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Daily Archives: March 26, 2008

RIM (RIMM) Carves Up Apple (AAPL)

Posted: March 26, 2008 at 5:52 am

Over the last three months, shares in Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) are down less than 5%. Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) are off over 30%. There have been some concerns about ...
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Europe Markets 3/26/2008 (SI)(FTE)

Posted: March 26, 2008 at 5:44 am

Markets in Europe were slightly lower at 6.35 AMThe FTSE was off .3% to 5,673. Lonmin was up 2.6% to 3104. Kingfisher was up 3.4% to 138.4.The DAXX was down ...
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More Problems With Heparin, More Problems For Baxter (BAX)?

Posted: March 26, 2008 at 5:35 am

Baxter (NYSE: BAX) is probably retaining more lawyers. So far nineteen people have died from tainted Heparin, a blood-thinner. BAX is one of the largest marketers of the drug.According to ...
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Can Nokia (NOK) Rescue Handset Market

Posted: March 26, 2008 at 5:25 am

When the global handset market goes South a number of companies get bombed. The worst goes to the handset companies themselves. That is not good news for Motorola (NYSE: MOT). ...
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Financial Write-Downs May Just Be Starting (C)(BSC)(JPM)

Posted: March 26, 2008 at 5:13 am

Goldman Sachs says that write-downs for subprime mortgage paper, LBOs, credit cards,and other bad paper could hit banks and brokerages for $460 billion. That is almost three times the write-offs ...
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Can WiMax Save The Cable Guy? (CMCSA)(TWC)(S)(CLWR)

Posted: March 26, 2008 at 4:56 am

The phone companies came up with a "cable slayer" when they went into the market with fiber-to-the-home. Suddenly they could deliver ultra-fast broadband and 500 channel TV. They have high ...
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A Bear Market For The Ages, With Inflation As Bonus

Posted: March 26, 2008 at 4:36 am

The Wall Street Journal was good enough to point out that the stock market now trades where it did in 1999. This puts investors in a similar place to where ...
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Google’s $1 Salaries: Bear Baiting Investors

Posted: March 26, 2008 at 4:20 am

Steve Jobs of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) used to be the big "$1 a year" salary guy. Now the privilege falls to Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page at Google ...
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Media Digest 3/26/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 26, 2008 at 2:49 am

According to Reuters, Comcast (CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (TWC) are in talks to fund a wireless venture to be operated by Clearwire (CLWR) and Sprint (S).Reuters writes that new ...
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Asia Markets 3/36/2008 (NTT)(CN)(PTR)(TM)

Posted: March 26, 2008 at 2:25 am

Markets in Asia were mixed.The Nikkei fell .3% to 12,707. NTT (NTT) rose 2.8% to 444000. Toyota (TM) fell 1.5% to 5260.The Hang Seng rose .9% to 22,674. China Netcom ...
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