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Weight Watchers Spikes On Oprah's New York Post Report
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 2:54pm | 284Weight Watchers International, Inc. (NYSE: WTW) shares spiked on Friday following the New York Post report that "the stock, at least for now, has the media mogul beat." Shares of Weight Watchers closed Thursday at $11.98. The company's market cap fell on Thursday, as its shares dropped 4.39...
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Weight Watchers Continues Run After Oprah-Driven Rally
Thursday, December 31, 2015 - 12:29pm | 336Weight Watchers International, Inc. (NYSE: WTW) stock is still hot, soaring 27.3 percent this week following Oprah's TV commercial aired across social media Wednesday. Weight Watchers was recently seen trading at $23.18, up $0.13 since Wednesday's close at $23.05. Winfrey's emotional tweet sent...
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How Oprah Could Push Weight Watchers' Stock To $19
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 9:35am | 346Shares of Weight Watchers International, Inc. (NYSE: WTW) surged higher by more than 100 percent on Monday after Oprah Winfrey announced she acquired a 10 percent stake. Meredith Adler of Barclays commented in a note that a partnership with Oprah is likely to "speed up considerably...
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5 Candidates To Purchase The Los Angeles Clippers
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 12:30pm | 1049The state that voted the biggest action movie star ever its governor and whose capital city's mayor-ship is in the hands of a former NBA all-star may have its once sad-sack franchise open for bidding. The fun is just beginning. Donald Sterling will soon be out. That's the plan NBA...
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Where to Watch Lance Armstrong Admit He Doped
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 12:06pm | 227Lance Armstrong is expected to finally admit that he used a number of banned performance-enhancing substances during his time as a professional cyclist. Armstrong, who created the Livestrong Foundation after being diagnosed with (and subsequently beating) testicular cancer, lost all of his titles...
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Discovery CEO David Zaslav Reportedly Criticizes Fox Anchor At Cable Industry Conference
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 7:43pm | 371Yesterday, the annual cable confab known as NCTA kicked off in Chicago with a keynote address by newly elected Mayor Rahm Emanuel to a packed house of cable executives. This was followed by Discovery President & CEO David Zaslav introducing the conference's opening session with industry titans...
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Public Companies Giving Out Cash Like They're Oprah on a Coke Binge
Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 5:25pm | 538For all the talk about the recession, one segment of the economy is booming. The corporate world is flush with cash, and the proof is in the dividend pudding. Take a look at the news wire the last few days. It seems like everybody and their grandmother is handing out new dividends, increasing...
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Piers Morgan's Ratings Plummeting On CNN
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 6:44pm | 220Piers Morgan, the former America's Got Talent Host who replaced Larry King in CNN's Lineup, is seeing Nielsen ratings for his Piers Morgan Tonight show plummet in recent days. In fact, on Thursday 1/27, CNBC's Supermarket, Inc. special at 9 p.m. beat Piers Morgan Tonight. CNBC had viewership of...