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Time Warner’s New Growth Plan: Buy MGM

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 4:42 am

Time Warner (TWX) has spun out its Time Warner Cable (TWC) operation and AOL (AOL). That has left the company with TV programming, magazine, and studio assets. Wall St. has ...
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Media Digest 3/19/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 19, 2010 at 2:59 am

Reuters:   China will send an envoy to the US to discuss the yuan. Reuters:   European carriers who lost money on the Apple (AAPL) iPhone won't do the same in their ...
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Media Digest 3/3/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 3, 2010 at 4:00 am

Reuters:   The Senate overcame opposition to allow jobless benefits to be extended. Reuters:   China will hope to keep the value of the yuan steady. Reuters:   JC Penney (JCP) will focus ...
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Media Digest 2/10/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 10, 2010 at 3:50 am

Reuters:   Honda (NYSE:HMC) expanded its recall by 440,000 as more Toyota (NYSE:TM) models were probed. Reuters:   ArcelorMittal sees a slow improvement in steel production in Q1. Reuters:   IMF aid for ...
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Comcast And GE Try To Defend A Questionable Deal

Posted: February 5, 2010 at 5:36 am

GE (GE) and Comcast (CMCSA) have struck a deal for the cable company to take a controlling share in GE's entertainment unit--NBCU. Opponents of the transaction claim that it will ...
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Google (GOOG) Pushes To Make YouTube The Video Entertainment Hub For The World

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 6:01 am

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has had trouble figuring out how it will make money from its huge video sharing website YouTube since it bought the company for $1.65 billion in October 2006.  ...
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Twelve Huge M&A Deals For 2010: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Posted: December 14, 2009 at 1:48 pm

M&A activity picked up in the second half of 2009 as the market moved up and access to capital for big companies improved. Corporate debt offerings soared and banks began ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AOL, CBS, BEN, MYL, NWS, ORCL, RIMM, SFLY, VIA, DIS)

Posted: December 10, 2009 at 8:05 am

These are ten of the most important analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning.  You will probably notice a substantial focus on media-related ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Viacom + Time Warner = Next Big Media Merger

Posted: December 3, 2009 at 12:20 pm

No one would be surprised to see Sumner Redstone, the 86-year-old head of Viacom (NYSE:VIA), and Jeff Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX), wearing disguises to their private meetings in coffee ...
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Sirius XM (SIRI) And CBS (CBS) Pose Greatest Financial Risk Among Media Firms

Posted: November 12, 2009 at 9:23 pm

CBS (NYSE:CBS) and Sirius XM (NYSE:SIRI) pose the greatest investment risks among media companies based on a forensic measure of their transparency and the statistical reliability of their financial reporting ...
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52-Week High Club

Posted: November 5, 2009 at 4:22 pm

CareFusion Corp. (NYSE: CFN)  rose over 6% to a yearly hight of $24.34  after reporting first quarter earnings of 39 cents per share, beating analyst estimates.  The company also increased ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AEO, BNI, ENR, GET, GES, GD, STEC, VIA, YUM)

Posted: November 4, 2009 at 8:09 am

These are this Wednesday's top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) Raised to Top Picks at FBR Capital; but ...
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Media Digest (10/15/2009) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 15, 2009 at 4:04 am

Reuters:   Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is having trouble justifying its huge bonuses. Reuters:   Bruce Wasserstein, M&A giant and head of Lazard (NYSE:LAZ), died. Reuters:   Congress will probe compensation at AIG (NYSE:AIG). ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (AKS, BMY, CREE, JPM, LRCX, MAR, RIMM, SVNT, SE, VIA)

Posted: October 9, 2009 at 7:43 am

These are this Friday morning’s top Wall Street analyst upgrades and positive research calls: AK Steel (AKS) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank. Bristol-Myers (BMY) Started as Outperform at Wells ...
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Comcast Should Buy Viacom, Time Warner, Or Scripps

Posted: October 9, 2009 at 5:47 am

One of the leading media investing firms in the US, Gabelli & Co. wants cable outfit Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) to stop its pursuit of GE's (NYSE:GE) NBCU and turn its focus ...
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