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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — Friday: Markets Open Low, Close Mixed

Posted: April 26, 2013 at 4:06 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning after hearing that U.S. GDP growth in the first quarter came in at 2.5%, well below the expected 3.1% (more coverage here). U.S. ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Amazon, Boeing, eBay, SunPower and More

Posted: April 26, 2013 at 8:35 am

Investors and traders are usually on the lookout for new research ideas that will generate higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many analyst research calls from Wall ...
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Major Companies That Refuse to Pay Dividends

Posted: April 26, 2013 at 6:55 am

Investors love dividends. This one investing component has comprised a major portion of total returns through time. The trend in recent years has been for companies to pay dividends and ...
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Amazon May Not Make Much Money for Years

Posted: April 26, 2013 at 6:39 am

Wall St. was mildly upset that Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) did not make more money than hoped for in the first quarter of the year. Add that to slowing sales, ...
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Media Digest (4/26/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT

Posted: April 26, 2013 at 6:37 am

First-quarter gross domestic product probably will run about 3%, but the momentum likely has fallen off since. (Reuters) The Bank of Japan believes it can reach its inflation targets by 2015. ...
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Amazon Forecast Trumps Quarterly Earnings

Posted: April 25, 2013 at 4:31 pm

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported first quarter 2013 results after markets closed today. The online retailer posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.18 and revenues of $16.07 billion. In ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — Thursday: Markets Open Higher, Maintain Positive Trend Today

Posted: April 25, 2013 at 4:04 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a report on U.S. unemployment that was better than analysts expected (more coverage here). There were literally hundreds of U.S. companies reporting ...
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Online Video Viewers, Ads Post Big Numbers in March

Posted: April 25, 2013 at 1:54 pm

Various sites owned by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), including YouTube, drew nearly 154 million unique viewers in March. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) clocked in with nearly 64 million unique viewers ...
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Amazon’s Unfortunate Streaming Video Plans

Posted: April 25, 2013 at 6:41 am

If several media reports are true, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) will release a set-top box through which consumers can stream premier video content. Even with its huge customer base and ...
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Media Digest (4/25/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 25, 2013 at 6:40 am

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) will make a $100 billion offer to Vodafone Group PLC (NASDAQ: VOD) for the part of Verizon Wireless that it does not own. (Reuters) Spanish ...
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Media Digest (4/24/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 24, 2013 at 6:34 am

Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new dividend will allow management a period to recover earnings growth while offering investors a return. (Reuters) Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may use its consumer database ...
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Cloud Wars: Rackspace Growth Threat from Peers — and Analysts

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 10:25 am

Rackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX) has been an incredible story of growth from remote storage. Now that the share price of Rackspace has come back down to earth, we wanted ...
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Amazon Previews New Online TV Shows

Posted: April 19, 2013 at 10:55 am

As promised, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has posted at its website the pilot episodes for 14 new programs the company is considering producing for its Amazon Prime subscribers. The 14 ...
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Is Overstock.com Becoming a New Economic Indicator?

Posted: April 19, 2013 at 10:00 am

Overstock.com Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) had much of the same growth opportunities ahead of it as the now much larger Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN). The companies even both had very colorful ...
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Bitcoin Becomes BS-Coin, Mt. Gox Crashes Again

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 12:15 pm

The great mystery and puzzlement behind Bitcoin may already be fading or disappearing. We recently questioned what the value would be for the price of gold or the price silver, ...
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