As each new year arrives, 24/7 Wall St. looks at each of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average components and assigns a forward value for the Dow based on a mixed methodology.…
ThinkstockShort sellers have changed their bets in the high-dividend stocks now that the taxes are almost certain to change in this sector. We are seeing the bets against some of these great…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Dogs of the Dow are measured out each year simply as the five highest common stock dividend yields among the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 30 components. We…
courtesy of NetflixNetflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) management said the reason part of its service was out on Christmas Eve was that the technology and hardware owned by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), which powers the video firm’s streaming product, were…
ThinkstockBest CEO lists can be based on dozens of factors. For public companies, the best metric is usually share price. It is hard for chief executives to be considered very good if…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has fallen from grace as far as being the darling of Wall Street. If you took away the emotion and the hype and compare the…
ThinkstockWhen Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) made its $2.1 billion offer yesterday for Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR), it was inevitable that some shareholders would object to the $2.90 per share bid as…
Short sellers have made some serious changes in the high dividend stocks now that the taxes are almost certain to change in this sector. We tracked the short interest changes from November…
ThinkstockGoogle Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) dominates Internet search. When comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) posted its October U.S. search market numbers, Google had a whopping 66.7% of the total market share. What if Google decides that…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning following a decision by the European Central Bank to leave its interest rates unchanged (more coverage here). Third-quarter eurozone GDP was in line with the…
ThinkstockAkamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) this morning announced an alliance between the two companies to offer “a global suite of content delivery network (CDN) solutions to companies.”…
The stock market is up Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.15%, the Nasdaq up 0.53% and the S&P 500 up 0.18%. Today’s winners include an asset management firm getting…
ThinkstockWhen any industry grows at a breathtaking speed, there are always big winners and big losers. Motorola and Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) once dominated handset sales, now that world belongs to Samsung…
The top-rated wireless carrier in the U.S. is Verizon Wireless according to a survey conducted recently by Consumer Reports magazine. Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and…
Short sellers have lightened up on some high dividend stocks while picking up bets against others. It is almost as if they are mixed in bets against higher dividend taxes coming in 2013.…
