Level 3 Communications

Shares of Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) were trading higher by more than 2 percent early Thursday morning after the company reported its fourth-quarter results. Level 3 Communications said it earned $0.53 per share in the fourth quarter on revenue of $2.1 billion. Wall Street...

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U.S. stocks continued to sell off on Friday on higher than usual volume. Semiconductor stocks were hit hard following Microchip's profit warning and cautious sector-wide comments. The rest of the tech sector was weak, especially "momentum" and high-beta stocks as the Nasdaq index...

U.S. stocks were little changed with the S&P 500 closing for the second straight day above the 2,000 mark. Markets were on track for a flat open and volume and volatility remained relatively light throughout the trading session as geopolitical events remain in focus. Israel and Gaza have...

U.S. stocks were mixed as the Fed continued to wind down its monthly asset purchase program by another $10 billion. The Fed noted that the economy rebounded in the second quarter despite significant under-utilization remaining in the labor market. As such, the Fed noted, it will maintain a...

U.S. stocks fell as the Dow dipped below the 17,000 marks as geopolitical concerns become a main focus. In a televised statement, President Obama said the United States will expand on sanctions meant to hurt Russia's energy, defense and financial sectors. The move follows Russia's...

U.S. stocks closed the day slightly higher as a mergers and acquisition heavy trading session eased fears over escalating violence in Iraq. The New York Federal Reserve's Empire State index for June showed that business conditions in June rose from May. In fact, June's reading proved...

We are on the verge of huge technological change, according to analysts at Oppenheimer. They see a coming convergence of mobile and cloud computing with telecommunications, in which companies such as DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV), Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) and T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS) may be may...

U.S. stocks finished the day almost unchanged as investors and traders were presented with a mixed bag of data today. A better than expected report on the service sector negated another report that showed that companies added fewer employees to their payrolls than anticipated in January. The...

In the wake of the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit in Las Vegas, analysts at Cowen & Co. have released a new report suggesting that merger and acquisition activity in the sector could occur soon. So far this year, little of the increased spending on storage and networking that...

Up until now, AT&T (NYSE: T) provided free Wi-Fi to Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) customers in America. Going forward, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT) will replace AT&T as the providers of free Internet access. On its official blog, Google promised to deliver...

In the just released report on the results of an analysis of first-quarter earnings from communication and wireless stocks, Oppenheimer analysts suggest that social networking, mobile video and online gaming will continue to boost the growth of wireless data and cloud services providers. The three...