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Daily Archives: March 2, 2008

Financial Crisis May Not Have Found Bottom

Posted: March 2, 2008 at 5:09 pm

Every morning traders wake up and hope that the financial services disaster has ended and that housing has reach a nadir. Better go back to bed. According to a study ...
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Air Force Tankers: The Case Against Northrop (NOC) And EADS

Posted: March 2, 2008 at 1:33 pm

The theater which is congressional politics would have missed an entire act if the porcine members who are re-elected for their ability to bring home the bacon to their districts ...
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Where Does Private Equity Invest Next? (C)(MER)(BX)(S)(MOT)

Posted: March 2, 2008 at 11:40 am

The business press has had its ear to the rail, and it has heard that more capital is headed toward private equity funds. Some of this money may be invested ...
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Starbucks (SBUX): Any Benefit From Re-Training?

Posted: March 2, 2008 at 11:06 am

The staff at most of the Starbucks (NYSE: SBUX) recently went though a few hours for training. The nationwide program was designed to make the people working in the stores ...
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This week on Stockhouse February 25 – 29

Posted: March 2, 2008 at 10:57 am

The Dow and the TSX have had a volatile week, spending most of it up on commodities and news of big buybacks Wall Street began a downward turn Thursday that ...
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GM (GM): The Little Problem Of Delphi

Posted: March 2, 2008 at 7:53 am

Delphi, the former parts operation of GE (NYSE:GM) wants out of Chapter 11. It had a $6.1 billion exit package, but the credit markets have crushed that. Now GM is ...
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Military Tanker Award May Have Served US Interests (GE)(BA)(NOC)

Posted: March 2, 2008 at 6:59 am

A number of politicians and other patriots were worried that the US military awarding of a contract to build tankers may not have been good for US industry. The contract ...
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