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Chicago, IL – November 5, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Time Warner Inc. (TWX), Fannie (FNM), Freddie (FRE), Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC).

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Here are highlights from Wednesday’s AnalystBlog:

Time Warner Tops Zacks Consensus

Despite tough macro-economic conditions, Time Warner Inc. (TWX), the global leader in media and entertainment businesses, reported better-than-expected third-quarter 2009 results that topped the Zacks Consensus Estimate.

The quarterly earnings of 61 cents a share beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 52 cents, but

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Despite tough macro-economic conditions, Time Warner Inc. (TWX), the global leader in media and entertainment businesses, reported better-than-expected third-quarter 2009 results that topped the Zacks Consensus Estimate. The quarterly earnings of 61 cents a share beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 52 cents, but dropped 6% from 65 cents delivered in the prior-year quarter. On a reported basis, including one-time items, quarterly earnings came in at 55 cents a share, sharply down by 38% from 89 cents posted in the year-ago quarter. On account of better-than-expected results at its Content Group -- comprising Networks, Filmed Entertainment, Publishing and Corporate segments -- Time Warner boosts its business outlook. The company now expects its full year 2009 earnings to be $2.05 per share, up from $1.98 previously anticipated. Total revenue for the quarter tumbled 6% to $7,135 million due to a fall in revenue at the AOL, ...

Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) is likely to start its nationwide TV Everywhere service, named “On Demand Online", within the next couple of months. TV Everywhere is basically a broadband video service that will enable pay-TV subscribers to watch premium cable programming online over broadband networks. Preference for video-on-demand (watching movie on the Internet) has increased significantly among customers. In addition, demand for online gaming and downloading of various multimedia applications has also gone up.  With TV Everywhere, cable TV subscribers will have access to any entertainment content developer’s library on his/her computer, notebook and mobile handset through an easy and quick authentication system that will link their pay-TV subscriptions to watch cable programming using a broadband connection.  Since last June, Comcast, together with Time Warner Inc. (TWX) is conducting a trial run for its On Demand Online service with 5,000 customers. The trial implemented a "check-in ...

As an investor I've always been interested in, Prince Alwaleed carries an interesting story. His Citigroup investment has been well documented, first as a wild success, and then, well we all know what happened to Citigroup in 2008. I read his biography and reviewed it awhile back (a href="http://briskycapital.blogspot.com/2007/11/book-review-alwaleed-by-riz-khan.html"Click here to read review and purchase book/a).br /br /Today, I found a a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087amp;sid=aGiKNISJrIkc"piece from Bloomberg /agiving us an update on how he has survived the recession. So far, it looks like he's done well:br /br /br /blockquotepAug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Citigroup Inc.’s largestbr /individual investor, was ranked the richest Saudi national by Arabian Business,br /even after losing 4.6 percent of his personal wealth in the past year.br /br /Alwaleed’s assets are valued at $16.3 billion, compared with $17.1 billionbr /last year, the Dubai-based magazine said today in its 2009 Saudi Rich List,br /citing the accounts of ...

Is it time to buy a house? Depends…

If you need a place to live and want to own a house, why not? Prices in some areas are fairly reasonable. But if you’re speculating, our guess is that you’ll get a better deal if you wait.

Why? For the many reasons we have given you in these Daily Reckonings. House prices may be firming in some areas – that’s what the Case-Shiller numbers seem to show. But nationwide, they are probably headed down for quite a while longer.

Herewith, four reasons why:

First, as you know, this is a depression. It will probably be long. And deep. You wouldn’t know it from looking at the stock market or reading the news. The Dow went up another 114 points yesterday. Oil rose to $71. And the dollar – anticipating inflation – fell to $1.44 per euro.

But that’s what bounces are supposed to look like.

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Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) posted better-than-expected second-quarter results this morning, driven by growth in subscription revenues.

The second-largest cable operator in the U.S. reported adjusted earnings of 91 cents per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by more than 13%.

Sales expanded 4% to $4.5 billion.

Time Warner Cable said subscription revenue grew 6%, primarily driven by a 9% growth in high-speed data coupled with a 19% increase in voice revenue.

The company, which was spun-off from Time Warner Inc. (TWX) in March this year, said total subscribership remained almost flat at 14.7 million.

Meanwhile, the full-year Zacks Consensus Estimate derived from 17 covering analysts is currently pegged at $2.98 per share, which has climbed 2 cents over the past 2 months.

TWC, a Zacks #3 Rank ("Hold") stock, has slipped nearly 4% on volume of approximately 2.5 million, compared to the average daily volume of about 2.95 million.

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Grow Rich Automatically with the World’s Only Gold-Backed “Cash” The U.S. Treasury Dept. has finally approved the new gold-backed “cash.” And according to gold expert Peter Schiff, this new money, called “Gold Dollars,” is not only the best place for your savings today… it could prove very profitable. Why? Because every “dollar” you hold in your bank account is backed by 1 gram of solid gold, held in Fort Knox-like security. So when each gram of gold goes up in value, so does your cash! (Meanwhile, you can spend your money just like you would regular paper dollars.) For Schiff’s full report, please go here.

U.S. President Barack Obama took a swipe at Wall Street yesterday (Wednesday) as he unveiled a sweeping 85-page proposal to reinvigorate government regulation of the U.S. financial markets by giving the Federal Reserve new powers to supervise the economy. The proposal is part of …

Grow Rich Automatically with the World’s Only Gold-Backed “Cash” The U.S. Treasury Dept. has finally approved the new gold-backed “cash.” And according to gold expert Peter Schiff, this new money, called “Gold Dollars,” is not only the best place for your savings today… it could prove very profitable. Why? Because every “dollar” you hold in your bank account is backed by 1 gram of solid gold, held in Fort Knox-like security. So when each gram of gold goes up in value, so does your cash! (Meanwhile, you can spend your money just like you would regular paper dollars.) For Schiff’s full report, please go here.

By Don Miller Associate Editor Money Morning

U.S. President Barack Obama took a swipe at Wall Street yesterday (Wednesday) as he unveiled a sweeping 85-page proposal to reinvigorate government regulation of the U.S. financial markets by giving the Federal Reserve new powers to supervise the …

Time Warner Inc. (TWX) has moved closer to divesting AOL, as the unit led by Tim Armstrong is now concentrating on expanding into the local online service market through strategic acquisitions.

AOL announced today that it was buying two small startup firms, Patch Media Corp and Going Inc, for less than $10 million each according to people close to the matter. While Patch helps local community sites publish news and information, Going offers information about local events across 30 cities in the U.S.

Armstrong, who joined AOL in April, said that local search would be the company's "core area of focus and investment" going forward, as it tries to expand around its popular Mapquest mapping service.

The Time Warner unit which is expected to be spun off as an independent company by the end of this year has been struggling to match pace with online search giants like Google

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Highlights include Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (MVL), The Walt Disney Company (DIS), Time Warner, Inc. (TWX), News Corporation (NWS) and Viacom, Inc. (VIA).Marvel Entertainment's (MVL) characters are demonstrating super-human resiliency to the recession. The comic book publisher reported 1Q09 EPS of $0.57, trouncing the Zacks estimate ($0.35) and the consensus ($0.36), driven largely by the timing of film revenue recognition, but also by better-than-expected licensing and film production results.EPS in the year-ago quarter was $0.58, benefiting from the release of two self-produced films. No films were released in 1Q09.Because most of the 1Q09 earnings beat came from earlier-than-expected recognition of film production revenue, management raised the lower end of its 2009 EPS guidance by just $0.10 -- reflecting stronger licensing and film production revenue, and a lower effective tax rate.Though no new films were released in 1Q09, ...