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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner in 2018, which spliced together telecommunications and TV programming, was an example of looney-tunes logic. Chief Executive John Stankey has a chance to try and put it

U.S. telecoms giant AT&T Inc is nearing a deal to combine its media assets, including CNN and HBO, with Discovery Inc, the owner of lifestyle TV networks such as HGTV and TLC, according to news reports citing unnamed sources.

Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) reported a blowout quarter in just about every way except one. Unfortunately, the market latched on to the one number that was disappointing -- its U.S. active user growth -- and punished the stock. On a Fool Live episode recorded on April 28, Fool contribu

Let's say you stumble across a stock you've never heard of before that has generated amazing annual returns of 20% or more year after year. Would you immediately add it to your portfolio? If you're smart, you'd answer no. What if Warren Buffett recommended it? Your answer should

Great companies that consistently find ways to keep growing are the stocks that create millionaires over time.Three of my favorite picks right now are Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), and Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). These stocks are neither too expensive nor

Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) has found a killer growth strategy. It's not that the game developer was struggling in prior fiscal years, but the latest trends are more impressive than investors have seen to date. Activision has added over 100 million highly engaged users to

Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) has drawn comparisons to Netflix on multiple occasions, particularly as the streaming-media company invests in podcast content. Spotify's latest investment is the exclusive rights to Dax Shepherd's Armchair Expert, which follows its deal last year with Joe Ro

Slow subscriber growth at Walt Disney Co's streaming service in the last quarter was a speed bump as a slate of Marvel superhero films and sci-fi thrillers from the Hollywood powerhouse will attract new fans, analysts said.

J.P.Morgan expressed confidence that Walt Disney Co's popular streaming service will grow at a robust pace despite a sluggish showing in the second quarter, and said its legacy businesses will also improve as economies reopen.

The stock market doesn't always make sense, and that's especially true when focusing on a relatively short period. Shares of great companies can prove volatile in the short run, sometimes for no good reason. But in the long run, winners keep winning, and the market rewards those

A year after leaving their royal duties to move to Los Angeles, Madame Tussauds has now decided waxwork models of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan now belong in the attraction's Hollywood zone and not with the other members of the House of Windsor.

Never is a very long time, but there are a few stocks that I don't intend to sell before I retire, at the very least. For all intents and purposes, those are my "forever holdings."Chief among them is Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). Let me tell you why this stock holds a permanent place i

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is a solid long-term investment that you can hold in your portfolio for many years. But if you're a dividend investor, you can do a heck of a lot better than the income you can earn from this stock. At just 1.6%, it's not much higher than the S&P 500 avera

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Wall Street's main indexes were set to open lower on Wednesday after stronger-than-expected inflation data fueled fears of tighter monetary policy to combat possibly a longer period of inflation.

Most investors spend a good deal of time searching for the next big story stock, or looking out for reasons to shed names they already own. And to be fair, these are important parts of investing.Sometimes, though, it pays to do a little generalized, topical studying.

U.S. stock index futures slipped on Wednesday as investors cautiously awaited inflation data that could force the Federal Reserve to reconsider its ultra-loose monetary policy.

Italy's top commercial broadcaster Mediaset on Wednesday posted a 63% rise in first-quarter operating profit following lower costs and a rebound in domestic advertising sales from last year's pandemic-driven slump.

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan's Archewell Foundation said on Tuesday it has entered into a multi-year partnership with consumer goods company Procter & Gamble aimed at building more compassionate communities.