Verizon Communications Inc
NYSE: VZ
$42.25
+$0.60 (+1.4%)
Closing Price on November 18, 2024
VZ Articles
The largest losers among the big companies in the S&P 500 for the first quarter were: Microsoft (MSFT) down 21.6%, Google (GOOG) down 36.7%, Apple (AAPL) down 27.8%, Intel (INTC) down 22%,...
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The phone companies came up with a "cable slayer" when they went into the market with fiber-to-the-home. Suddenly they could deliver ultra-fast broadband and 500 channel TV. They have high def to...
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Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has started to give the cable companies fits with its new fiber-based TV and broadband services. The offering has all of the advantages of cable products and claims to have faster...
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According to The New York Times, JP Morgan (JPM) is in talks to raise it bid for Bear Stearns (BSC) from $2 to $10. Reuters writes that analysts now see a steep drop in Q1 earnings for S&P 500....
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"The current financial crisis is the most serious since the second world war, and perhaps since the Great Depression."–The London Observer, March 23, 2008 Many investors find it hard to believe...
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According to Wireles and Mobile News: "Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) was the biggest winner of the Federal Communications Commission’s 700 MHz auction, winning six large licenses that i will give...
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Those rummaging through the garbage of 52-week low lists are usually bottom-fishing investors or desperate CEOs. But, the list is so broad that it has become a tableau of the market as a whole,...
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DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) has hundreds of channels and can offer high-definition programming, but, because satellite signals do not work two-way, getting into the "on demand" business has been impossible....
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24/7 Wall St. interviewed Verizon (NYSE: VZ) CEO Ivan Seidenberg about the wireless and broadband industries. When asked about the concern among investors that wireless saturation rates and new...
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The short interest on the NYSE hit an all-time record for the period ending February 29. Figures by company compare to shares sold short on Ferbruary 15. Financial firms had significant increases in...
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Several brands which were extremely powerful during the last few decades are about to disappear. Many of them no longer drive big sales. Some are a part of companies that are in trouble. Some are...
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According to Reuters, Google (GOOG) lost a key executive to Facebook. Reuters reports that losses at Credit Agricole were worse than expected Reuters reports that OPEC indicated that it would leave...
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Use of mobile broadband, PCs connected to the internet over cellular networks spiked up 154% from the Q4 06 to Q4 07. The total number of unique computers hooked up at the end of last year was 2.168...
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No matter how bad the markets were in February, they were worse for some stocks than for others. Shares in Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) dropped 16% during the second month of the year, which shows how...
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Shares of telecom company Qwest (NYSE: Q) are up almost 8% on news that it wants a better deal with Sprint (NYSE: S) for providing wireless service in its region which includes 14 states. "We need a...
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