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Today’s Best Rumor (9/14/2011) Hulu Sale, InnKeepers USA

Updated throughout the day. Cerberus and Chatham Trust will buy Innkeepers USA (Reuters) Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) will license "Gossip Girl" and other premium content from CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BIIB, CSIQ, CBS, CTL, DE, EMC, FTE, HAIN, MRO, MCD, NOK, PLD, RHT, SBUX, TEVA)

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer. ...
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Media Digest (8/4/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Hitachi and Mitsubishi may merge (Reuters) Japan intervened in the yen (Reuters) Spain will offer bonds and the European Central Bank meets to examine option to help the country's debt ...
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CBS, Left For Dead, Rises

The traditional network TV business was supposed to have begun a sharp decline years ago, killed by the Internet and online video. CBS (NYSE: CBS) proved that is hardly true. ...
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Media Digest (8/3/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Fitch and Moody's kept the U.S. rating at Aaa (Reuters) Years of slow growth and aging populations in the West could hasten the rise of BRIC economies (Reuters) Google+ (NASDAQ: ...
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News Corp Moves Back Toward 52-Week High

There has been enough good news about News Corp in the last two days that the stock appears headed back to the level where it traded before the phone hacking ...
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Drop In Display Ads Will Hit Tier Of Sites Below Yahoo!

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) said its revenue fell last quarter to a large extent because of a drop in its display advertising. The trend will spread to other websites with smaller ...
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Microsoft: The World’s Newest Phone Company

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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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