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Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (NYSE: MHP), today announced an agreement to acquire Oil Price Information Service, LLC, from United Communications Group, a privately held business information provider. OPIS, which is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is a leading...

The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) management today provided an update of business trends for 2010 and an outlook for 2011. Management noted that it saw a continuation of improving advertising revenue trends in October and November 2010. Advertising revenues were down 5.8% in October and November...

The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) has launched the NYTimes App for Chrome Web Store, a new application built with HTML5 to deliver a premium reading experience of the latest news that can be easily customized based on readers' preferences. The design is based on the popular Times Skimmer application,...

Kevin Matras shows why stocks with new analyst coverage are stocks you want to have. Highlighted stocks include CODE, DM, GOK, JAZZ and MSG. DOLAN MEDIA CO (DM): Free Stock Analysis Report GEOKINETICS INC (GOK): Free Stock Analysis Report JAZZ PHARMACEUT (JAZZ): Free Stock Analysis Report Zacks...

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) today will discuss its business, strategy and management's outlook during the UBS 38th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference. The Company expects fourth-quarter print advertising revenues to improve from third-quarter levels, with a decline of...

November debt issuance volumes remain solid, with US investment grade and high yield markets posting m/m gains and signs of life returning in asset-backed securities, Piper Jaffray Reports reports. Piper Jaffray said that it remains Bullish on Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO) and the S&P...

Kevin Matras shows why stocks with new analyst coverage are stocks you want to have. Highlighted stocks include CODE, DM, GOK, JAZZ and MSG. DOLAN MEDIA CO (DM): Free Stock Analysis Report GEOKINETICS INC (GOK): Free Stock Analysis Report JAZZ PHARMACEUT (JAZZ): Free Stock Analysis Report Zacks...

Cusick's Corner The market continues to plow forward and Energy, both XLE & USO were the end of day leaders. Jan Crude futures, CLF11 $1.21 came off highs that we have not seen in over 2 years. Now with this move, traders in energy stocks could be looking to potentially “roll” positions that...

Shares of The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) are lower on the session by 0.55%, trading at $9.05. Overall put volume is now running at 32.40x the daily average, with 87% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 4,374 contracts have traded on the session so far. The New York Times...

Shares of Valassis Communications (NYSE: VCI) are lower on the session by 0.79%, currently trading at $32.65. Call volume is currently running at 2.22x the average daily volume, with 100% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,017 call contracts have traded on the session, so far....

News Corp. (NWSA )  has agreed to acquire 90% of Brooklyn-based education technology company Wireless Generation for a total consideration of $360 million in cash. The remaining 10% will be segregated between founder and CEO Larry Berger, President and COO Josh Reibel, and Executive Vice...

News Corp. (NWSA )  has agreed to acquire 90% of Brooklyn-based education technology company Wireless Generation for a total consideration of $360 million in cash. The remaining 10% will be segregated between founder and CEO Larry Berger, President and COO Josh Reibel, and Executive Vice...

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (NYSE: MSO) today announced that Sarah Gormley has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Communications and Marketing.

In a massive, 9 digital page New York Times Magazine story on how China can "go consumer", there's a bit about the ridiculousness of their real estate market that I wanted to highlight. Regular readers know that I am alternately fascinated by and scared of the Chinese growth story - but it is the...

Scholastic Corporation.'s ( SCHL) share price has entered into oversold territory with a stochastic value of 16.55. The Zacks Consensus Estimate on the company's earnings for May 2011 increased by a cent over the past month to $2.49 per share. Scholastic Corp is a Zacks #2 Rank (“Buy”) company. ...