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Posts Tagged ‘ VZ ’

How the Death of Big Telecom Will Reignite the Tech Boom

Sep 23rd, 2009 | By Greg Gunner Guenthner | Category: Stock Market Investing

Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) are dying a slow death…



Hot Stocks: Motorola Throws Hat Into Smartphone Ring

Sep 15th, 2009 | By Bob Blandeburgo | Category: Featured, Stock Market Investing

Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) last Thursday charmed investors when it revealed its Cliq smartphone, which will compete head on with Apple Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone and Research in Motion Ltd.’s Blackberry.



Best Sectors for Income Seekers

Aug 10th, 2009 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Stock Market Investing

It’s been a rough year for dividends, but if you know where to look, your income will be just fine.



Illogical Optimisim

Aug 6th, 2009 | By Bill Jenkins | Category: Politics & Economics

First, a historical note…US equities have just come off their best July since 1989. Overall, the market is up over 8% for the year. But if we look backward (after all, hindsight is 20/20), March 1989 also saw a huge run up. It was followed by an even stronger rally in July, during which volume dried up. It appears the same is happening now. What came next in 1989 was a big sell-off in September, followed by an even greater one in October.



Investment News Briefs Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Jul 29th, 2009 | By Money Morning Staff | Category: Financial News

Goldman Goes to Defends Energy Trading; Consumer Confidence Falls on Job Worries; Home Price Erosion Continues to Slow; Congress Works to Ban Incentive Pay, Give Shareholders a Voice on Bonuses; IBM Expands Its Data-Crunching Business;



Investment News Briefs Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Jul 28th, 2009 | By Money Morning Staff | Category: Financial News, Stock Market Investing

Verizon Lays Off 8,000 as Profit Sinks 21%; Bulls Run in Monday Markets; SEC Seeks to Limit “Naked Shorting;” New Single-Family Home Sales Rise in June; Oil Rises 1.4%; Deutsche Bank: Windows 7 Could Trigger New Enterprise Tech Investments; Video Game Industry Takes Hit From Recession



Investment News Briefs Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Jul 7th, 2009 | By Money Morning Staff | Category: Financial News

World Bank President to G8: Economy Still Dangerous; Service Sector Improves for Third Straight Month; Rio Sells Packaging Business to Bemis for $1.2 Billion; Crude Prices Drop Again; Report: Bank of America Writeoffs to Rise; Brazil’s Credit Rating Could Increase; DOJ Investigating Telecoms; Father of Web Browser Starts New Tech Venture Capital Firm



Investors Are Flocking to a New Group of Companies

Jun 30th, 2009 | By Andrew Snyder | Category: Stock Market Investing

On October 29, 2008 a pipeline company, Western Gas (NYSE:WES), announced plans that made its shareholders very happy. I wasn’t a shareholder at the time but its announcement caught my attention and I began following the company.



Hot Stocks: Palm Pre Is No ‘iPhone Killer’

Jun 11th, 2009 | By Money Morning Staff | Category: Financial News, Stock Market Investing

Palm Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) can’t seem to catch a break. Just days after its stock hit a 52-week high and its new Pre smartphone sold out in its Saturday debut, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) stole Palm’s thunder by announcing a new iPhone, the iPhone 3G S, and more importantly, cut the price on its existing 8 gigabyte model to $99-half the price of the Pre.



Smart Phones, Smart Investments?

Jun 8th, 2009 | By Andrew Snyder | Category: Stock Market Investing

The cell phone industry is making big moves today. Palm’s (NASDAQ:PPL) new phone release is taking its share price down. While speculation over Steve Jobs and the iPhone is creating its own problems for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).