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Telecom & Wireless
Apple May Build 4G iPhone Soon, Dominate New Market
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be in the midst of the development of a 4G iPhone. It is not clear when the product will be released, but if it is in the next…
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Investing
Can Clearwire Really Be Acquired? It’s Complicated (S, CLWR, CMCSA, TWC, T, VZ, CVC, AAPL, RIMM, GOOG)
ClearwireThere is an interesting notion this morning regarding the fate of the real 4G in America and it is both fascinating and complicated. A report from Bloomberg this morning is causing a…
10:37am ET
Investing
When the Government Forces You Into Dividends, The Great Dividend Portfolio (MO, AEP, AWK, T, DLR, GE, GOV, KMB, KMP, SNH, WMT)
What on earth are investors supposed to do when T-Bonds offer almost zero income? Interest rates are now so low that the price-risk in long-term Treasury bonds is too great. Ben Bernanke…
11:19am ET
Investing
The Ten Most Valuable Companies In America, Apple Rules
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) became the most valuable company in America yesterday when its market cap passed Exxon Mobil’s (NYSE: XOM). The move draws attention to what market capitalization means, and why it…
7:22am ET
Banking, finance, and taxes
7 Great American Stocks Immune to the S&P U.S. Downgrade (MO, AWK, T, KMB, KFT, MCD, PEP)
The S&P downgrade of the United States may have the investment community in a fuss, but many investors saw this coming long before. To say that investors will not see a knee-jerk…
6:32am ET
Investing
FCC: Not All Broadband Is Created Equal
The FCC has been concerned for some time that not all Americans have broadband, and that those who do have slower connections than they believe. The agency released a report, it claims,…
11:40am ET
Telecom & Wireless
MetroPCS Dials the Wrong Number, All Cellular Carriers Beware (PCS, LEAP, VZ, T, AAPL, S, AMX)
Pre-paid wireless provider MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS) reported earnings and revenues this morning that did not live up to expectations, pushing the shares down -28% in the first half-hour of trading.…
11:27am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Sprint: The Worst Has Not Yet Been Seen (S, T, VZ, LEAP, PCS, AAPL, CLWR)
The intensely competitive wireless sector showed some additional blood-letting this week when Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) announced second-quarter earnings. The shares closed down 16% at $4.34 after being down as much…
6:27am ET
Telecom & Wireless
Verizon: The Largest Dividend In The World
Verizon Wireless is owned 55% by Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and 45% by UK-based Vodafone (NYSE: VOD). Yesterday, the cellular service provider said it would pay a dividend of $10 billion next year.…
6:30am ET
Media
Media Digest (7/28/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS) cut 2,000 jobs as the bank’s results faltered (Reuters) Investors tried to move to safe investments as a default became more likely (Reuters) A new Boehner plan will…
6:37am ET
Investing
Short Sellers Prey On The Weak Once Again
The trend among short sellers for the last two months is that they gamble against shares in the weakest public companies. Perhaps they sense that an economic downturn or U.S. debt default…
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Commodities & Metals
The Ten Best Investments If The US Defaults
The odds that the U.S. will default on its debt on or after August 2 increase each day. Some credit analysts believe the odds are in favor of insolvency. In the event…
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Investing
Alcatel-Lucent Exploring Options (ALU, T, HPQ)
Alcatel-LucentWhen France’s Alcatel acquired Lucent Technologies in 2006 to form Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), the deal appeared to be a solid winner. Lucent, which had been spun off from AT&T (NYSE: T), seemed…
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Investing
Top DJIA Earnings Previews For The Coming Week, and Future-DJIA Components (IBM, BAC, KO, JNJ, AXP, INTC, UTX, T, MSFT, TRV, GE, MCD, VZ, AAPL, WFC, MO, HON)
Next week will mark the true ‘opening the floodgates’ for earnings season. We have given some brief earnings previews and added in color for the DJIA components set to report earnings in…
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Investing
Short Sellers Savage Market Laggards
Short sellers often invest in stocks that have had sharp short-term gains and may have reached peak valuations. That would put Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) on most of those lists, along with Sirius…