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Microsoft: The World’s Newest Phone Company

Posted: July 7, 2011 at 6:27 am

It would have been hard to imagine just a year ago that Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) growth engine would be the phone business. It has turned out that the most exciting ...
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The Best And Worst Stocks For The First Half Of 2011

Posted: July 1, 2011 at 6:37 am

Most of the financial media stops at mid-year to reflect on how the market performed since January 1. The effort is often fruitless. The fact that a stock, or any ...
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Dividend Watch: Major Dividend Hikes Continue, More Coming (CAH, CBS, CSX, PEP)

Posted: May 4, 2011 at 11:31 am

The dividend hikes continue... We have seen continued dividend hikes from large companies.  Those hiking dividends for just this trading session are Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH), CBS Corporation (NYSE: ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/27/2011) YouTube Movie Rental, Katie Couric Goes

Posted: April 27, 2011 at 8:51 am

Updated throughout the day. The White House may pick an associate of Wall St. critic Elizabeth Warren to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Reuters) News Corp (NYSE: NWS) will ...
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Short Sellers Flee Tech

Posted: April 12, 2011 at 4:58 am

Short sellers who have bet against tech shares hit the exits during the period which ended on March 31. The short interest in the world's largest chip company, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/11/2011) Couric Gone, IMF Downgrades Japan

Posted: April 11, 2011 at 7:21 am

Updated throughout the day. Obama will present his new deficit goals (WSJ) Katie Couric may leave CBS (NYSE: CBS) and create morning TV show with Matt Lauer (NYT) A group ...
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Mounting An Assault Against Netflix (NFLX, LINTA, TWX, CBS, CMCSA, LVLT, AMZN)

Posted: March 25, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) appears to have united just about everybody but its customers to curb the company's growing power. The latest foray comes from the Starz pay-cable TV channels, ...
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Media Digest (3/24/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 24, 2011 at 4:03 am

The head of Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) said that an ex-director leaked confidential information. (Reuters) The prime minister of Portugal stepped down as his austerity plan was rejected by ...
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Netflix Analysis: Risk in Own Content (NFLX, AMZN, TWX, CBS, LINTA)

Posted: March 16, 2011 at 2:54 pm

In the past 12 months, shares of Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) have shot up nearly 300%, from around $70/share to around $220/share, after peaking at near $250/share. The trailing P/E ...
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Media Digest (2/23/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 23, 2011 at 4:19 am

Nasdaq OMX may bid for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NYX) (Reuters) Oil reached a 2 1/2 high on Middle East concerns (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) made a grim ...
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ESPN and Monday Night Football: The $2 Billion Cost (DIS, NWS, CBS, GE, DTV, SIRI)

Posted: January 7, 2011 at 7:21 am

The cost of carrying Monday Night Football is about to go from being expensive to off the charts.  We Americans probably never think of the costs behind carrying the game.  ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMGN, AON, AMAT, ATML, CBS, CMA, CY, GIS, JNPR, LEA, ORCL, RIMM, LUV, VFC, V)

Posted: December 17, 2010 at 8:20 am

These are some of this Friday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Raised to Outperform at Leerink Swann. AON Corporation ...
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Here’s Where Some of That Mountain of Corporate Cash is Going

Posted: November 15, 2010 at 3:01 pm

There have been plenty of stories in the past few weeks about the $2 trillion in cash that US corporations are sitting on. The money is not being invested in ...
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Media Digest 9/29/1010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 4:10 am

Reuters:   The panel that will give advice to Obama about the deficit met but experts were concerned that it will offer few concrete answers. Reuters:   The House may approve a ...
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The Ten Companies That Will Signal The End To The Recession

Posted: September 22, 2010 at 6:31 am

The recession is, by the standard measurement, over. The National Bureau of Economic Research's Business Cycle Dating Committee said the downturn ended in June 2009. Most polls of individuals and ...
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