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Daily Archives: September 3, 2007

A Shotgun Wedding For Starbucks

Posted: September 3, 2007 at 7:19 pm

Starbucks (SBUX) is not doing very well selling convincing investors that coffee sales in its stores are rising at an acceptable rate. The company's stock is down 22% this year.So, ...
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Gannett And The New York Times: Newspaper Revenue Drop Quickens

Posted: September 3, 2007 at 6:10 pm

Newspapers companies have hoped against hope that the rapid fall of their print advertising would level out or at least decelerate. But, for the large companies like Gannett (GCI) and ...
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China Mobile And China Unicom Sit At 52-Week Highes

Posted: September 3, 2007 at 4:19 pm

Shares of both China Mobile (CHL), the largest Chinese cell company, and No.2 China Unicom (CHU) both sit at 52-week highs. And, no wonder. China Unicom now has almost 151 ...
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Microsoft Changes It World View

Posted: September 3, 2007 at 9:46 am

Microsoft (MSFT) is finally getting serious about connecting its Windows product to other software using the internet. Google (GOOG) has been doing this with its spreadsheet and document products for ...
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Ford, GM, Toyota: August Auto Summary

Posted: September 3, 2007 at 9:24 am

However badly the big car companies bled sales this summer, it appears that August brought no hope for better days.Bloomberg speculates that Toyota (TM) sold more cars that Ford (F). ...
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As City-Wide WiFi Fall Apart, An Opening For WiMax

Posted: September 3, 2007 at 8:08 am

As the municipal WiFi business at Earthlink (ELNK) has come under financial pressure, the future of city-wide wireless projects is in trouble. ELNK shares are down over 20% in the ...
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Boston Scientific And Johnson & Johnson: Stents Make A Comeback?

Posted: September 3, 2007 at 7:56 am

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ajZ2lVrqeb2I&refer=homeA study out fo Sweden may help the flagging fortunes of the stent businesses at Boston Scientific (BSX) and Johnsohn & Johnson (JNJ). Several pieces of research had indicated that ...
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Google Phone Gets Closer

Posted: September 3, 2007 at 7:28 am

According to GigaOm, the Google (GOOG) mobile phone is getting closer. The phone will run mobile Linux and can run Java virtual machines. It will run video clips. The Google ...
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Media Digest 9/3/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Barron’s

Posted: September 3, 2007 at 7:18 am

According to Reuters, HSBC (HBC) bought 51% of  Korea Exchange Bank $6.3 billion.Reuters writes GE (GE) bought buy British oilfield services firm Sondex for $583 million. Reuters reports that oil ...
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Europe Markets 9/3/2007

Posted: September 3, 2007 at 6:49 am

Markets in Europe were mixed at 7.40 AM New York timeThe FTSE was up .2% to 6,317. Barclays (BCS) was up 3.3% to 633.5. BP (BP) dropped .6% to 554.The ...
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Asia Markets 9/3/2007

Posted: September 3, 2007 at 6:38 am

Most markets in Asia were down modestly.The Nikkei fell .3% to 16,525. Sony (SNE) was up .4% to 5600. Toyota (TM) was up 1.5% to 6860.The Hang Seng fell .4% ...
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