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AT&T Deal for Dish Network Still Okay After EchoStar/Hughes Merger? (SATS, HUGH, DISH, T, VZ, DTV, CMCSA, TWC, CVC)

Posted: February 14, 2011 at 12:27 pm

EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS) has agreed to acquire Hughes Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: HUGH) for about $2 billion, including debt, in a deal that would give EchoStar, which makes set-top boxes ...
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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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DIRECTV Expands Latin American Ambitions (DTV)

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 2:02 pm

DIRECTV Latin America, a subsidiary of DIRECTV (NYSE: DTV) is further expanding into Latin America, underscoring its ambition in such a high growth market. The company announced that it has ...
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Major Insider Selling To Set Records in December (AMZN, BRK-A, DDS, DTV, DG, EMC, EXPE, FDX, GPS, GENZ, INTC, JBHT, MSFT, JWN, ORCL, RL, CRM, SLB, SBUX, SCHW, VMW, WMT, WFMI, WYNN, DELL, LVS, GOOG)

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 8:02 am

Insider selling by millionaire and billionaire corporate insiders is already rising, but it is about to go through the roof.  Forget the politics and forget the morale left behind as ...
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Endless Dollars For Share Buyback Plans (GPS, HPQ, MRVL, INTU, JWN, RSH, RL, DTV, DISCA, AMTD, IT)

Posted: September 1, 2010 at 9:05 am

Buybacks may not be considered the best return of capital by many investors and market pundits, but they are M&A-alternatives for management of companies.  The amount of share buybacks announced ...
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Over $100 Billion in Buybacks and M&A in August (HPQ, INTU, LO, VRSN, DTV, DISCA, GPS, JWN, MRVL, RSH, PAR, GENZ, POT, INTC, SCHW, MMM, DYN, SNY, BHP)

Posted: August 31, 2010 at 7:57 am

$100 billion... That is roughly the combined tally of August share buyback announcements and merger announcements.  This may not be a record, but it has to be one of the ...
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Are Meteor Showers True Risks To Satellite Companies? (BA, DGI, GEOY, GILT, DISH, DTV, SIRI, HUGH, ICOG, IRDM, GSAT, ORBC, ORB, LORL)

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 6:11 pm

There is a low-probability event cresting today and tomorrow that could pose risks to businesses that rely upon the availability and operations of satellites in orbit.  This comes annually via ...
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Over $8 Billion in New Stock Buyback Plans (RL, APEI, DTV, EMN, SWKS, WBMD, ATML, GD, OC, PCL, AUTC, DISCA, FMCN, CVLT, WRB, WMS, VRSN)

Posted: August 6, 2010 at 11:36 am

2010 has been called the year of dividend by us, but it seems that share buybacks in earnings season are still alive and well.  Of the buybacks we have tracked ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AAPL, AMZN, BP, CEO, COMV, DELL, DTV, EXC, GD, HPQ, SUN, TIF, STEC)

Posted: June 17, 2010 at 8:32 am

These are some of this Thursday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Started as Buy at Janney (late ...
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Media Digest 3/23/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 2:55 am

Reuters:   Google (GOOG) risks China's wrath by its challenge to censorship Reuters:   China expressed both regret and anger at Google's move. Reuters:   The head of the Chicago Fed said the ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BBY, CPSI, DTV, HAL, PALM, RIMM, SLB, SPLS, SYNA, WFT)

Posted: March 19, 2010 at 7:31 am

These are ten of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs. ...
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The Hardest Working Brands for 2009: The Year Of The Dog

Posted: March 17, 2010 at 3:46 pm

A look at the "hardest working" major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (DISH, DTV, ECA, EXPE, MMM, NFLX, PIR, SFLY, UA, UAUA)

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 8:01 am

These are some of the top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning: Dish Networks (NASDAQ: DISH) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan. ...
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Surprise Auto Winner…. SIRIUS XM (SIRI, DTV)

Posted: January 5, 2010 at 3:57 pm

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) may have been one of the surprise winners so far in 2010.  While there are still many problems at SIRIUS XM, the company now ...
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The 15 Most Hated Companies In America

Posted: January 5, 2010 at 9:01 am

Customers, employees, shareholders, and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. has looked at many of these issues to choose the 15 most hated companies in ...
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