Good news for Dell, Cisco and Apple investors just meant falling less than the rest of the stock market. The 16-month-old bear market added another "worst ever" to its list of accomplishments today, sending stocks plunging in the weakest start to the month of March in market history. Every stock in the big-cap Nasdaq 100 ended the day lower — with the lone exception of drug developer Warner Chilcott (NASDAQ: WCRX), which…
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Smaller DEMO conference kicks off in search of the next hot trends. What's next? The DEMO conference has long reigned as a launching pad for the hottest startups in emerging technology. But something bigger is at play this year: the lousy economy. Organizers might be hoping that less is more. The conference kicks off Monday with 40 new tech products and services on tap, down from 70 at the last DEMO in…
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Analysis: Microsoft and its PC partners hope Windows 7 can drive PC sales, even in a down economy. No two recessions are the same, and the shakedown hitting the U.S., indeed the global economy, is very different from the one experienced in 2000-2002. That was a powerful combination of the Silicon Valley getting hit directly from the dot-bomb implosion and the overall U.S. economy shattered by the events on September…
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The Dow and S&P need to find support — and soon. The Dow and S&P 500 need to find support very soon, or they could face yet another wave of selling here. The S&P (first chart below) is sitting right above its November intraday low of 741.02. If that goes, 729-733 and 680-700 are the next support levels for the big cap stocks. The Dow (second chart) broke both its November and 2002…
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