When Apple held it’s quarterly financial conference with analysts earlier this month, its executives said they’d have trouble filling all the orders for the new MacBook Pro before the end of the present quarter. Independent reports, from American Technology Research and other industry analysts, suggested strong sales for both the new iMac and MacBook Pro. […]

If you can believe all those published reports in recent weeks, the keynote address Steve Jobs will deliver next month in San Francisco will be anticlimactic. Nothing he plans to say will come as much of a surprise. The rumors and speculation talks of a brand new iBook and Mac mini, and perhaps version 2.0 […]

As any one who has dared invest on Wall Street can attest, psychology remains a huge factor in a company’s stock performance. If you perceive that a company’s sales are apt to increase, you buy its stock to take advantage of the expected higher prices, and if you perceive that sales are not meeting expectations, […]

It’s tempting. We live in a world of instant analysis, so when something happens, expected or otherwise, you can bet there will be a thousand and one interpretations of the meaning of the event within the first five minutes. You aren’t supposed to just sit back and sort through the maze of facts and fiction […]