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MetroPCS Defends its Plans to Merge with T-Mobile

Posted: March 12, 2013 at 12:13 pm

Shares of MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) jumped to a 52-week high of $14.51 the day last October when the company announced its proposed merger with T-Mobile USA, which is ...
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Short Sellers Go to War Against Top Dividend Stocks (MO, AEP, NLY, T, DUK, GE, KMB, KMP, MRK, PG, RAI, VZ)

Posted: March 12, 2013 at 10:25 am

Short sellers have continued to by and large increase their short-sale bets against the quality high-yield dividend stocks. The price gains must lead short sellers to believe that the yields ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — March 11, 2013: Markets Recover Slightly from Low Open (BBY, BTU, SFD, ADBE, MT, CSIQ, CHYR, DKS, RENN, CVI, DMND, FCEL, URBN, BONT, SSI, BBRY, T, ZNGA, YHOO)

Posted: March 11, 2013 at 4:05 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning after France reported a decline in industrial production and China reported consumer inflation up more than expected (more coverage here). There was no ...
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BlackBerry Staring Down Samsung’s Barrel

Posted: March 11, 2013 at 1:51 pm

The wait is almost, nearly finally over for the U.S. launch of the latest smartphone from BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY), the touchscreen Z10. AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) said today that the ...
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Short Sellers Raise Bets Against High-Yield Dividend Stocks (MO, AEP, NLY, T, DUK, KMB, KMP, MRK, PG, RAI, VZ)

Posted: February 28, 2013 at 10:05 am

Short sellers have increased their bets by and large against our universe of go-to quality dividend stocks. We tracked the short interest changes from the February 15 settlement date, versus ...
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Bidding on Clearwire Gets Messy

Posted: February 27, 2013 at 7:05 am

Broadband infrastructure company Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) is so pressed for money that it will apparently borrow funds from Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S), which has offered to buy it. ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (2/27/2013)

Posted: February 27, 2013 at 6:55 am

The Secret to Happiness Money does buy happiness. Perhaps the relief from anxiety about emergency funds or retirement money is part of it. Or the very rich believe that they ...
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Media Digest (2/25/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 25, 2013 at 6:15 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) aggressively moves into India, with discounts on the iPhone, to get a part of the huge market. (Reuters) Japan will spend $100 billion on infrastructure to boost its ...
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Analyst Says Sprint Trading Way Under Arbitrage Buyout Price (S, VZ, T, AAPL, PCS, CLWR, DISH)

Posted: February 22, 2013 at 9:45 am

The ongoing merger (or majority stake) saga at Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) may finally be coming to a close. The analysts at Argus feel confident that the Softbank/Sprint merger ...
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Intel’s TV Follies

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 6:39 am

Intel Corp.'s (NASDAQ: INTC) case that it can build a TV product, with new hardware and plenty of content, is based on the chip company's plan to offer a better mouse ...
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Fear a Big Market Sell Off? UBS Option Strategy Protects Your Winners (UBS, ROST, TSO, TWX, USB, XOM, MCD, MO, T)

Posted: February 12, 2013 at 1:43 pm

Once again investors are faced with the fact that the politicians in Washington D.C. cannot get anything done. With the president's State of the Union address tonight, the focus turns ...
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Short Sellers Maintain Assault Against High-Yield Dividend Stocks (MO, AEP, NLY, T, DUK, KMB, KMP, MRK, PG, RAI, VZ)

Posted: February 12, 2013 at 1:36 pm

Short sellers have had their challenges due to rising share prices since the start of 2013. They have gone on to make some serious changes in the high dividend stocks ...
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The Top Dividend Yields from the BofA/Merrill Lynch Model Portfolio Changes

Posted: February 6, 2013 at 1:31 pm

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch has made some key changes to its various US research portfolios over the last 30 days. In a research change summary the bulge-bracket firm summarized its ...
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Largest Non-Founder CEO Retirement Packages of Modern Business History

Posted: February 4, 2013 at 5:47 am

Corporate governance issues are sometimes a blessing for shareholders, but they also can crush the rights of shareholders in many cases. Tracking CEO pay of large public companies is now considered ...
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UBS and Oppenheimer Very Negative on BlackBerry 10 Launch (UBS, AAPL, GOOG, RIMM, T, VZ, S)

Posted: January 29, 2013 at 12:15 pm

This week's highly anticipated launch of Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry 10 (BB10) operating system could well prove to be the defining moment for the troubled company. With ...
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