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Source: ThinkstockOral arguments are scheduled Monday in the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., in a case brought by Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) against the Federal Communications...
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Sirius (SIRI) and XM (XMSR) today announced that the companies would merge in a combination that would give each company’s shareholders 50% of the new firm. The merger has one huge hurdle, the...
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It looked like the FCC was going to have cable companies for dinner. The commission was talking about forcing cable systems to open channels to small networks, and perhaps planning to halt future...
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From the heady heights of the summer of 2008, oil refiners have suffered from a downturn. Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE:VLO) and Tesoro Corp. (NYSE:TSO), which refine and market petroleum products...
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We have been highlighting how some of the commercial office and retail REITs are having a hard time as their need to raise cash comes at a high price. The current environment is driving up borrowing...
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Trucking firm YRC Worldwide reported a smaller than expected net loss Monday afternoon, but a $700 million low-interest federal loan is what's pushing the stock higher.
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I peeked at the index in an airport bookstore.
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By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 6 percent on Monday after the announcement of Treasury secretary Tim Geithner’s latest bank relief plan. The stock...
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(AAI) AirTran load factor rose 6.7% to 68.5%.(BEAS) BEA Systems stake raised to 11% by Carl Icahn.(BOBE) Bob Evans s-s-s rose 0.4%.(CPST) Capstone Turbine received a microturbine order for for $3.8...
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Digg.com was once so important to web 2.0, the spread of information and social media behavior that its executives were often interviewed about the future of news on the internet. Jay Adelson, who...
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Hollywood’s trends and standards change at an impressive rate, and today’s zeitgeist can be tomorrow’s half-forgotten memory. While such turnover seems especially high in this modern age, the...
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has charged two former top executives at OCZ Technology Group for accounting failures.
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Source: 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...
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Source: ThinkstockEver since the Federal Reserve began its first quantitative easing program in late 2008, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker has been warning that future inflation is going to run...
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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 will...
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