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Media Digest (10/24/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 24, 2011 at 6:20 am

Obama to announce aid for student and home loans. Home loan proposals will include refinancing for underwater mortgages. (Reuters) EU leaders press Italy for more austerity measures. (Reuters) China’s October ...
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Hulu is No Longer for Sale (NWS, DIS, CMCSA, YHOO, GOOG, DISH, AMZN, NFLX, AAPL)

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 11:17 am

Streaming video provider Hulu LLC has been taken off the auction block by owners News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA), among others. Rumored ...
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Media Digest (10/14/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 6:21 am

When the G20 meets, the focus will be on the EU crisis. (Reuters) Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Q3 numbers kill concerns about U.S. ad markets. (Reuters) JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) earnings pull ...
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Comcast Brings New Competition Into Towers Space (CMCSA, AMT, CCI, SBAC)

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 10:02 am

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has formed a new portfolio company out of its Comcast Ventures unit that will own and operate telecommunications towers throughout the United States.  The company is ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AAPL, CAT, CHTR, CL, CMCSA, CMA, DE, DTV, IFT, KMB, LRCX, MW, NVLS, NTRI, RL, TEVA, PAY, WCRX)

Posted: September 28, 2011 at 8:17 am

These are some of this Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Started as Buy with $495 ...
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Dish Network Jumps into Streaming Video (DISH, NFLX, AMZN, WMT, BBY, CMCSA, NWS, DIS)

Posted: September 23, 2011 at 11:18 am

Last April Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) paid $320 million to acquire Blockbuster Inc. out of bankruptcy. Speculation at the time suggested that Dish would enter the streaming video and ...
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Has Netflix Stock Bottomed Out Yet? (NFLX, LSTZA, AMZN, CSTR, CMCSA, TWC)

Posted: September 21, 2011 at 9:14 am

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is suffering from the most obvious management blunders of 2011 for media companies. This stock has been punished after changing its pricing structure.  The company apologized, ...
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How Much Is Hulu Really Worth? (CMCSA, NWS-A, DIS, AMZN, DTV, GOOG, YHOO, SKM, NFLX)

Posted: August 25, 2011 at 3:00 pm

The bidding process for the online television service Hulu has taken a strange path.  The bidding has been delayed to the end of this week.  It sure seems as though ...
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Can Clearwire Really Be Acquired? It’s Complicated (S, CLWR, CMCSA, TWC, T, VZ, CVC, AAPL, RIMM, GOOG)

Posted: August 19, 2011 at 8:10 am

There is an interesting notion this morning regarding the fate of the real 4G in America and it is both fascinating and complicated.  A report from Bloomberg this morning is ...
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Media Digest (8/6/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 8, 2011 at 6:17 am

The next challenge for Congress will be a tax deadlock. (Reuters) The Nikkei falls another 2% on news of a U.S. downgrade. (Reuters) Yields on Italian and Spanish bonds fall ...
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Media Digest (8/4/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 4, 2011 at 6:21 am

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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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (CMCSA, HTZ, NOK, RIMM, YGE)

Posted: August 3, 2011 at 8:55 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Wednesday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Hertz Corporation (NYSE: HTZ), Nokia Corporation ...
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Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (CIM, HUM, ADM, COH, DRYS, DUK, OPEN, PFE, SIRI, AWK, CLX, CMCSA, DNDN, GRMN, WFR, TSLA, ZIP, AIG, CVS, DF, FSLR, KFT, LNKD, PCLN, LUV, PG)

Posted: July 29, 2011 at 1:51 pm

We have another very busy earnings week ahead for the second quarter reporting season.  Some are DJIA components and some are sector-movers or market-movers.  We are tracking earnings and giving ...
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Media Digest (7/28/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 28, 2011 at 6:30 am

Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS) cut 2,000 jobs as the bank's results faltered (Reuters) Investors tried to move to safe investments as a default became more likely (Reuters) A new Boehner ...
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Short Sellers Savage Market Laggards

Posted: July 13, 2011 at 6:31 am

Short sellers often invest in stocks that have had sharp short-term gains and may have reached peak valuations. That would put Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) on most of those lists, along ...
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