DIRECTV Group, Inc. (NYSE: DTV) has announced that it is going to combine with Liberty Entertainment, Inc., and then the company will be split off from Liberty Media. This supposedly puts the…
Douglas A. McIntyre If you thought that the SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) situation couldn’t get more complex, it could. It has. Reports of it getting ready for bankruptcy, and then getting a controlling…
According to Reuters, Congress and The White House are working on the final stimulus package. Reuters reports that Wall St CEOs will defend their use of bailout money before Congress. Reuters reports…
According to Reuters, large Yahoo! (YHOO) holder Capital Research want to know whether vote counts from the company’s annula meeting were accurate. Reuters writes that the Fed is seen as holding rates…
Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is a company that Wall Street just loves to hate. Much of the antipathy directed toward the Philadelphia-based cable giant seems justified since it faces a myriad of…
According to Reuters, the head of strategy at Microsoft (MSFT) says it deal to acquire Yahoo! (YHOO) is over. Reuters writes that Toyota (TM) posted a 28% drop in profit due to…
These are ten of the top calls we are seeing that could impact shares early this Thursday morning: Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) started as Market Perform at Morgan Keegan. Allegheny Tech…
Once The Justice Department cleared the merger of Sirius (NASDAQ: SIRI) with XM Satellite (NASDAQ: XMSR) and there was some anticipation that the deal would get done the shares of both companies…
DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) has hundreds of channels and can offer high-definition programming, but, because satellite signals do not work two-way, getting into the "on demand" business has been impossible. That has given…
According to Reuters, Paulson will try to tighten rules at the state and federal levels to tighten mortgage standards. Reuters writes that Carlyle Capital was unable to reach a deal with it…
24/7 Wall St. spoke to Rep Gene Green of Texas. He is Congress’s most vocal opponent of the Sirius (NASDAQ: SIRI) merger with XM Satellite (NASDAQ: XMSR). He has been vilified by…
Below are some of the key general calls we are looking at in early pre-market trading: Anglogold (NYSE: AU) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at UBS. Cephalon (NASDAQ: CEPH) downgraded to Underperform…
These are not the only impact analyst calls affecting stocks this morning, but these are the ones that 247WallSt.com is focusing on: Agilent (A) raised to Buy at Banc of America. Bed…
A number of rumors about an AT&T (T) buy-out of satellite TV provider Echostar (DISH) took the stock up 19% today to $47.49. But, it may all have been too good to…
This morning’s post-earnings downgrade of EchoStar Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:DISH) from a "Buy" to a "Hold" at Citigroup, is having a much broader impact than it originally seemed. Shares were not indicated this…
