courtesy of FordThe film “Need for Speed” posted poor first weekend ticket sales of just $17.8 million, which was a disappointment given the huge public relations and marketing effort put into the…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. They include AIG, General Motors, Rite Aid, Synta Pharmaceuticals and Walt Disney.
Some investors love dividends, while others prefer share buybacks to drive the shares higher through time. 24/7 Wall St. recently had a chance to speak with Minyi Chen, who is the portfolio…
"300: Rise of an Empire," released by Warner Bros., brought in $45.05 million in domestic ticket sales over the weekend. That figure was high enough to help the media company's bottom line,…
thinkstockMarch 7, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday but the Nasdaq quickly turned south and spent the rest of the day in the red. As a group tech stocks were down 0.6%…
In 2013, U.S. movie studios as a group posted gross receipts of $10.92 billion, and the top grossing film of the year was "Iron Man 3" from Walt Disney's Buena Vista studios…
thinkstockMarch 4, 2014: Markets opened higher on Tuesday as it became clear that shooting was not about to start in Ukraine today. A lot of yesterday’s downturn was no more than a…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Solicitor General’s office filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Monday in support of U.S. broadcast TV networks seeking to extract licensing fees from Aereo Inc. The case…
Dish Network and Walt Disney reached a long-term deal Monday that allows the second-largest U.S. satellite TV provider to carry Disney-owned networks, including outside of a traditional TV subscription.
thinkstockFebruary 21, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday, but by the end of the day the major indexes failed to stay above the break-even line. Today’s report on existing home sales was…
courtesy of ComcastThe announced $45 billion merger between Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) has raised a lot of concerns among consumers that the combined company will…
In a new research report, analysts at J.P. Morgan lay down a bet that the American consumer is not dead. Here are seven large cap consumer stocks to buy recommended by J.P.…
thinkstockFebruary 6, 2014: Markets opened higher on Thursday and continue to post gains throughout the day. After a beating in January and the first week of February, traders were snapping up bargains,…
courtesy of Google Inc.Apps downloads for the month of January show that the Google Play store from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) gained another point of market share in the two-company battle with…
Media and advertising have always gone hand in hand. But the future is clear: more money will migrate to the Internet and cable, while less money goes to print and radio. Here…
