Filed under: Products and services , Dell (DELL) , Wal-Mart (WMT) A little over a year after teaming up to offer in-store technical support , the folks in Bentonville have dumped Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL ) as its partner and plans to use its Sam’s Club division to help out consumer electronics customers first in Sam’s Club stores and eventually in Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s (NYSE: WMT ) retail locations. Continue reading Wal-Mart ends technical support program with Dell; in comes Sam’s Club instead Wal-Mart ends technical support program with Dell; in comes Sam’s Club instead originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:00:00 EST

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Wal-Mart ends technical support program with Dell; in comes Sam’s Club instead

Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT) , Exxon Mobil (XOM) An update: a decision to hold one short and close another short position - due to the probability of higher-than-expected U.S. GDP growth in Q3/Q4, and the impact that better economic recovery would have on consumer spending. Exxon-Mobil (NYSE: XOM ), recommended on June 3, 2009 at a price of $72.88

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Short City Update: Exxon-Mobil: hold short; Wal-Mart: cover short

Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT) , Exxon Mobil (XOM) An update: a decision to hold one short and close another short position - due to the probability of higher-than-expected U.S. GDP growth in Q3/Q4, and the impact that better economic recovery would have on consumer spending. Exxon-Mobil (NYSE: XOM ), recommended on June 3, 2009 at a price of $72.88

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Short City Update: Exxon-Mobil: hold short; Wal-Mart: cover short

Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT) , Exxon Mobil (XOM) An update: a decision to hold one short and close another short position - due to the probability of higher-than-expected U.S. GDP growth in Q3/Q4, and the impact that better economic recovery would have on consumer spending.

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Short City Update: Exxon-Mobil: hold short; Wal-Mart: cover short

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Filed under: Columns , Business of sports I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t want to cover the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium. Mainly because anyone that watches any of the sports channels or any of the NBC network has seen plenty of Jerry Jones and the Palace in Dallas (as some call it). This $1.15 billion (yes, with a B) stadium is the definition of opulence, as it boasts a high-end steakhouse, tex-mex food, and something called a Cowboyrito.

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JockStocks: The Palace in Dallas shows that owners are out of touch with the average fan

Filed under: Yahoo! (YHOO) , Marketing and advertising Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO ) will be spending $100 million to market its new…nothing. The internet pioneer who wants out of the tech biz and solely into the media biz (sounds like the Terry Semel days) will spend that sum over the next 15 months to gain new customers to its plethora of web properties and keep them there as long as possible (and charger advertisers appropriately)

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Yahoo! to spend $100 million on new ad campaign - and crosses fingers

Filed under: After the bell , Major movement , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Research in Motion (RIMM) , AMR Corp (AMR) , UAL Corp (UAUA) , S and P 500 , DJIA , NASDAQ Bad housing numbers did not do much to hurt the market yesterday and good consumer sentiment figures did not help today. The Reuters/University of Michigan poll for late September yielded a figure of 73.5. That is the highest number since early in 2008.

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Closing bell: No spark from consumer sentiment (RIMM, AAPL, UAUA, AMR)

Filed under: Stocks to Buy In June, the argument was made that Wall Street’s haircut of Vulcan Materials to $34 from more than $100 was way overdone. So far, that argument looks good, and I’m therefore Reiterating my Buy rating for Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC ), first recommended on June 3, 2009 at a price of $46.26. If you purchased VMC then, you’re up about 19%

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Vulcan Materials will be a winner during the economic recovery

Filed under: Earnings reports , McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP) , Media World Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL ), the publisher of the Harry Potter books, issued its first-quarter numbers on Thursday.

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Scholastic’s Q1 doesn’t cast magic spell — or does it?

Filed under: Stocks to Buy In June, the call was that Equifax (NYSE: EFX ) was undervalued. Well, it’s still undervalued, and I’m Reiterating my Buy rating, first recommended on June 3, 2009 at a price of $27.06.

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Equifax is still undervalued