Wireless phone company MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) reports this morning that it added 197,000 net customers in the fourth quarter and about 1.2 million net new subscribers for the full year.…
 Bill Gross’s PIMCO Total Return Fund has $1.4 billion in outflows in December, according to Morningstar. (Reuters) MF Global sold some assets to Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) before its collapsed. (Reuters) As…
The lineup of the Dogs of the Dow, simply the ten highest dividend yield stocks of the thirty Dow Jones Industrial Average components, appears to be undergoing a bit of change for…
It is usually good to be first to market with a popular new technology. That is assuming, however, a company’s version of the new technology works. In the case of Verizon Wireless’s 4G…
A number of incredible new products were launched this year. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the iPhone 4S — a phone with voice command — and Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner — a…
Congress makes a deal to keep payroll taxes low and unemployment benefits in place for two more months. (Reuters) The U.S. approves a Deutsche Boerse deal to merge with NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX). (Reuters)…
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.htmlIn a move to increase its wireless footprint, AT&T bought spectrum from Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) According to Reuters AT&T Inc said late on Thursday that it won regulatory approval to buy wireless…
Verizon Wireless’s 4G superfast wireless network has been down intermittently. That could drive off customers. And the network is at the heart of Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) campaign to gain customers from AT&T Wireless…
The continued rise in tobacco stocks is certainly cheered by tobacco stock investors who own the stocks for the high dividends. The problem is that there seems to be a phantom premium now…
When AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) killed the $39 billion deal for T-Mobile USA it had agreed to with Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC: DTEGY), the $4 billion break-up fee going to DT is…
Earlier this month Verizon Wireless, the joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone plc (NASDAQ: VOD), paid $3.6 billion for spectrum licenses belonging to SpectrumCo LLC, a joint venture…
Prosecutors raid Olympus to gain data in a probe of the accounting scandal at the company. (Reuters) Bank of Japan says it will hold to current policies as the economy in the…
Italy’s GDP dropped o.2% from the second quarter to the third. This will undermine hopes that expansion coupled with austerity will quickly bring Italy’s deficit lower. That, in turn, should bring down…
Douglas A. McIntyre US equity markets opened sharply higher this morning and have been able to sustain and even add to those gains throughout the day. Business and consumer confidence indexes in Europe were higher,…
Markets moved up at the open with the DJIA higher by over 200 points. Market leaders included Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S), up nearly 5% as the AT&T (NYSE: T) deal with T-Mobile was…
