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Jana Partners 13F Filing Shows Moves In Alibaba & Other Big Names
Friday, November 14, 2014 - 12:34pm | 411In a 13F filing report on Friday, activist hedge fund Jana Partners reported all positions it held as of September 30, 2014. Jana Partners closed out positions in the following: Sold 200,000 shares of CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) class A shares and 4,127,149 shares of CBS Class B shares....
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Rumor: Rackspace Hosting, Inc. Could Get $55/Share Bid
Monday, September 15, 2014 - 5:56pm | 293Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE: RAX) may fetch a bid of $55 a share from landline phone company CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL), according to a British-based blogger and freelance journalist. The writer, Ben Harrington, said CenturyLink is banging on the doors of U.S. banks hoping to line up $6...
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Market Wrap For June 13: Despite Rising, Dow And S&P 500 Lower For The Week
Friday, June 13, 2014 - 4:39pm | 1827U.S. stocks closed the day slightly higher to close out the week as investor concerns over escalating violence in Iraq remains. As was the case during the height of the Russia and Ukraine confrontation, investors are hesitant of holding on to investments over the weekend. U.S. Secretary of...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of May 12: Wal-Mart, Deere, Cisco And More
Sunday, May 11, 2014 - 4:26pm | 870Most of the S&P 500 have already posted their first-quarter results. This week, big retailers begin to share their earnings reports. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), the big daddy of retailers, steps onto the earnings stage Thursday. Macy's (NYSE: M) and J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) are also scheduled to...
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Oppenheimer: The Technology Revolution Is Nigh
Friday, April 4, 2014 - 7:24am | 851We 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...
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Market Wrap For February 11: Yellen Re-assures Markets & Wakes Up The Sleeping Bulls
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 5:47pm | 3158U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday as the Federal Reserve's new Chief Janet Yellen reassured investors that she is the right person for the job. In her congressional testimony, Yellen promised to stay the course in regards to the Federal Open Market Committee's approach to monetary policy. Yellen also...
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Rackspace Earnings Preview: Will Short-Term Setbacks Hurt the Long-Term Picture?
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 2:41pm | 695After the market closes on Monday, Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) will report its first quarter results. The current consensus expectation is for Rackspace to report an EPS of $0.14 and $404.86 million revenue. Investors will have high expectations for the company's earnings, as the cloud space has...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of February 10: AIG, Cisco, Deere, PepsiCo And More
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 7:33am | 990The earnings season is winding down. Most of the S&P 500 have reported fourth-quarter results, and the good news is that earnings beats have outnumbered earnings misses. Here is a quick rundown of what analysts expect from some of this week's most prominent quarterly reports. America Movil...
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Market Wrap For February 7: Jobs Report Not Great, But Not Too Bad
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 5:36pm | 3052U.S. stocks rallied for the second straight day, ending a tumultuous week on a positive note as investors found more positives than negatives in today's job reports. "It was bad, but not that bad," an investment officer at Wells Fargo told CNBC. "We've made some progress here, we still think we...
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Cloud Infrastructure Stocks Ready to Boom? (AKAM, EQIX, INXN, RAX)
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 12:23pm | 826In 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...
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Wall Street Firms Offer Rare Approval of White House Patent Move (CSCO, JPM, RAX)
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 3:02pm | 545It doesn’t happen often, but for once Wall Street and the White House see eye to eye. Wall Street firms applauded the Obama administration’s move to reign in the flood of patent-related lawsuits The Wall Street Journal reported, Wednesday. Technology companies claim that the number of lawsuits...
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UPDATE: Piper Jaffray Upgrades Rackspace Hosting from Neutral to Overweight
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 8:51am | 119Piper Jaffray has published a report on Rackspace Hosting Inc (NYSE: RAX) upgrading the company's stock from Neutral to Overweight. In the report, Piper Jaffray wrote, "We are upgrading Rackspace from Neutral to Overweight as we believe the recent pull back in the shares, coupled with strong...
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch Maintains Buy on Rackspace Hosting
Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 8:32am | 93Bank of America Merrill Lynch is out with its report today on Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX), maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Bank of America Merrill Lynch writes, "RAX remains our top infrastructure Cloud name differentiating itself through quality support, proprietary management software...
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Stifel Nicolaus Reiterates Buy on Rackspace Hosting
Friday, May 20, 2011 - 9:39am | 126Stifel Nicolaus is out with its report today on Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX), reiterating Buy. In a note to clients, Stifel Nicolaus writes, "We reiterate our Buy rating on shares of Rackspace and our target price remains $50 based on 15x our 2012 EBITDA estimate. Last week we spent time with...
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Morgan Stanley Maintains Equal-Weight on Rackspace Hosting (RAX)
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 7:31am | 106Morgan Stanley is out with its report today on Rackspace Hosting (NASDAQ: RDA), maintaining Equal-weight. In a note to clients, Morgan Stanley writes, "We believe RAX is well positioned as a pure play on managed hosting / cloud computing within the SMB market, with the potential to take further...