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The Comcast And NBC Universal Mega-Deal

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:31:06 GMT

Welcome to the Wealth Daily Weekend Edition — our insights from the week in investing and links to our most-read Wealth Daily and sister publication articles. Another dizzying week of ups and downs was capped with good news yesterday...[More...]

Comcast to Pay $13.75B for NBC

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:58:40 GMT

Comcast Corporation (CMCSA) is expected to pay $13.75 billion in cash and assets to gain control of NBC Universal from General Electric Company (GE).[More...]

With NBC Deal Done, Comcast Becomes The New Cable Juggernaut

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:01:33 GMT

Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA) will acquire a 51% stake in General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal Inc. for $13.75 billion in cash and assets, giving the cable giant lucrative cable channels including SyFy, Bravo and the USA Network, as well as Universal Pictures and its related theme parks in California, Florida and Japan.[More...]

Comcast Corp And General Electric JV Likely To Spur Deals In Media Industry

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:48:00 GMT

On November 2, 2009, 150 or so of the global media elite gathered at the Thomson Reuters headquarters in New York’s Times Square to listen to a panel discussion on why media deals fail. During that discussion, Leo Hindery Jr, former cable executive and now partner of investment firm InterMedia Partners said that NBC Universal and Comcast badly needed to strike a deal. A month after i.e., yesterday Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE) owner of NBCU announced a deal to form a joint-venture in entertainment.[More...]

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:19:07 GMT

As expected, Bank of America (BAC) will repurchase its $45 billion TARP preferreds, funded in part by an additional $18.8 billion in "common stock equivalents", $4.0 billion in asset sales, and $1.7 billion in restricted stock issued to employees in lieu of cash bonuses.[More...]

11 Dividend Stocks Giving You More To Spend

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:54:45 GMT

You can't spend earnings! At first glance, this seems like an odd statement, possibly even incorrect. However, it is not only correct, but an important axiom for all types of investors. Through fraud and manipulation financial statements can be made to look quite impressive, but the cash that arrives in your brokerage account is real.[More...]

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:21:30 GMT

Good morning. Stocks tanked in the last half-hour on Thursday and while the major news outlets attributed the decline to either profit taking or some trepidation in front of this morning's big Jobs report, we'd like to offer a little more substantial reason for the 85 point dive on an otherwise subdued day of trading.[More...]

Fed Balance Sheet Declines By $15 Billion After Improbable Reduction In MBS, Excess Reserves, Monetary Base Hit Record

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:14:41 GMT

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet declined by $15 billion to $2,183 billion from the prior week, after the Fed presumably offloaded $2.7 billion in MBS: this is the first time since QE started that MBS holdings have declined. If anyone can tell us just who the idiots are who bought MBS from the Fed (and at what price), and who the even greater idiots are who are supposed to believe this, please send us an email.[More...]

Wall Street Slips On Services Data, American Express (NYSE: AXP) Slumps

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:17:35 GMT

US stocks finished down on Thursday as investors were spooked by downbeat ISM services data.[More...]

Market Closing Update: Late Slide For Stocks Reflects Jobs Report Jitters

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:45:00 GMT

Stocks pushed to new daily lows heading into the close, including a brief 100-point drop for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as Wall Street braces for the latest monthly jobs report out early Friday. The DJIA closed down 86 points or 0.8%, the S&P 500 shed 0.8% and the Nasdaq dropped 0.5%.[More...]

GE to buy $345 mln of ads from NBC Universal

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:52:00 GMT

PHILADELPHIA - General Electric Co. has promised to buy at least $345 million in advertising from NBC Universal over five years after selling a controlling stake in the entertainment company to Comcast Corp., according to a regulatory filing Friday.
In addition, GE is required to buy $50 million worth of ads in connection with the 2012 Olympic Games, whose rights NBC holds.
Comcast disclosed the details in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that also covered terms of GE's divestiture rights for NBC Universal, tax matters, intellectual property and others.

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The Comcast And NBC Universal Mega-Deal

Comcast to Pay $13.75B for NBC

With NBC Deal Done, Comcast Becomes The New Cable Juggernaut

Comcast Corp And General Electric JV Likely To Spur Deals In Media Industry

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

11 Dividend Stocks Giving You More To Spend

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Fed Balance Sheet Declines By $15 Billion After Improbable Reduction In MBS, Excess Reserves, Monetary Base Hit Record

Wall Street Slips On Services Data, American Express (NYSE: AXP) Slumps

Market Closing Update: Late Slide For Stocks Reflects Jobs Report Jitters

GE to buy $345 mln of ads from NBC Universal

UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News

St. Petersburg Times, Fla., Mark Albright column: FiOS subscribers can be an HSN couch potato

Comcast-NBC deal shows future is in content

Comcast-NBC deal shows future is in content

Comcast-NBC deal shows future is in content

Business Highlights

Morning biz update: Comcast buys NBC, energy tax credits scaling back, home prices still falling

Comcast aims to reshape entertainment with NBC

Little should change soon at the ever-evolving NBC

ADDING MULTIMEDIA Comcast and GE to Create Leading Entertainment Company

Comcast and GE to Create Leading Entertainment Company

Citi Trends Announces Third Quarter 2009 Results

Trade Alert: Dragon Capital Group - November 20, 2009

Comcast Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

Gabelli & Company Releases The Focus Five

Corporate Office Properties Trust Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

DIRECTV Holdings LLC Announces Completion of Tender Offer for 8-3/8% Senior Notes Due 2013 and Notice of Optional Redemption for the Remaining Outstanding 8-3/8% Senior Notes Due 2013

DIRECTV Completes $2.0 Billion Financing

DIRECTV Holdings LLC Prices Issue of $2 Billion of New Debt

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