Filed under: Earnings reports , Microsoft (MSFT) , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) , International Business Machines (IBM) , Technology International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM ) reported Q3 results after the bell on Thursday. Net sales decreased 7% when compared to the year-ago period. Okay, that doesn’t sound like a great start.

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IBM’s incredible third quarter — would you sell on these numbers?

Filed under: Forecasts One of the nation’s foremost economic minds is sending an alarm signal regarding the U.S. budget deficit and national debt

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Greenspan: U.S. national debt, not weak dollar, is the concern

Today was a multifaceted news day. There was tame inflation and a better jobs repor t, but oil went through the roof as there was a big draw down in gasoline inventory and weak refinery trends

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Closing Bell: DJIA 10K again, really again (GS, C, AXP, VLO, DRWI, ACOR)

Filed under: Stocks to Buy I’m Reiterating my Buy rating for FormFactor Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM ), first recommended on July 6, 2009 at a price of $19.90, but there are qualifiers.

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Consider FormFactor, if rollercoasters don’t phase you

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Filed under: Earnings reports Winnebago (NYSE: WGO ) is up well over 8% at the time of this writing during afternoon trading. Yep, it’s one of those stories: post a revenue decline and a loss and get rewarded.

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Winnebago rises on Q4 report

Filed under: Rumors , Kellogg Co (K) Let’s file this under something that didn’t need to happen (kind of like a Bob Dylan Christmas album) — if the story is real. Apparently, Kellogg (NYSE: K ) is planning to battle the rampant counterfeit cornflake market by individually laser etching its name into each of your cornflakes .

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Laser-etched Corn Flakes of the future?

Filed under: Earnings reports , Intel (INTC) , Advanced Micro Dev (AMD) , Texas Instruments (TXN) , Technology The chip sector is pretty hot. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) reported a respectable quarter this week, and the stock is near a 52-week high. Also close to their highs of the year are Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN ) and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD ).

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Xilinx comes in ahead of expectations in Q2 — buy the stock?