Following strong earnings results by IBM and Intel, Wall Street appears to be increasingly confident that Microsoft will also deliver better than expected quarterly results.
While Yahoo continues to be pinched by their declining search market share, their leading display business is already benefitting from stabilization in the economic environment.
It appears that McDonald’s made a strategic misstep as they began pushing premium products like their Angus burgers and McCafe drinks instead of focusing consumers on their value options.
While an improving economic environment is certainly a positive for eBay, investors have to be concerned about the eBay’s competitive positioning versus Amazon.