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Daily Archives: July 13, 2007

A Sane World: Shanghai Up Only As Much As Dow Jones Industrials

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 6:43 am

With all of the concern about how fast the market is moving up in Shanghai, there may be some comfort in the fact that, over the last three months, the ...
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Europe Markets 7/13/2007

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 6:38 am

Markets in Europe were modestly higher at 7.30 AM New York time.The FTSE rose .3% to 6,718. Prudential (PUK) was up 1.9% to 732. Vodafone (VOD) was up .8% to ...
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GE’s (GE) Mixed Bag Of Earnings

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 6:01 am

GE (GE) reported that revenue rose 12% in the last quarter to $42.3 billion. Operating income was up 11% to $6.5 billion. Impressive number off such a large base.But, being ...
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Nintendo: The Deviant’s Advantage

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 5:34 am

A fellow named Watts Wacker wrote a book a few years ago called "The Deviant's Advantage: How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets". Used copies of the book are available on ...
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Will Wal-Mart (WMT) Kill Best Buy (BBY)?

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 5:18 am

Sometimes the media will take a little bit of news and carry it too far. CNN Money recently speculated that because Wal-Mart had good sales in consumer electronics during the ...
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The FT And CNBC: A Poor Man’s Guide To Buying Dow Jones (DJ)

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 5:08 am

No one wants to pay $5 billion to buy Dow Jones (DJ), except Rupert Murdoch. Part of the logic behind his News Corp (NWS) owning that financial information company is ...
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Google’s Australia Problem

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 4:56 am

Australia may be a former penal colony, but it is about to give Google (GOOG) fits that could spread elsewhere. According to the FT, The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...
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Why Facebook Is Worth $0

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 4:44 am

CNN Money used the number $10 billion when talking about the valuation of Facebook, the social network.There was a bit of joking in that. Yahoo! (YHOO) apparently considered a $1 ...
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EMC Hints At VMWare IPO Date/Terms/Expectations & Sets Employee Exchange Ratios (EMC, VMW, INTC)

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 4:02 am

EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) has made an SEC Filing for the proposed dates and averages used to calculate employee share and options exchanges from EMC to VMWare (NYSE:VMW) ahead of the ...
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IPO Filing: Intellon Corporation (ITLN), IC’s For Electric Wires

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 3:45 am

Intellon Corporation has filed to come public via an IPO on NASDAQ under the ticker "ITLN."  Intellon is a entirely-fabless semiconductor company that designs and sells integrated circuits (ICs) for ...
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Blank Check IPO Filing: Triplecrown Acquisition Corp. (EDA)

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 3:14 am

Triplecrown Acquisition Corp. has filed to come public as a 'blank check' or SPAC (special purpose acquisition company).  Triplecrown is a newly organized blank check company formed for the purpose ...
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Media Digest 7/13/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 3:13 am

According to Reuters, Energizer (ENR) will buy Playtex (PYX) for just under $1.2 billion.Reuters writes that GE (GE) plans to sell its WMC mortage unit. Reuters reports that Boeing's (BA) ...
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Asia Markets 7/13/2007

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 2:44 am

Markets in Asia were up sharply.The Nikkei rose 1.4% to 18,239. Honda (HMC) was up 2.5% to 4590. NTT (NTT) was up 2.5% to 542000. The Hang Seng was up ...
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Playtex’s Odd Acquisition By Energizer (PYX, ENR, PG)

Posted: July 13, 2007 at 2:16 am

If you thought roll-up mergers expanding into new lines had gone the way of concentrating on core operations, guess again.  Playtex Products Inc. (NYSE:PYX) is being acquired by Energizer Holdings ...
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