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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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America’s Biggest Companies, Then and Now (1955 to 2010)

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 6:46 am

Today's corporate America is dominated by service companies, tech firms, and huge retailers which have thousands of locations and hundreds of thousands of workers. At the end of the decade ...
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Broadcast Network News Fades To Black

Posted: September 7, 2010 at 12:16 pm

ABC  News President David Westin, who has served as the head of the Walt Disney Co.  (NYSE:DIS) for 13 years, is calling it a career at the end of the ...
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Media Digest 8/3/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 3, 2010 at 4:05 am

Reuters:   BP plc (NYSE: BP) will try to "kill" its well leak by today. Reuters:   The Fed may buy new mortgage bonds to help the credit system Reuters:   The US ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/23/2010)

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 8:44 am

Updated throughout the day. Video site Hulu is in talks to carry content from CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS), Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA), and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX). Lloyd Blankfein ...
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Reports of the Death of TV Networks Are Exaggerated

Posted: June 7, 2010 at 4:50 am

Media companies and investors are treating the broadcast television businesses as if they had the plague. There are rumors that Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) wants to dump ABC and ...
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The Oldest Public Company CEOs

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 10:03 pm

The official retirement age for executives at many large U.S. corporations has  been 65 for several decades - unless the executive also happens to be the founder. Forty years ...
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Network TV Ad Sales Stronger Than Expected (CBS, NWS, DIS, GE)

Posted: May 28, 2010 at 10:58 am

The broadcast TV networks' dog-and-pony show known as the "upfront market" has gotten off to a good start this year. Advertisers get to see the coming season's new TV shows ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/24/2010)

Posted: May 24, 2010 at 9:00 am

Updated throughout the day. CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Disney's (NYSE: DIS) ABC may be sold (NYPost). Barclay's (NYSE: BCS) Private Equity may be spun out.  (Reuters) John Hyman, formerly of ...
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