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 Here are Bloomberg's top 10 stocks to watch for Wednesday:
Boeing (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliners grounded.Smith & Wesson Holding (Nasdaq: SWHC) takes center stage as Obama, Biden set to reveal gun control recommendations.JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: JPM, GS) report strong earnings.Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) legal fight in Canada.Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) flying high for second day.Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) starts payment plan in China.Ford (NYSE: F) expects more than $1.5 billion European loss.Anheuser-Busch…
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 Here are Bloomberg's top 10 stocks to watch for Monday:
1. UPS (NYSE: UPS) scratches bid for TNT Express.
2. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) scales back iPhone 5 production.
3. BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) may show biggest earnings gain.
4. Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) hits a 10-month high.
5. Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) considers cutting bonuses in Europe.
6. J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) holiday sales drop 30 percent.
7. Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) F-35 falls short of testing goals.
8. Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) raised…
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 This week could bring an agreement between Google Inc. and the Federal Trade Commission on how the company uses its patents, the San Jose Business Journal reports.
A settlement could allow the technology giant to continue blocking its products in worldwide court actions, the report says.
Although Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) previously sued Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) to ban its sales of iPhones and iPads because Google contended that the products used its patented technology, the report says the likely…
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Sprint Nextel Corp. CEO Dan Hesse predicts that the Overland Park carrier will ring up profits in 2014 after seven years of losses, Bloomberg reports.
Sprint stock has outperformed Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and all but one other stock in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, Bloomberg reports. This comes after Hesse has spent five years cleaning up fallout from the merger with Nextel and after mixed-bag entanglements with Clearwire Corp. (Nasdaq: CLWR) and WiMax technology.
Some analysts offer qualified…
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 As the Wednesday debut of the latest iPhone nears, many wait to see whether Apple Inc. will be able to keep its hold on the U.S. smartphone market, The Wall Street Journal reports.
A managing director at an investment bank told the Journal that the newest iPhone will have to show big improvements to match expectations.
Overland Park-based Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) is one of the carriers that has a deal with Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) to sell the coveted smartphone.
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Apple Inc. has billions of dollars in cash lying around, and it should consider spending it on Sprint Nextel Corp., a columnist for The New York Times suggests.
In a DealBook column this week, Andrew Ross Sorkin says buying Overland Park-based Sprint (NYSE: S) — which right now has the stock market value of $13.5 billion, “a song” — would give Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) its own wireless network on which to showcase cutting-edge mobile technology. Of course, Apple would upgrade the network —…
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Sprint Nextel Corp.’s flagship 4G LTE-capable smartphone is being held up in the wake of a patent infringement ruling, The Wall Street Journal reports.
A customs review means a later debut for the HTC EVO 4G LTE, which had been set to go on sale Friday.
The International Trade Commission determined late last year that HTC violated an Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) patent. HTC says its design complies with the ruling, and it’s working with U.S. Customs to hasten the review. The ITC ruling, which...
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 Sprint Nextel Corp.’s board backs CEO Dan Hesse’s decision to return more than $3.25 million in compensation, according to a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Hesse’s move came in response to “feedback from shareholders,” Hesse said in a Friday letter. Shareholders were upset about the Overland Park-based wireless carrier (NYSE: S) excluding the financial effect of carrying Apple Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone when calculating employee bonuses.
“I do not want,...
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Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has joined 14 other states and Puerto Rico in a lawsuit alleging that Apple Inc. and three book publishers conspired to raise ebook prices, the St. Louis Business Journal reports.
The suit seeks to recover money for consumers who were overcharged.
Penguin Group, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster allegedly colluded with Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) to drive up e-book prices starting in 2010, when Apple unveiled its first iPad. Similar allegations against HarperCollins...
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BATS Global Markets Inc. maintained a 10.9 percent market share of U.S. equities trading in March despite the exchange operator’s failed initial public offering.
Lenexa-based BATS also had a 10.9 percent market share of U.S. equities in February. However, that figure was 11.1 percent in March 2011.
BATS pulled its stock offering on March 23 after technical glitches caused problems in trading some stocks, including BATS’ IPO and Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) stock.
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While some investor buzz predicts the possible demise of Sprint Nextel Corp. for taking on the next iPhone, a Guggenheim Partners LLC analyst posed Friday that the Overland Park-based wireless carrier could perish without it.
Sometime in the summer, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) is expected to roll out a version of the iPhone that works with Long Term Evolution, or LTE, network technology. There has been some speculation about whether Sprint will get to carry the next iPhone.
Guggenheim’s Shing Yin...
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AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless have announced plans to sell a version of latest iPad to run on their newest fourth-generation, or 4G, wireless networks, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) is rumored to be planning an event for early March to unveil the new iPad.
Overland Park-based Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) declined to comment on whether it will sell the device.
For now, only AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) sell the iPad and offer the LTE technology.
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Sprint Nextel Corp. reported Wednesday that it sold 1.8 million iPhones in its fourth quarter — 40 percent of which were to new customers, the Kansas City Business Journal reports.
Sprint began selling Apple Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone on Oct. 14; the Overland Park-based company’s fourth-quarter financial results, also announced Wednesday, marked a full quarter of results for its iPhone offering.
Sprint said that strong revenue growth — 5 percent for the quarter and 3.4 percent for 2011 — partially offset the effect of increased equipment subsidies and expenses tied to the “successful launch of the iPhone...
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 Sprint Nextel Corp.’s financial report Wednesday morning should shed some much-anticipated light on the rewards of finally getting its hands on the iPhone.
The results will represent nearly a full quarter of offering Apple Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) popular iPhone. Overland Park-based Sprint (NYSE: S) began selling the smartphone Oct. 14, joining larger competitors AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless, which already had been in the iPhone game.
Sprint has said it will offer more detailed 2012 financial forecasts based on iPhone sales along with fourth-quarter results...
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 Although it may appear that Sprint Nextel Corp. got the short end of the stick in an iPhone purchase agreement, Apple Inc. could have bigger and better things in store for the Overland Park-based wireless carrier — like a new Sprint-exclusive iPhone, a telecommunications analyst said Thursday.
In October, Apple announced that Sprint (NYSE: S) would be the third national carrier to sell the iPhone.
But that partnership came at a price.
Sprint CFO Joe Euteneuer said the company agreed to buy roughly $15 billion in iPhones from Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) during the next four years...
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