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Daily Archives: January 29, 2008

A Bail Out For Bond Insurers, Why Not Banks? (ABK)(C)(MBI)

Posted: January 29, 2008 at 6:16 am

The head of insurance regulation in NY State is busy as a bee trying to bail out Ambac (ABK) and MBIA (MBI). According to the FT "Eric Dinallo, the New ...
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McDonald’s (MCD) Chinese Take-Out

Posted: January 29, 2008 at 6:00 am

McDonald's (MCD) last quarter results were undermined by slow same-store sales growth in the US. It only took the world's largest fast food chain a day to start to talk ...
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Lenovo: The Luck Of Staying Out Of The US (HPQ)(DELL)

Posted: January 29, 2008 at 5:49 am

Lenovo, one of the two large Asian PC companies with Acer, will report earnings that are likely to double for the latest reported quarter. That probably won't happen at HP ...
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The Fed: Who Needs Congress?

Posted: January 29, 2008 at 5:42 am

The economic stimulus package coming from Congress and the Administration may not be in effect until well into the second quarter. There is already news that the Senate and House ...
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Media Digest 1/29/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: January 29, 2008 at 4:14 am

According to Reuters, another Fed rate cut may stimulate the housing market.Reuters reports that profits at American Express (AXP) fell 10%.Reuters writes that McDonald's (MCD) will open 150 outlets in ...
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Asia Markets 1/29/2007 (HMC)(CN)

Posted: January 29, 2008 at 3:46 am

Markets in Asia were mostly higher.The Nikkei rose 3% to 13,749. Honda (HMC) was up 3.8% to 3,260. NEC was up 4.5% to 441.The Hang Seng rose 1% to 24,292. ...
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