Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsEarnings season has been going strong, most DJIA components have reported earnings, and this coming first full week of November will mark the last week of major earnings…
Jon OggWe are knee-deep in corporate earnings reports and markets are surging to new all-time highs. Investors and traders alike are wondering which stocks to buy and which to sell in the…
ThinkstockOnline video has radically changed the way Americans consume media. People want to watch when it is convenient for them, not when network programmers want them to. The industry’s term for it…
Amazon.com Inc.The most popular downloaded free app from the App Store at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in September was YouTube from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). The ever-popular Candy Crush Saga from King.com…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and Warren Buffett often are followed in corporate America as the undisputed investment kingmakers of all time. And 2013 has been an…
thinkstockBob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), told an audience at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference on Tuesday morning that cable providers and telecom carriers may have to get…
ThinkstockThis week we have seen dividend hikes from Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) components Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD). 24/7 Wall St. expects that there will be five, maybe…
Jon OggStocks have been in serious rally mode, to the point that the market has hit new all-time highs again. Now investors are trying to decide which stocks to buy, which stocks…
ThinkstockThe dividend hike brigade keeps on marching. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) jumped in with a dividend hike a tad sooner than we were expecting, given that it is searching for a new…
courtesy of Sony Corp.Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB) have reached a preliminary agreement that would allow Sony to carry Viacom’s cable channels on Sony’s planned Internet TV service.…
August 7, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning after more comments by Fed officials point toward a winding down of the central bank’s stimulus sooner rather than later. In Europe,…
courtesy of the Walt Disney Co.The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) no longer has to worry about the fight to split the roles of Chairman and CEO apart from Bob Iger, but…
Jon C. Ogg August 6, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning even following a reported increase in U.S. exports and a decrease in U.S. imports that put the country’s trade deficit at its…
thinkstockWhere you come down in the current debate (war?) over which industry will control the living room TV set depends largely on whether you believe that entertainment is a top-down or a…
courtesy of Sony Corp.Hedge fund manager Dan Loeb continued his battle to increase Sony Corp.’s (NYSE: S) shareholder value as he pressed the Japanese company over management of its studio. The pressure…
