As its recall troubles deepen, the GM's board has to question whether its new, young CEO is the right person to head America's largest auto manufacturer. And who could replace her?
Now that AT&T has agreed to acquire satellite TV provider DirecTV, the nation's other large satellite service, Dish Network, needs to find a partner or risk being marginalized to the point of…
Not only are Comcast and Time Warner Cable the worst providers of both cable TV and Internet service, the two industries in which these companies operate are the most hated by American…
While the attention around the AT&T buyout of DirecTV has centered on the new angle of the company, it seems fair to wonder if income investors should be worried about AT&T's dividend…
24/7 Wall St. is operating under the assumption that a DirecTV and AT&T tie up is not just a game changing event for the convergence of media and communications.
thinkstockMay 16, 2014: Markets opened lower on Friday and bounced around the break-even line until about 3 p.m., when the direction turned decidedly positive. The 10-year Treasury yield rose a couple of…
When Warren Buffett adds a new stock to his Berkshire Hathaway portfolio, everyone notices. When hedge fund managers John Paulson and Kyle Bass add the same stock, everyone pays more attention.
In all the years we have covered the Buffett holdings each and every quarter, we have finally seen Team Buffett make a serious acquisition of a telecom stock: Verizon Communications.
courtesy of WhiteHouse.govBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has released its holdings as of the end of the first quarter of 2014. We were originally not expecting many major changes to the portfolio.…
Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital Management has been busy in the first-quarter portfolio changes. The value of stocks held as of March 31 was $1.042 billion. The group’s 13F filing three months…
New General Motors CEO Mary Barra has barely been in her job four months, but she could be gone almost immediately. The worse the GM recall crisis becomes, the more the board…
thinkstockMay 7, 2014: Markets opened higher on Wednesday but it turned into a miserable days for tech stocks and the Nasdaq Composite index. Lack of enthusiasm for momentum stocks pretty much sealed…
courtesy of Verizon WirelessOn the face of it, AT&T Inc.’s (NYSE: T) has a better dividend than Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). AT&T’s payout is 5.2% at $1.84. Verizon’s is 4.5% at…
So let's get this straight: Sprint posts a net loss of $151 million and the shares surge because the company did not lose as much as analysts expected? And what about those…
Charter Communications seems to have driven a harder bargain with Comcast than was first reported. In the deal announced Monday, Comcast agreed to divest systems with about 3.9 million subscribers.
