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Daily Archives: July 11, 2007

Microsoft (MSFT): Xbox Price Cut?

Posted: July 11, 2007 at 5:58 am

Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft (MSFT) may make a huge cut in the price of the Xbox. The company "needs to lower Xbox's $299 to $479 price to increase sales ...
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Private Equity Moves To Metals

Posted: July 11, 2007 at 5:33 am

Usually private equity firms need to do tremendous amounts of work to identify targets. But, in the metals business, the industry may be doing it for them. The M&A dance ...
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Infosys (INFY): Good Earnings, Bad Guidance

Posted: July 11, 2007 at 5:15 am

Infosys (INFY), the India tech outsourcing company, posted an earnings increase of 31%. The strength of the rupee against the dollar will hurt earnings in upcoming quarters, so the company ...
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Europe Markets 7/11/2007

Posted: July 11, 2007 at 5:10 am

Markets in Europe were falling at 6.10 AM New York time.The FTSE was off .3% to 6,612. BP (BP) was down .7% to 607.5. Unilever (UL) was up 3.3% to ...
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Microsoft (MSFT): The Xbox Ain’t Dead Yet

Posted: July 11, 2007 at 4:54 am

"The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated"--Mark TwainThe recent warranty problems with the Microsoft (MSFT) cost the big software company over $1 billion. They had people calling for ...
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New Nielsen Ratings Mean Nothing To Google (GOOG)

Posted: July 11, 2007 at 4:39 am

Nielsen NetRatings is hoping to change the way that websites audiences are measured. The change is significant enough so that it will re-order the rankings of major web properties.The new ...
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AT&T (T) And Verizon (VZ): Worst Nightmare, Spectrum Sale

Posted: July 11, 2007 at 4:27 am

As the land-line businesses at large telcos like AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) have been eroded by technology, especially cable-delivered VoIP, earnings have been kept strong by their cellular divisions. ...
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Media Digest 7/11/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: July 11, 2007 at 3:08 am

According to Reuters, private equity firms are going to start to target big miners like Alcoa (AA).Reuters writes that Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB added 90,000 subscribers over the last quarter.Reuters writes ...
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Asia Markets 7/11/2007

Posted: July 11, 2007 at 2:37 am

Markets in Asia were mostly off.The Nikkei fell 1.1% to 18,050. Honda (HMC) fell 1.3% to 4470. NEC (NIPNY) rose 1.4% to 639. NTT (NTT) fell 2.7% to 530000. Sony ...
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