The Lightning Round is extended in this CNBC.com exclusive feature.   Read More

This past Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Dow Industrials’ first close above 14,000. Needless to say, it has been quite a ride for the Dow since it first reached that milestone; the Dow continued to establish new all-time highs into October before falling to 2-year lows this month.   Read More

With the next Batman installment set for release tonight at midnight, will The Dark Knight help lift Time Warner's stock?   Read More

Over 1.4 billion shares and $16.5 billion traded yesterday in CNBC's Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge.  Check out the bets being made today...   Read More

The tech titans and media moguls schmoozed and chatted through the first full day of meetings at the Allen + Co. Conference. It was a quiet day in terms of deal buzz; perhaps largely because the Yahoo folks haven't arrived yet.    Read More

If you ask Miller Tabak's David Joyce about media stocks, it might be easier to ask which ones he does not recommend than which ones he does: He has "buy" recommendations on no fewer than 21 media stocks...   Read More

This event has sparked some of the biggest media deals, from Google's acquisition of YouTube to the Disney-CapCities merger in 1996. This year there's no avoiding the fact that the economy is in a downturn and the credit markets are tight, but it's not keeping the big names from rolling in.    Read More

Lehman Brothers analyst Anthony DiClemente returned from July 4 weekend with a negative outlook on the media giants, downgrading the entire sector to negative. DiClemente is concerned that digital distribution changes will "disrupt the core economic models of the majority of film and TV content."    Read More

Looks like the Disney story might not have a happy ending after all, at least according to Lehman analyst Anthony DiClemente.    Read More

Commodities are a bit weaker here as the dollar is stronger, stock futures are flat. Europe and Asia are mostly higher, the Shanghai Composite, however, is up 4.6 percent today, best day in a month on strong earnings forecast from a couple of their banks.    Read More