DirecTV reported better-than-expected first-quarter 2014 earnings before markets opened Tuesday morning, but revenue fell short. Shares were up in Tuesday's premarket trading.
courtesy of Verizon WirelessOn the face of it, AT&T Inc.’s (NYSE: T) has a better dividend than Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). AT&T’s payout is 5.2% at $1.84. Verizon’s is 4.5% at…
DirecTV shares put up a new 52-week high Thursday on a report that AT&T may be interested in acquiring the largest U.S. satellite TV company. Such a combination would serve about 26…
Maybe Sprint will buy T-Mobile , just like Comcast may buy Time Warner Cable. If either deal gets through the gauntlet of government regulation, it will be because certain assets have been…
So let's get this straight: Sprint posts a net loss of $151 million and the shares surge because the company did not lose as much as analysts expected? And what about those…
Charter Communications seems to have driven a harder bargain with Comcast than was first reported. In the deal announced Monday, Comcast agreed to divest systems with about 3.9 million subscribers.
ThinkstockA lot of pixels have been burned since last Thursday’s release of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Tom Wheeler’s defense of his draft for proposed rules for maintaining an open Internet.…
courtesy of Alex Proimos, via Wikimedia CommonsShort sellers continue to hold huge positions not only in troubled companies like J.C. Penney and Alcoa, but also in blue chips like AT&T and General…
In a new research report, RBC adds and deletes names from its Guided Portfolio: Dividend Growth offering. We screened them by sector, looking for the highest yield for income-oriented investors.
thinkstockApril 23 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday following the worst report on new home sales since last July. Profit-taking seemed to be the order of the day in the tech sector…
AT&T did manage to show growth in its first-quarter 2014 earnings, but investors should not at all be surprised about the "sell the news" reaction that has been seen.
Wikimedia CommonsAT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) managed to show something new in its earnings: growth. The telecom giant was a dog for quite some time, but value investors had been snapping up shares…
Jon C. Ogg Network and wireless provider AT&T announced on Monday that it would explore adding 21 cities to the four it is already considering for installation of its super-fast fiber network.
Paul Ausick The big news around the camp fire is not just that Netflix beat earnings this time around, nor is it just that the company's international subscriber growth is ahead of expectations.
This week will mark the floodgates opening as far as the number of key companies reporting earnings. AT&T reports Tuesday morning and Verizon Communications reports on Thursday morning.
