Verizon Communications (Ticker: VZ) was the first Techie Tuesday stock of 2009 and even though the reception was a little fuzzy, VZ was able to put out a BUY signal.
Earlier this week, I was perusing the MarketWatch web site and Barron’s lured me in with the headline “Why Verizon stock could jump 30% in the next 2 years.” Tell me more! I clicked the link and arrived at this one-minute video.

Sounds good and you can’t fit much into a minute, but I needed more to go on with such a powerful headline.
So I did some digging and there are many things that the technical side of analysis …read more

This is the sixth installment of Techie Tuesdays. So far we have looked at Exxon Mobil, Starbucks, and J.P. Morgan Chase, Medco Health Solutions and Toronto-Dominion. Today we will tackle Verizon Communications!
Verizon Communications (Ticker: VZ), known in short as Verizon, is a New York City based company that provides wireline and domestic wireless communication services. Verizon has over 228,000 employees and brought in $96.55 billion (in the 12-month period ended 9/30/08) in revenues.
Verizon’s stock has lost 25 percent of its value in the past year, which is worse than the S&P 500 (34.5 percent) in the same period. (Data from …read more