Stock Surge Validates AT&T’s Move to Spin, not Split, Stake in Warner Bros.

Text size AT&T’s spinoff appears to be popular with its legions of retail investors. Chris DELMAS / AFP / Getty Images The 7% gain in AT&T shares Monday offers some validation for the co...

AT&T Stock Rises After the Merger. What Do the Charts Say?

Shares of AT&T  (T) – Get AT&T Inc. Report are higher on Monday, at last check about 8% up, after the company completed its merger with Discovery on Friday. The split leaves the pure-pla...

How to Handle the Taxes on the AT&T Spinoff of Warner Bros.

Text size The Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif. AT&T shareholders have received a 0.242 share of Warner Bros. Discovery for each AT&T share. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg Bing Guan/B...

Starry’s Home Broadband Is Giving Consumers a New Way to Cut the Cord

Starry says its can build its broadband service—using wireless connections—at 1% of the cost of more traditional fiberoptic networks. Illustration by Barron’s Staff; (routers) Courtesy of Starry...

Apple Stock Falls and Suppliers Decline on Report of iPhone SE Output Cuts

Text size The next-generation iPhone SE Courtesy Apple Shares of Apple and the tech giant’s suppliers were falling early Monday following a Nikkei Asia report that said Apple plans to make about 20% f...

What AT&T Is Giving Investors in WarnerMedia Spinoff⁠ and How It Will Work

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This article originally appeared on MarketWatch. AT&T Inc. detailed its plans for the spinoff of WarnerMedia on Friday, with investors eventually expected to...

Chinese Telecom Giant ZTE Registers Metaverse Trademark As NFT Trademark Applications Soar In China

Chinese telecommunication giant ZTE has announced its arrival at the Metaverse market. The company has successfully registered several Metaverse English trademarks. However, ZTE’s trademarks fall unde...

T-Mobile Stock Gets an Upgrade. It Has an Edge Over Verizon and AT&T.

Text size T-Mobile’s stock was upgraded to Overweight. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg T-Mobile US shares were ticking up on Wednesday after KeyBanc Capital Markets upgraded the wireless company’s s...

Norway’s Central Bank Sells Apple Stock. It Bought Nvidia, Plug Power, and NIO.

Text size The iPhone 13 displayed at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store Spencer Platt/Getty Images Norway’s central bank recently trimmed its exposure to iPhones, and increased investments in the ecosystem ...

Carl Icahn Slashes Stake in Occidental Petroleum

Text size These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities....

Verizon Has Plans for Faster Growth. Stock Buybacks Are Coming Closer.

Text size Hans Vestberg, Verizon’s CEO. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications could be poised to deliver faster growth in profits and revenue, making possible continued dividend inc...

Best Telecom ETFs for Q2 2022

Telecom exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are liquid instruments with exposure to companies that provide the infrastructure, products, and services that enable communication. The telecommunications sector ...

Telecom Giant Airtel Acquires Aqilliz, Transforming Adtech & Creator Economy with Blockchain

Airtel, an Indian multinational telecommunications company with operations in eighteen countries, has attained a strategic stake in Blockchain-as-a-Service Company Aqilliz under its start-up accelerat...

Here Are the 10 Highest-Yielding S&P 500 Stocks

High dividend yields are a nice offset to inflation, now running at more than 7%, the highest rate in four decades. Barron’s screened the S&P 500 for the 10 highest-yielding stocks based on data f...

Nokia Is Remaking Itself Into a 5G Leader. Now Might Be the Time to Plug Into the Stock.

Nokia unveiled a broad restructuring plan last March. Roni Rekomaa/Bloomberg Text size Nokia has had a tough few years, but the Finnish telecom giant has successfully engineered the first part of its ...

Ericsson Shares Sink After Company Says It May Have Made Payments to ISIS

Text size TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images Shares of Ericsson plunged on Wednesday after the Swedish telecom equipment maker said an internal investigation identified that it may have made payments...

AMD Stock Rose After Company Closed Buy of Xilinx

Text size AMD completed the acquisition of Xilinx. Dreamstime Advanced Micro Devices said Monday morning that it completed its all-stock acquisition of Xilinx, and AMD CEO Lisa Su added the chair titl...

Teladoc Stock Has Tumbled. Goldman Sachs Sees a Major Recovery.

Text size Teladoc stock is set for a big comeback, says Goldman Sachs. Courtesy of Teladoc Teladoc Health stock has shed half its value in the past six months. An analyst at Goldman Sachs says it’s ti...

Giant Pension Sold Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm Stock. It Bought Nvidia.

Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** The Apple logo Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images One of the world’s largest public pensions by assets made major changes in its investments in large-cap tech stocks a...

How to Handle Taxes After AT&T’s Spinoff of WarnerMedia

Text size AT&T holders are due to receive about 0.24 share of Warner Bros. Discovery for each AT&T share. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Income-oriented investors in AT&T face a choice when t...

AT&T Spent a Decade Buying Things. Now It’s Cleaning House.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size AT&T cast light on its pending spinoff of WarnerMedia to Discovery this past week—a big step toward putting a decade of misguided mergers and acquisitions beh...

Nokia Reinstates Dividend, Sets New, Long-Term Margins Target

Text size The logo of telecommunications giant Nokia before the company’s press conference in Espoo, Finland. Markku Ulander /Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images Nokia on Thursday reinstated its quar...

PayPal Stock Sinks as Earnings Miss, Guidance ‘Lacks Anything Redeeming’

Text size PayPal stock was sinking after the company reported disappointing earnings. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images PayPal stock was sinking after the payments company reported earnings and guidance th...

AT&T Is Getting Closer to a Clean Slate. Here’s What Comes Next.

Text size After a saga of misguided M&A, there’s still work to be done for AT&T. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images AT&T shed some light on its pending exit from the media business on ...

AT&T CFO Defends Spinoff, Saying It Benefits Retail Investors

Text size AT&T’s chief financial officer, Pascal Desroches. Courtesy AT&T AT&T is defending its move to spin off its big stake in WarnerMedia rather than pursue a split-off, or excha...

AT&T’s Move to Spin Off WarnerMedia Disappoints Investors

Text size AT&T plans to pay a $1.11 annual dividend, down from the current $2.08 a share. Stefani Reynolds /AFP via Getty Images AT&T ‘s decision Tuesday to spin off its stake in WarnerMedia t...

AT&T to Spin Off WarnerMedia, Plans Deep Cut to Its Dividend

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T said Tuesday it would spin off its interest in WarnerMedia following WarnerMedia’s merger with Discovery . AT&T (ticker: T) also said its board appr...

Why AT&T May Be Leaning Toward a Spinoff of Its Discovery Stake

AT&T may be leaning toward a straightforward spinoff of the 71% stake in the new Warner Bros. Discovery in the coming months rather than a complex “split-off,” or exchange offer. A transaction in ...

Giant Bank Bought Up Apple, Comcast Stock. It Dropped AT&T and Visa.

Text size German banking giant Commerzbank bought up Apple stock in the fourth quarter. Dreamstime A German banking giant made some abrupt changes in its U.S.-traded investments. Commerzbank initiated...

An Apple Bear Throws In the Towel, Removes Sell Rating

Text size “We abandon our Sell rating…seeing no indication that our thesis is playing out,” wrote New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu. Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images for Apple One of Wall Street...

Comcast, Chevron, and 7 More Companies That Just Boosted Their Stock Dividends

Text size Comcast raised its dividend this week. Jeff Fusco/Getty Images for Comcast Chevron , Comcast , and Kimberly-Clark were among the many U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this wee...

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg Bought $1 Million of Stock

Text size Verizon Chairman and CEO Hans Vestberg. Noam Galai/Getty Images for Verizon Media Verizon Communications stock didn’t get a bounce from a fourth-quarter report, and Chairman and CEO Hans Ves...