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Retail
Why Wal-Mart Should Buy Hulu
To compete against the huge and powerful marketing machine of Amazon Prime, Wal-Mart needs a large branded streaming video service.
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Investing
Top 10 Earnings Reports to Watch for This Week
24/7 Wall St. has put together a preview of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Alibaba and some of the other major companies reporting their quarterly results this coming week
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Investing
Disney, Home Depot Weigh on DJIA Thursday
August 4, 2016: Markets opened higher Thursday following an announcement that the Bank of England will lower its policy rate from 0.5% to 0.25% and begin buying U.K. corporate bonds as well…
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Media
Why Time Warner Earnings Report Is Boosting Share Prices
Time Warner reported mixed second-quarter 2016 results and raised its guidance before markets opened Wednesday morning.
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Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Gilead, Sprint, Starbucks, Southwest Air, Texas Instruments, Disney, Nordstrom and More
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday morning include Gilead Sciences, Sprint, Starbucks, Southwest Airlines, Texas Instruments, Walt Disney and Nordstrom.
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Investing
Apple Picked as World’s Favorite Company
In a study that ranks “perceived strength” of companies rather than their financial performance, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) took the top spot. Research firm Future Brand described it selection methodology this way: We…
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Companies and Brands
Coca-Cola Named Most Powerful Brand, Followed by Hershey
How much does a brand contribute to a company's value? The answer to that question is likely to produce different answers depending on who's talking.
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Investing
3 Dow Stocks to Own as the Dollar Supply Breaks Record High
This year the money supply has recovered almost two whole months early, which means we could be heading for an exceptionally strong fourth quarter for stocks.
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Companies and Brands
America’s Most Patriotic Brands
We might have a little trouble defining what we mean when we say that a brand is “patriotic,” but the fact is most Americans know it when they see it. Patriotic brands…
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Investing
20 Companies Buying Back the Most Stock in 2016
Standard & Poor's has now shown that the first quarter of 2016 saw a 12% rise in buyback spending to a whopping $161.4 billion.
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Media
Top Analyst Loves 2 Top Blue Chips With Big China Exposure
A new Merrill Lynch research report makes the case that U.S. media and entertainment companies are making solid inroads with the Chinese consumer after years of effort.
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Investing
UBS Adds Top Blue Chip to Quality Growth at a Reasonable Price Portfolio
In a recent UBS report, the Q-GARP managers added an outstanding blue chip, Walt Disney, to the portfolio and removed Illinois Tool Works.
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Telecom & Wireless
Net Neutrality Winners and Losers
Here's a look at which companies win and which ones lose on the latest net neutrality ruling, or at least which will be perceived as winners and losers.
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Companies and Brands
UBS’s Most Preferred Consumer Discretionary Stocks Pay Solid Dividends
The consumer discretionary stocks have underperformed in relationship to consumer staples, and it could be time for the sectors to reverse.
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Investing
The 4 Stocks That Sank the Dow on Tuesday
May 31, 2016: Markets opened higher Tuesday but only the Nasdaq Composite was able to hold above the break-even line in time for the closing bell. Only the counter-cyclical telecom and utilities…