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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Hefty trash-bag maker Pactiv(PTV) have skyrocketed more than 20% Monday on word that private equity firm Apollo Global Management may acquire the company in a leveraged buyout. The deal talks, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, could conclude in a matter of...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Sirius(NASDAQ: SIRI) chief Mel Karmazin said there was nothing new to report on the status of Howard Stern as the company's top talent has seven more months remaining on his five-year contract. Speaking to analysts during the company's first quarter earnings call Tuesday,...

OMAHA, Neb. (TheStreet) -- Warren Buffett is a hypocrite. For at least eight years, the Oracle of Omaha had been grousing about the derivatives business: In 2002, he made the famous assertion that derivatives are "financial weapons of mass destruction"; in 2003, he called derivatives "unattractive...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Apple(NASDAQ: AAPL), Google(NASDAQ: GOOG) and Netflix(NASDAQ: NFLX) are among the top choices of Ryan Jacob, manager of the Jacob Internet Fund(MUTF:JAMFX). The Jacob Internet Fund was started Dec. 31, 1999, three months before the technology bubble burst. Since then, the...

(TheStreet)-- Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) Droid Incredible may just be the best Android yet dethroning Google's own branded smartphone. The Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Nexus One was released on T-Mobile a few months ago. Then there was supposed to be a Nexus One coming on Verizon. Instead, we're promised an AT...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Today we'll look at four exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track stock market sectors that should benefit from the economic recovery. The U.S. stock markets have witnessed their biggest rally since the Great Depression and remain relatively cheap. Meanwhile, data show the...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TheStreet) -- Bank of America(NYSE: BAC), which repaid $45 billion in TARP aid in December, is using a new History Channel miniseries to showcase its role in some of America's biggest milestones. During The Story of U.S., a 12-hour miniseries that debuted Sunday, Bank of America...

During the past couple of weeks, finance sites are seeing drastic increases in traffic. It appears there a number of factors that are driving traffic to these sites at abnormally high levels. We spoke with executives at several finance sites, who said they are seeing record levels of traffic during...

In an article on TheStreet.com, Gregg Greenberg quotes Kevin Rendino as saying that the shares of IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Xerox (NYSE: XRX) are very attractively valued and prices could rise as firms upgrade their computer systems. Kevin Rendino, manager of the BlackRock Basic...

In an article on TheStreet, Adam Feuerstein said that he continues to have ambivalent feeling about Opexa Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OPXA). The company had reported disappointing phase IIb results of its experimental multiple sclerosis "vaccine" Tovaxin in September 2008. Ever since, OPXA has been...

Zhabei, China (TheStreet) -- JA Solar(NASDAQ: JASO) upped its shipment guidance for the first quarter on Wednesday morning and solar shares roared ahead, in the latest "here we go again" solar rally. Will this solar rally last? Or is it just the first of many signs to come of the pull-in demand in...