Verizon Communications Inc

NYSE: VZ
$41.38
-$0.48 (-1.1%)
Closing Price on October 25, 2024

VZ Articles

The intensely competitive wireless sector showed some additional blood-letting this week when Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) announced second-quarter earnings.  The shares closed down 16% at...
Plans for a budget vote by Republicans in the House fell apart (Reuters) Moody’s threatened to downgrade Spain (Reuters) BSkyB will have a $1.6 billion share buyback (Reuters) S&P said the U.S....
Verizon Wireless is owned 55% by Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and 45% by UK-based Vodafone (NYSE: VOD). Yesterday, the cellular service provider said it would pay a dividend of $10 billion next year. The size...
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for July 22, 2011. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in crowds?
Next week will mark the true ‘opening the floodgates’ for earnings season.  We have given some brief earnings previews and added in color for the DJIA components set to report earnings in the...
China’s GDP grew at a 9.5% rate last quarter and the country increased inflation forecasts (Reuters) Moody’s cut Ireland’s rating to junk (Reuters) EU leaders may let Greece default (Reuters)...
Each year, Capgemini publishes the U.S. Metro Wealth Index, which ranks the number of high-net-worth individuals living within the ten largest metropolitan statistical areas. According to the report,...
HTC announced fiscal third quarter results. The information was good for HTC but not good for rival smartphone firm, Blackberry maker Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM). HTC said revenue more than...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Started as Neutral...
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced its new iCloud multimedia storage system and a new version of its OS called Lion. Nothing was said about updated versions of the iPad or iPhone at Apple’s World Wide...
When the going gets tough, the tough often play defense — out of risky assets and into those assets that offer more security and some dividend upside. One choice is utilities, where investments are...
Did you heed the call “Sell in May and Go Away!” this year?  It turns out that as of mid-day we now have nearly half of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average components either trading down over...
China’s three largest mobile phone operators are all being investigated for corruption by the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. So far, at least three...
Now that the 10-Year Treasury Note has been back to close to the 3.00% yields again, we wanted to see which Dow Jones Industrial Average components had a higher dividend yield than the 10-Year...
The two telecom giants of AT&T, Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) are both Dow Jones Industrial Average members.  They are both considered to be very defensive stocks in...