Global Financial Markets

Mark Manning, AAMS is an Accredited Asset Management Specialist and Wealth Manager with Butler, Wick & Co., where he heads a team of specialists that works with high net worth individuals and business owners. Mark also appears regularly on WYTV News, “Financial Future Report” and is a regular columnists for RealMoney and The Street.com

 Read Mark's Articles:

Monday March 31, 2008

Tuesday April 1, 2008

Wednesday April 2, 2008

Friday May 23, 2008

Other Global News:

• MOTOROLA SAID its first-quarter loss widened on severance costs from 2,600 job cuts and continued poor sales in the company's mobile-devices unit.
• Samsung Challenges Motorola's U.S. Lead
• Earnings Previews: Microsoft, Sony and more
• Steve Ballmer says Microsoft is willing to go it alone rather than buy Yahoo. Skepticism among his own employees may be a factor.
• AllThingsD: Yahoo, CNET Deepen Their Ties
• Microsoft Could Reconsider XP Deadline
• Nintendo's net surged 48% for its fiscal year, driven by sales of its Wii and DS devices, but it gave a subdued outlook.
• Apple's net surged 36% as its Mac business defied a broad slowdown in consumer spending. Revenue rose 43%, but gross margins declined.
• BizTech Blog: Innovation Comes Cheap at Apple
• Amazon.com's net climbed 30% on a healthy jump in sales, as consumers increased purchases through the retailer's free-shipping programs and from merchants that use Amazon as an online mall.
• Google's Brazilian subsidiary handed over information on more than 3,000 of its users to a Brazilian Senate panel investigating pedophilia.
• EDS posted 62% drop in profit amid a prior-year gain as overseas revenue buoyed the firm against weakening domestic demand. Contract signings jumped.
• Canon reported its net fell 19%, hurt by a stronger yen. Office-equipment rival Ricoh's earnings declined 26%.
• Qualcomm Posts Higher Profit
• Second Try at Online Sales
• Chip Makers Post Losses
• Dow Jones Industrial Average