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Oppenheimer Discusses City Telecom
Monday, June 13, 2011 - 6:38am | 183Oppenheimer & Co. has an Outperform rating on shares of City Telecom (NASDAQ: CTEL). In a note to clients, Oppenheimer writes, "In the past couple of weeks, CTEL has announced two new promotional initiatives: 1) a 1Gbps triple play bundle (which includes 1Gbps broadband, voice and pay-TV)...
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Top 4 Stocks In The Telecom Services-Domestic Industry With The Lowest PEG Ratio
Monday, June 13, 2011 - 3:32am | 121Below are the top telecom services-domestic stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of PEG ratio Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc (NASDAQ: ALSK) has a PEG ratio of 0.92. ALSK's trailing-twelve-month operating margin is 15.91%. Shenandoah Telecommunications Co (NASDAQ: SHEN) has a PEG...
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Likes Tiffany
Monday, June 13, 2011 - 3:27am | 200On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Tiffany & Co (NYSE: TIF) is “doing really well. I like Tiffany. If you can get it in the $60's, I think it's a buy." He said that Molycorp (NYSE: MCP) “did a big secondary. I'm not a rare earth guy. I don't buy the long-term...
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AT&T gives supporting reasons of why T-Mobile acquisition is a good thing
Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 12:06am | 1550Ever since AT&T announced that it acquired T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom earlier this year, the rest of the industry, like Verizon Wireless and Sprint, has been fighting with the FCC to get the deal blocked. AT&T has been participating in hearings with the FCC to try and get the deal...
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iPad 2 Recall Adds to Supply Concerns
Saturday, June 11, 2011 - 9:30am | 210The recently announced recall of some Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad 2s designed to work on the Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) network could further constrain supplies of the popular tablet device, this at a time when the company is already struggling to meet demand. Apple has halted the delivery of an "...
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Deutsche Telekom and AT&T File with FCC A Joint Opposition
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 1:39pm | 85Today, Deutsche Telekom, parent company of T-Mobile USA, and AT&T (NYSE: T) filed with the Federal Communications Commission a joint opposition to petitions to deny their application seeking approval of AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile. The filing is supported by comprehensive economic and...
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AT&T Files Public Statement with FCC Supporting T-Mobile Acquisition
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 12:47pm | 180AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) today filed with the Federal Communications Commission its statement supporting its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA and responding to critics. The filing demonstrates the overarching imperative that drives this transaction: giving AT&T and T-Mobile USA customers the...
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Guggenheim ABCS Gives Us A-B-C But No Y
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 12:18pm | 488The ABC acronym stands for Australia, Brazil, and Canada. The Guggenheim ABC High Dividend ETF (ABCS), launched earlier this week (6/8/11), packages the ten highest yielding stocks from each country into a convenient ETF format. The 30 securities consist of U.S. listed ADRs from all three...
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What Should Apple and Google Do About the AT&T Merger?
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 6:17am | 142In the latest chapter of the telecom merger saga between AT&T (T) and Deutsche Telecom's T-Mobile (DTEGY.PK), a host of giant tech companies and venture capital firms sent letters to the FCC. From its website and public relations mouthpieces, Microsoft (MSFT) appears to have spear-headed the...
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Cloud Peak Energy Could Get Bought Out by Year's End
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 6:15am | 142In the latest chapter of the telecom merger saga between AT&T (T) and Deutsche Telecom's T-Mobile (DTEGY.PK), a host of giant tech companies and venture capital firms sent letters to the FCC. From its website and public relations mouthpieces, Microsoft (MSFT) appears to have spear-headed the...
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Competition for Intel
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 6:08am | 142In the latest chapter of the telecom merger saga between AT&T (T) and Deutsche Telecom's T-Mobile (DTEGY.PK), a host of giant tech companies and venture capital firms sent letters to the FCC. From its website and public relations mouthpieces, Microsoft (MSFT) appears to have spear-headed the...
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CenturyLink Announces Pricing of $2.0 Billion of Debt Securities
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 5:52am | 83CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) announced today that it has agreed to sell $350 million of newly-issued 6-year, unsecured senior notes and $1.25 billion of newly-issued 10-year, unsecured senior notes. The Company has also agreed to sell an additional $400 million of its 7.60% senior notes due 2039,...
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Alaska Communications Launches New Prepaid Wireless Plans
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 3:08pm | 123Alaska Communications (NASDAQ: ALSK) today announced a new portfolio of prepaid wireless plans offering unlimited voice and data coverage, providing more options and value than ever before. Customers have the benefits of freedom, flexibility and control in their prepaid wireless plans with the...
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Judgement Day: IPv6 Is Here
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 4:13pm | 356For those of you unfamiliar with IPv6, the day is here. What is IPv6? Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a version of the Internet Protocol (IP) is succeeding IPv4. IPv4 has been in place since 1981, and had 4,294,967,296 IP addresses. IPv6 will allow for more IP addresses, and thus the...
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NASDAQ Stocks Hitting 52-Week Highs
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 9:11am | 139Pharmasset Inc (NASDAQ: VRUS) shares rose 23.37% to create a new 52-week high of $133.61. VRUS expanded its study of hepatitis C drug candidate PSI-7977. Hickory Tech Corporation (NASDAQ: HTCO) shares gained 2.15% to create a new 52-week high of $11.39. HTCO's trailing-twelve-month ROE is 33.21...