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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/14/2012) Greek Elections, “The Avengers”

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:34 am

Coalition talks in Greece have broken down and are not likely to resume. This means new elections are almost inevitable. That will delay the ability of the European Union and ...
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Media Digest (5/14/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:16 am

Several senior JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) executives will leave the bank in the wake of its $2 billion trading loss. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) ex-CEO Scott Thompson has thyroid cancer. (WSJ) ...
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“The Avengers” Surges Toward Record

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:12 am

The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) super-hero movie "The Avengers" was the top grossing movie at the US box office this weekend. The same was true in many other countries. Estimates ...
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Walt Disney Earnings: A Return of the Consumer

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 6:32 am

A great deal of the discussion about Walt Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) unexpectedly strong earnings revolved around the fact that movie bomb “John Carter” had not crippled overall earnings per share. And the ...
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Disney Earnings Good Enough For 52-Week Highs (DIS)

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 4:34 pm

Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) closed up ahead of earnings on Tuesday and the reaction is following the same trend in the after-hours session. Earnings came in at $0.58 EPS ...
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Cable Companies’ Future is Online (CHTR, CMCSA, TWC, DIS, VZ, T, PCS, LEAP, FTR, NFLX, AAPL)

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 1:08 pm

The line between mobile wireless carriers and cable and satellite TV providers has been blurring for a couple of years and may be on the way to disappearing entirely before ...
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Media Digest (5/8/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 6:30 am

The GAO says the government could make $15.1 billion on its AIG (NYSE: AIG) bailout investment. (Reuters) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg begins the company’s IPO road show. (Reuters) Comscore says ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (FSLR, PEP, PG, ILMN, CCL, ANV, AWR, BBEP, CDE, DISH, LPX, TSN, HFC, CHTR, DMD, HL, OMX, THC, WEN, DIS, VRTX, CTSH, BSFT)

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 4:08 pm

The major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following a weekend of elections in Europe. A new Socialist party president in France and a still very cloudy future in ...
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Media Digest (5/7/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 6:22 am

Voters in Greece and France turn away from German austerity measures set for the region’s weakest nations. (Reuters) AT&T (NYSE: T) moves into the home monitoring market. (Reuters) Ally Financial ...
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The 8 Earnings Reports Shaping The Week Ahead (DNDN, EA, RAX, DIS, CSCO, M, NUAN)

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 3:52 pm

24/7 Wall St. often looks at the key earnings reports scheduled for the week ahead. We have the bulk of the S&P 500 earnings behind us and we are now ...
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Amazon to Develop Sitcoms, Kids Shows (AMZN, NFLX, DIS, TWX, CBS, VIAB)

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 1:17 pm

Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has announced that it plans to expand its offerings of original programming to include comedy shows and kids programming, in addition to its existing ...
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Media Digest (4/27/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 27, 2012 at 6:30 am

S&P downgrades Spain and presses for EU action on debt. (Reuters) The U.S. economy slows as inventories fall. (Reuters) The Bank of Japan increases yen purchases to 10 trillion. (Reuters) ...
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Apple, Nokia, Sony Top Asian Brand List (AAPL, NOK, SNE,CL, KO, HMC, TM, GOOG, MCD, MSFT, AMZN, SSNLF, NKE, DIS, YHOO)

Posted: April 20, 2012 at 10:19 am

Among the more developed countries of Asia -- China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan -- the top global brand is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in three and trails only a ...
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AOL Adopting TV Model for Online Video Ads (AOL, GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, CMCSA, NWS, DIS, TWX)

Posted: April 17, 2012 at 10:29 am

AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) will soon make advertisers an offer it hopes they can’t refuse. The company will give advertisers the opportunity to buy online advertising using the same model ...
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Major Media Disagree On Highest Paid CEOs

Posted: April 16, 2012 at 7:16 am

Major media cannot agree on something as simple and critical as what the highest paid CEOs in America made last year. Most of the data come from proxies filed with ...
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