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Daily Archives: August 10, 2007

Intel (INTC): A Safe Haven Stock

Posted: August 10, 2007 at 6:41 am

Intel (INTC) is supposed to be a growth stock. It has been winning its market share battle with rival AMD (AMD). Its shares are up 36% in the last year.But, ...
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News Corp’s Wall Street Journal Will Give NYT And Yahoo! Fits

Posted: August 10, 2007 at 5:52 am

Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp (NWS), has spoken about some of his plans for The Wall Street Journal. At least one of his ideas could do severe damage to ...
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Toyota’s (TM) US Problem

Posted: August 10, 2007 at 5:20 am

Toyota (TM) says that its growth in the US will slow over the next several years. Toyota has 17% of the market, so that may have something to do with ...
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Man Group Cancels IPO

Posted: August 10, 2007 at 5:09 am

In another sign that very few will make it public in a troubled market, Man Group, the largest publicly traded hedge-fund is cancelling its plans to have an IPO of ...
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Europe Markets 8/10/2007 Slide Continues

Posted: August 10, 2007 at 5:04 am

Markets in Asia were down sharply at 6 AM New York time.The FTSE fell 1.8% to 6,159. Barclays (BCS) was down 4.1% to 653.5. BHP Billiton (BHP) was off 3% ...
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Google (GOOG): The Safest Stock In The World?

Posted: August 10, 2007 at 4:53 am

Shares in Google (GOOG) are at $515, up about 18% this year. Some other internet companies are up much more. Chinese search leader Baidu (BIDU), a genuinely tiny company, is ...
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Owning Altria (MO): Cigarettes Sell

Posted: August 10, 2007 at 4:39 am

With the market in bad shape and likely to get worse, investors are running in circles looking for something to buy? Well, tobacco takes a long time to go out ...
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SEC Checks Wall St.’s Books For What It Can’t See (JPM)(BAC)

Posted: August 10, 2007 at 4:29 am

According to several media reports, the SEC is looking at the books of Wall St.'s five largest brokers. The target is undisclosed problems with mortgage securities and loans for private ...
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Media Digest 8/10/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: August 10, 2007 at 3:19 am

According to Reuters the Asia central banks put extra cash into the banking systems as markets there fell sharply.Reuters writes that Man Group, the UK hedge fund, has delays its ...
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Asia Market 8/10/2007 Major Drops

Posted: August 10, 2007 at 2:53 am

Markets in Asia were off sharply.The Nikkei fell 2.4% to 16,764. Bridgestone fell 5% to 2555. Canon (CAJ) fell 3.9% to 6240. Honda (HMC) fell 3.4% to 3880.The Hang Seng ...
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