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The Worst Product Flops of 2011
A number of incredible new products were launched this year. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the iPhone 4S — a phone with voice command — and Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner — a…
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Media Digest (12/23/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg
Congress makes a deal to keep payroll taxes low and unemployment benefits in place for two more months. (Reuters) The U.S. approves a Deutsche Boerse deal to merge with NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX). (Reuters)…
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AT&T (T) Buys Spectrum From Qualcomm (QCOM)
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.htmlIn a move to increase its wireless footprint, AT&T bought spectrum from Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) According to Reuters AT&T Inc said late on Thursday that it won regulatory approval to buy wireless…
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Telecom & Wireless
4G Service Falters as 3G Did Before It
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 AT&T Wireless…
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Investors Risk Chasing Yield Too Much In Tobacco Dividends (MO, T, RAI, LO, PM)
The continued rise in tobacco stocks is certainly cheered by tobacco stock investors who own the stocks for the high dividends. The problem is that there seems to be a phantom premium now…
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Telecom & Wireless
Deutsche Telekom’s Windfall May Come Up Short (T, DTEGY, S, VZ, VOD, AAPL)
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 DT is…
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Verizon’s Spectrum Purchase Being Investigated (VZ, VOD, CMCSA, TWC, T, DTEGY, S)
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 joint venture…
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Media Digest (12/21/2011) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg
Prosecutors raid Olympus to gain data in a probe of the accounting scandal at the company. (Reuters) Bank of Japan says it will hold to current policies as the economy in the…
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What’s New in the Financial World (12/21/2011) DT to Buy Sprint?
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 bring down…
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (T, FFIV, URBN, AMGN, BAX, CAG, GIS, NAV, SAFM, JEF, NKE, ORCL, TRGT, CIE, CSIQ, PBH, HOV, CVS)
US equity markets opened sharply higher this morning and have been able to sustain and even add to those gains throughout the day. Business and consumer confidence indexes in Europe were higher,…
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Markets Rally On Housing
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 T-Mobile was…
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Brightpoint Named a Winner After AT&T Drops T-Mobile Bid (CELL, T)
Brightpoint Inc. (NASDAQ: CELL) is being called a winner now that AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has dropped its planned acquisition of T-Mobile. Canaccord Genuity is reiterating its “Buy” rating and its $14.00…
Jon C. Ogg 8:35am ET
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMGN, T, BAX, BHP, FFIV, AWAY, M, MAA, NVLS, OPEN, SFD, URBN, WWWW)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage research calls this Tuesday morning. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Added to Strong Buy List at Zacks…
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Even More DJIA Dividend Hikes Coming Soon (BA, GE, DIS, T, PFE, CSCO, KO, XOM, IBM, JNJ, JPM, MMM, WMT, DVY, VIG, PFM, HDV)
Throughout December we have been giving updates on dividends that will rise in the coming days and weeks from the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks. Many have already come true and…
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What’s Important in the Financial World (12/20/2011) UK and EU, HTC and Apple
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 own austerity to…