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Sprint Earnings… Viability Question Remains Front and Center (S, AAPL)

Posted: February 8, 2012 at 8:47 am

Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) may be ticking up marginally after reporting its quarterly loss.  Sprint turned in a report showing a loss of -$0.35 EPS, narrowly better than the ...
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Top Earnings Previews For Wednesday (AKAM, CSCO, CSC, ENB, GRPN, IM, ICE, LVLT, MCO, NWSA, PNG, PAA, PRU, RL, RAI, S, TWX, VICL, V, WFM)

Posted: February 7, 2012 at 1:30 pm

We are entering into the last waves of the normalized quarterly earnings reports for companies with December 31 quarter-end dates, and we are entering the first waves of the earnings ...
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RadioShack Margins Gutted By Sprint (RSH, S)

Posted: January 30, 2012 at 4:34 pm

RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) pre-announced results for its fourth quarter and the figures are just awful.  This is where a value stock becomes a value trap.  Sales rose about 6% ...
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Verizon Earnings Pummeled by Pension Charges (VZ, T, S, AAPL)

Posted: January 24, 2012 at 9:52 am

Shares of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) are down more than -2% in pre-market trading this morning following the company’s fourth quarter and full year earnings report. Verizon posted adjusted ...
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AT&T Looking Again at Dish? (T, DISH, DTEGY, VZ, VOD, CMCSA, TWC, PCS, LEAP, S)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 1:09 pm

Will AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) finally make an offer for Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) now that the merger with the T-Mobile USA unit of Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC: DTEGY) ...
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Sprint Again Shows Why It Is in Third Place

Posted: January 6, 2012 at 6:41 am

Verizon Wireless has deployed its superfast 4G LTE wireless broadband in most large markets around the U.S. AT&T (NYSE: T) is behind in deployment, but not by much. It should have ...
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Media Digest (1/2/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 2, 2012 at 6:23 am

F-16 and F-15 production lines are being extended by U.S. government sales to Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Oman by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Boeing (NYSE: BA), made through the ...
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Verizon’s 4G Falls Apart

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 6:30 am

It is usually good to be first to market with a popular new technology. That is assuming, however, a company’s version of the new technology works. In the case of Verizon ...
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4G Service Falters as 3G Did Before It

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 6:06 am

Verizon Wireless’s 4G superfast wireless network has been down intermittently. That could drive off customers. And the network is at the heart of Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) campaign to gain customers from ...
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Deutsche Telekom’s Windfall May Come Up Short (T, DTEGY, S, VZ, VOD, AAPL)

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 1:17 pm

When AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) killed the $39 billion deal for T-Mobile USA it had agreed to with Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC: DTEGY), the $4 billion break-up fee going to ...
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Verizon’s Spectrum Purchase Being Investigated (VZ, VOD, CMCSA, TWC, T, DTEGY, S)

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 9:07 am

Earlier this month Verizon Wireless, the joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone plc (NASDAQ: VOD), paid $3.6 billion for spectrum licenses belonging to SpectrumCo LLC, a ...
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What’s New in the Financial World (12/21/2011) DT to Buy Sprint?

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 6:09 am

Italy’s GDP dropped o.2% from the second quarter to the third. This will undermine hopes that expansion coupled with austerity will quickly bring Italy’s deficit lower. That, in turn, should ...
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Markets Rally On Housing

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 9:58 am

Markets moved up at the open with the DJIA higher by over 200 points. Market leaders included Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S), up nearly 5% as the AT&T (NYSE: T) deal with ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (12/20/2011) UK and EU, HTC and Apple

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 6:20 am

The UK says it will not contribute to a new IMF-based 150 billion euro package for use in bailing out regional economies. The UK government senses that as it pushes it ...
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AT&T Kills $39 Billion T-Mobile Offer

Posted: December 19, 2011 at 4:55 pm

AT&T (NYSE: T) has ended its quest to buy No.4 US cellular company T-Mobile for $39 billion. It will pay T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom a $4 billion break-up fee. The ...
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