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Daily Archives: April 10, 2008

Watch For That Apple (AAPL) 3G iPhone In June

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 6:46 am

Since everyone else has a date for the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone launch, why not offer another?According to intoMobile, the faster and thinner versions of the iPhone will come out ...
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Wal-Mart (WMT) Beats The Street

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 6:30 am

Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) beat Wall St. expectations for same-store sales raising optimism that the world's largest retailer is turning around and may post strong earnings for the quarter and the ...
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Cerberus Has $7 Billion To Buy Bank Assets

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 6:23 am

Despite the beating it has taken in Chrysler, private equity fund Cerberus has about $7 billion on the sidelines to put into bank assets, many of which are going for ...
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GM (GM) And Toyota (TM): 662,000 Recalls

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 6:08 am

GM (NYSE: GM) and Toyota (NYSE: TM) are, between the two of them, recalling 662,000 cars in the US, a market where only 15 million vehicles will be sold this ...
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MySpace TV: A Show Without An Audience?

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 5:52 am

News Corp's (NYSE: NWS) will create a series of TV shows around its MySpace social network website. In a sign that nepotism is not dead, a company owned by News ...
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Lehman (LEH) To Liquidate Three Funds

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 5:41 am

In a sign that write-offs are still coming from unexpected quarters, Lehman (NYSE: LEH) has disclosed that it will liquidate three funds which have found themselves in deep trouble.According to ...
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Inflation Bites With A Vengeance

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 5:36 am

The World Bank says that food prices will stay above 2004 levels until 2015. Over the next two years they will rise from current levels. Wheat prices have almost tripled ...
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Boeing (BA): Dreamliner Delay Could Still Cost Billions

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 5:20 am

Wall St. has digested the fact that Boeing (BA) has delayed its 787 Dreamliner again and that it will be more than a year late in launching. The plane-maker also ...
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George Soros’ Apocalypse Vision (C)(MER)(MS)(BX)

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 5:11 am

It is spring on Wall St. With the warmer weather comes hope that the big financial crisis which seems to have engulfed everything in the world over the last three ...
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Google (GOOG): The Only Winner In Yahoo! (YHOO) Merger Mess

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 4:51 am

The creator of the law of unintended consequences must have had the scramble to merge with or buy Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) in mind. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) gets daily benefit from ...
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Media Digest 4/10/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 3:03 am

According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is seeking a merger with Time Warner's (TWX) AOL which Microsoft (MSFT) and News Corp (NWS) at a joint bid for the No.2 search company.Reuters ...
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Yahoo! (YHOO): All Hell Breaks Out As AOL And News Corp (NWS) Move In

Posted: April 10, 2008 at 2:33 am

Various press reports indicate that Time Warner (TWX) may be close to combining its AOL unit with Yahoo! (YHOO). At the same time, Microsoft (MSFT) is planning to make a ...
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