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Stocks closed down 1 percent after the minutes from the last Fed policy setting meeting suggested the central bank could begin tapering bond purchases sooner than the market expects.
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Stocks rallied, with the Dow ending just shy of its session high, after an unexpected drop in jobless claims and solid sales reports from some retailers including Wal-Mart. A credit-rating downgrade on bond insurers spurred a quick dip but stocks quickly bounced back. Oil closed near $128 a barrel.
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Stocks rallied, with the Dow posting a triple-digit point gain, helped by an unexpected drop in jobless claims and solid sales reports from some retailers including Wal-Mart.
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Stocks rallied, with the Dow posting a triple-digit point gain, helped by an unexpected drop in jobless claims and solid sales reports from some retailers including Wal-Mart.
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In spite of the built-in WiFi, the touch-screen that lets users manipulate data and an accelerometer that allows the on-screen image to rotate with the device, the reality is, without a network that allows users to fully realize its capabilities, the iPhone is only achieving a portion of its potential.
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Stocks rallied, with the Dow posting a triple-digit point gain, helped by an unexpected drop in jobless claims and solid sales reports from some retailers including Wal-Mart.
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Verizon Wireless agreed to buy Alltel for $28.1 billion, including $22.2 billion in debt, vaulting the combined company to first place in the U.S. mobile services market ahead of AT&T.
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Britain's Vodafone confirmed on Thursday that U.S.-based Verizon Wireless, in which it has a 45 percent stake, is in advanced talks to buy U.S. rural mobile service provider Alltel.
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May's chain store sales and weekly jobless claims will be factors in the market Thursday, as credit worries still manage to haunt stocks.
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Apple reached a deal to sell iPhones in Japan by the end of the year. In Wednesday’s Web Extra find out how the traders are playing the news.
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Stocks finished mixed as investors juggled some encouraging economic news and concerns about the financial sector. Lehman Brothers rebounded, while bond insurers plunged. Oil dropped below $123 a barrel.
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Verizon is deep in talks to acquire Alltel, the nation's fifth largest wireless carrier, for roughly $27 billion, people close to the talks have told CNBC.
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At a recent Bankrate conference, Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, gave an excellent keynote address on the constant evolution of the the digital world we live in. Here are some of the growth stats, Lee shared.
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This infrastructure play is making big moves into wind power. Get in before Wall Street catches on.
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Buy stocks with long-term bullish themes, Cramer says. That way you don't have to worry about the short-term volatility in the market.
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We have all had some miserable customer service experiences and as we sit on hold or try to navigate through yet another voice response system, we wonder how can these companies get away with this. In fact, a 2006 Harris Interactive Poll showed 40% of us would rather go to the dentist than deal with poor customer service. My most recent mind numbing experience with my phone company, Verizon, made me wonder if there is a way to translate this into investing opportunities. Here is what I found...
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Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are planning to merge their wireless broadband units to create a new $14.55 billion wireless communications company.
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Cramer makes the call on viewers' favorite stocks.
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Don't count this company out like Cramer did. It's making a comeback.
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Shares of wireless providers have been surging, so is it time for investors to make a call? Hold the phone, says Craig Moffett. The senior telecom analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein has a strategy...
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Another record for crude oil dragged down the Dow Monday despite word that the service sector of the economy was no longer contracting in April. Here's the "Word on the Street."