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Daily Archives: December 17, 2006

California Gets More Nutty (GM)(F)(TM)

Posted: December 17, 2006 at 7:39 pm

The big car companies being sued by the Attorney General of Califonia for causing global warming, which harms state citizens and damages the infrastructure. Apparently no other states have followed ...
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Detroit Loses More Ground (GM)(DCX)(F)

Posted: December 17, 2006 at 7:27 pm

The average price of a new car from the Big Three dropped, again. Reuters quotes that Labor Department as reporting that new vehicle prices dropped .7% in November, the largest ...
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Chrysler Needs A Salesman (DCX)(TM)

Posted: December 17, 2006 at 1:15 pm

Tom LaSorda, the CEO of Chrysler, says he will be his own sales and marketing director. The fellow who held the job until recently was sacked. LaSorda says he will ...
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Cable Companies Lobby For Mercy (CMCSA)(VZ)

Posted: December 17, 2006 at 12:28 pm

Cable companies are getting very nervous that the FCC will make it much easier for the telecom companies to compete for home video subscription. And, the argument against cable may ...
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Will Lowe’s Come Back? Bear Stearns’ Nutty Theory

Posted: December 17, 2006 at 12:04 pm

Stocks:  (LOW)(HD)According to Barron's, the analysts at Bear Stearns think that things are about to get much better at household goods retailer Lowe's.  Bear Stearns has put a new target ...
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Will Dell Rule China? (DELL)(HPQ)

Posted: December 17, 2006 at 11:50 am

Dell has gotten a delisting notice from Nasdaq. Its share of the PC market is dropping. Like many other US company's maybe it will try to find the solution to ...
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China Versus OPEC

Posted: December 17, 2006 at 11:38 am

The Chinese decided to invite all of the big energy consuming nations to Beijing. The idea behind the conference is to set up a common set of goals like conserving ...
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Yahoo’s Pipe Dream, Diller’s Decision

Posted: December 17, 2006 at 11:27 am

Stocks:  (IACA)(YHOO)(GOOG)(MSFT)The editor at Fortune seem to think they have come up with a set of circumstances in which Yahoo! could catch Google in the search industry.That'll be the day.Fortune ...
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Eli Lilly’s Picking On Schizophrenics (LLY)

Posted: December 17, 2006 at 7:49 am

Picking on people with schizophrenia would seem to be very unfair. If it is a large corporation, the odds against prople with serious mental illness would really seem to be ...
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