billion. [...]

Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) shares are down about 2 percent to $11.50, with the stock nearly trading its average daily volume by 1:45 p.m. Eastern. The stock may be reacting to comments by Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) CEO Howard Stringer that he has no intention of cutting the price of the PlayStation 3 gaming [...]

Microsoft (Nasdaq – MSFT) is up about 2% in the premarket. Media including Reuters reports that the stock’s price target was raised to $29 from $25 at Goldman  Sachs, and it was added to the Americas Conviction Buy list.
 

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is trading up almost 2% in the earlybird pre-market hours before the NASDAQ starts updating quotes.  We have the market at $23.97 X $24.00 on over 126,000 shares as of 7:40 AM EST.  The news is that is one of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades after Goldman Sachs added [...]

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is dropping the ball in a weird way.  The company decided to issue earnings pre-market rather than late after the close of trading.  It isn’t pretty.  The full news summary is here, but it missed earnings, predicted a decline in revenues, cut cap-ex, and slashed 5,000 jobs.  And to top it [...]