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The short interest in some major technology stocks has increased sharply in recent weeks. The short sellers' view may make sense since these companies have helped drive the NASDAQ recovery.

Applied Materials, the world's largest maker of computer-chip-manufacturing equipment, says its profit for its fiscal fourth quarter more than tripled from the same period a year ago.

Applied Materials is cutting its SunFab line of equipment to make amorphous-silicon solar panels. The move marks the end of the semiconductor-equipment giant's big thin-film solar ambitions. What's next for AMAT?

Unemployment, which recently hit a 26-year high of 10.2% nationwide, won't begin to show signs of improvement until the second quarter of 2010. Even then, it will take until 2013 for half the states to regain their previous peak employment levels. That's according to analysis from economic...

After another day of sharp declines in the markets, it's beginning to feel like investors just remembered the world is mired in the deepest recession in most peoples' lifetimes. Yesterday, stocks rebounded. Today, the losses stuck. Today's biggest reminder was a surprisingly low April retails...

Applied Materials (AMAT) saw sales drop to their lowest level in seven years and posted its second straight quarterly loss. Sales dropped 53 percent to $1.02 billion in the company's second quarter, which ended April 26. It had a loss of $255.4 million, or 19 cents a share, down from a profit of...

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