Former AMD Employee Provides Insider Trading Information and 2 Other Hot...
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) Current price $4.18 The former AMD employee Mark Anthony Longoria, who pleaded guilty to insider-trading charges and subsequently testified at trials against others,...
View Article4 Merger and Acquisitions Stock Stories At the End of the Second Quarter
US Airways Group (NYSE:LCC): Current price $16.48 Knowledgeable sources have told Reuters that the Justice Department is taking depositions as part of an inquiry into a proposed merger of American...
View ArticleSprint-SoftBank Deal Is Reportedly Near FCC Approval and 2 Other Hot Stocks...
Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S): Closing price $7.02 AllThingsD reports that the acting Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Mignon Clyburn is getting the body ready for a vote on the deal...
View ArticleZynga Pops On Word Of New CEO and 2 More Heavily Traded Stocks to Follow
Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA): Current price $3.07 Zynga shares are up more than 11 percent in late afternoon trading, on word that the company is hiring the former chief of Microsoft Corporation’s...
View ArticleSprint Faces $300 Million Sales Tax Lawsuit In NY and 2 Other Hot Stocks to...
Sprint-Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S): Current Price $7.12 New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has brought a $300 million suit against Sprint, which alleges that the carrier deliberately failed to...
View ArticleFCC Approves Clearwire Acquisition
After more than half a year of bidding wars, Sprint Nextel’s (NYSE:S) proposed acquisition of the wireless Internet operator Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ:CLWR) was approved unanimously by the Federal...
View ArticleApple Results Awaited for Smartphone Implications and 2 More Heavily Traded...
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL): Current price $417.42 Reports from Samsung Electronics and HTC Corp. on Friday indicate that growth in demand for high-end smartphones is slumping, which could make Apple’s results...
View ArticleFCC Approves Clearwire Acquisition
After more than half a year of bidding wars, Sprint Nextel’s (NYSE:S) proposed acquisition of the wireless Internet operator Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ:CLWR) was approved unanimously by the Federal...
View ArticleNew Zynga CEO Wanted to Buy Company and 2 Other Hot Stocks to Watch
Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA): Current price $3.31 Sources told Bloomberg on Monday that Don Mattrick, the former Microsoft Corp. entertainment division chief taking over as the new Zynga CEO, wanted to run all...
View Article3 Telecom Stocks Seeing Action: Sprint Will Outperform After Merger, T-Mobile...
Sprint (NYSE:S): Cowen has upgraded Sprint to Outperform from Market Perform, on the back of increased confidence in Sprint’s margin improvement that will come from either Softbank and/or Network...
View ArticleWells Fargo Pleases Investors with Q2 Results Surprise and 2 Other Hot Stocks...
Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE:WFC): Current price $42.56 Wells Fargo shares are up Friday, due to better-than-expected second quarter results. Before the bell, the firm reported that it earned $5.52...
View ArticleHere’s What America’s Major Wireless Providers Are Doing Wrong (and Right)!
Illustration by Chelsea Pieroni Just as smartphone users in the U.S. are fiercely divided based on their allegiances to brands and operating systems, they’re also locked in an unending battle over...
View ArticleAT&T’s Leap Puts Spanner in the Works for Dish and T-Mobile
AT&T Inc.’s (NYSE:T) $1.2 billion offer to purchase Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAP) on Friday may force Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ:DISH) and T-Mobile U.S. Inc. (NYSE:TMUS) to join...
View ArticleSprint Buyer SoftBank Sees Credit Rating Slashed and 2 Other Hot Stocks to Watch
Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S): Current price $6.25 Moody’s Investors Service has sharply downgraded SoftBank Corp.’s credit rating to junk, after the company finalized its $21.6 billion purchase of a...
View ArticleIs Vodafone Stock Enticing at These Prices?
With shares of Vodafone (NYSE:VOD) trading around $29, is VOD an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE, or STAY AWAY? Let’s analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework: Save...
View ArticleMicrosoft Uses Sprint Help to Launch New Windows Phone and 2 Other Dow Movers...
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT): Current price $31.73 In a Friday debut, Sprint introduced the HTC 8XT Windows phone, which features dual front-facing speakers and Beats Audio software. The camera can...
View ArticleCity of Houston Sues BofA over Libor and 2 More Heavily Traded Stocks to Follow
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC): Current price $14.95 Bank of America, Citigroup, and Barclays are among several big banks being sued by the city of Houston for financial damages, due to the alleged...
View ArticleApple Rides BMO Outperform Rating Upwards and 2 Other Hot Stocks to Watch
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL): Current price $442.02 Apple shares were upgraded to Outperform at BMO Capital Markets on Wednesday morning subsequent to the firm’s third fiscal quarter report, which hit...
View ArticleStarbucks Pops on Q3 Fiscal Result Wins and 2 More Heavily Traded Stocks To...
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX): Current price $73.26 Shares are up more than 7.5 percent in afternoon trading Friday, after the coffee behemoth posted solid third quarter fiscal 2013 results,...
View ArticleWhisper Number: Patience Required for Gains Following Sprint Earnings
Sprint (NYSE:S) is expected to report earnings on Tuesday, July 30th. The whisper number is -$0.32, three cents behind the analysts’ estimate. Whispers range from a low of -$0.40 to a high of -$0.25....
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