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Daily Archives: June 5, 2008

Wal-Mart (WMT) Erases All Doubt, Fuels Recession Concerns

Posted: June 5, 2008 at 6:43 am

The stories about the death of Wal-Mart (WMT) have been disappearing over the last few months as the world's largest retailer posted remarkable sales.Now, there is nothing left to argue. ...
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Verizon And Alltel: Too Much Power In Two Sets Of Hands

Posted: June 5, 2008 at 5:22 am

Word from Vodafone (VOD), which owns part of Verizon Wireless, and other sources is that Verizon is looking at a purchase of Alltel, another cellular carrier. TPG Capital and Goldman ...
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Useless News Of The Day: Ford (F) And GM (GM) Do Well In JD Power Quality Survey

Posted: June 5, 2008 at 4:56 am

Everyone in the car industry waits for the once-a-year JD Power Initial Quality Study to come out. The poll looks at how many defects a car has in the first ...
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Useless News Of The Day: RIM (RIMM) Blackberry Can Be Used To Trade Stocks (AAPL)(GOOG)(SCHW)(AMTD)(NOK)(ETFC)

Posted: June 5, 2008 at 4:42 am

It is almost impossible to understand why business people could not use their RIM (RIMM) Blackberry devices to trade stocks until now. The Blackberry can run e-mail applications and the ...
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Useless News Of The Day: Ballmer And Gates Fought Eight Years Ago (MSFT)

Posted: June 5, 2008 at 4:30 am

The top story at WSJ.com today is that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, heads of Microsoft (MSFT), had a series of fights over control of the company. That was eight ...
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Useless News Of The Day: Son Of Sex Therapists Join Wal-Mart (WMT) Board

Posted: June 5, 2008 at 4:20 am

Most of the descendants of Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart (WMT) have often been a quart low. That may be why none of them has run the company. One ...
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News Digest 6/5/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 5, 2008 at 2:53 am

According to Reuters, nuclear energy is beginning to make a comeback Reuters reports that Vodafone (VOD) said Verizon Wireless is in talks to buy Alltel.Reuters writes that Corporate Express will ...
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Asia Markets 6/5/2008 (CN)(SNP)

Posted: June 5, 2008 at 2:29 am

Markets in Asia were mixed.The Nikkei fell .7% to 14,341. Hitachi was down 2.3% to 772. KDDI was down 2.1% to 698000.The Hang Seng rose .7% to 24,285. China Netcom ...
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