JPMorgan TICKS UP 1% and 4 Dow Drivers You Need to Know

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) signs a license agreement with GigOptix (GIG) to leverage it’s silicon germanium millimeterwave transceiver tech with GigOptix’s expanding E-band wireless solutions portfolio, which includes its recently released advanced E-band power amplifier. It’s now thought that Internet traffic from mobile devices will outweigh traffic from wired devices by 2016.

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Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC): Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) reports that three of the world’s market-leading providers of wireless and wireline communications – Verizon (NYSE:VZ), Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD) and Mobile TeleSystems OJSC – have agreed to new tech arrangements for the provision and delivery of industry standard servers. Under the three-year contracts, HP will supply HP ProLiant servers based on the newest Intel processors, enabling Verizon, Vodafone and MTS to offer new services to their subscribers, who number more than 490 million.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) is among the largest banks that are being asked to submit plans by July 1st for how they can be quickly and cleanly liquidated However, Thomas Hoenig, vice chairman of the FDIC, says he doesn’t support the use of the so-called living-will process to break them up, according to the Wall Street Journal.

McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE:MCD): Huang Haizhou, the chief strategist of major Chinese bank China International Capital Corporation, says that China is “very likely” to cut its interest rates again in August, according to Xinhuanet.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 8 might be released as early as July, says Russian Windows blogger “Wzor”, which runs counter to evidence that the company plans an October release, according to PC World.

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