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Daily Archives: July 2, 2008

IPO FILING: Liquidnet Holdings Inc.

Posted: July 2, 2008 at 6:03 am

Liquidnet Holdings Inc. has filed for an initial public offering to sell up to $500 million as the nominal securities amount.  This is going to be a somewhat more complicated ...
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IPO FILING: Alimera Sciences, Inc. (ALIM)

Posted: July 2, 2008 at 5:51 am

A company called Alimera Sciences, Inc. has filed for an initial public offering to sell up to $75 million as the nominal securities amount.  The company noted that all shares ...
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Honda (HMC) Sells Two Of Top Five Cars In US

Posted: July 2, 2008 at 5:37 am

It speaks volumes that Honda (HMC), an also-ran Japanese car company behind Toyota (TM) for years, had two of the top five selling cars in the US during June. It ...
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UnitedHealth Guidance Tanks Again (UNH)

Posted: July 2, 2008 at 5:26 am

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) is again lowering its guidance.  The company now sees $2.95 to $3.05 EPS on revenues of around $81 Billion range.  Its prior guidance was $3.55 to $3.60.  ...
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The Latest, And Perhaps Best, Case For $200 Oil

Posted: July 2, 2008 at 5:02 am

With the price of oil moving up so sharply, the demand should go down. Those dynamics are immutable.The International Energy Agency, the big think tank in the industry, says demand ...
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Starbucks (SBUX) Schultz: The Goat As Hero

Posted: July 2, 2008 at 4:46 am

Howard Schultz, the founder and CEO-for-life of Starbucks (SBUX) is almost completely responsible for the catastrophe at his company. Two years ago, he pointed out the problems with the coffee ...
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GM (GM): Rick Wagoner Would Not Make It At Honda?

Posted: July 2, 2008 at 4:32 am

The theory goes that if 1,000 monkeys typed for 1,000 years, one of them could recreate the work of William Shakespeare. It is a bit like that in the GM ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) May Take Another Run At Yahoo! (YHOO), This One To Be Successful

Posted: July 2, 2008 at 3:08 am

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.Microsoft (MSFT) is lining up partners to buy Yahoo! (YHOO) and this time it is very likely to get what it wants. ...
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Media Digest 7/2/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 2, 2008 at 2:55 am

According to Reuters, US car sales hit a 15 year low.Reuters writes that Paulson said the US is facing a tough Q2.Reuters reports that Starbucks (SBUX) will close 600 stores ...
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Asia Markets 7/2/2008 (HMC)(LFC)(SNP)

Posted: July 2, 2008 at 2:33 am

Markets in Asia were mostly lower.The Nikkei fell 1.3% to 13,286. KDDI was down 3% to 642000. Honda (HMC) was off 1.1% to 3600.The Hang Seng fell 1.4% to 21,791. ...
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