Updated throughout the day. FCC will spend $8 billion from a special fund to extend broadband to areas with low popularity (NYT) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will launch vertical mobile sites (NYT) Goldman Sachs (NYSE:…
They call it “Merger Monday” for a reason. Today’s news is not dominated by football hangovers. It is dominated by a slew of headlines over mergers, mergers, and more mergers. We compiled a brief…
These are some of this Monday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) Raised to Buy at BofA/ML. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Raised…
The oil minister of Venezuela, Rafael Ramirez, said a shutdown of the Suez Canal could push oil prices above $200. “There is sufficient oil (in the market) and there have been no interruptions, but if they…
The New York Times reports that the FCC will announce intentions to use about $8 billion from the Universal Service Fund for rural broadband. The fund taxes phone bills to help underwrite telecom service to…
To state the obvious, there is only so much farmland in the US. The National Cotton Council of America says that farmers will plant 14% more cotton this year compared to last. NCC Vice President…
A number of news media have recently reported that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop will replace a large number of the top managers at the world’s largest cellphone company. Among the executives who…
AOL (NYSE: AOL) bought The Huffington Post for $315 million of which $300 million is cash. Huffington management will run all AOL content sites. The combined US audience of the two companies will be…
AOL (NYSE: AOL) bought the Huffington Post for $315 million. (Reuters) Sanofi-Aventis and Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ) are closer to a deal (Reuters) Hackers who broke into the NASDAQ will undermine investor confidence. (Reuters) A…
There are several states in the U.S. that are losing the eduction race to most of the others. In the past decade, these states have declining math and reading scores, lower numbers of people…
The jobs that might have been created in 2010 but were not are largely due to small businesses which could not afford to add the workers they needed to. According to a new Gallup…
Earnings season may still be in force, but we are looking for the coming week’s top coming events that could have a large impact on shares on Monday and throughout the week. What has…
Apple (AAPL) may make significantly more money from its new iPad that it has on any other product it has launched since 2001 when the iPod came to market. Research firm iSuppli expects tablet…
President Obama said in his weekly address that American businesses should increase their hiring and spending but did not say that the government would do anything meaningful to either stimulate the economy or cut…
Analyst calls are sometimes great and sometimes not. Each week we review the major analyst calls for those standout research calls that were above the grain or are outside of the pack. Some calls…