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(read more)May 15 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Slowly, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) is reuniting Marvel heroes under one roof. The latest to rejoin? Daredevil, a blind vigilante whose other......
(read more)April 27 - News - Comments
After taking note that many major media companies have a cash problem (too much cash), meaning they could look to increase their dividend yields in the......
(read more)April 22 - News - Comments
By every measure, The Walking Dead is success for AMC Networks Inc (NASDAQ:AMCX) . Season 3 ended with 12.4 million viewers of last month’s gut......
(read more)April 22 - News - Comments
We live in the Information Age, but do our economic indicators? Does GDP capture the outputs of every new technology, especially when so many new technologies......
(read more)April 11 - News - Comments
Camarillo, California-based radio broadcasting company Salem Communications Corp (NASDAQ:SALM) recently made two distinct announcements that could dramatically......
(read more)March 28 - News - Comments
Blackstone and Icahn enter Dell bidding (The Telegraph) Both Blackstone and Mr Icahn sent letters to Dell on Friday night, saying they are preparing formal......
(read more)March 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Seth Klarman manages one of the largest hedge funds in the world, The Baupost Group, founded in 1983 and managing some $7 billion. Klarman and his hedge......
(read more)March 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) was in 67 hedge funds’ portfolio at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012. NWSA has experienced an increase in hedge fund......
(read more)March 21 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Donald Yacktman founded Yacktman Asset Management in 1992 and was named the “Portfolio Manager of The Year” by Morningstar in 1991. Per his......
(read more)March 21 - Hedge Funds - Comments
The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) has done a great job in recent years of selling off its non-core assets in order to focus on maximizing the core......
(read more)March 19 - News - Comments
News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) was in 67 hedge funds’ portfolio at the end of December. NWSA shareholders have witnessed an increase in support from the......
(read more)March 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Time Warner Inc (NYSE:TWX) recently entered into talks with a major private equity firm to spin off the bulk of its Time print-media division and continue......
(read more)March 19 - News - Comments
Billionaire Steve Cohen and his SAC Capital hedge fund made some serious moves during the fourth quarter, rearranging their top five holdings completely......
(read more)March 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Daniel Och started Och-Ziff Capital Management almost twenty years ago, and it has become one of the largest institutional managers of alternative assets......
(read more)March 15 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) is getting pretty good at raising the dead. Just ask AMC Networks Inc (NASDAQ:AMCX). No, I’m not talking about AMC......
(read more)March 15 - News - Comments
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) is the new darling of hedge funds. According to a report from Tobias Levkovich, analyst at Citigroup the search engine giant......
(read more)March 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Daniel Och started Och-Ziff Capital Management almost twenty years ago, and it has become one of the largest institutional managers of alternative assets......
(read more)March 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Remember that fall that your son’s school football team made it to the state championship game? They worked so hard every day, practicing and running......
(read more)March 11 - Insider Trading - Comments
Media company News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) has been in the news all through February, and the trend seems to be continuing in March. The biggest news for the......
(read more)March 6 - News - Comments
I often give Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) a hard time, pointing to its easy to mimic business model and rapidly growing list of competitors, but it seems......
(read more)March 6 - News - Comments
A SWOT analysis is a look at a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and is a tremendous way to gain a detailed and thorough......
(read more)February 22 - News - Comments
We should have understood that Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) CEO, was probably intent on selling the magazine business, when he said to......
(read more)February 21 - News - Comments
Chinese-born Michael Hintze is an Australian/British businessman, famously perched on Forbes’s billionaire list as the 880th richest person in the world......
(read more)February 21 - News - Comments
Media giant Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) posted quarterly earnings of $1.21 per share, or $1.17 billion, an increase from the 76 cents per share, or $773......
(read more)February 19 - News - Comments
Industries rise and fall in favor just as stocks do. Those who are alert to the patterns can make money. Right now, for instance, 3D printing is out of......
(read more)February 19 - News - Comments
Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX), the world’s largest media conglomerate, is a classic example that tells us that sometimes in business, less is more. The......
(read more)February 15 - News - Comments
Liberty Global Inc. (NASDAQ:LBTYA) must be crossing its fingers hoping that it’s proposition to acquire Virgin Media Inc. (NASDAQ:VMED) goes through......
(read more)February 14 - News - Comments
Over the past few weeks, keen-eyed arbitrageurs have discovered an unusual discrepancy between “common” Class A and “preferred”......
(read more)February 13 - News - Comments
