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Shares of The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) are higher on the session by 7.41%, trading at $9.13. Overall call volume is now running at 3.05x the daily average, with 21% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,246 contracts have traded on the session so far. The New York Times...

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is up another ~8% today to $9.20, a gain of 70 cents. Yesterday, the stock was among the best performing stocks in the S&P 500. It seems that significant money is moving into the name, with these two large gap ups on back to back days. This is something...

Below are the top information & delivery service stocks on the NYSE and NASDAQ in terms of operating cash flow. The trailing-twelve-month operating cash flow at Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (NYSE: DNB) is $345.60 million. DNB's gross profit for the same period is $1.69 billion. The trailing...

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. ...

Jim Cramer said on CNBC's Mad Money Lightning Round OT that Umpqua Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: UMPQ) is a great bank, but the sector is in a house of pain. If you want to buy this stock, you should wait until January. Umpqua Holdings Corporation (UMPQ) fell 0.19% today, and closed at $10.76....

The top 20% are prospering and spending money; the bottom 80% are not, but thanks to vast wealth disparity, the top slice of households can keep consumer spending aloft. This provides an illusion of "recovery" that masks the insecurity and decline of the bottom 80%. There is statistical and...

Since the collapse of the housing market in the United States and the beginning of the global financial crisis, the Federal Reserve has made avoiding deflation a major priority, recalling the experience of Japan after its bubble burst in the early 1990s. The Fed has set an annual inflation...

Software design maker, Autodesk Inc. (ADSK) reported third quarter 2011 earnings of 27 cents per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2 cents. However, shares were down $2.06 (5.68%) to $34.20 in after hours trading. Earnings, including stock-based compensation but excluding one-...

PetSmart Inc. (PETM), the specialty retailer of products, services, and solutions for pets, recently posted third-quarter 2010 earnings of 38 cents a share that came in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate, and rose 22.6% from 31 cents earned in the year-ago quarter. Consequently, the company...

Software design maker, Autodesk Inc. (ADSK) reported third quarter 2011 earnings of 27 cents per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2 cents. However, shares were down $2.06 (5.68%) to $34.20 in after hours trading. Earnings, including stock-based compensation but excluding one-...

PetSmart Inc. (PETM), the specialty retailer of products, services, and solutions for pets, recently posted third-quarter 2010 earnings of 38 cents a share that came in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate, and rose 22.6% from 31 cents earned in the year-ago quarter. Consequently, the company...

Below are the top publishing-book stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of operating margin. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc (NYSE: MHP) is 23.25%. MHP's ROE for the same period is 44.21%. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at John Wiley...

Is it possible that newspaper companies are making a comeback? I began to ponder this question after a few traditional media companies reported solid results in the third quarter. As the owner of a publishing company I find the story of traditional print...

Is it possible that newspaper companies are making a comeback? I began to ponder this question after a few traditional media companies reported solid results in the third quarter. As the owner of a publishing company I find the story of traditional print...

The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) has entered into an agreement with the ABC television network to extend the affiliation of six Scripps stations with ABC through Jan. 31, 2015. The new agreement includes a license fee paid by Scripps to ABC for the network's programming. Since the expiration of...