Charter is the product of the 2016 merger of three cable companies, each with a decades-long history in the business: Legacy Charter, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks. The firm now holds networks capable of providing television, internet access, and phone services to roughly 58 million US homes and businesses, around 35% of the country. Across this footprint, Charter serves 30 million residential and 2 million commercial customer accounts under the Spectrum brand, making it the second-largest US cable company behind Comcast. The firm also owns, in whole or in part, sports and news networks, including Spectrum SportsNet (Los Angeles Lakers), SportsNet LA (Los Angeles Dodgers), SportsNet New York (New York Mets), and Spectrum News NY1. Charter plans to acquire cable peer Cox.

Charter is the product of the 2016 merger of three cable companies, each with a decades-long history in the business: Legacy Charter, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks. The firm now holds networks capable of providing television, internet access, and phone services to roughly 58 million US homes and businesses, around 35% of the country. Across this footprint, Charter serves 29 million residential and 2 million commercial customer accounts under the Spectrum brand, making it the second-largest US cable company behind Comcast. The firm also owns, in whole or in part, sports and news networks, including Spectrum SportsNet (Los Angeles Lakers), SportsNet LA (Los Angeles Dodgers), SportsNet New York (New York Mets), and Spectrum News NY1. Charter plans to acquire cable peer Cox.

Year-end tax-loss harvesting is the strategic selling of investments at a loss before December 31st to offset capital gains and potentially reduce overall tax liability. This strategy is an important part of year-end financial planning. It takes discipline to sell stocks, however. Many times, investors are reluctant to sell stocks that are down in the dumps due to hopes that a turnaround is coming soon. In this case, an alternative strategy can be to sell those losers and buy a similar stock or related industry ETF in an attempt to capture upside down the road. Beware of the tax rules. The so-called wash sale rule from the IRS prohibits selling an investment for a loss and replacing it with the same or "substantially identical" investment 30 days before or after the sale. Here's a list of stocks on the Argus HOLD list that have fallen the farthest from their 52-week highs and could be tax-loss candidates.

Charter provides cable television, high-speed internet, digital and wireless telephone services to communities across the United States. In May 2016, Charter acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. Charter is the third-largest multichannel video program distributor in the U.S. John Malone's Liberty Broadband and Advance/Newhouse, the former owner of Bright House, together own a controlling minority interest in Charter.