David Marcus

In a report published Wednesday, Morgan Stanley analyst Smittipon Srethapramote commented on Facebook Inc's (NASDAQ: FB) person-to-person payments service on Messenger that allows users to send money to each other using debit cards. "We view this as an incremental positive for the...

U.S. stocks were mostly unchanged on a catalyst-light day characterized by low volume. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) has a three-month daily average volume of over 101 million only traded hands 47.8 million times on Tuesday. With little economic or market moving catalysts due in the...

PayPal announced on Thursday that it was “launching” PayPal Galactic in partnership with the SETI Institute and astronaut, Buzz Aldrin. You know this has happened to you before. You’re flying around in space and you get halfway around the moon and you run out of antimatter. (If you’re not a...

NBC, one of the nation's least popular TV networks, is in serious trouble. In February, the Los Angeles Times' Scott Collins detailed NBC's painful decline. "The Broadway drama 'Smash'…bombed on its return, with low ratings that shocked even TV veterans," Collins wrote. "The medical thriller 'Do...

Are investors missing out on a great opportunity by avoiding AIG (NYSE: AIG)? According to Evermore Global Advisors co-founder, CEO and CIO David Marcus, the answer is yes. "Our largest holding today is AIG," Marcus told Benzinga. "I know a lot of value investors are starting to buy it. We've had...

Less than one year ago, Vivendi explored the possibility of selling Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI). The French conglomerate ultimately decided to hold onto its 62 percent stake in the Call of Duty maker. As Vivendi sells off other assets, however, there is always the possibility that it may one day...