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Daily Archives: January 18, 2008

AMD (AMD): A Sucker Born Every Minute

Posted: January 18, 2008 at 6:31 am

In any market, fools probably outnumber smart investor by a wide margin. Shareholders in dead pool tech firms like Sun (JAVA) and AMD (AMD) are not at the "high intelligence" ...
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Comcast (CMCSA): A CEO Who Can’t Be Fired

Posted: January 18, 2008 at 6:14 am

Chieftain Capital Management owns over 60 million Comcast (CMCSA) shares, which is  2% of share outstanding. The investing firms want CEO Brian Roberts to leave. The problem is that his ...
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GM (GM): The Exhaustion Of Cutting

Posted: January 18, 2008 at 5:59 am

GM chief Rick Wagoner is prepared to work 24 hours a day to continue cutting costs in the US. Even if he has to take them to zero, he will ...
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Bernanke’s Late Rescue

Posted: January 18, 2008 at 5:46 am

Ben Benanke joined a line of politicians from both sides of the aisle in suggesting massive infusions of capital and incentives to save the US economy. The total value of ...
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IBM: International Bragging Machines

Posted: January 18, 2008 at 5:31 am

There is a rule against taunting in football along with penalties. That has not moved to big business yet.International Business Machines Corp. told Wall Street to raise its 2008 according ...
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Media Digest 1/18/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: January 18, 2008 at 4:07 am

According to Reuters, IBM (IBM) issued a strong forecast for next year.Reuters writes that Bush and Congress are looking at a $150 billion package to improve the economy.Reuters reports that ...
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Asia Markets 1/18/2008 (LFC)(CN)

Posted: January 18, 2008 at 3:41 am

Most markets in Asia rose modestly.Te Nikkei was up .6% to 13,861. KDDI was off 4.2% to 793000. Docomo (DCM) was off 2.6% to 173000. Softbank was up 3.4% to ...
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