In early December, Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone Group plc (NASDAQ: VOD), paid $3.6 billion for wireless spectrum licenses owned SpectrumCo LLC. That company…
Verizon Wireless has deployed its superfast 4G LTE wireless broadband in most large markets around the U.S. AT&T (NYSE: T) is behind in deployment, but not by much. It should have a footprint…
It seems that most investors have started adding income or dividend reinvestment plans to their portfolios by using dividend stocks. With the yields of the 10-Year Treasury close to 2% and the…
Wireless phone company MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) reports this morning that it added 197,000 net customers in the fourth quarter and about 1.2 million net new subscribers for the full year.…
Too much of a good thing, maybe, for Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). Verizon Wireless, the company’s joint venture with Vodafone plc (NASDAQ: VOD) sold 4.2 million Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhones…
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) will complete the capital raise for its $16 billion fund. (Reuters) The EU agrees to an embargo on Iranian oil. (Reuters) Citing defense cuts, Boeing (NYSE: BA) closes it…
Jon OggMost investors are likely glad that 2012 is here to have 2011 behind them. This is an election year and many investors are wondering whether the U.S. and its large companies…
As each new year replaces the prior year, 24/7 Wall St. looks at the individual targets on all 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average price targets from Wall Street analysts to come up…
The PMI of the eurozone contracted in December. Official numbers from research firm Markit showed a figure of 46.9 for the final month of the year. A number of 50 marks the line between…
F-16 and F-15 production lines are being extended by U.S. government sales to Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Oman by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Boeing (NYSE: BA), made through the State Department,…
The lineup of the Dogs of the Dow, simply the ten highest dividend yield stocks of the thirty Dow Jones Industrial Average components, appears to be undergoing a bit of change for…
It is usually good to be first to market with a popular new technology. That is assuming, however, a company’s version of the new technology works. In the case of Verizon Wireless’s 4G…
Alibaba hires a Washington lobbying firm in case it decides to bid for all of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). (Reuters) Italian yields may fall because of European Central Bank injections of long-term funds…
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…
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…
